All Portland needs to join MLB is a team (and a few hundred million dollars)
By my count, it’s been eight years since anybody seriously talked about Portland, Oregon, getting a major-league baseball team, and even then the only one serious about it was Florida Marlins president...
View ArticleEvery city with a minor-league baseball stadium thinks it can land the A’s...
If you liked San Jose’s claim that it was trying to lure the Oakland A’s to play temporarily in a 4,200-seat minor-league stadium, you’ll just love this: [Lynn] Lashbrook, president of Sports...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Cincy stadiums still gobbling tax money, XFL to use old...
So very very much more stadium and arena news from this week: There’s a little money left over in Hamilton County’s sales-tax pool after paying off bonds on the Cincinnati Reds and Bengals stadiums, so...
View ArticleFriday roundup: SF doesn’t want Raiders, Spurs hate Tottenham, Rays...
It was a bit of a slow holiday week, but the news that there was made up for it by being extra-entertaining: The Oakland Raiders played maybe their last game in Oakland, at least until the next time...
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This week in vaportecture: Portland baseball, Miami soccer
The renderings for stadiums that may or may not ever be built are coming so fast and furious now that this week they need their own weekly roundup post: Both Inter Miami and Portland’s as-yet-unnamed...
View ArticleWould-be Portland MLB owner must start paying for would-be stadium land, or...
How’s that Portland baseball stadium with the tram and the private beer taps but no actual team or money to pay construction costs going, you’re wondering? Let’s check in on the plans, courtesy of The...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Red Wings owner touts his “passion” amid sea of parking lots,...
The cryptocurrency-based journalism startup Civil couldn’t have gone much worse, but it did spawn a couple of successes, none more welcome than Hmm Daily, the news commentary site from former Gawker...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Clippers broke public meetings law, Vegas seeks MLS team,...
Any week with a new/old Superchunk album is a good one! Please listen while reading this week’s roundup of leftover stadium and arena news: The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has...
View ArticleFriday roundup: New Coyotes owner could move team (or not), public cost of...
If you noticed this site being inaccessible a lot the last two days, hey, so did I! The good news is that a bunch of that time was spent in discussions with the good folks at Pair.com about migrating...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Indiana and Missouri rack up another $390m in team subsidies,...
Sadly, there’s another loss to report this week: Rob McQuown, who for the past decade has been one of the core tech and admin guys at Baseball Prospectus, passed away on Tuesday. I never met Rob...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Developer dreams, MLB expansion dreams, and stadiums that...
Still traveling, so super-brief Friday roundup this week: Buffalo real estate developer and one-time New York state gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino wants the Bills owners to build a new stadium...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Congress gets riled up over minor-league contraction, Calgary...
Happy Thanksgiving to our U.S. readers, who if they haven’t yet may want to read the New Yorker’s thoughtful takedown of the myths that the holiday was built on. Or there’s always the movie version,...
View ArticleFriday roundup: San Diego okays $1B arena complex, Manfred floats...
I am way too tired this morning from waiting for tranches of vote counts to drop to write an amusing intro, so let’s get straight to the news: San Diego voters have approved Measure E, which removes a...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Newspapers love stadium propaganda, like really love it, like...
One thing that both cheers and puzzles me is all the comments that surely elected officials are about to start saying no to stadium and arena shakedowns, even as they keep on saying yes. I’m not...
View ArticleA’s owner to visit Portland, someone check if the Oakland city council is...
Last week Vegas, this week Portland: NEW | Oakland @Athletics staff reportedly headed to Portland, OR next month as they explore possible moves. The team is meeting with Las Vegas this week, a...
View ArticleFriday roundup: D-Backs owners sad no one is throwing money at them like in...
The tchotchkes are in the mail! Repeat: The tchotchkes are in the mail! If you don’t get yours by the end of next week, please drop me a line and I’ll look into it. And speaking of next week, I’m going...
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