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BY STEVEN LUKE It was kids’ day in Oakland today with elementary aged kids all over the ball park and they brought the noise level for the Athletics and White Sox match up, but by the time it finally ended five hours and 48 minutes later the kids were long …

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Bruised, battered and struggling at the end of the regular season, the Golden State Warriors opened defense of their NBA Championship with a workman like 113-92 wire to wire victory in the first game of their opening round Western Conference playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs …

BY ANTHONY SOSA With the San Francisco Giants losing Johnny Cueto to the DL due to an ankle injury, manager Bruce Bochy called on rookie left-hander Andrew Suarez to make his Major League debut on Wednesday against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Suarez responded by providing his skipper 5.1 solid innings, allowing …

BY ANTHONY SOSA After an exhilarating 5 hour and 16 minute, 14-inning affair last night, the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers followed it up with another extra inning game Sunday at AT&T Park. This time the late-inning heroics came for Los Angeles instead as pinch hitter Kyle Farmer …

BY STEVEN LUKE The Oakland Athletics dropped the finale of their season opening home stand Thursday 6-3 to the Texas Rangers and sit at 3-5 on the season in spite of a gutsy performance by Daniel Mengden. It all fell off the rails early for the A’s and Mengden. He …

BY ANTHONY SOSA After managing to score just two runs in their previous four-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the San Francisco Giants put up four runs in Tuesday’s home opener but still fell to the Seattle Mariners 6-4 at AT&T Park. The Giants stumbled out of the gate …

BY STEVEN LUKE Forget April Fool’s day. Forget Easter. Sunday, April 1, 2018 in Oakland was Shohei Ohtani day at the expense of the Athletics. The right hander made his Major League pitching debut and lived up to the hype reaching 99mph on the gun repeatedly and making Oakland Athletics …

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER It was supposed to be the beginning of a return to grace with healthy bodies, but it turned out to just be another sloppy loss punctuated by emotional outbursts and a highly questionable ejection as the Warriors skid continued with a 116-107 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks …

BY STEVEN LUKE When your starter doesn’t have his best stuff you’ve got to battle to win, and that’s what both the A’s and Los Angeles Angels did on Thursday in Oakland. It wasn’t the Opening Day sell out you get at most stadiums, but the 27,764 fans in attendance …

BY ANTHONY SOSA Jerry Sands didn’t enter the game until the eighth inning, but he came through with a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning during his only at-bat of the game to give the San Francisco Giants a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs on …