Gary Richards, a.k.a. Mr. Roadshow, reports that the California Transportation Commission is expected to approve $239 million in additional state funding for the Silicon Valley BART extension. In the process, $91 million is being moved from the Dumbarton Rail project to the BART extension. The last bit of funding completes the state responsibility. It’s now [...]

Carolyn Jones, who has recently covered the A’s stadium beat, has her sights set slightly north in her new article. This time the stadium in question is Cal’s Memorial Stadium, which as longtime Bay Area residents know, sits smack-dab on top of the Hayward Fault. Lost in all the hubbub about the new, adjacent athletic [...]

The Rusty Simmons-penned article about Lew Wolff’s Q&A session with the A’s booster club and Ray Ratto’s follow-up brought me back to the old adage: If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. That brings up the following exchange: Q: What will transit options be in Fremont? A: Instead of just saying, [...]

Say it with me now: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Feel better? You might knowing that the stadium whose original name, above, was changed to Network Associates Coliseum and then McAfee Coliseum, is reverting back to the original after McAfee’s naming rights contract ended yesterday. And to think that I unknowingly attended that final game. I didn’t [...]

I’ve had the pleasure of going on several ballpark sojourns in my day. It started during college breaks, as it has for many. When you’re a broke college student on the west coast, you can only get so far even if you’re camping and gas is cheap (circa 1996). The adventures extended well into post-education [...]

The Minnesota Twins announced the naming rights sponsor for their new outdoor ballpark: Target. The deal is for 25 years. Financial terms weren’t announced, but it’s likely the deal is worth at least $100 million for that period. If you’re wondering why Target Field sounds familiar, that’s probably because the downtown arena named Target Center [...]

To follow up on Monday’s Raiders/Coliseum post, I put together a few mock-ups that show how the renovation would progress. To set it up, we’ll make the following assumptions: The A’s begin construction of Cisco Field by the end of 2010. Cisco Field fully signals the Raiders and the Coliseum to fully pursue an extension. [...]

The soap opera-esque story of the Marlins’ efforts to get a ballpark took a positive turn Tuesday. Well, it was positive for the Marlins, perhaps not so much for the citizens of Miami-Dade County. Judge Jeri Beth Cohen, who was presiding over Norman Braman’s lawsuit regarding the legality of the stadium deal, threw one the [...]

Chris Thompson of the East Bay Express has a lengthy piece on the Raiders’ past and possible future in (and out) of Oakland. While the article doesn’t draw any specific conclusions on the Raiders’ stay in Oakland, their future there appears to be only slightly above bleak. Last January I posited an idea that the [...]

An article in today’s Fremont Bulletin (Wes Bowers) notes that on Wednesday, Wolff Urban Development Sr. VP Paul Menaker spoke at length at the Fremont Rotary Club about the state of the Cisco Field and ballpark village project. Most of the news relates to traffic and parking management. There’s nothing to report on public transit, [...]