SF News One Person Dead After Tesla Cybertruck Explodes Outside Trump Hotel In Las Vegas In a highly symbolic New Year's Day event, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded as it sat outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, leaving one person dead, and speculation is swirling about a possible link to the tragedy in New Orleans hours earlier.
Arts & Entertainment Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Called Las Vegas a 'Sh*thole,' Now Las Vegas Radio Stations Are Boycotting Their Music At a concert appearance in the SF last weekend, East Bay natives Green Day took a stand about the Oakland A's decision to decamp to Las Vegas, and while their beef is more with the A's ownership than with Las Vegas, two Las Vegas radio stations are taking it personally.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Sets Date to Blow Up Tropicana Hotel So the Oakland A’s Can Build Their Ballpark There The now-defunct Tropicana Las Vegas resort and casino has been sentenced to death by implosion on October 9 so the carpetbagging Oakland A’s can try to build a stadium there, and the destruction will come complete with "a drone and fireworks show."
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Release Renderings of Proposed ‘Spherical Armadillo’ Las Vegas Stadium, To Widespread Mockery The sun is literally setting in the wrong direction in the Oakland A’s seemingly AI-generated new renderings of their proposed Las Vegas ballpark, which may be a metaphor for this troubled stadium gamble.
SF Politics A’s Biggest Roadblock to Las Vegas Could Be Set By… Former SF Supervisor Chris Daly? A blast from San Francisco’s political past could help shoot down the Oakland A’s proposed move to Las Vegas, as former SF supervisor Chris Daly is now the political director for a Nevada ballot measure and lawsuit that could be Oakland fans’ ace in the hole to keep the team.
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 49ers Taking Great Pains to Ensure Their Players Don’t Party Too Much In Las Vegas This Week Sunday’s 49ers-Chiefs Super Bowl will be the first one ever played in Sin City, and the 49ers team brass is going to great lengths to make sure the players keep their noses clean amidst the Las Vegas nightlife and gambling scene.
Bay Area Sports MLB Owners to Vote This Week on Whether Oakland A’s Can Relocate to Las Vegas A’s owner John Fisher faces his biggest hurdle yet this week, as Major League Baseball owners will vote on whether or not to approve his scheme to move the team to Las Vegas, but his plan still faces many potential curveballs even if the owners vote yes.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Fans Teaming Up With Nevada Schoolteachers to Block Team's Move in ‘Schools Over Stadiums’ Campaign An unlikely alliance could be an ace up the sleeve of A’s fans hoping to keep the team in Oakland, as they’re teaming up with the Nevada State Educators Association teachers’ union to push a ballot measure to block the new Las Vegas stadium.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Fans Plan ‘Reverse Boycott’ At Tuesday Night’s Game To Protest Possible Las Vegas Move The elephant of Oakland Athletics fandom will roar Tuesday night, as an A’s-Rays game will see a “reverse boycott” intended to show Major League Baseball that Oakland has better fans than Las Vegas ever will.
Bay Area Sports A’s Don’t Have the Votes In Nevada Legislature to Get Their Las Vegas Stadium Oakland A’s management has their hat in hand in the Nevada legislature asking for nearly $400 million in taxpayer money for their proposed Las Vegas stadium, and team executives are failing in their sales pitch even worse than the A’s are failing on the baseball diamond.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Nevada Lawmakers Balk at A's Dollar Ask Nevada lawmakers only want to give the A's half of the funding they are seeking for their new Vegas stadium; that new toll has been approved for Highway 37 in Sonoma County; and a reminder of which streets are closing for Bay to Breakers.
Bay Area Sports A’s Announce Agreement for New Vegas Ballpark, One Week After Bailing On Previous Vegas Ballpark The Oakland A’s claim they have a done deal to build a stadium at the Tropicana casino site on the Las Vegas Strip, though they just backed out a similar land deal last week, and the whole scenario is contingent on $400 million in yet-unapproved Nevada taxpayer money.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Move to Las Vegas Looks Like a Done Deal, Team Just Bought Stadium Site, But Who Knows A wild Wednesday night of developments loaded the bases for the Oakland A’s to move to Las Vegas, as the A’s organization bought land for a stadium, Major League Baseball blessed the deal, and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao declared she was done negotiating with team executives.
SF News Shooter In 2017 Las Vegas Massacre Found to Have Grievance Against Casinos In Newly Revealed Documents The broader public, surviving victims, and victims' families have remained baffled for five and a half years by the motivations of Stephen Paddock, who perpetrated the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history on October 1, 2017.
Bay Area Sports New Raiders QB Jimmy Garoppolo Offered Free Sex for Life at Chicken Ranch Outside Vegas The Bay Area's loss is Las Vegas' gain with sexy former 49er Jimmy Garoppolo headed to become the Raiders' newest quarterback. And two workers at the Chicken Ranch brothel in Pahrump, Nevada have a special lifetime offer for Jimmy G.
SF News Oakland Man Causes Panic at Las Vegas Airport Amid Apparent Mental Health Episode A 33-year-old Oakland man who reportedly really wanted to go home and get the eff out of Vegas was arrested twice last weekend at Harry Reid International Airport for causing disturbances that police compared to terrorism.
Arts & Entertainment Infamous Burning Man 747 Bought by Las Vegas Investors, to Become ‘Immersive Experience’ Tourist Trap on the Strip One of Burning Man’s grandest art projects, which turned into one of its grandest embarrassments, is off to the Las Vegas strip to live out its life as a new tourist attraction.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Becoming More Attractive to Oakland A’s, and They’ve Secretly Bid on the Bally’s Tropicana Site It’s becoming clear that the Oakland A’s would flat-out prefer Las Vegas, as they’ve made a bid on a property along the Strip as the Howard Terminal stadium plan continues to languish.
SF News Squatters Suspected Of Killing Las Vegas Woman Absolved As Police Say She Likely Died Earlier and They Just Buried Her A movie-of-the-week-worthy case of a woman whose dismembered body was found buried in the side yard of her home that initially had been ruled a homicide has now been deemed a death by natural causes — and squatters in her home found her already dead in a chair.
Bay Area Sports Raiders Coach Resigns After Emails Surface Showing He's a Racist, Sexist, Homophobic Prick There are still Raiders fans in the Bay Area even if they are just the long-distance supporters of a Las Vegas team now. And so it remains local news that the Raiders head coach has been shown to be a gross human being.
SF News Health Officials Urge People to Avoid the COVID Hot Spot of Las Vegas: 'You Will Get It and Bring It Back' Public health officials and state and city leaders in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere are urging their residents not to travel to Las Vegas right now amid a growing surge in the Delta variant and little or no mask mandates at Vegas casinos and restaurants.
SF News MGM Resorts To Pay Out Up To $800 Million to Las Vegas Shooting Victims In a landmark settlement for a victims' fund that is exceeded only by funds for victims of September 11th and the 2010 BP oil spill, MGM Resorts International is expected to pay up to $800 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits stemming from the October 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
Arts & Entertainment MGM Resorts Releases Bizarre Ad Shilling Vegas Following Shooting Together, we rise. #VegasStrong pic.twitter.com/H8NP0AEQdH— MGM Resorts (@MGMResortsIntl) October 15, 2017 by Emma Specter MGM Resorts International sparked controversy this week with a new #VegasStrong ad released last Sunday, two
SF News Body Of Las Vegas Shooter Sent To Stanford For Brain Analysis The body of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Craig Paddock is in the Bay Area after the local coroner has completed his own autopsy. As the Associated Press reports, the remains of the 64-year-old
