athletics

We will in fact be getting a Bay Bridge Series preview next week.

That’s one heck of an opening week. 

Stanford University on Wednesday announced it will discontinue 11 varsity sports programs at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, according to an open letter from university officials.

Stanford University on Wednesday announced it will discontinue 11 varsity sports programs at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, according to an open letter from university officials.

Oakland A’s fans won’t be able to watch the team in person this season because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, but the team announced Tuesday that people can pay to have cardboard cutouts of themselves in the ballpark for games.

The A’s entered spring training believing they could win a World Series. Hope springs eternal when MLB clubs start Cactus or Grapefruit League play, but A’s confidence was rooted in reality. After back-to-back 97-win seasons with little turnover, that was both a fair and appropriate expectation.The lineup was loaded with great defenders who could mash. The starting rotation was deep...

When A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell knelt during the playing of the national anthem in 2017 to protest police brutality and institutional racism, outfielder Mark Canha was always there placing his hand on Maxwell’s shoulder.

Claudell Washington, a two-time All-Star outfielder who played 17 seasons in the majors after being called up as a teenager by the Oakland Athletics, has died. He was 65.

Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher has decided to pay minor league players after all while saying he made a mistake

The A’s have publicly said they plan to open a new ballpark at Oakland’s Howard Terminal ahead of the 2023 season. Those plans could be delayed.

The Oakland Athletics are placing their scouts and a significant number of other front office employees on furlough, suspending pay for minor leaguers and cutting the salaries of other executives as part of a cost-cutting move in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The A’s are getting a lot of heat today for their decision to stop paying their minor leaguer players. No games mean no revenues and the rub is that the A’s are the only franchise that we know of that have cut pay to their minor leaguers. Anthony Flores reports.

Matt Keough, the former Oakland Athletics pitcher and special assistant, has died. He was 64.

A’s outfielder Ramón Laureano gave back to the community on Wednesday in honor of Jackie Robinson Day.

The San Francisco Giants and Arizona Diamondbacks are two of the Major League Baseball teams participating in a study of the coronavirus that will test hundreds of people — including players — from the various clubs for antibodies.

Major League Baseball is waiting to get back in action. On Wednesday, it was confirmed that 375 people from the Giants organization were part of a COVID-19 study that’s looking for antibodies. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spole to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford who is helping lead the study.

Oakland Athletics minor league manager Webster Garrison is hospitalized in Louisiana and on a ventilator with the coronavirus, according to his fiance.

Liam Hendriks’ friend died of the coronavirus, the A’s pitcher revealed in a post on his Instagram story Thursday.

Justin Wilhite is an A’s fan from Rancho Cordova, a suburb of Sacramento. One of his tweets recently went viral after he announced to the world, while wearing an A’s beanie, that he had tested positive for the coronavirus.