Oakland firefighter Zac Unger made a strong showing in early returns Tuesday, with more than three-quarters of the votes for the District 1 City Council seat at 9 p.m. He is running against Len Raphael, an accountant and owner of a bicycle store and auto repair shop, and Edward Frank, a homemaker led early in the returns tuesday night in his efforts to represent the city council District 1 The seat will change hands for the first time since Dan…
The Oakland Coliseum came alive with baseball over the weekend. A month after fans said a teary goodbye to their beloved A’s, some of the team’s legendary players hit the field one more time, giving thousands of fans something to cheer about and enjoy. On Sunday, baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson partnered with Change The Game Sports, a Los Angeles based entertainment firm, to do something special for Oakland A’s fans — a softball game to coincide with the…
Former Warriors players gathered at City Hall last week to honor the head coach who helped them win the Oakland team’s first championship. The event, hosted by the city, honored Al Attles for his innovation and being one of five Black coaches in the NBA. Attles, who spent his entire career as an NBA player with the Warriors in the 1960s before becoming the team’s coach from 1970 to 1983, died in August at age 87. “We had two great…
The Oakland A’s and the Texas Rangers are tied in the bottom of the ninth as rookie Jacob Wilson comes to the plate with a man on second. He rips the ball up the middle and Zach Gelof breaks for home, sliding across the plate just before the ball reaches the catcher’s mitt. The players rush onto the field. The crowd of 30,000 yells and cheers. For one split second, the A’s glory days are back. But this is the…