Plans call for the Tropicana to be demolished, with the A’s set to build a partially retractable roof ballpark on nine of the 35 acres of the south Strip site.
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The Oakland Athletics said the language Glen Kuiper used while describing a trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was “unacceptable.”
On Friday, the actor promoted his Flecha Azul tequila at On The Border Mexican Grille Cantina in Centennial Hills.
Red Rock Resorts Inc. — in the spotlight for its surprising agreement to sell nearly 49 acres to the Oakland Athletics — dodged specific questions about the transaction, during its first-quarter earnings call.
Derek Stevens owned the 51s for five seasons. He’s bullish on the Athletics in Vegas.
Las Vegas is seeking to keep the NFR in Las Vegas, with some seeing the Oakland Athletics’ planned Southern Nevada ballpark as a potential landing spot.
Caesars CEO Tom Reeg said the prospect of the A’s in Las Vegas was exciting, but he didn’t want to see tax hits that would “unnecessarily” impact Clark County.
Phil Ruffin and the A’s were working on a deal for the 37-acre Las Vegas Festival Grounds site located on the southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue.
“We’re not in favor of any tax dollars put into this,” said MGM Resorts International CEO Bill Hornbuckle during the company’s earnings call with investors.
Greg Maddux says an MLB team would follow the popularity of the Raiders, Golden Knights and Aces.
If the Oakland Athletics receive the hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding to construct an MLB ballpark in Southern Nevada, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority would likely oversee it.
Although not common in MLB, Oakland A’s general manager David Forst said having a club’s Triple-A and major league teams in the same market makes a lot of sense.
The Athletics under John Fisher don’t deserve $500 million in tax revenue to bring MLB’s worst team to Las Vegas.
Oakland Athletics fans are angry, sad, and bitter about the prospect of their team relocating to Southern Nevada. Several offered their thoughts at Friday’s home game.
The condition would have been tied to the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, a 39-acre site the Oakland Athletics no longer are considering for a stadium.
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