Bay Area Sports Oakland Offers the A’s Five-Year Lease Extension for $97 Million to Keep Playing In Usually Empty Coliseum The Oakland A’s need a ballpark for the next three years while their proposed Las Vegas stadium is getting built, but the City of Oakland hopes to charge them nearly $100 million if they want to play those three years at the Oakland Coliseum.
Bay Area Sports A’s Negotiating to Stay In Oakland Three More Years, Because They Have Nowhere Else to Play The Oakland A’s are dragging their tails into negotiations with the City of Oakland and Alameda County to continue playing at the Oakland Coliseum through 2027, even though they’re still planning to move to Las Vegas, because they don’t have anywhere else to play.
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.
SF News Box of Puppies Found in Stolen Vehicle at Coliseum BART Station Parking Lot BART Police engaged in a car chase Tuesday afternoon with a vehicle that had been reported stolen in Fremont. But when they finally nabbed the driver, they made the unusual discovery of five newborn puppies inside the stolen car.
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 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 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.
Bay Area Sports How the Raiders Bilked the City of Oakland Out of $190 Million The Raiders may be long gone, but new calculations reveal that the team took a loan from the city of Oakland, let the interest run its total up to $190 million, and then left for Las Vegas without the city even asking for the money.
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.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Moves Ahead on Coliseum Redevelopment Californians are starting to have trouble getting vaccine booster appointments, the head of the SF Film Commission is being forced out because she won't be vaccinated, and the Oakland City Council has selected a developer for the Coliseum redevelopment project.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Offers Second Pfizer Shots For Anyone Who Missed Theirs (For Limited Time) The Oakland Coliseum mass-vaccination site is winding down on May 23, and Alameda County is putting out a last call for anyone who received a first Pfizer dose and may have missed their second appointment.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Mass-Vaccination Site to Close May 23; Moscone Center to Close May 28 One of the Bay Area's biggest mass-vaccination sites will shut down for good on May 23, in yet another sign of ongoing progress in the pandemic fight — and signaling the shift in focus for the vaccine campaign.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Extended For One Month, Without FEMA Help Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the Oakland Coliseum — technically now RingCentral Coliseum — mass vaccination site will continue operating for four more weeks past its scheduled sunset date, which was on April 11.
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 Oakland Coliseum Site Switches to Second Shots Only Before Pivot to Johnson & Johnson Vaccine The mass vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum stopped taking appointments for first shots of the Pfizer vaccine last week as it prepares to switch over to administering only the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
SF News Cheap Syringes at Oakland Coliseum Vaccination Site Lead to Wasted Vaccine, Accidental Under-dosing Over 4,000 people who received vaccines at the mass-vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum on Monday may have received the wrong dose amount, according to a new report. The under-dosing may not
SF News The Oakland Coliseum Is Now Officially 'RingCentral Coliseum' After a contract was approved Friday that finally put a cap on the stadium-naming mess involving former Coliseum Authority Executive Director Scott McKibben, the Oakland Coliseum is now formally "RingCentral Coliseum."
SF News Former Coliseum Official Charged With Felony Over RingCentral Naming Deal The former CEO of the Oakland Coliseum Authority, who resigned in August amid claims that he was illegally trying to profit from a naming-rights deal with RingCentral, has now been charged with a felony.
Bay Area Sports RingCentral Naming Deal Likely Off For Oakland Coliseum As Details Of CEO's Illegal 'Finder's Fee' Revealed The CEO of the Oakland Coliseum remains in hot water over a consulting agreement he made with Redwood City-based RingCentral, whom he wanted to charge a $50,000 "finder's fee" for securing a naming-rights deal for the stadium.
Bay Area Sports Premium Seating Options Offer A's Fans New Reason To Hold Their Noses And Come To The Coliseum Bay Area fans who watched the opening game of the Giants/A's series on Sunday may have heard Chris Giles speaking with A's broadcasters about some new additions to the rapidly deteriorating Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
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.
SF News Deplorable Teen Mobs Strike On BART Again, Good Samaritans Save The Day Twice BART's latest incident of deplorable teen violence has an adorable ending, but does little to address concerns that BART is dragging its feet and under-publicizing incidents of violence on its trains. The third
Arts & Entertainment OMFG Hello Kitty Supercute Friendship Festival Coming To Oakland! When the Hello Kitty Food Truck came to San Francisco, I felt #blessed and thought that peak cuteness had been reached. At the time, I considered that I might literally die, but somehow
SF News The Raiders Really Might Move To San Antonio The Oakland Raiders just might become the San Antonio Raiders if the team's recent survey of San Antonio resident opinion wasn't just a tactic in their ongoing negotiations with the City of Oakland.