As part of the Oakland Athletics’ nonrelocation agreement, the team could play seven home games per season away from Las Vegas and its planned Strip ballpark.
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The Nevada Supreme Court rejected a teachers union effort to put public funding for the Oakland Athletics’ planned Las Vegas ballpark on November’s ballot.
The Oakland Athletics plan to build a ballpark on the site of the Tropicana, but Bally’s says where the stadium will sit on that site is still being determined.
An executive explained why Bally’s is in no hurry to produce plans for a resort that would be attached to the Oakland Athletics’ stadium at the Tropicana site.
In a report to investors, CBRE Equity Research analyst Colin Mansfield said Tropicana land could be sold to finance the company’s Chicago casino project.
The transition of The Mirage to Hard Rock Las Vegas will generate nostalgic memories, but it’s part of the Las Vegas way of constantly evolving to what’s next.
The Oakland A’s have found a temporary home to use as their Las Vegas ballpark is built. While they’re in that interim home, they will simply go by the Athletics or A’s.
Oakland officials and the Athletics remain “far apart” on striking a lease extension for the MLB team at the Coliseum.
The two-time World Series champion still lives in Las Vegas and hopes to have a relationship with the Oakland A’s when the team moves to town.
The Oakland Athletics’ Las Vegas move appears to be on track with the team set to begin the MLB season against the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday.
Max Muncy, the Oakland Athletics’ 2021 first-round draft pick, will make his Triple-A debut when the Las Vegas Aviators open the 2024 season.
The illegal bookmaker at the center of the Shohei Ohtani betting scandal was a high-stakes sports bettor in Las Vegas, a source told the Review-Journal.
Chasen Bradford, a former Mets and Las Vegas 51s pitcher, had just joined the Henderson Police Department when he was arrested on a DUI charge.
The Oakland Athletics gave Las Vegas Valley youth baseball and softball players 200,000 reasons to smile.
The A’s are in talks to include some of the Neon Museum’s vintage Las Vegas resort signs in-and-around their Strip stadium, scheduled to be built on 9 acres of the 35-acre Trop site.