Zennie Abraham Jr. is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Sports Business
Simulations.

SBS is a four-year-old sports education and entertainment
portal that contains two online simulation games, and a 40-blog
network, where he's the hard-edged and analytical lead writer and
editor on Zennie's Zeitgeist , The NFL Business Blog , Oakland Focus ,
and several other publications on the SBS Blog Network.

Zennie, as he describes himself, is a "Big D Democrat and supporter of
Senator Barack Obama for President, who's worked on too many campaigns
and with a ton of Democratic, Republican, and Green Party friends in
the right places, and who thinks Rudy Giuliani is cool, and loves the
Clintons, but thinks they've had their eight years; time for the new -- with Bill Clinton running the UN.

So now you know where I'm coming from: two directions at once!"

Zennie is also a noted video-blogger and has a companion channel to
Zennie's Zeitgeist on YouTube and Blip.tv called "zennie62." His work
has been featured on CNN and KPIX Channel Five, San Francisco.

Prior to his engagement with SBS, he was President of the Oakland
Alameda County Sports Commission and headed the effort to bring the
2005 Super Bowl to Oakland, bringing the longshot city to one of three
finalists before the game was awarded to Jacksonville.

From 1995 to 1999, Zennie was Economic Advisor to The Mayor of
Oakland, Elihu Harris, where he was the mayor's aide responsible for
"everything from Redevelopment to The Oakland Raiders."

Between 1993 and 1996, Zennie was lead columnist for The Montclarion
newspaper in Oakland, where he had the most popular column in that
city on local political and cultural issues. He was credited with
breaking the story of the return of the Oakland Raiders to Oakland in
1995.

Zennie was born in Chicago and takes from that "a love of Chicago
Architecture, people, city planning, and sports." He currently
resides in a city he calls "Chicago but doesn't know it: Oakland,
California," and frequently travels to the Atlanta metro area to see
his Mom.

Zennie is a political junkie and policy wonk who's desire as a boy was
to attend the Rand Corporation's college and learn about war gaming
and planning. Then he discovered City Planning in high school and
eventually got undergraduate and master's degrees in the subject at
Texas-Arlington and U. C. Berkeley, where he is totally into Cal and
says "Go Bears!"

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