SF News MLB Commissioner Unhappy With Oakland A's Stadium Situation While the Oakland A's stadium drama isn't necessarily breaking news, now MLB commissioner Bud Selig has expressed discontent with the situation. As the AP reports, Selig is "frustrated" that the A's still don't
SF News Oakland A's Staying In Oakland For Another Ten Years [Updated] After some last-minute negotiations and a threatening email late last night from Lew Wolff, it looks like the City of Oakland has caved and the A's are now definitively staying in Oakland through
Arts & Entertainment A's Want George Michael To Make Coliseum Appearance The Oakland A's have a lot on their plate this season. Most notably, at least to non-Athletics fans, is their quest to get George Michael to make a cameo appearance at a game.
SF News The A's Probably Stuck In Oakland For Good Over the past five years there's been a lot of grumbling over at the Oakland Coliseum and rumblings from the owners of the Oakland A's that they were going to high-tail it to
SF News Oakland Attracts Big New Investors to Coliseum City Project Just in time for the playoffs this weekend, in which the A's are going to take their shot at the World Series, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan announced yesterday that there's big new money
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Baby Drinks Bad Beer On Live TV Soaring rent prices, our Daisy getting assaulted at Candlestick, Jeff Daniels' Emmy for the exceptionally awful The Newsroom ... it's been a tough day to swallow. We know. But on the lighter side of
SF News An Update On Possible New Oakland A's Stadium, In Oakland Since the Oakland A's first announced in 2009 that they might consider a move south, to San Jose, Oakland has been desperately trying to hold on to the team. Now there's some movement
SF News Oakland A's Maybe One Step Closer to San Jose The owners of the Oakland Athletics, who back in 2009 announced that they were saying "See ya" to Oakland and moving down to San Jose, might be one step closer to making that
SF News Fancy That: Oakland A's Win AL West! The A's are the emperors of the AL West. Who would have thought? But after last night's win against Texas (12-5), the little team that could proved just that, making them and the
SF News A's Pitcher To Police Chief: "Arm Yourself Or Get Out, It's the Wild West." Well this is odd: Dallas Braden, the Oakland Athletics pitcher currently in possession of the arm responsible for the 19th perfect game in MLB history, got in to a spat with the Stockton,
SF News Colon Blows It: A's Pitcher Benched 50 Games For Doping Barely a week after Giants All-Star MVP Melky Cabrera was busted with high amounts of testosterone in his system, Oakland A's starting pitcher Bartolo Colon has also been suspended for being in violation
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Manny Ramirez And Wife Make Out At Spring Training Seeing as how we give the Oakland A's little love on SFist (though we did kinda like Moneyball!), here is a photo of newly acquired power slugger Manny Ramirez and his wife, Juliana,
SF News Scene from 'Moneyball' Press Junket with Brad Pitt Why, look! It's Brad Pitt. As we mentioned earlier today, Pitt and his special lady friend, Angelina Jolie, are in Oakland today to attend the premiere of the former's latest cinematic effort, Moneyball.
Arts & Entertainment Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Oakland Tonight Benjamin Button and Salt will jack up your Monday commute in Oakland tonight. And we couldn't be happier. (Glitz! Glamour! Celebrities! A-list celebrities! Chiseled bone structure!) See, Brad Pitt's latest cinematic effort, Moneyball
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in Oakland If your ride on the Orange & Black rollercoaster is making you ill, consider the bounty our friends to the east have on offer: the Oakland-centric film Moneyball premieres at The Paramount Theatre
SF News Fan Falls Over Railing, Dies at A's-Rangers Game A Texas Rangers fan, leaning over a railing to catch a ball tossed to him from the outfield by a player, fell to from the stands in Arlington, Texas last night in front
SF News A's Pitcher Dallas Braden Throws Perfect Game Though the game was sparsely attended (only 12,22811!), it was one of the stadium's most memorable. On Sunday, A's mound man Dallas Braden - who was last seen trading barbs with Alex
SF News SF City Attorney to File Suit Against Oakland A's? City Attorney Dennis Herrera is hinting that he might file suit against the Oakland A's to keep them from moving to San Jose, which is technically part of SF Giants' territory, reports the
SF News A's Release Jason Giambi The Oakland A's just released 2000 AL MVP and five-time All-Star Jason Giambi today. A noted hitter (he slammed his 400th career home run in May against the Arizona Diamondbacks), Giambi was also
SF News Oakland A's Fan Tazed by Police, 8/4 At last night's A's game against Texas, a belligerent fan gets zapped by Oakland police officers (1:05), another fan gets pushed down the stairs (1:25), a woman makes things worse by
SF News Giants Sweep During this weekend's interleague A's vs. Giants series, San Francisco won all three games, making it the first time in eight years the Giants cleaned Oakland's clock. On Sunday, the Giants took the
SF News Male Oakland A's Fans, Claim Your Just Rewards Ladies, please sit down for this one. Hell, you guys should sit too. See, San Diego resident Alfred G. Rava sued the Oakland A's. Why? Well, on Mother's Day of 2004, the Oakland
SF News Decision on A's Moving to San Jose Comes in November A ballot proposition on relocating the Oakland A's to San Jose could be up for a vote as early as November, reports KCBS, following a meeting between A's owner Lew Wolff and San
SF News Giants (Almost) on Top; A's Sink to the Bottom In Sunday's LA vs SF series, the Giants won 2 out 3 games against number-one ranked Dodgers, winning Sunday night's game, 7-5. The Giants, unbeaten in the last of their eight series, as
misc Jason Giambi Returns To The A's. What For? When he came up with the A's, he grew into a genial homespun hero. Then he left for money, and became a steroided diminishing-returns disgrace. Now he's back in Oakland? What-th'-hell Couldn't he
