After a week of bitter wrangling, A’s owner Lew Wolff and Oakland city officials finally agreed on a new lease last week, after Wolff threatened to move the team if he didn’t get one. The A’s are now committed to … Continue reading
Friday was supposed to be a big day in Oakland. That’s when the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority, the city-county agency that runs the home of the A’s and Raiders, was set to vote on a new lease to … Continue reading
While I haven’t done an exhaustive search, I’m pretty sure no angry mobs set fire to anything major in Brazil last night. The protests against the World Cup, which briefly drew international attention before there was any actual soccer to … Continue reading
ou’ve got to hand it to the Chicago Cubs, they really know how to throw a party in the most Cubs way possible. In this, the 100th anniversary season of Wrigley Field, the team so far has introduced one of … Continue reading
I didn’t think it could happen, but I think I may finally be getting sick of Donald Sterling. The NBA owner who everyone loves to hate — how can you not enjoy the sheer spectacle of a man who apologizes … Continue reading
NEWARK, N.J. — I’d never watched a sports franchise die before. Oh, sure, I’d seen teams die metaphorically — I’m a Mets fan, after all — and I once watched from afar as an entire league, the women’s American Basketball … Continue reading
On the surface, today should be a happy one for Milwaukee sports fans — or at least Milwaukee sports headline writers — as 79-year-old Bucks owner Herb Kohl has announced that he’s selling the team to a pair of hedge-fund … Continue reading
Not long ago, I gave in to my son’s pleas and finally took him to a Brooklyn Nets game at the year-and-a-half-old Barclays Center. (He’s not a Nets fan — he’s devoted to the Knicks, god help him, and vowed … Continue reading
The Oakland A’s open their 2014 season Monday night against the Indians at the Oakland Coliseum, an event unusual only for how usual it is. It’s certainly not what anyone would have predicted five years ago yesterday, when Bud Selig … Continue reading
Last weekend, Major League Soccer kicked off its 19th season, and — no, wait! Don’t go away! Even if you think soccer is two hours of watching people kick a ball around for no good reason, or, conversely, if you … Continue reading