The city of Oakland is selling its share of the Coliseum — home to the departing Oakland Athletics — to a local Black development group for at least $105 million, Mayor Sheng Thao announced Wednesday.
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The 10-day event, with a $11.5 million prize purse, has sold out 360 consecutive performances at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The nonrelocation agreement, presented to the stadium authority board Thursday afternoon, is the third of four major agreements that must be approved by the authority.
The Nevada Supreme Court rejected a teachers union effort to put public funding for the Oakland Athletics’ planned Las Vegas ballpark on November’s ballot.
They are few but mighty at the moment, small crowds of longtime diehards determined to cheer their beloved A’s this year before they relocate to Sacramento for the next three seasons and, later, Las Vegas.
The Oakland Athletics plan to build a ballpark on the site of the Tropicana, but Bally’s says where the stadium will sit on that site is still being determined.
An executive explained why Bally’s is in no hurry to produce plans for a resort that would be attached to the Oakland Athletics’ stadium at the Tropicana site.
The Oakland Athletics are considering hiring an investment firm to assist team owner John Fisher in securing financing for construction of their planned Strip ballpark.
Tropicana owner Bally’s Corp. filed for a commercial demolition permit with Clark County as preparations continue to build a ballpark for the Oakland Athletics.
The Oakland Athletics filed a motion to intervene in a teachers union-backed lawsuit aimed at halting the team’s public stadium financing.
Whether they’re relocation or expansion teams, adding new pro teams to Las Vegas takes hard work by owners, Oak View Group Las Vegas president Marc Badain said.
The Oakland Athletics can now focus on aspects of their planned Las Vegas relocation and the years in between with a temporary home site nailed down.
The Nevada Supreme Court did not render a decision after hearing arguments regarding a challenge to the Oakland Athletics’ public funding bill.
The Oakland A’s have found a temporary home to use as their Las Vegas ballpark is built. While they’re in that interim home, they will simply go by the Athletics or A’s.
Outfielder Esteury Ruiz was optioned to the Triple-A Aviators this week despite his hot start with the Oakland Athletics.
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