Posts Tagged: athletics

Sacramento’s tepid MLB audition

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by A.G.BLOCK posted 04.06.2025

OPINION – Major League Baseball is officially couch-surfing in Sacramento. The sport’s nomads, the Athletics, opened the 2025 season last Monday and now will spend the next three years at Sutter Health Park, pristine home of the Pacific Coast League’s Sacramento River Cats.

The A’s don’t need a room, thanks; the sofa’s fine. They don’t

A major push to allow pay for amateur athletes

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by JULIA LINDBLOOM posted 05.30.2019

Amateurism’s last stronghold in California, intercollegiate student athletics, may be coming to an end. Up before lawmakers are two bills – SB 206 and AB 1518 – that tackle an age-old characterization of student athletes as amateurs. As amateurs, they cannot receive compensation beyond a scholarship or enlist the help of a sports agent.