SF Examiner: A's fans are clearly fed up

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

OAKLAND — Perhaps the A’s should rethink the policy against banners at the Coliseum negative to management, permitting display on the condition that signs must be accompanied by paying customers.

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RealClearSports: Even Yankees Can't Draw in Oakland

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

OAKLAND -- Even the Yankees can't bring the fans to Oakland. Even the sainted Yankees, with their royalty, with their record, couldn't wake any echoes or any interest.

Derek Jeter here. A-Rod there. History and tradition everywhere, but attendance virtually nowhere.

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RealClearSports: Oakland: Sports Boomtown Going Bust

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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SF Examiner: A's deflect distractions to concentrate on baseball

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

SAN FRANCISCO — This is about the other team from the Bay — the one which chooses to put faded tarps on a third of the seats of its stadium, the one which makes us remember the way it was and causes us to think it never will be that way again.

This is about the would-be-San-Jose-but-shouldn’t-leave-Oakland A’s.

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SF Examiner: New year doesn't bring much hope for Bay Area sports

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

SAN FRANCISCO — This is a happy new year? The 49ers reveling because they didn’t lose more games than they won. The Raiders groping because they did lose more games than they won. The Warriors making us wish it were baseball season. The Giants and A’s making us wonder why we should wish it were baseball season.

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