ICYMI jenkinsmedal.com Bamburger, Craggs, Hockensmith, Killingbeck, May, Wagner and Wilson are first time nominees. Bryant, Burnsed, Moore and M. Thompson II have been previously nominated. Wright Thompson won the inaugural Jenkins Medal/Best Sportswriting award in 2017.

Access all nine years' worth of Best Sportswriting nominations for the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting at this handy-dandy webpage: moody.utexas.edu/centers/sports…. Great summer reading!!!

Ollie’s first Oakland Ballers game of the season ⚾️

Thanks for having me on Damon Amendolara

Excited to commit to another 10 years in Downtown Oakland!

New story at SFGATE: MLB curiously removes A's 'reverse boycott' game broadcasts from digital archive It's the only game in the entire month of June 2023 that isn't available to watch sfgate.com/athletics/arti…

Brian’s essay was so so good. Very worth your time.

“Moving for dummies.” Tigers ain’t holding back with the AAA’s in town. Had the Moneyball sign yesterday as well.

Oh no I feel so sorry for them

Just finished The Pacific Circuit by KQED's Alexis Madrigal. So very good, one of the best histories of Oakland you'll read. Infuriates, illuminates, & captures Oakland's centrality to other larger infuriating stories all at same time. Elegantly synthesizes a shit ton of

lol they could have had three stadiums done in Oakland by now each w/ more public funding and each less than half this price

“Fisher has to realize he’s a dead man walking"—J.C. Bradbury “This is the dog catching the car”—Field of Schemes “He’s really bad at this.” Just a feast of quotables in the The Guardian this AM on our friend John Fisher. Thank you David Lengel 😂 No notes theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul…

#1 clearly suggests we’re talking Bay Area teams here, not just SF, so the exclusion of both the Raiders (let’s go w/ the Madden/Stabler-led 76 team) and A’s (70s or 80s take your pick) evinces either a wild blind spot or pretty gross anti-Oakland bias tbh

This aged well.

By Dan Moore "After the A’s announced they were leaving Oakland, a pair of lifelong fans set out to do something audacious: start a beloved pro baseball team of their own. Remarkably, they pulled it off. Now the Oakland Ballers need to survive." READ IT: theringer.com/2024/08/13/mlb…

Sure would be nice if I could root for him