Chuck Reed was interviewed by Greg Papa on Monday night’s edition of Chronicle Live. I haven’t had a chance to watch the full hour, but I did catch several clips of the interview that were made available on the show’s website. It’s no secret that Reed and Lew Wolff have been meeting on a fairly [...]

CoCoTimes columnist Cam Inman had a lengthy interview with Rickey Henderson prior to last night’s game and the 1989 team reunion. I found this excerpt interesting: ON THE A’S POSSIBLY MOVING OUT OF OAKLAND It’s hard. I’m a native. You think about the Bay Area. This is where I grew up. This is where I [...]

When certain San Jose supporters privately told me several months ago about a possible November ballot measure for an A’s ballpark, I was nearly incredulous. It seemed to be a rapid ramp-up period following a potentially hasty vetting process. Thankfully, cooler heads have prevailed as the City of San Jose is pushing back any public [...]

A bankruptcy judge in in Phoenix has struck down the sale of the financially desperate Phoenix Coyotes to Blackberry co-founder and wannabe NHL team owner Jim Balsillie. The reason had little to do with principle, as Judge Redfield T. Baum explained that Balsillie’s deadline of June 29 to wrap up the deal was to quick [...]

Desperate to get out of an $80+ million budget hole, Oakland’s City Council is proposing several cost-cutting and revenue-generating proposals which will certainly affect different parts of the populace. This includes eliminating discretionary accounts for the Mayor and City Council, getting contract concessions from OFD, and one major item affecting sports fans: a 10% ticket [...]

The Merc’s John Woolfork reports on the first meeting of the 30-person committee put together to go over community issues for the Diridon South ballpark site and surrounding neighborhoods. The City Council last month enthusiastically approved a set of principles meant to guide any future negotiations with the team, such as a pledge that any [...]

I’ve been puzzling over the Santa Clara Stadium Authority matter for a couple of weeks now. While I picked up a few tidbits of useful information about the 49ers stadium project, it took a look at an otherwise innocuous Newsday item for the whole thing to click. In the blog post, the NY Giants admit [...]

It’s 11 PM, which means the Santa Clara City Council session is cutting into my Daily Show/Colbert Report time. Not cool. Truth be told, I haven’t been watching it for very long. It’s been going long thanks to a very extended comments session. There’ll be an update when something actually happens. 11:43 PM – All [...]

There’s no shortage of different perspectives going into tonight’s Santa Clara City Council vote. While the vote itself appears to be something of a formality (I don’t expect more than 1-2 dissenting votes), all interested parties are positioning themselves for the nearly year long campaign ahead. Noted Stanford sports economist Roger Noll weighed in with [...]