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Marshawn Lynch (right) with gunshot victim Gerald Williams at Kaiser Center.

NFL stars give scholarship to Oakland gunshot victim

On Thursday Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch and San Francisco 49ers quarterback Josh Johnson gave a $500 scholarship to Oakland gunshot victim Gerald Williams, a former Castlemont High School student who will be studying...
Players for the Oakland Tech Bulldogs

With key players off to college, Oakland Tech football team starts new season tonight

Delton Edwards, or “Coach D,” as he has affectionately been known over his 15-year career as the head football coach at Oakland Technical High School, has a tough act to follow. It’s his own.
In Defense of Animals members and supporters protest outside the Oakland Coliseum at the Raiders game Sunday.

Eagles’ Michael Vick protested by animal rights group at Oakland Coliseum

An hour before kickoff at the Oakland Raiders football game Sunday, many silver-and-black clad Raiders fans did something that on any other day might peg them traitors – they showed support for the opposing team’s...