
Jonathan Bloom
jonathan.bloom@nbcuni.com
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A's reverse boycott: Spend a day with die hard fans rallying to keep their team in Oakland
In a protest that garnered national attention, thousands of fans in green T-shirts bearing the word “SELL” packed the Coliseum, calling on A’s owner John Fisher to sell the team instead of moving it to Las Vegas.
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What to Know: The Oakland A's Las Vegas Ballpark Plans
The Oakland A’s say they plan to leave Oakland and build a 1.5-billion dollar ballpark right on the Strip in Las Vegas. It’s the latest chapter in the storied baseball team’s 20-year quest for a new ballpark. Here’s how we got here, and what comes next.
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Still Rooting in Oakland: A's Fans Protest Vegas Move, Call for Owner to Sell the Team
In a stadium full of empty seats, a small but loud group of lifelong A’s fans marched through the stands chanting a message to club owner John Fisher: If you don’t want to keep the A’s in Oakland, sell the team to someone who does.
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High Time to Celebrate: We Interviewed People Smoking Weed on Hippie Hill on 4/20
What used to be an unofficial cannabis celebration in San Francisco has grown into a huge, city-sanctioned free event, and just about anyone you walk up to is happy to expound on what they love about it.
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‘Bring Your Own Big Wheel' Rolls Down San Francisco's True Crookedest Street
There’s no getting around it: San Francisco is weird. And nearly every Easter Sunday, the city reaffirms its weirdness with an event that could only take place here: an event where fully grown adults fly down a steep hill on plastic tricycles.
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Play Ball: Giants Baseball Fans Excited for the Start of a New Season at Oracle Park
Despite the gloomy weather, fans showed up at the Giants’ home opener against the Kansas City Royals, decked out in orange and black and ready for a new season of baseball and garlic fries.
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A Bridge to the Metaverse: GDC 2023 Shows Off Tech to Make Games More Immersive and More Real
The Game Developers Conference drew more than 28,000 people to San Francisco’s Moscone Center for three days of packed exhibit halls, and a week of discussions about the future of play.
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GDC 2023: New Developers and New Games Arrive at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco
Among more than 24,000 attendees are developers who were still in school the last time a fully in-person Game Developers Conference took place — and those who built games with fully remote teams during the pandemic.
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GDC 2023: Game Developers Conference Kicks Off in San Francisco
Organizers say the full-sized, in-person conference for video game developers is shaping up to be as big as the ones held here in San Francisco before the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 24,000 people attending and 330 exhibitors in the Moscone Center’s underground expo halls.
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What to Know: How California Decides If We're in a Drought
California has spent much of the last decade in severe, multi-year droughts, and most of the state remains in drought status in spite of recent heavy rainfall. Here’s how droughts are measured, and what the measurements mean.