Last weekend HP Pavilion scheduled one of its occasional day-night event doubleheaders. The Harlem Globetrotters were in town for a 1 PM matinee, followed up by a 7:30 PM Sharks-Blues matchup. The Sharks/SVSE took a time-lapse video of the changeover. The Globetrotters don’t attract sellout crowds, yet they routinely play in some of the largest, [...]

No news on KTRB yet. Sorry. There is other news on sports-related radio. South Bay rock station KUFX-FM (er, KFOX 98.5) was sold to industry giant Entercom for $9 million. The station was held in a trust as Clear Channel had to divest itself of three stations after it made acquisitions of its own (FCC [...]

We can now add über-agent Scott Boras to the list of people who hate Oakland, along Lew Wolff, John Fisher, Steve Schott, Ken Hofmann, Guy Saperstein, and just about everyone else in league with A’s ownership over the past 15 years. Ken Rosenthal reports that Boras, well, his words speak for themselves. “The idea that [...]

Update 1/20 12:15 AM – Governor Brown spoke at League of California Cities event, indicating that the recent moves by cities and RDAs to protect and assign redevelopment funds may be illegal. Brown characterized the difficulty the state faces this way: “I have to tell you, none of the choices are easy,” Brown said at [...]

Last week, Los Angeles took steps to protect nearly $1 Billion in RDA funds from the state. Now it’s everyone else’s turn. Redevelopment agencies all over California are scrambling to come up with strategies to keep themselves intact or insulate themselves from the inevitable raid or shutdown. In Escondido, the RDA is debating whether or [...]

The head of AEG has a big checkbook. With that comes the ability to dictate terms. As reported by the Los Angeles Business Journal, Phil Anschutz has laid out the conditions needed for him to drop some serious coin on the downtown, retractable roof stadium. Agreements with various corporations for naming rights and other sponsorships [...]

August 30, 2002. The A’s were coming off an off-day, a well-deserved rest after extending The Streak to 15 games. Even with the delirium we all felt about the on-field stuff, a dark cloud loomed on the horizon. The league and union were at the latter’s deadline to ratify a new CBA, otherwise a strike [...]

It’s generally not well-known that the NBA was the first major pro sport to institute a salary cap. The modern form of it came in 1984, in the midst of the great Celtics-Lakers rivalry and the first season of Michael Jordan. The cap has served David Stern’s league well, controlling costs while incrementally making players [...]

I’ve tried to avoid it. You know you have. But it’s there and it has to be addressed. The Giants have spent much of the offseason showing off their newly earned World Series trophy. Two weeks ago it was at the Silicon Valley International Car Show. It’s been all over the Bay for fans to [...]

Every time I tried to start this post earlier in the week, some fantastic new nugget from Maury Brown (site/Twitter) got me to read further. If you really want to get in depth, follow Maury’s thorough, seemingly unending coverage at The Biz of Football and at Forbes. It’s pretty much one-stop shopping if you want [...]