sports San Francisco One of Four Cities to Get Women’s Pro Baseball League Team for Inaugural 2026 Season The Women’s Professional Baseball League (WPBL), which was co-founded by former Oakland A’s coach Justine Siegal, has chosen San Francisco as one of its four founding cities for its inaugural 2026 season, along with Los Angeles, New York, and Boston.
Bay Area Sports Guess What! The A's Will Have 'Sacramento' on Their (Alternate) Jerseys Starting Next Season After a first interim season in the state capital, the former Oakland Athletics are still not going to start calling themselves the Sacramento A's in 2026, but they will have 'Sacramento' emblazoned on their alternate jerseys, in a nod to the local crowd.
sports Oakland Ballers Win First Baseball Championship, Parade to Be Held Next Sunday Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced earlier this week the city will be hosting a rally and parade on Sunday, October 5 in celebration of the Ballers’ Pioneer League baseball championship win, the city’s first pro-sports championship celebration since 2018.
SF News 3 People in Overturned Kayaks Rescued From McCovey Cove During Giants-Dodgers Game Nearby kayakers and a boat emblazoned with the Ghostbusters logo came to the aid of three people whose kayaks overturned while they were watching the Giants-Dodgers game Saturday. The Giants lost the game, 13-7.
SF News Saturday Links: CHP Arrests BMW Driver Who Posted Alleged 170 MPH Joyride Videos Online Over 20 nations are now condemning Israel's expansion plans; Giants pitcher Kai-Wei Teng dedicated the first win of his career last night to his dad; and a man was arrested after posting videos of his BMW M4 speeding at 170 mph.
SF News SF Giants Pitcher Sean Hjelle Accused of Abuse and Infidelity by His Wife in Viral TikTok Video Major League Baseball is investigating allegations of abuse and infidelity made against SF Giants reliever Sean Hjelle by his estranged wife, Caroline Hjelle. The claims were made public Friday in a viral TikTok post that garnered over 3 million views before it was deleted.
SF News Local Legends Too Short And Billie Joe Armstrong Are Now Oakland Ballers Investors East Bay legends Too Short and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong have joined the ranks of Oakland Ballers fans who own a portion of the local minor baseball league team, which launches its second season with the Independent Pioneer League on May 20.
SF News Saturday Links: Arson and Vandalism Abound At Tesla Sites Nationwide And In France Seven Telsa charging stations in Boston and a Tesla dealership in France were set on fire; sources say the Trump administration has been falsely flagging the business expenses of USAID and EPA employees as "fraud;" and Walgreens has been acquired by a private equity firm.
SF News A's Legend Rickey Henderson Passes Away at 65 A two-time World Series Champion, 10-time All-Star, and 1990 American League MVP, Henderson is the all-time leader in career runs scored, leadoff home runs, stolen bases, and unintentional walks.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Ballers Introduce New Mascot, Which Is a Possum, as Another Way to Troll the Oakland A’s The Oakland B’s new mascot “Scrappy the Possum” is an obvious troll of the carpetbagging Oakland A’s, whose dilapidated stadium has a well-known possum problem.
SF News Photo of SF Giants Player in New Official Uniform (And See-Through Pants) Goes Viral on Social Media A baseball reporter shared a picture of SF Giants' Casey Schmitt wearing the new MLB uniform on Thursday, and it left little to the imagination.
Bay Area Sports The Newly Formed Oakland Ballers Will Renovate and Play Ball at West Oakland’s Raimondi Field Oakland is getting a new minor league baseball team called the Oakland Ballers (or “The B’s”). They just announced they’ll be playing at Raimondi Field in West Oakland, and spiffing the place up with a $1.6 million renovation.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Mayor Comes Out Swinging Against the Idea of the A’s Moving to Vegas In a stunning podcast interview published today, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman seemed to square up against the A’s moving to Las Vegas, saying their proposed stadium site “doesn’t make sense,” and “they’ve got to figure out a way to stay in Oakland.”
Bay Area Sports The A's Could End Up Sharing Oracle Park With the Giants In 2025 Well this would be odd. It looks like the A's management have come up with a shortlist of possibilities for what happens when their lease runs out at the Oakland Coliseum in 2024, and one of them is temporarily moving to San Francisco.
Bay Area Sports MLB Mulls Bringing Back Baseball, And What That Might Look Like There would be no fans in the stands, and under the “Arizona-Florida plan,” the Giants and A’s would be in the same division, and we would never play the Dodgers.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Backs Off A’s Stadium Lawsuit, Jack London Ballpark Plan Back On Track The umpteenth attempt to build a new Oakland A’s ballpark has revolved its latest setback, and the team will not threaten to move to Las Vegas again for at least another six months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best San Francisco Bars for Watching the World Series Game One of the World Series is tonight, so SFist is stepping up to the plate with a postseason roster of our favorite sports bars where you can watch the Fall Classic -- following the schadenfreude that came with the Dodgers already having melted down.
Bay Area Sports MLB Vaguely Threatens To Move A’s To Las Vegas If Oakland Doesn’t Drop Lawsuit It’s kind of a troll move with the Raiders already heading for Las Vegas, but the commissioner of Major League Baseball says the same could happen to the A’s.
SF News Rookie A's Catcher Bruce Maxwell Becomes First MLB Player To Take A Knee For National Anthem From the @sfchronicle’s Santiago Mejia, here is A’s rookie Bruce Maxwell becoming the first MLB player to take a knee for the anthem: pic.twitter.com/q8QVY9hW15— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) September
Arts & Entertainment Oakland A's Choose A New Stadium Site (Again) This Time Near Lake Merritt The Oakland Athletics no longer rank dead last in Major League Baseball attendance. They now rank second-to-dead last, according to the latest Major League Baseball attendance report. The Oakland A’s are garbage.
Arts & Entertainment Multiple GIFs, Photos And Video Show Hunter Strickland And Bryce Harper's Bench-Clearing Brawl The Washington Nationals' Bryce Harper was not having it when Giants pitcher Hunter Strickland hit him with his first pitch during the eighth inning of a game at AT&T Park on
Arts & Entertainment The Giants Won A Game After 17 Innings Thanks To Buster Posey It took 17 yes, 17 innings to score a winning home run at AT&T Park last night, and it took Buster Posey to hit it. Scoring the winning, walk-off homer to
Arts & Entertainment Giants Struggling As Madison Bumgarner And Denard Span Land On Injured List Recently injured catcher Buster Posey was seen in an unfamiliar position Sunday as the Giants faced off in yet another disappointing game against the Denver Rockies: first baseman. As CSN Bay Area noted,
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Buster Posey Beaning By Fastball Mars An Otherwise Bright Giants Opener The Giants won their home opener Monday against the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-1, but not before young starting pitcher Taijuan Walker threw a 94-mph fastball that hit star player Buster Posey square on the
Arts & Entertainment The 'Hamilton' Cast Is At The Giants Home Opener And The Team Made These Jerseys For them The Giants, who are off to a slow 2 and 5 start this season, are pulling out all the stops for their home opener this afternoon. One group of fans is not throwing
