Writer @ESPN @ringer | Also @TheAtlantic @Baseballpro, @Oaklandside, others | SPORTS TOWN (forthcoming @UnivNebPress) | East Bay 🌳 | Oliver’s dad ⚾️
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25 Sep 2025
I’m so excited to finally share this: I’m writing a book. It’s about Oakland—its rise as a great American sports town, its fall to the billionaires who abandoned it, and, most of all, the fans and activists and founders who fought to hold onto this aspect of the city’s history, identity and soul.
I aim to get it all: what happened, how it happened, and why it matters not just to A’s, Raiders, Warriors, Roots and Ballers fans, but sports fans (and taxpayers) everywhere.
I’ve been working on this for a long time already, and though there’s still a long way to go, I’m so excited for you all to read it. Let’s Go, Oakland. I hope it does you justice ⚾️
cc @OaklandBallers @oaklandrootssc @Oakland68s @LastDiveBar @UnivNebPress
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Jun 11
Never pre-ordered any academic book faster in my life
Publication day for This One Will Be Different is getting closer (July 31). Use the discount code AUFLY30 for 30% off from the publisher. global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Jun 7
James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell
Fans will be prohibited from hosting watch parties outside Madison Square Garden or bringing bags into the venue during Game 3 of the NBA Finals, as MSG, the U.S. Secret Service and New York Police ramp up security measures with President Donald Trump planning to attend the game Monday night.
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They put the skyline on the cover and the entirety of Chicago got hit with the worst Madden curse of all time
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Jun 5
My one Bears take is that basically every team that has left its city center is worse off for it. I think the Jets and Giants playing in Jersey leaves them more disconnected from the city/region than they should be. Same with SF. You just get less juice, unfortunately.
Feb 5
CM Punk does NOT want his Chicago Bears to move to Indiana.
"The Indiana Bears is a small mom and pop shop that sells homemade gummy bears. It's not a storied franchise that goes back to George Halas." He goes deep here. Incredible This Is Football with Punk.
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honestly one of the most humiliating decisions in professional sports history and proof that there are no adults left in the room trying to advocate for the League, just a bunch of billionaires trying to shake every last quarter out of their piggy banks
Jun 5
The Bears’ Board of Directors voted Thursday to advance the stadium development in Hammond, Indiana, with the exact to be selected. This is this first time that the Bears’ board has voted on any stadium site.
As one source said, “There is more work to do but barring anything very strange, it’s a done deal.”
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Rob Manfred said in October 2024 that MLB had a "darn good" record on competitive balance. Back in 2018, he said the correlation between winning and spending was "extraordinarily weak."
Now, he says MLB's luxury-tax system has failed:
nytimes.com/athletic/7331800…
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Jun 3
Really late to the game on this one but I—someone who has almost never watched tennis and knows next-to-nothing about it—have finally started reading Changeover by @girinathan and it's fucking incredible and I think I love tennis now? Only problem is the writing is so good that I now feel so terribly self-conscious about the thing i'm working on that i feel like I have to start over so thanks for that Giri
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Jun 3
I could read this 1000 times. So good
Wright Thompson reflects on fathers, daughters, golf, the power of sports, and the future of sports journalism.
awfulannouncing.com/wri…
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Wright Thompson opens up on a number of subjects.
- Why he didn't write the sequel to his most famous story.
- Why sports and sportswriting matter.
- Becoming a student with new media.
- Saying no to Michael Jordan and the difference between selling merch and journalism.
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Jun 2
Really loved this essay on Wemby by @dannychau in the @ringer. Captures the scale of what the basketball world is dealing w here
theringer.com/2026/05/31/nba…
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Jun 1
The only blog on the cursed MLB CBA negotiations that you need to read ever.
@RattoIndy ladies and gentlemen.
defector.com/mlb-owners-want…
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May 27
Chasing MLB expansion was Sacramento's plan all along. McCarty and Ranadive were making a bet. They'd allow the A’s to use Sacramento in hopes that Sacramento could use the A’s in return. Wrote about it last year in the @ringer.
theringer.com/2025/04/22/mlb…
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May 26
A few weeks ago the Giants beat the Dodgers 29-2… in the Arizona Complex League.
I wrote about what the hell happened and why it’s a symptom of something much bigger going wrong in the low-level minor leagues.
“It’s a total s*** show.”
@YahooSports
sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article…
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May 26
Oakland and the fans get mentioned in this exchange about fan pushback to save their teams.
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May 23
About 3 years and one week ago, at the @LastDiveBar Rotten Tomato Tailgate, Oliver, from inside his mom’s tummy, took his first shot at JF. A year after that, he went to his first fan’s fest, then his first @OaklandBallers game. Today, he turns 3! Happy bday little man
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May 21
Sweet! Yes. Baseball is a business. Let’s get rid of the antitrust exemption and regulate it like we do other businesses
great business decision, move them, X3 value. Instead of selling the A's at a low, waiting on Vegas and have to bid for it. I love baseball but it's a business man, these are smart moves #athletics
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May 20
A few members of said tech elite, along with other generally rich people, tried to buy the A’s to keep them here. John Fisher refused to sell.
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