The 49ers will host the Falcons for tonight’s “MNF” game, which likely “marks the end of Candlestick Park’s 42-year tenure as the team’s home stadium.” With the 49ers moving to Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara next year, Candlestick Park is “slated for demolition as early as next fall” (SACRAMENTO BEE, 12/22). Tonight's game will be the 36th "MNF" game at Candlestick, "the most of any stadium in NFL history" (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 12/23).

The S.F. CHRONICLE’s Ron Kroichick writes Candlestick “was a true Bay Area original, known as much for its rampant quirkiness as the stage for feats of athletic grandeur.” The SACRAMENTO BEE’s Matt Kawahara writes the venue “provided the backdrop to many iconic moments in this city’s storied sporting history.” ESPN provides some remembrances of “the historic but uncomfortable hunk of cement by the bay.” The SACRAMENTO BEE offers an Op-Ed under the header, “The ‘Stick Was A Tough Place To Watch A Game But Millions Did.”

A crowd of 13,283 turned out Sunday at Betfair Hollywood Park for “the last live racing to be held at the landmark site that hosted 75 years of memorable competition.” The attendance was “the largest crowd since 25,837 attended Zenyatta’s last race in California” in ’10. Following a close final race, track announcer Vic Stauffer said, “A photo finish. Seventy-five years came down to a camera close-up. Seventy-five years at Hollywood Park. That’s a wrap.” The track then played “Happy Trails to You” over the PA (BLOODHORSE.com, 12/23).

Tennis player Caroline Wozniacki has signed a new deal with Babolat after "playing with a blacked-out racket for much of last season." Wozniacki, who played a Babolat racket before signing with Yonex in '11, played with a blacked-out racket starting in late spring, "which many presumed was a Babolat." Wozniacki will officially begin playing with Babolat at next week's Brisbane Int'l (TENNIS.com, 12/23).

S.F. officials today plan to submit a letter to Team Oracle “formally offering to host the America’s Cup sailing competition again,” but the city this time will not be “offering any big subsidies or real estate as part of the deal.” S.F. Mayor Ed Lee has expressed a desire to have the event back. As winner of the competition, Oracle Chair Larry Ellison is “expected to pick the next America’s Cup site sometime in the next few months.” The competition will probably take place in ’17 (S.F. CHRONICLE, 12/23).

The R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl on Saturday, which featured Louisiana Lafayette-Tulane, “set yet another attendance record” with 54,728 fans, as two Louisiana-based schools played one another for the “first time in the 13-year history of the game.” It was the “third consecutive year that an attendance record was set” for the bowl game, with all three featuring ULL (Baton Rouge ADVOCATE, 12/22).

The crowd for the Gildan New Mexico Bowl featuring Colorado State-Washington State on Saturday “was officially listed at 27,104” (ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL, 12/22). Attendance for the eight-year-old event was up from a record-low crowd last year of 24,610, which featured Arizona-Nevada (THE DAILY).

The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl featuring San Diego State-Buffalo drew 21,951 fans on Saturday, marking the “smallest crowd in Boise” since ’98 (IDAHO STATESMAN, 12/22). The crowd was down 25% from the Utah State-Toledo matchup last year (THE DAILY).

Baylor’s athletic department confirmed that the school “will return more than 5,000 unsold tickets to the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl committee, having failed to sell its 17,500-ticket allotment to the Jan. 1 game by the Friday deadline.” Baylor, “which had to pay for all 17,500 tickets upfront, has sold about 11,000 tickets and will keep others for last-minute buyers.” UCF “has sold only about 5,000 tickets to the game” (WACO TRIBUNE-HERALD, 12/22).

David Beckham has “signed on to promote Las Vegas Sands’ properties” in Singapore and Macau. Sands said that it “will use the Beckham brand in dining and retail options at its casinos” (AP, 12/22).

The Riverside Co. has reached an agreement to sell Italy-based aquatic sports brand Arena to Capvis in a deal "expected to close at the beginning" of '14. Riverside invested in Arena in '10 (PEHUB.com, 12/23).

President Obama and his family attended Sunday’s Oregon State-Akron game at the Diamond Head Classic tournament in Honolulu. Oregon State men’s basketball coach Craig Robinson is Obama’s brother-in-law (Honolulu STAR-ADVERTISER, 12/23).

Singer Leona Lewis will lend her voice to the ABC and ESPN NBA Christmas Day broadcast open (ESPN).

"I can say unequivocally, that I never considered football in this decision" – Temple Univ. President Neal Theobald, on the school cutting seven varsity sports (N.Y. TIMES, 12/23).

"At the end of the day there may be only five Formula One teams if it carries on the way it is" – F1 team owner Tony Fernandes, on the need to create spending limits for teams on the racing circuit (REUTERS, 12/23).

"Everyone was constantly being instigated and manipulated to get the most dramatic response. … Constantly poked and prodded, like we weren't even people. ... It left a sour taste in my mouth" – UFC fighter Ronda Rousey, on production tactics during "The Ultimate Fighter" reality TV series (L.A. TIMES, 12/21).

L.A. Times’ Diane Pucin: “Serena, under your tree, gift-wrapped, wins in all four majors. Grand Slam could bring back interest in US tennis. You're the one to do it.”

Houston Chronicle’s Reid Laymance: “Geography lesson needed. Just heard local sportscaster say Rockets had two-game trip to East Coast. That was Indiana and Detroit.”

Yahoo Sports’ Kelly Dwyer: “I tend to root against teams with fans that have someone wearing Google Glass in the front row.”

Former CBSSports.com Senior VP & GM Jason Kint: “If the NFL were futbol then the Redskins would be relegated and carry a different nickname when they made it back next decade.”

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Friday’s “Final Jeopardy!” category was “20th Century Literary Terms.”

“The writer who named this U.S. movement said the term referred to supreme blessedness, not exhaustion.”

Former NFLer Michael Strahan appeared on NBC's "The Tonight Show" Friday night. Host Jay Leno noted that Strahan grew up in Germany, which is a “huge soccer country” and asked, “Did you play soccer?” Strahan replied, “No, I didn’t play soccer” because there is “too much running, I’m lazy.” Strahan said his love for football began while watching “as we called it, ‘Tuesday Morning Football’” in Germany “because of the time difference.” Leno: “I have to ask you about the Giants, does this pain you to see what’s happening?” Strahan replied, “Oh yeah, it’s bad.” Leno asked, “Any advice, would you go in and give them a pep talk?” Strahan answered, “I don’t know if there is that much pep talk this year. … I might have to suit up to help” (“The Tonight Show,” NBC, 12/20).

NBC’s Jay Leno: “A new study in the British Medical Journal reports that having a successful sports team in your town increases the birth rate in that town. Especially if it's an NBA team, then it goes way up” (“The Tonight Show,” NBC, 12/20).

CBS’ David Letterman: “Lamar Odom is apparently getting a divorce from Khloe Kardashian and his release was negotiated by Dennis Rodman. I didn’t know that” (“Late Show,” CBS, 12/20).

Friday night’s Top Ten list was “Top Ten Entries of 2013.” Letterman said, “We have culled the best Top Ten entries of the ‘Top Ten List’ 2013” (“Late Show,” CBS, 12/20).

10) “Your first baseman is so fat, he’s also your second baseman.”
9) “We didn’t have to, but we shaved you.”
8) “The waiter’s in the kitchen giving the maid of honor a sausage slam.”
7) “Oops, we’re related.”
6) “Help me, Canadian Jesus!”
5) “This time you be the Kaiser.”
4) “Piersing your Morgan.”
3) “When I say, ‘Hold the pickles,’ I’d actually like to hold the pickles.”
2) “Teeth out is another twenty.”
1) “You try and keep track of every needle that goes in your ass.”

“What is the Beat Movement?”