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.
SF News New Plan For Oakland's Coliseum Area Includes 5,750 Housing Units, New Venues For Football, Baseball, and Basketball The City of Oakland just unveiled a detailed master plan for Coliseum City, a project they forsee spanning the next 20 years that would include the construction of a new stadiums for the
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Cuckoo For Coco The Inadvertent Gardener snapped this shot of an A's fan giving it up for Covelli Loyce "Coco" Crisp at Saturday's ALDS game 2 in Oakland.
SF News Big Rave in Oakland Upsets Many Oaklanders A big electronic music fest called Beyond Wonderland happened on Saturday night in the parking lot outside Oracle Arena in Oakland. There were three tents/stages, a ferris wheel, and enough thumping oontz-oontz
SF News Oakland Coliseum Becomes Overstock.com Coliseum According to the Chronicle's intrepid reporting duo Matier & Ross, Utah-based discount clearance site Overstock.com has taken over the naming rights to the home of the Raiders and the Athletics. Appropriately enough,
SF News VIDEO: AC Transit Bus Smashed in By Amtrak Train An Amtrak passenger train collided with a stalled AC Transit bus near the Oakland Coliseum early this morning. Above is some raw video of the scene from ABC 7. The Appeal reports that
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 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
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 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
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: Servin' Up Summertime Our friends and family tried to tell us, but we had to find out for ourselves anyway: July in an ivy-covered Northeastern college town is no place for a California boy. We mention
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Some Of Our Best Friends Are From Boston The A's have lost 8 games in a row, and 11 of their last 12. The A's are 9 games below .500. The A's have been outscored, in 2005, by every team in
