If the 49ers couldn’t celebrate at the ‘Stick yesterday, at least they made a huge step towards celebrating every week in Santa Clara. According to the Merc’s Lisa Fernandez, a real estate firm partnering with a 49ers-controlled entity will buy Great America (the theme park assets not including the land) for $70 million. JMA Ventures, [...]

Arrived in time for a brief update to the EIR status. The document is meant to be released in January, with a Planning Commission hearing to follow on April. The discussion topic for this session is High Speed Rail. Alignment: Three-track, Direct/Downtown tunnel and aerial options have been withdrawn. That leaves the previously chosen alignment [...]

Forum thread Lew Wolff was interviewed by Greg Papa in a lengthy segment on Chronicle Live today, and for once just about everyone can find a little bit of hope in what he had to say. Wolff’s folksy demeanor shows up most when he sheepishly admits something, such as when he talked about his “silly [...]

Forum thread There’s a small amount of buzz surrounding Red Sox owner John Henry’s e-mail to the Boston Globe, published yesterday. In the letter, Henry takes certain unnamed small market teams to task for riding the revenue sharing gravy train. “Change is needed and that is reflected by the fact that over a billion dollars [...]

The AP’s Stephen Wade has a neat article about new book, Soccenomics. The book “to do for soccer what Bill James in his ‘Baseball Abstracts,’ and Michael Lewis in ‘Moneyball’ did for baseball: examine the game from the outside, using social science and academic rigor.” Unfortunately for the futbol economy, it appears that while spending [...]

We’ve been told Oakland’s going to release some information this week in conjunction with a renewed show of support from the City of Oakland, business leaders, and fans. Matier & Ross have the sites, two of which are completely new. The current Oakland Coliseum site. Oak and Third streets, just south of Jack London Square. [...]

As I mentioned in the last post, we now have a forum/bulletin board on site. The forum can be found at newballpark.org/forum. Four main categories have been created, with others possible as needed. Categories are as follows: Ballpark Sites – Discussion of any and all potential homes for the A’s. TV/Radio – Coverage of media [...]

Many of you provided lots of healthy feedback when the blog underwent a reskinning several months ago. Despite the excellent response, I’ve felt that the Blogger platform was somehow holding the site back. The Thanksgiving weekend seemed like an good time to make another move, and so I’m moving the blog to the WordPress platform. [...]