The drama over Kansas City pro sports futures may have finally ended peacefully as voters approved a sales tax hike to fund $575 million of upgrades to Kauffman Stadium (Royals) and Arrowhead Stadium (Chiefs). The Royals and Chiefs had different problems. Middling attendance and small market size hurt the Royals. The Chiefs, on the other [...]

Just after Rich Harden got out of a first inning jam by blowing away Jason Giambi with a 98 mph heater, a shot was shown of the seats behind the A’s dugout. Lew Wolff was there, as would be expected. But who was that young guy seated next to Wolff? It was none other than [...]

One of the first steps on a long road to a Fremont ballpark was made on Monday as Lew Wolff, presumably coming from his daughter’s residence in Los Gatos, stopped in Fremont to meet with members of the city council and city manager Fred Diaz. Diaz has been responsible for much of the policy-related work [...]

Good pictures from the one day with decent weather in a while. First up is a wide shot from the northwest corner of the site. Mission Peak is the mountain on the left covered in shadow.Then we have a closeup that’s more representative of how close and tall the mountains are to human eyes.This next [...]

And now for the most speculative article yet: At the same time, Wolff held out little hope of the team remaining in Oakland. “It’s a built-up area, and I can’t ask them to do the impossible,” Wolff said, adding that even “if they came up with a $400 million check, we still don’t have a [...]

A recap of the Oakland mayoral debate has the following bit about candidate Ron Dellums: Dellums said that after meeting with Oakland Athletics owner Lewis Wolff, he concluded that the time had passed to keep the baseball team from leaving the city. For those that held out that the frontrunner Dellums would provide hope for [...]