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The push to block the Oakland A's relocation continuesThe Oakland Athletics move to Las Vegas is no closer to completion, as the Nevada State Education Association (NESA) is preparing to file an injunction to block the $380 million in public funds for the A’s, on the grounds that it is unconstitutional....

Notoriously cheap owner has to pay for A's to leave OaklandThe Oakland Athletics are about to pay more than their entire 2022 payroll just to leave Oakland....

MLB isn’t even pretending it wants to keep the A’s in OaklandThe A’s’ time in Oakland is dwindling. We don’t know when they’ll be gone. We just know that it’s going to happen. If team president Dave Kaval’s cryptic tweets talking about the energy from sports fans in Las Vegas last year weren’t proof enough, MLB has all but confirmed our suspicions with their ...

A’s President Dave Kaval seems a little bitter about attendance

It’s no secret that the Oakland A’s are struggling with attendance. They’ve been struggling in that department for years. 2022 is a whole different monster for the A’s, though. After two series on the road to open the season, the A’s came back home to a modest crowd of 17,503. That number dropped dr...

Who would’ve thunk? People in Oakland aren’t attending A’s games

We’re less than two weeks into the MLB season and just like everyone predicted, the Oakland Athletics are tied for first place in their division...wait, what? Yeah, it’s early, but the A’s were supposed to be the cellar dwellers of the AL West. They spent a whopping $0 in free agency and traded away...

The Top 5 Idiots of May

Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH, in which we make fun of famous (and non-famous!) people who have done stupid things. And May did not disappoint....

Oakland A's Lead National ‘Rent Freeze’ Movement

Oh, wait. Nope! They’re just greedy....

Nobody Wants The Raiders

Of all the narratives (a word I fully intend to expunge from the language as soon as I am named Secretary of Taste in the Harris administration) that the National Football League has had to combat in the last five years, there has been none quite so surreptitiously corrosive as the story of The NIMB...

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Raiders Stiff-Armed By San Francisco In Mark Davis's Desperate Search For A Temporary Home

The saga of Mark Davis looking for a temporary home for his relocating Raiders took another stupid turn this week, after the team reportedly arrived at a plan to play their home games in nearby San Francisco. Turns out that plan, like so many of this idiot organization’s endeavors, was a big dumb n...

by Chris Thompson|

|Wed Feb 06 2019

Report: Raiders Eyeing AT&T Park As Temporary Home Stadium For 2019

For the 2019 season, the Raiders may stick with a familiar look for their temporary home field: a baseball park. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai reported that there was “a distinct possibility” that the Raiders end up playing at AT&T Park in the season right before the franchise’s move to Las Vegas. Al Sa...

by Gabe Fernandez|

|Sat Dec 22 2018

No One Knows Where The Raiders Are Going To Play Next Season

The Raiders have just one home game left in Oakland this year, Christmas Eve against the Broncos. The Raiders will begin play in their new domed Las Vegas Stadium in the 2020 season. And in between? Uhhhhhhhh......

by Barry Petchesky|

|Tue Dec 25 2018

Oakland Taxpayers Will Still Be On The Hook For $163 Million After The Raiders And Warriors Leave

When the city of Oakland brought the Raiders back from Los Angeles in 1995, then-mayor Elihu Harris enticed Al Davis with $200 million in improvements to the Oakland Coliseum. The city paid for the construction with taxpayer-backed bonds, and their initial plan was to pay off the bond by selling per...

by Patrick Redford|

|Thu Mar 30 2017

MLB Will No Longer Allow The Oakland A's To Pretend To Be A Small-Market Team

If you’re fed up with hearing about the Oakland Athletics’ half-assed quest to find a new stadium, MLB and the MLBPA want you to know they’re right there with you. A stipulation in the new collective bargaining agreement reclassifies the Athletics as a major-market team, which does away with the exc...

by Lindsey Adler|

|Thu Dec 01 2016

Raiders Fan “Dr. Death” Campaigns For New Stadium At Public Meeting

The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority held a meeting today to discuss the economic feasibility of funding a new stadium that would keep the Raiders in Oakland for the foreseeable future. The meeting included time for concerned citizens to make public comments, and one Raiders superfan took f...

by Tom Ley|

|Mon Jul 15 2013

The Oakland Athletics Love Affair With Late 80's And Early 90's Screwball Comedies: Part 2

By now, we are all familiar with the Athletics' necrophilia. It's been a fun few months for the team and the city, despite dropping the opening game of the series to Detroit last night. In many ways they embody the spirit of Bernie. No one expects much from a corpse and no one really expected much f...

by Sean Newell|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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