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.
Bay Area Sports Alameda County Puts the Screws to the A’s, Demands $45 Million In Unpaid Coliseum Bills Some hardball tactics from Alameda County as the A’s try to bolt for Las Vegas, with the county pointing out a fine-print clause in their contract that says the team is on the hook for $45 million if they ever decide to leave town.
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 Seen as Potential Expansion City for Major League Baseball, After A's Departure A wealthy ownership group looking to back a new baseball team in Oakland should make themselves known sooner rather than later, because according to high-ranking MLB executives, Oakland is high on the list for an expansion team in 2025.
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 A’s Fans Ask Giants Fans to Join in Their ‘Sell the Team’ Protests At This Week’s Bay Bridge Series Games The Giants and A’s resume their Bay Bridge Series Tuesday at Oracle Park, but this time A’s fans are asking Giants fans to join them with “Sell the Team” signs, chants, and t-shirts. And the t-shirts will be free!
Bay Area Sports Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Had Secret Meeting With MLB Commissioner To Keep The A’s, But Struck Out Swinging Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game heard A’s fans chanting “Sell the team!,” but we’re also now learning of a secret meeting between Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred before the game, though Manfred balked at Thao’s case.
SF News BART Ridership Hits Post-Pandemic High, Mostly Thanks to A's Fans The Giants were on the road Tuesday night, but Oakland A's fans came out in force, packing both the Coliseum and BART trains in order to tell owner John Fisher to sell the team and let it stay in Oakland.
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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A’s Las Vegas Deal May Be Falling Apart, Team Picks Different Stadium Site Trump lost his sexual assault and defamation case, free Narcan vending machines are popping up at Bay Area colleges, and the Oakland A’s just hastily pulled out of their Las Vegas stadium deal in favor of a different Las Vegas site.
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 Humpday Headlines: A's Howard Terminal Project Gets Another Leg Up The Oakland City Council has voted not to put the A's Howard Terminal stadium project on the November ballot, a San Pablo man drowned while trying to save his son in Lake Berryessa, and Carlos Santana collapsed during a concert last night.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Executive Gets Drawn Into Twitter Fight with Fictional Giants Ballpark Seagull Protip: If you are a successful sports executive with a million-dollar salary, and you are arguing with a fictional bird on Twitter, you are losing that argument regardless.
Bay Area Sports Feral Cats Overrun Oakland Coliseum, Authorities Decide to Just Let Them Have Their Run of the Place A feral kitty committee of 30-40 feral cats is expanding and “having a field day on the A’s turf,” and stadium authorities have decided to simply cede the place to them, but will attempt to have the cats spayed and neutered.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland City Council Gives Another OK to A's Stadium Plan Pleasanton police fatally shot a domestic violence suspect holding a kitchen knife on Thursday, the search continues for a missing Oakley woman, and Oakland's city council just signed off on the EIR for the A's Howard Terminal stadium development.
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.
Bay Area Sports Plans For Redeveloped Oakland Coliseum Include NFL and WNBA Teams, New Convention Center A group that has been selected by the City of Oakland to redevelop the Oakland Coliseum and Arena properties has big ambitions for the future complex, which include bringing both a new NFL team to Oakland and establishing a new women's basketball team in the city.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A's Once Again Threatening to Leave Oakland as New Stadium Subsidy Comes Up for Vote In a not-very-veiled threat via a statement from Major League Baseball, the Oakland A's are following a familiar playbook to coerce the Oakland City Council to approve an $855 million payment for new infrastructure around the Howard Terminal site.
Bay Area Sports A’s Pitcher Hits Cheating Houston Astro With Pitch, Oakland Crowd Roars with Approval Fans don’t normally cheer wildly when a batter gets hit by a pitch, but the Houston Astros’ World Series cheating scandal is clearly on the minds of Oakland A’s fans.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A's to Open Their Season Tonight With 12,000 Fans In the Stands On Thursday night, the Oakland Athletics will become the first professional sports team in the Bay Area to host thousands of fans at a game since the beginning of the pandemic, with Alameda County permitting the Coliseum to operate at 26% capacity.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: New Oakland A's Stadium Moves Ahead A four-month-old Maltese puppy was stolen out of a car near Union Sq. and the suspect refuses to say where it is, the victim in a brazen Oakland shooting in front of a bunch of kids has been identified, and the highway repair in Big Sur is expected to be done by early summer.
