The 10-day event, with a $11.5 million prize purse, has sold out 360 consecutive performances at the Thomas & Mack Center.
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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.
The Tropicana was profitable right up to its April 2 closing date, and operators didn’t close early because it was losing money, according to executives of the company that owns the resort’s land.
Tropicana owner Bally’s Corp. filed for a commercial demolition permit with Clark County as preparations continue to build a ballpark for the Oakland Athletics.
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.
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.
How fans get into and out of the vicinity of a planned Las Vegas ballpark is a key detail that still needs to be hammered out ahead of the team’s arrival on the Strip in 2028.
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.
The Oakland Athletics’ vision of their Las Vegas ballpark has came into focus with the release of new stadium renderings that resemble the Sydney Opera House.
The Oakland Athletics finished with baseball’s worst record last year at 50-112 and have the lowest regular-season win total at the Westgate SuperBook at 56½.
MGM Resorts International CEO Bill Hornbuckle said he’s seen multiple versions of renderings of the Oakland Athletics’ proposed Las Vegas ballpark.
A second education group is challenging a Nevada Legislature bill that provides public funding to help build an Athletics ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip.
The nearly 60-year-old resort on the Las Vegas Strip is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a new Athletics ballpark.
With design work still ongoing, Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher didn’t reveal specifics about what the planned ballpark would include.
The updated renderings could include some form of a retractable roof and/or a retractable wall for the $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat stadium.
The A’s plan to build a $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat stadium on 9 acres at the Tropicana site on the Strip, with an opening set for 2028.
MLB owners meetings end Thursday in Arlington, Texas. The Oakland Athletics need 75 percent of the 3o owners to vote in favor of their move to Las Vegas.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s office said it would consider allowing the Athletics to extend their lease at the Coliseum beyond 2024 if MLB grants certain concessions.