Oakland Coliseum

06 Aug 2024

It’s Official: The Oakland Coliseum Is Sold.

So, someone finally bought the Oakland Coliseum.  On Monday, it was announced that Oakland A’s owner John Fisher has agreed to sell his team’s half-interest in the Oakland Coliseum site to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG). This follows AASEG’s recent agreement to purchase the other half of

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14 Jun 2023

Yesterday, the Oakland Coliseum was Baseball’s Last Dive Bar

Fans organized a “reverse boycott” of the Oakland Athletics, where instead of staying away from the games, fans showed up in force. Half protest, half celebration, it was truly an “Only in Oakland” type experience.

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08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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20 Apr 2023

Oakland A’s Make Statement After Announcing Departure

Oakland A’s fans hung their heads low this week when an announcement was made that the team would likely be leaving the Bay Area for a new billion dollar stadium outside of Vegas by 2027. The Oakland A’s departure to Vegas includes a billion dollar 35,000-seat stadium on a 49-acre

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21 Sep 2021

Second Sky Music Festival Attendees Were Too Tired For This Years Festival Season!

While the excitement was high initially, Second Sky Music Festival attendees realized ever so quickly their bodies weren’t actually ready for festival season. As it turns out, one and half years of staying at home to shelter in place had made them too soft to stand.

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04 Feb 2021

Oakland Coliseum Becomes Mass Vaccination Site, Sorry A’s!

Remember when you used to drive to the Coliseum for Raiders games & a raucous tailgating scene?  Now you’re gonna go there for a corona virus vaccine.  The Federal Government (thanks to Biden’s team) is setting up a mass vaccination station where The Black Hole used to be in Oakland.

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29 May 2019

The East Bay Shows Some Early Pride

Sure, the San Francisco Pride festivities scheduled for the end of June are in a league of their own, drawing crowds of LGBTQ and allies from around the globe and that alone is an amazing thing to be part of. Oakland’s formal Pride weekend in September will give us all

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