After 57 years, the Oakland Athletics played their final game at the Coliseum on Thursday before heading to Sacramento for three years and then to Las Vegas.
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The Athletics have played their final home game in Oakland. The countdown to the baseball team’s “Welcome to Las Vegas” moment has started.
Come 2:30 a.m. Oct. 9, the pair of Tropicana hotel towers that have stood on the Strip for decades will come down in less than 30 seconds.
The A’s exodus from Oakland will give the team the dubious distinction of being the first Major League Baseball franchise to have moved on four different occasions.
When the Tropicana’s two hotel towers are brought down via implosion on Oct. 9, it will mark what will likely be the last event of its kind for some time.
On the eve of the start of the Oakland Athletics’ final home series at the Coliseum, team owner, John Fisher, penned a letter to fans in the Bay Area apologizing for the team’s planned exit.
The front man for Bay Area punk icons Green Day called out the A’s ownership at a sold-out concert at Oracle Park in San Francisco.
With the design of their Las Vegas ballpark sitting at about 50 percent complete, the Athletics and their stadium project team presented their plan to prospective contractors.
Three crucial Oakland Athletics’ ballpark agreements with the Las Vegas Stadium Authority are nearing finalization and expected to be presented next month.
A Carson City District Court judge threw out a Nevada teacher’s union lawsuit against various entities challenging Senate Bill 1, the public funding mechanism for the Oakland Athletic’s planned Las Vegas ballpark.
Aviators season-ticket members who place a priority deposit in 2025 will receive priority seating selection at the Athletics’ Las Vegas Strip ballpark.
The Tropicana’s hotel towers are set to be imploded as part of a celebratory event that will include a drone and fireworks show, according to Bally’s Corp.
In a revised draft lease agreement presented by the Las Vegas Stadium Authority, the A’s would have an initial lease of 30 years.
The Las Vegas Stadium Authority board meeting will see an updated draft of the Oakland Athletics’ lease agreement for their planned $1.5 billion Southern Nevada ballpark.
The A’s plan to sell their 50 percent interest in the Coliseum for $125 million to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG), the two groups jointly announced Monday.