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Bill Madden: A’s continue to be an embarrassment to MLB, but so do a half-dozen other teams

NEW YORK — The sorry plight of the Oakland Athletics, which came to a head this week with the announcement the team will be pulling up stakes and heading to a new ballpark in Las Vegas, is the most glaring example of the bigger problem vexing baseball — the lack…

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Police warn drivers of 'two new tricks' criminals are using in spate of carjackings

The Oakland Police Department revealed thieves are intentionally ramming their vehicles into people's car “in hopes of getting the victim to stop" to try and steal their possessions

Daily Mirror

Bill Shaikin: MLB and A's should do the right thing and keep team in Oakland

If baseball mythology really came to life, if teams really were civic assets and owners really were stewards of those public trusts, Rob Manfred would have issued a starkly different statement when the Oakland Athletics decided they wanted to move to Las Vegas.

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Oakland Trader Joe's store becomes first to unionize in California

The campaign to unionize Trader Joe's workers has officially claimed a victory in the company's home state. An Oakland store on Thursday became the first Trader Joe's in California to unionize.

Los Angeles Times

NFL Owner Rips Baseball Team for Plans to Move to Las Vegas

The Raiders and A’s have a contentious history, which Davis won’t let anybody forget.

Sports Illustrated

Dieter Kurtenbach: Oakland, the East Bay deserve better than John Fisher’s bush-league A’s

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Around these parts, those who can do.

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A’s Display the Ugly Side of Moneyball, On and Off the Field

Ownership’s unwillingness to support their team on and off the field will seemingly lead the Athletics on a shameless path out of Oakland to Las Vegas.

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On the move? Oakland Athletics announce Las Vegas land deal.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland A’s, who for five decades built an iconic legacy of baseball and community at the vast concrete Coliseum it called home, have agreed to buy land in Las Vegas and build a new stadium there, team officials confirmed Wednesday.

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Athletics set to join Oakland exodus as Las Vegas plans edge closer

MLB side Oakland Athletics are set to be moved 553 miles and join the Raiders in Las Vegas, following stalled progression with new ballpark in their current region

Daily Mirror

Oakland A’s take another step toward moving to Las Vegas

President Dave Kaval said the team finalized a deal last week to buy a 49-acre site where the A’s plan to build a stadium close to the Las Vegas Strip with a seating capacity of 30,000 to 35,000.

Chicago Sun-Times

Oakland unbelievably lost all three of its pro sports teams in just 5 years

This city and these fanbases deserved so much better.

USA Today Sports Media Group

How renters will be protected when Oakland’s eviction ban ends in July

OAKLAND, California — Property owners in Oakland can once again kick out tenants for failure to pay rent starting July 15, a hard-fought compromise end date to the city’s COVID-era ban on evictions.

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San Francisco Home Depot worker shot dead confronting shoplifter

Suspect left store in getaway car but was later detained in Oakland, authorities say

The Independent UK

Oakland A's purchase land for new stadium in Las Vegas

The Oakland Athletics have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a new retractable roof ballpark in Las Vegas after being unable to build a new venue in the Bay Area

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Dazzling dose of Miller time can’t save Athletics in loss to Cubs

OAKLAND, Calif. — Mason Miller was electric as advertised, but the Athletics remain in a state of system-wide failure.

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‘A house of cards’: When the Big One comes, will Alameda be ready?

When the “Big One” eventually hits, the city of Alameda will have plenty to worry about.

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Athletics on the verge of wrong side of history after loss to Cubs

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Athletics will have to win two straight games against the Chicago Cubs to avoid history.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs’ Nico Hoerner reflects on Oakland Coliseum memories before homecoming

In his first major-league game at the Coliseum, he went 2-for-5 with a walk, three runs scored and an RBI as the Cubs pounded out 20 hits in a 10-1 victory Monday against the A’s.

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The possum living inside the A’s stadium walls is still a huge problem for visiting announcers

The possum is still a problem in Oakland.

Newsday

Mets sweep A's after Pete Alonso's latest homer ties it in ninth

OAKLAND, Calif. — Despite getting out-hit by the Athletics, navigating nine innings with the bottom four pitchers on their roster and blowing a late lead, the Mets stole a win anyway, 4-3, after scoring the go-ahead run on a wild pitch in the top of the 10th inning on Sunday…

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Mets call up No. 2 prospect Brett Baty ahead of Dodgers series

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Mets have seen all they need to see. They’re calling up third baseman Brett Baty.

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Brandon Nimmo plays hero with clutch RBI double as Mets take series from A’s

OAKLAND, Calif. — Brandon Nimmo played the hero on Saturday against the Oakland A’s, beating one of his former Mets teammates in a 3-2 win.

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Oakland A’s pitchers continue to make history — in a bad way

OAKLAND, Calif. – Oakland A’s catcher Shea Langeliers hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning. Aledmys Díaz and Brent Rooker followed that with solo homers in the fifth and sixth innings, respectively.

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Commentary: ‘A torment to be in my own brain’: Forced mental health care saved this survivor’s life

Lee Davis was standing naked at the edge of Lake Merritt in Downtown Oakland, enacting the strange steps of a ceremony only she knew.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

As a single Black mom, Barbara Lee felt unrepresented. Now she runs for the US Senate

WASHINGTON — Barbara Lee was in her early 20s, a single mother of two young boys, attending Mills College in Oakland, California. The future California congresswoman needed public assistance and food stamps. She couldn’t afford child care, so often her children would attend classes with her.

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