The Merc’s Mike Swift has a brief summary of the report, just released by the City of Santa Clara. Matier and Ross add a bit of snark. I’m going to spend the weekend poring over the details, so don’t expect much until Monday. Links to the report and related appendices can be found at the [...]

Over at Inhabitat, there are fresh images from HOK and Parsons Brinkerhoff showing what a new multimodal rail station at Anaheim would look like. The planned site is about halfway between Angel Stadium (in the background) and Honda Center (off screen and to the right).It wouldn’t be a bad idea for the Diridon Station design [...]

If you happened to catch the A’s taking a surprising two out of three on the road against the Rays last weekend, you got more than a passing glimpse of Tropicana Field. While the Rays and A’s may be on opposite ends of the team development spectrum, their stadium situations are much more similar. The [...]

There’s a cloud over south Fremont, and its name is Toyota. With GM and the Pontiac Vibe out of the picture at NUMMI, Toyota had been silent about the plant’s future until last weekend. That’s when the #1 automaker in the world, which up to this point has never closed a plant, announced that the [...]

The Chronicle’s John Shea has some “news” from the commish courtesy of the All Star Break BBWA meeting. “Territorial rights are always sacred,” Selig said at a Baseball Writers Association of America meeting. Selig refused to comment on whether baseball would approve an A’s move to San Jose, a city that’s in the Giants’ territory [...]

Giants managing partner Bill Neukom headed down to a Los Altos Rotary Club event today, where he attempted to clear up some supposed misconceptions about territorial rights. From the Merc’s Mike Swift: Neukom said “there is a misunderstanding about the facts” relating to baseball’s territorial rights, adding that the Giants established their formal claim of [...]

A mini scandal is brewing in Santa Clara, where the 49ers stadium plan is getting help from State Senator Elaine Alquist (D – Santa Clara). She gutted an active, rather innocuous bill, SB 43, and replaced it with completely unrelated language geared specifically towards Santa Clara and how it should work the bidding process for [...]

In a textbook case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, the City of Oakland has chosen to enforce a long dormant 18.5% parking tax for all Coliseum events. Starting with the next A’s homestand, parking will go up $2. Prepaid parking will not be affected. East Bay Express scribe Robert Gammon points out that per [...]

The Merc’s Mark Purdy, who happens to be the only Bay Area sports columnist truly in favor of a move to San Jose, just made Sunday’s paper a little more interesting. Purdy implores Bud Selig to wrap up the three-person commission (the term “blue ribbon” was coined by the media and not by MLB) and [...]

Bud Selig probably has a combination of Cerberus and sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads guarding MLB’s Central Fund. Still, that hasn’t stopped him from giving to someone in need. This time, it’s Rangers owner Tom Hicks, whose team has been rumored to have trouble keeping up with payroll. A $15 million [...]