RealClearSports: Oakland: Sports Boomtown Going Bust

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Art Spander in A's, Raiders, Warriors, articles, baseball, football

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

OAKLAND -- Never thought of this place as the city where dreams go to die.

Battered metaphorically as the poor sibling of San Francisco across the bay -- "There's no there, there,'' said local girl Gertrude Stein -- Oakland for a long while survived on its championship teams.

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