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Oakland Athletics Expected to Move to Las Vegas in 2028

The Oakland Athletics are set to move to Las Vegas in 2028, pending the completion of a new stadium. The team's relocation has been approved by MLB owners ...

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Swift Bumps for Truth, Tucker's Treasonous Turn ... and a GOAT Vote for Bob Iger, Greatest Media CEO of Our Generation

Oh yeah, in our latest 'Next Text,' we babble on about the big Disney/Fox/Warner streaming rollup, too

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MLB Commish Manfred Wants to Launch a League-Owned DTC Streaming Package in 2025

Dismissing Bally Sports' big Amazon-fueled restructuring plan, Manfred told MLB owners this week that all he needs are the digital rights to 14 teams to make it happen

Broadcasting & Cable

Everything You Need To Know About the Bally Sports Bankruptcy

We detail the long struggle, as bankrupt subsidiary Diamond Sports Group fights to keep broadcaster Sinclair's big, ambitious, specularly unsuccessful regional sports networks play out of liquidation

Broadcasting & Cable

How Many Signups Did Peacock Just Get? Will Rob Manfred Really End Up Playing Ball Again with Bally? Is ‘Better Call Saul’ Really Chopped Liver? And Does the ‘L.A. Times’ Have Anyone Left to Lay Off?

In our latest ‘Next Text’ we once again plunge headlong into digital disruption, never-ending beefs, ridiculous snubs … and the media machinations of unqualified men

Broadcasting & Cable

Game On: Sinclair, Diamond Sports, Amazon in Deal To Keep Regional Sports Networks in Business

Sinclair to pay $495 million to settle lawsuits; Amazon to invest $115 million in Bally Sports parent

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MLB Rejects Amazon’s $150 Million Bid to Prop Up Bally Sports (Report)

Commissioner Rob Manfred reportedly wants to negotiate his league's local digital rights directly with Amazon

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Oakland’s unprecedented triple exodus is a unique sporting tragedy

Oakland is an acute victim of a stadium-financing racket that has existed for decades. But the loss of the city’s three pro sports teams over the past decade is a special kind of tragic

The Guardian - US

Athletics’ move from Oakland to Las Vegas approved by MLB owners

The 30 franchise owners voted unanimously in support of the team’s move from California to Nevada.

The Independent UK

The Oakland A's are relocating to Las Vegas after MLB owners approve the move

There have been complaints about the Oakland Coliseum being outdated, but negotiations between the A's and the city over a new stadium fell apart. The Vegas stadium is expected to cost $1.5 billion.

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Atlanta to host 2025 MLB All-Star Game after losing 2021 game over objections to voting law

Major League Baseball will play its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, four years after moving the game from Truist Park to Denver’s Coors Field over objections to changes in Georgia’s votings rights laws

The Independent UK

MLB team owners set to vote Thursday on proposed relocation of Athletics to Las Vegas

Major League Baseball owners are set to vote on the proposed relocation of the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas at the end of their league-wide meeting Thursday

The Independent UK

World Series 9-inning games averaged 3 hours, 1 minute — fastest since 1996

Nine-inning World Series games averaged 3 hours, 1 minute, the fastest since 1996, according to the Elias Sports Bureau

The Independent UK

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Sports Illustrated

How the Pitch Timer Saved the World Series

The Fall Classic between the Rangers and Diamondbacks featured more action over less time.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Rob Manfred’s voice was struggling during the World Series celebration and MLB fans had so many jokes

What is happening with his voice?!

Sports Illustrated

MLB Planning to Broadcast Diamondbacks, Padres Games in 2024

Amid uncertainty about the regional sports network model, commissioner Rob Manfred made clear that the league will air games for at least the two NL West clubs next season.

Sports Illustrated

Rob Manfred Considering Roster Limits for Pitchers After 2024

MLB’s commissioner considers the 2023 changes a resounding success, but that won’t prevent him from pursuing another major alteration after the ‘24 season.

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Sports Illustrated

Rob Manfred Talks MLB Playoff Format, A’s Relocation and More

In a brief conversation before Game 4 of the National League Division Series the MLB commissioner said he thinks things are going well.

Sports Illustrated

Tyreek Hill’s Post-NFL Career Dream Job Is Certainly a Wild One

All Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill wanted to do in blowout win was celebrate.

The Independent UK

Kids Again: MLB makes strides in attracting younger fans, ticket buyers in growing the game

Bryce Harper and the Phillies hit Williamsport, Pennsylvania on Sunday to play the Washington Nationals in the annual Major League Baseball Little League Classic at 2,366-seat Historic Bowman Field

The Independent UK

Rob Manfred's term as baseball commissioner extended until 2029 by MLB owners

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred’s term was extended until 2029 on Wednesday by major league owners

Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: The MLB All-Star Game — with generic uniforms and a slew of new faces — has morphed from ‘Who’s who’ to ‘Who’s that?’

CHICAGO — Seattle Mariners star Julio Rodríguez was asked about his approach during his ninth-inning at-bat against Craig Kimbrel in Tuesday’s All-Star Game.

Tribune News Service

The Orioles sent a large contingent to the All-Star Game. When might it come to them?

SEATTLE — Eliminated in the second matchup of Monday night’s Home Run Derby, Adley Rutschman stuck around to watch the other competitors. Like everyone else in T-Mobile Park, he couldn’t look away during Julio Rodríguez’s opening round.

Broadcasting & Cable

MLB Commissioner Manfred: Clubs Have Received 94% of What's Owed to Them By Bankrupt Diamond Sports

He says the league will continue to 'backstop' teams should the Sinclair RSN subsidiary stop paying them

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