According to the Chronicle's intrepid reporting duo Matier & Ross, Utah-based discount clearance site Overstock.com has taken over the naming rights to the home of the Raiders and the Athletics. Appropriately enough, the stadium's top sponsorship spot has been unsold since 2008 when McAfee Antivirus decided not to renew. Overstock.com didn't get much of a discount though: the six-year deal will cost them $1.2 million for the first year and a 3% increase every year after that. Overstock's president says the site has a strong customer base in the Bay Area, which we suspect is mostly people out in Walnut Creek buying closeout patio furniture. And anyway, M&R say it's a fitting name, "considering how many unsold tickets the two teams have on many game days." [Chron] more ›

An Amtrak passenger train collided with a stalled AC Transit bus near the Oakland Coliseum early this morning. Above is some raw video of the scene from ABC 7. The Appeal reports that there were no passengers on board the the bus, and that the driver was unharmed. more ›

--A source passes along these pictures of Gavin Newsom and Carole Migden at a Pride event some time back. We saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus! more ›

We've talked about about the BART/SFO connection a whole bunch so today we have news from the other side, the Oakland airport. We know, we know, it's scary over there, but for those who haven't ventured over to that side to fly out, it's not half bad, actually. more ›

The Stones play Oakland Coliseum tonight having had to move it from last night's show due to Mick having a bad throat. Now granted, most people don't really care about the Stones anymore mainly because they've spent the past twenty years or so being the World's Greatest Rolling Stones Cover Band. But still, when they were good, they were really good. So, to get everyone in the mood for the show, or at least remind people just why they were at one point the biggest, baddest band in the land, here's a clip from their early-70's prime. It's a video of them doing "It's Only Rock n Roll" and it's somewhat live. Or at least it’s a lot grittier and dirtier than the recorded version. It's everything that is the Stones and more, somehow being both campy and bad-ass all at the same time. more ›

Last night's "Battlestar Galactica" was....awesome. Just awesome. -YMCA plan to cut down trees for their Camp Jones Gulch camp near La Honda not going down well with people who live near there. more ›

If you don't expect anything from life, you can't be disappointed. Monday at the Oakland Coliseum, the Raider Nation in attendance expected their Raiders to compete with the San Diego Chargers. The Nation assembled with facepaint and masks and bared teeth. Their songs of war echoed through the East Bay night air. You see, the Nation, they expected a battle. They got a slaughter. more ›

This Wednesday at the Oakland Coliseum, the Golden State Warriors are holding a party for anybody interested in gathering en masse to witness the mysterious fan dance that is the Warriors on draft day.

Despite the unpleasantness of the last 12 years, Warriors fans seem jacked up about the draft, if not the Warriors Draft Party.

At least, that's how the Warriors Marketing Department sees it. Leveraging the momentum of setting the franchise single-season attendance record even while enduring another trip back to the drawing board, the team has decided to pull up their grass roots and upgrade the party venue to the mighty Coliseum. In years past, the party has been held in local watering holes such as the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, site of last year's throwdown. The Warriors have hit the big time now though, or expect to, or want to create the impression that they have, so it's a promotion to the Big Leagues for the W's other annual endeavor in futility.

Photo of last year's Draft Party bacchanalia from the official site of the Golden State Warriors.

Aw, you know we love a good cliff rescue story. A man walking too close to the edge of the cliff in Half Moon Bay was successfully pulled up about 80 feet on Thursday afternoon. Did you hear a loud bang right after the spelling bee ended last night (around 10:20 p.m.) in the Mission? There was a major water main break at 20th and Valencia. Expect hipsters to look a bit scruffier tomorrow! And dude, don't block the box! A truck didn't manage to pull all the way through the railroad tracks by the Oakland Coliseum and got hit by an oncoming train. The driver got his rear wheels over the tracks but the back 10-15 feet were still over the tracks; he honked his horn but the person in front of him couldn't move up any further. The driver was uninjured but the empty truck trailer didn't come out looking so good. Railway officials repeat their warnings that if it doesn't look like you have enough room to clear the tracks, don't cross 'em. more ›

The first time we saw U2 it was 1984 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Obviously, that was a long time ago: pre-Apple commercials, pre-hanging out with politicians, pre-heavy-handed attempts at irony, pre-blues co-opting, pre-rock n’ roll Messiah complex. Hell, it was even before Bono leapt into the crowd at Wembley at Live Aid. It was and still is the best show we’ve ever seen. more ›

Thanks to SFists Jackson and Eve for reading the weeklies last week! Last week's weekly of the week, as picked by you, our readers: The Guardian! Gerardo Sandoval continues his all-out media blitz, this time about Comcast (our main priority vis-a-vis Comcast is to get them to add Boomerang, the classic cartoon channel.) Where's our free wifi? A guy died in the SF jail (covered also by the Chron). Annalee Newitz on machinima (like fan fiction, but for videogame hacks). Cover: Oakland band Battleship (who get hit by firecrackers in their shows). Sonic Reducer: local bands go to a bar in LA and run into Lance Bass, Ryan Cabrera, and Courtney Love. The EBX: Bottom Feeder with an excellent Law and Order episode: a possibly-delusional woman who killed her husband, whom she met when she was a patient in his psychiatric practice, is defending herself and will be cross-examining her son. A paper targeted at the Oakland inner city and covering sex gossip, called BootyCrack! Bobblehead day at the Oakland Coliseum! Cover article: the overprescription of psychiatric drugs. And the allegedly-homophobic dancehall star Beenie Man comes to town and puts on a decent show. After the jump: the SF Weekly, and we go back to autocratically picking the weekly of the week. more ›

Our friends and family tried to tell us, but we had to find out for ourselves anyway: July in an ivy-covered Northeastern college town is no place for a California boy. We mention this because that's where we were four summers ago, huddling by the air conditioner in a townie bar to escape the heat that had been trying to braise us, watching the A's play Cleveland on ESPN, when we discovered the best. Promotion. Ever: Mug Root Beer Float Day at the Oakland Coliseum. Mulder was pitching, but ESPN had video of Hudson and Zito scooping vanilla ice cream into Mug root beer. more ›

The A's have lost 8 games in a row, and 11 of their last 12. more ›

The story of the injured heckler out of Oakland Coliseum last night just keeps getting better and better. more ›

Bay Area crime roundup more ›