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On Tuesday, California sports fans with an Xfinity subscription that watch their teams on NBC Sports Bay Area or NBC Sports California will have to shell out an extra $20 per month to upgrade from the “Popular” package to the “Ultimate” package. NBC Sports Bay Area broadcasts the Golden State Warriors and San Francisco Giants while NBC Sports California airs Sacramento Kings, San Jose Sharks, and Oakland A’s games.
Jason Glushon, 39, president and founder Glushon Sports Management Glushon has had a strong run in recent years, despite being one of the more prominent player agents in the league not attached to a large agency. Glushon worked for seven years at Wasserman before he left that agency to start one of his own in 2016. He represents Jaylen Brown, who signed what was then the largest deal in NBA history last summer, and Jrue Holiday, who signed a $135 million extension with the Celtics in April — along with two other members of the rotation on the Celtics’ title-winning team. Orlando Magic’s Franz Wagner, another client, signed a rookie max extension this offseason. Not bad for a former minor league baseball player who made it to Triple-A with the Oakland A’s organization before pivoting his career ambitions.
Sunday afternoon’s matinee between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Oakland Athletics at American Family Field was just that for a group of about 50 fathers and sons. But why they were in attendance was part of an ongoing and broad conversations in the Milwaukee community about fatherhood and the mental health of Black men. Milwaukee Bucks guard Jevon Carter and his partner Taylor Houston founded the Treadmill Mentality Foundation in the last year, and they partnered with Heal Black Man to host the outing.
A Salt Lake City consortium led by the former owner of the Utah Jazz plans to pursue a Major League Baseball franchise in the coming years, touting the area's population growth, strong economy and baseball history as draws for a coveted expansion slot, people involved with the project told ESPN. Big League Utah, a group headed by longtime Jazz owner Gail Miller, will join Nashville's Music City Baseball and the Portland Diamond Project in lobbying to join the current 30 MLB organizations. Las Vegas, considered a prime destination for a franchise, has emerged as a strong candidate if the Oakland Athletics relocate.
Warriors owner Joe Lacob interested in buying MLB team
Joe Lacob’s pursuit of the A’s isn’t over. He remains interested in buying the team — priced at $1.18 billion in Forbes’ franchise valuations, 27th out of 30 teams in MLB — if Fisher, whom Lacob calls a friend, ever agrees to sell. Would that happen if Fisher strikes out at Howard Terminal? We don’t know because Fisher never wants to be interviewed. “I’ve had a standing offer to buy the A’s from John Fisher for I don’t even know how long. Over a decade,” Lacob said. “It’s up to him; it’s his business. It would have been smarter to sell to me a long time ago because we would have been partners, and he would have been able to own a part of the Warriors as well. I tried to tell him that. I would have done a ratio deal.”
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“This never really came out, but I had an agreement to buy the Oakland A’s, literally,” Lacob confirmed after Schott briefed me on those negotiations. According to Schott, his attorney told Lacob, “Here’s the deal right here. If you want it, you can have it for this number. Meet the price, and it’s yours.” The number was $180 million, and both Schott and Lacob said qualifying wasn’t an issue. A verbal agreement was reached, and Lacob said he was in Southern California playing in a golf tournament the day he was supposed to hear from MLB. Lacob brought his phone onto the course but didn’t get a call. Through his adviser, he tried calling MLB the next day, and no one was taking his calls. This went on for four days, and Lacob eventually realized Selig felt more comfortable with an old acquaintance — Wolff.
It’s looking more and more like the last professional sports league that will come to Las Vegas – if it actually ever happens – will be the NBA. The first league to embrace Sin City currently has no plans to expand or relocate. Meanwhile Las Vegas officials are working on attracting an MLB team and an MLS team over the next few years. Executives from the Oakland Athletics have made numerous trips to Las Vegas over the past year, looking at different locations for a possible $1 billion new stadium. A’s president Dave Kaval told the Las Vegas Review-Journal recently that they have reduced their list of potential stadium sites in Las Vegas from 20 to 10-12 and will release a list of the finalists sometime after the World Series.
In addition to Strom, the Hall’s 2020′s class is headlined by Kobe Bryant, the basketball superstar from Lower Merion High who died in a helicopter crash this year. It includes former Phillies president Dave Montgomery; basketball coaches Bo Ryan and Ken Hamilton; tennis star Lisa Raymond, the Flyers' Rick Tocchet; ex-Eagles Jerry Sisemore and Vic Sears; heavyweight champion Tim Witherspoon; Olympic runner Herm Frazier; early Phillies star Cy Williams; Temple football’s Deron Cherry; boxing promoter J. Russell Peltz; lacrosse’s Cherie Greer Brown; and the three-time world champion 1910-13 Philadelphia Athletics.
Ohm Youngmisuk: Clippers' 7 straight losses with a chance to clinch Conference Finals berth is the longest streak in NBA history. The NFL, MLB or NHL team to lose more consecutive games with a chance to go to the round before championship series is the Oakland A's, who lost 9 straight per Elias.
NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California, together with its team partners – NBA’s Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings, MLB’s San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s, NHL’s San Jose Sharks, MLS’s San Jose Earthquakes and NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, along with the teams’ apparel and merchandise partner Fanatics – and San Francisco-based bag manufacturer Timbuk2 have teamed up to donate 50,000 face masks and bandanas to Northern California health care providers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The teams and NBC Sports have donated over 10,000 new t-shirts, and Timbuk2 will create cloth face masks and bandanas from the t-shirt material.
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When former Oakland A's general manager Sandy Alderson was asked by ESPN’s Buster Olney on Tuesday's "Baseball Tonight" podcast about a deal that came close to being completed in his career that the media never really found out about, he dropped a significant, and timely, bombshell. “If you recall when Jordan stopped playing basketball and decided to try baseball and ultimately went down the Birmingham Barons — the Chicago White Sox affiliate,” said Anderson, 71. “When I heard that was happening — or about to happen — I called the agent right away and said, ‘Hey look, I understand he may be going to Double-A. I don’t even know who the 25th man is on our major league team right now. I will sign him and put him on the major league roster. He’ll be part of our 25-man team. Tomorrow.”
Obviously, the Warriors will immediately have priority at 95.7 over the A’s, though I’m told there is a slight chance they could move a Warriors game to another station only if the A’s are playing a major playoff game at the same time (and we know that isn’t happening any time soon). The Warriors’ release mentions that long-time radio play-by-play man Tim Roye will remain on the call for their games on 95.7.
Green wasn’t too interested in hearing the broadcast commentary, so he turned the volume low on the television, a source said. He was in a baseball suite, but he wasn’t paying attention to the Athletics’ 14-5 rout of the Rangers. His concentration was on his teammates. Lynch, an Oakland hometown celebrity in his own right, tried to keep an eye on both games. Green was also joined by Warriors general manager Bob Myers, Nike shoe representative Adrian Stelly, his personal manager Jaquail Jacox, his agent B.J. Armstrong, and other friends.
Tim Kawakami: Multiple sources: Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob has had talks with A's owner John Fisher about Lacob's interest in buying the A's... But the sources indicate that Fisher has to this point told Lacob he is not looking to sell the A's. There are some indications that Lacob would be interested in building a baseball stadium on the Howard Terminal site. It's not just Lacob. Several big-money types are eyeing the A's. Most, I'm told, believe the first/best option is to keep them in Oakland. I'm told that any Lacob interest in the A's is now on the back-burner. But Fisher knows that he'll have a nice market if he wants to sell.
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