Posts Tagged ‘NFL’
Raider Nation reacts to Raiders’ plans to move to Las Vegas
The Raiders are expected to begin playing in their new home in Las Vegas in the 2020 NFL season.
Read MoreRaider Nation pleads with NFL executives to keep their team in Oakland
Hundreds of Raiders football fans gathered at the Paramount Theater in downtown Oakland for a public hearing hosted by NFL executives about the future of the beloved team.
Read MoreConcussed: East Bay high school athletes battle concussions
Approximately, six million kids play tackle or flag football, absorbing an average of 650 hits to the head every season. However, the crisis of concussions is growing in all sports.
Read MoreArroyo Viejo recreation center hosts NFL’s Punt, Pass and Kick competition
Despite having to wake up early on a Saturday, a group of about 20 kids participated in Oakland’s Punt, Pass and Kick 2013 competition at the Arroyo Viejo recreation center on Oct. 12.
Read MoreNFL 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 business management at San Diego State University this fall. Nearly 200 people attended the ceremony held to recognize Williams’ achievement…
Read MoreRaiders in familiar territory at season’s end despite measured success
The first round of the professional football playoffs kicked off this weekend, and for the eighth consecutive year, the Oakland Raiders were nowhere to be found. In perhaps a symbol of a franchise fallen on hard times, the local Oakland bars lacked any noticeable presence from the generally boisterous fan base as well.
Read MoreJim Harbaugh leaves Stanford, signs on with S.F. 49ers
The San Francisco 49ers officially announced the hiring of highly sought after candidate Jim Harbaugh, formerly of Stanford University, as their new head coach on Friday afternoon.
“It’s the perfect, competitive opportunity for me and the rest of the San Francisco organization to be a part of a team,” said Harbaugh at the midday press conference.
Read MoreRaiders ruin homecoming for Oakland Tech’s Lynch
Marshawn Lynch, the often written and talked-about NFL player who graduated from Oakland Tech High School, made his hometown pro football debut during a trip to Oakland this weekend as a member of the Seattle Seahawks.
He was fresh off a trade that sent him from the Buffalo Bills to the Seahawks. But the visit home didn’t go quite as he had expected.
Read MoreRaiders switch quarterbacks, stave off Rams 16-14
With coach Tom Cable making a quarterback change for the second half, the Oakland Raiders pulled off their first victory of the season against the St. Louis Rams Sunday afternoon.
Read More“Nation Celebration” pumps hopeful Raiders fans
To the untrained eye, Friday evening’s Raider Nation Celebration in Frank H. Ogawa Plaza was just another glorified salt-and-pepper-colored pep rally for the local professional club, stringing longtime supporters along for what could be yet another disappointing season.
Read MoreEagles’ 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 new quarterback, Michael Vick.
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