Bay Area Sports City of Oakland Sells Off Its Stake in Oakland Coliseum for a Reported $105 Million With the Oakland Raiders long gone and the Oakland A’s having one foot out the door, the deficit-strapped City of Oakland just struck a deal to sell their 50% stake in the Oakland Coliseum to the African American Sports & Entertainment Group for more than $100 million.
Bay Area Sports A’s Agree to Cough Up $45 Million for Unpaid Oakland Coliseum Bill Oakland is at least getting one piece of good news as the A’s prepare to bolt for Las Vegas, with the team agreeing to pay Alameda County $45 million of the unpaid balance on their Oakland Coliseum deal.
SF News Video: Aspiring Karate Master Sparks Brawl At Raiders Game The Falcons had the Raiders fans fighting each other today. 😂 pic.twitter.com/QQnSVFfw68— Everything Georgia (@GAFollowers) September 19, 2016 Raiders fans are not a typically quiet bunch, and today we can add
SF News Thankfully It's Not The O.Co Coliseum Anymore; Naming Rights Up For Grabs Have a cool few million floating around and interested in seeing your name printed in really big letters on the side of something large? Well, here's your chance: Overstock.com exited its naming-rights
Arts & Entertainment Sports Fans Greeted By Cool Art Celebrating Oakland Teams Fans attending today's Raiders game will catch a glimpse of a colorful piece of art celebrating Oakland and its sports teams. The 150-foot "yarn bomb" is strung on the chain-link fence on the
SF News Heh...Heh...Heh...We Said Cockfighting This is the kind of thing that would bring on the animal rights activists as well as PETA but even more so in light of the Michael Vick thing; in fact, the guys
SF News Non-Football Related Argument Ends in Shooting and More After yesterday's Raiders game in the McAfee Coliseum parking lot, a man was shot in the leg and groin (ye-ouch!) after a non-football related argument," according Alameda County Sheriff Dept. Sgt. J.D.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Benefit Show Honoring Erno "Tattoo" Szabady: Local rock bands Slowfinger, DickDusters, and the Walker Brothers get together to raise money for a burial "niche" for well-known, recently deceased tattoo artist, Szabady. Show
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Blow-Up": DJ Jefrodisiac and Emily Betty’s "indie-pop-disco-noir" (noir?) monthly dance club brings out hipsters of every ilk. But that doesn’t mean that you still can’t have a good time.
SF News Day Around The Bay --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! --Steve Jobs speaks at the Apple Conference today.
SF News Your Commute: On Fire. Seriously There was an evacuation of trains on the Fremont and Dublin-Pleasanton BART lines after a fire at a substation knocked out power to part of the system. The fire started at about 10:
SF News Flying Out of Oakland? The easiest way of getting to the Oakland airport is AirBart. AirBart is a bus service that runs from the Oakland Coliseum BART station to the airport. It's only two bucks (plus whatever
SF News American Football Spectacular: It's Likely You Won't See This But It Will Happen Plenty of tickets still available for the game. Well, there must be, since the NFL is blacking the game out on TV. * St. Louis vs. Oakland Sunday, December 17, 2006. 1:00 PM,
SF News American Football Spectacular: Dark Homecoming Coming to you from next to the fireplace at Fiddler's Green while watching The Big Game, it's your American Football Spectacular Week 13 preview for the Raiders! * Houston vs. Oakland Sunday, December 3,
SF News Fremont! Basically, the Coliseum doesn't work anymore because it's seen better days-- it, in fact, has that "first apartment you lived in when you moved here and shared a two-bedroom apartment with five people"
Arts & Entertainment It's Only Rock n' Roll 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
misc A Very Late Day Around the Bay 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.
SF News Voila! The A's Get The Monkey Off Their Backs This afternoon beneath overcast skies at McAfee Coliseum, the 2006 Oakland Athletics continued to defy expectations by smacking the Minnesota Twins 8-3 in a fashion befitting a potential World Series team. The entire
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Saddest Game Ever. The Chargers utterly dominated the Raiders on both sides of the ball in an ugly display that carried no positive inertia. The men of the Silver And Black were dominated, cowed, and blown
Arts & Entertainment The Warriors: There's a Party Goin' on Right Here 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
SF News SFist Goes To The 75th San Francisco Golden Gloves Though last week's Golden Gloves was not actually the "Golden Gloves" event sanctioned by boxing's governing body, USA Boxing, that information failed to dissuade some of the Bay Area's greatest fighters from appearing
SF News Bay Area Sports Franchises: Welcome to the Mediocrity So how did our local teams do? In short, meh (we would link to the article in question, but for whatever reason, IT'S NOT ONLINE! This is the 21st Century-- everything should be
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: U2 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,
SF News A's Brand Baseball Keeps The Faith We know, we know: It's Barry Bonds Week in Bay Area baseball. That's very exciting, but there's also a pennant race going on just across the bay from 24 Willie Mays Plaza. After
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The A's . . . Lose? The A's have lost four games in a row, to the Minnesota Twins and the Baltimore Orioles. They were defeated by A's Brand Baseball's two favorite Orioles, (in order) SS Miguel Tejada and
