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"content": "\u003cp>Access to nature — and the abundance of beautiful campgrounds within driving distance — is one of the big perks of life in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’ve assumed you’ll always need to travel several hours to go camping, good news: There are actually a wealth of campsites right on your doorstep if you live in or near the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for some excellent options for camping within Santa Clara County (or very nearby), with a focus on campsites run by the county park system. Some include options for RV camping, and even one with yurts, if pitching a tent just isn’t your thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick note about reserving camping sites: For both Santa Clara County Parks and State Parks, reservations typically open six months in advance. You can reserve county park sites at \u003ca href=\"https://parks.santaclaracounty.gov\">parks.santaclaracounty.gov\u003c/a>, and state parks at \u003ca href=\"http://reservecalifornia.com\">ReserveCalifornia.com\u003c/a> (apart from \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=26658\">Castle Rock State Park, which uses a different system\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953853/how-to-find-a-camping-spot-in-california-when-they-always-seem-to-be-fully-booked\">read more tips and tricks for successfully securing a camping spot in California\u003c/a>, especially when they always seem to be booked.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Joseph D. Grant County Park \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At just under 11,000 acres, Joseph D. Grant is the largest park of 28 in the Santa Clara County Park system, just east of the San José foothills off Mount Hamilton Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11953853 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66535_GettyImages-523679818-1-qut-1020x686.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always say Joseph D. Grant is sort of that hidden gem,” said Nadine Abousalem, the senior communications officer for the park system. “It does give you that state park feel, but it’s a county park. It’s just wide open space — it’s beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to \u003ca href=\"https://parks.santaclaracounty.gov/things-do/camp/tent-campsites\">almost 40 tent camping sites\u003c/a>, Joseph D. 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Grant County Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Mount Madonna County Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County calls Mount Madonna one of the county’s “most majestic” spots, and given that this county park allows you to bask among the towering redwoods just an hour from downtown San José, you might be inclined to agree.[aside postID=science_1996323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/03/GettyImages-1141101456-1020x680.jpg']The park has room for all kinds of visitors, with around 120 campsites offering spaces for tents, RVs, horse trailers and group camping. 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Offering canyons, creeks and miles of trails, this rugged terrain is particularly beautiful in springtime, when it fills with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996323/where-to-see-wildflowers-near-you-in-the-bay-area\">wildflowers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The huge park offers \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25829\">traditional 20 drive-in campsites,\u003c/a> including “primitive” campsites, as well as hike-in group camping spots — along with plenty of activities like fishing, mountain biking and backpacking by permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://reservecalifornia.com/Web/Default.aspx#!park/656\">\u003cstrong>Reserve a campsite at Henry W. 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But unlike other state parks, you can’t make a reservation through \u003ca href=\"http://reservecalifornia.com\">ReserveCalifornia.com\u003c/a> and should instead use the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=26658\">Backcountry Trail Camp Request Form\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:56 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WEST SACRAMENTO — Every year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033938/as-welcomed-by-thousands-for-home-opener-in-west-sacramento\">opening day\u003c/a> brings baseball fans the joy of reuniting with their team after a long winter and the renewed hope of a fresh season. One like this, however, doesn’t happen very often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the capital region and beyond, fans streamed into Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on Monday night to see the Athletics’ home opener — the first of what’s expected to be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982386/what-the-as-temporary-move-to-sacramento-means-for-fans\">three-season stay\u003c/a> at the minor league ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A line had already formed three hours before first pitch, and an audible cheer rang out as the gates opened for the sold-out matchup with the Chicago Cubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I grew up 20 minutes from the stadium that we’re playing at tonight, so it’s pretty surreal, and I couldn’t miss it,” said John Metz, a lifelong A’s fan who was raised in Elk Grove and Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, he flew in from his home in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The drums, Stomper fun zones, being a little kid running the bases, Moneyball teams, all of it. I love it,” Metz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12033964 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tower Bridge is illuminated in the background during the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie White said she drove from South Lake Tahoe in a snowstorm to make it to the game with her husband and 3-year-old daughter. She empathized with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\">A’s fans from the Bay Area who are upset about the team’s move\u003c/a>, but like many here, she just wanted to enjoy opening day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we can only really take the opportunity that we’ve been given here and try and keep supporting them wherever they’re moving through as a team,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s are set to play in West Sacramento for at least the next three seasons, while the team builds a $1.75 billion, 33,000-seat stadium in Las Vegas.[aside postID=news_12033094 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00007-1020x680.jpg']Construction of the proposed stadium \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/athletics-las-vegas-ballpark-agreements-approved\">gained momentum in December\u003c/a>, after the Las Vegas Stadium Authority approved the lease, non-relocation, development and community benefits agreements for the project. The team expects to break ground this spring, with the hopes of having its new home ready for the 2028 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the A’s will share a home at Sutter Health Park with the Giants’ Triple-A affiliate, the Sacramento River Cats. With a maximum capacity of just above 14,000 — a far cry from the Oakland Coliseum’s 63,000 — there’s no mistaking this for a major league ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of outfield bleachers, there’s a lawn area where people can lie out on blankets or bring their own folding chairs. Picnic tables pepper other parts of the stadium. And the smaller venue means fans are close to the action — children have a great chance of enticing a player to toss them a ball during warmups, and from the lawn, it wouldn’t be difficult to carry on a conversation with the bullpen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the excitement of a new home opener, some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955419/oakland-as-athletics-booker-ruiz-wristbandgate\">fan protests\u003c/a> that became a hallmark of the A’s last season in Oakland continued. Chants of “Sell the team!” rang out during the game, which started badly for the A’s and only got worse in an 18-3 blowout loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12033952 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caty Hung poses for a portrait during the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caty Hung drove up from the Bay Area to cheer on the team but wore a shirt that said, “I’d rather be at the Oakland Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I love the players, and I love this team, but I don’t love the ownership and the way that this club has been managed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hung was born in November 2001, and five months later, her parents brought her to opening day at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I thought I was going to raise my kids at the Coliseum, too,” Hung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033953\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseball fans anticipate to catch a foul ball as the Chicago Cubs warm up before the playing against the Oakland A’s at their season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, she’s wrestling with what it means to be an A’s fan when the team no longer represents her hometown. She’s preparing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004485/oakland-as-athletics-leaving-last-games\">another round of heartbreak\u003c/a> when the team heads to Las Vegas and feels the pain that Sacramento-area fans may soon experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think it’s awesome that the Sactown people are excited about this, but they’re going to go through the same thing,” Hung said. “They’re probably going to get attached to our guys for three years, and then they’re going to be ripped out from under the rug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move to West Sacramento — and, ultimately, Las Vegas — has been a long time in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the team \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium\">signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a ballpark in Las Vegas\u003c/a>, ending its years-long search for a new stadium that saw ideas floated for Fremont, San José and the Howard Terminal site at the Port of Oakland. That year, then-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao accused the team of “using the city of Oakland as leverage” to get a better deal on a stadium in Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel Switzer poses for a portrait before the start of the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lovingly dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\">Baseball’s Last Dive Bar\u003c/a>,” the no-frills, brutalist Coliseum had played home to the A’s since 1968. Despite the lack of flashy aesthetics, the team awarded its fans many memorable moments, including winning the World Series three years in a row, from 1972 to 1974, and showcasing some of the greats in baseball, including the “Man of Steal” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006231/how-oakland-style-empowered-as-great-rickey-henderson-and-other-athletes\">Rickey Henderson\u003c/a>, the all-time record holder for most stolen bases in a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Monday’s game, some Sacramento area fans expressed hope that, against all odds, the A’s would stay in West Sacramento to make more memories here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure that they stay here in Sacramento area because moving to Las Vegas is a bad idea,” said Mel Switzer, who was also at the A’s opening day at the Coliseum in 1968 but now lives outside Sacramento in Lincoln. “I think it’s a great fit. The only thing [A’s owner John Fisher] has to do is sell the team to the right owner. It could happen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I grew up 20 minutes from the stadium that we’re playing at tonight, so it’s pretty surreal, and I couldn’t miss it,” said John Metz, a lifelong A’s fan who was raised in Elk Grove and Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, he flew in from his home in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ The drums, Stomper fun zones, being a little kid running the bases, Moneyball teams, all of it. I love it,” Metz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12033964 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_361-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Tower Bridge is illuminated in the background during the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie White said she drove from South Lake Tahoe in a snowstorm to make it to the game with her husband and 3-year-old daughter. She empathized with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\">A’s fans from the Bay Area who are upset about the team’s move\u003c/a>, but like many here, she just wanted to enjoy opening day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we can only really take the opportunity that we’ve been given here and try and keep supporting them wherever they’re moving through as a team,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s are set to play in West Sacramento for at least the next three seasons, while the team builds a $1.75 billion, 33,000-seat stadium in Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Construction of the proposed stadium \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/athletics-las-vegas-ballpark-agreements-approved\">gained momentum in December\u003c/a>, after the Las Vegas Stadium Authority approved the lease, non-relocation, development and community benefits agreements for the project. The team expects to break ground this spring, with the hopes of having its new home ready for the 2028 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the A’s will share a home at Sutter Health Park with the Giants’ Triple-A affiliate, the Sacramento River Cats. With a maximum capacity of just above 14,000 — a far cry from the Oakland Coliseum’s 63,000 — there’s no mistaking this for a major league ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of outfield bleachers, there’s a lawn area where people can lie out on blankets or bring their own folding chairs. Picnic tables pepper other parts of the stadium. And the smaller venue means fans are close to the action — children have a great chance of enticing a player to toss them a ball during warmups, and from the lawn, it wouldn’t be difficult to carry on a conversation with the bullpen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the excitement of a new home opener, some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955419/oakland-as-athletics-booker-ruiz-wristbandgate\">fan protests\u003c/a> that became a hallmark of the A’s last season in Oakland continued. Chants of “Sell the team!” rang out during the game, which started badly for the A’s and only got worse in an 18-3 blowout loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12033952 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_135-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caty Hung poses for a portrait during the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caty Hung drove up from the Bay Area to cheer on the team but wore a shirt that said, “I’d rather be at the Oakland Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I love the players, and I love this team, but I don’t love the ownership and the way that this club has been managed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hung was born in November 2001, and five months later, her parents brought her to opening day at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I thought I was going to raise my kids at the Coliseum, too,” Hung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033953\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_136-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseball fans anticipate to catch a foul ball as the Chicago Cubs warm up before the playing against the Oakland A’s at their season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, she’s wrestling with what it means to be an A’s fan when the team no longer represents her hometown. She’s preparing for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004485/oakland-as-athletics-leaving-last-games\">another round of heartbreak\u003c/a> when the team heads to Las Vegas and feels the pain that Sacramento-area fans may soon experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think it’s awesome that the Sactown people are excited about this, but they’re going to go through the same thing,” Hung said. “They’re probably going to get attached to our guys for three years, and then they’re going to be ripped out from under the rug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move to West Sacramento — and, ultimately, Las Vegas — has been a long time in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the team \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium\">signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a ballpark in Las Vegas\u003c/a>, ending its years-long search for a new stadium that saw ideas floated for Fremont, San José and the Howard Terminal site at the Port of Oakland. That year, then-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao accused the team of “using the city of Oakland as leverage” to get a better deal on a stadium in Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033945\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230331-OAKLAND_AS_SEASON_OPENER_AT_44-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel Switzer poses for a portrait before the start of the Oakland A’s season home opener at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento on March 31, 2025. \u003ccite>(Andri Tambunan for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lovingly dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\">Baseball’s Last Dive Bar\u003c/a>,” the no-frills, brutalist Coliseum had played home to the A’s since 1968. Despite the lack of flashy aesthetics, the team awarded its fans many memorable moments, including winning the World Series three years in a row, from 1972 to 1974, and showcasing some of the greats in baseball, including the “Man of Steal” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006231/how-oakland-style-empowered-as-great-rickey-henderson-and-other-athletes\">Rickey Henderson\u003c/a>, the all-time record holder for most stolen bases in a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Monday’s game, some Sacramento area fans expressed hope that, against all odds, the A’s would stay in West Sacramento to make more memories here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to make sure that they stay here in Sacramento area because moving to Las Vegas is a bad idea,” said Mel Switzer, who was also at the A’s opening day at the Coliseum in 1968 but now lives outside Sacramento in Lincoln. “I think it’s a great fit. The only thing [A’s owner John Fisher] has to do is sell the team to the right owner. It could happen. 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"content": "\u003cp>As fans nationwide celebrate the start of the Major League Baseball season, the Bay Area is adjusting to a new reality: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006211/sad-devastated-bittersweet-oakland-as-fans-process-feelings-during-teams-final-week-of-home-games\">a baseball season with just one MLB team\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the San Francisco Giants \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUtpRW3Lau4\">celebrated an Opening Day victory against the Cincinnati Reds on March 27\u003c/a>, the Oakland Athletics — their historic rivals across the Bay — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6243315/2025/03/31/sacramento-athletics-oakland-mlb-kings/\">now play their home games in West Sacramento\u003c/a> as of Monday, following the team ownership’s decision to leave the Town. Their move means this will also be the first year without an official “Battle of the Bay”: the nickname given to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000643/giants-and-as-fans-gather-for-one-last-battle-of-the-bay\">the beloved face-offs between the Giants and the A’s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But baseball lovers rejoice: this tradition is back — with a twist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowcanIwatchSanJoseGiantsv.OaklandBallers\">How can I watch San José Giants vs. Oakland Ballers?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the San José Giants — the Single-A minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants — will play against the Pioneer League’s Oakland Ballers in a single-date exhibition game at Excite Ballpark in San José at 6 p.m. And both teams are, naturally, calling this game “The Battle of the Bay 2.0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Battle of the Bay 2.0, at its core, is a celebration of Bay Area baseball fans and the history of baseball in this region,” said Ben Taylor, president of the San José Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pitcher Derrick Cherry tosses his pitch during the Oakland Ballers game against the Yolo High Wheelers in Oakland, California, on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copely for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who has grown up in the Bay Area knows the history between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics and the great ball games that used to take place between them,” Taylor said. And when it became clear that the A’s would not play the 2025 season from Oakland, he and the Oakland Ballers ownership met to think of how they could once again give fans the experience of seeing two Bay Area teams face off against each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s game marks the first time in history that an MLB-affiliated team will play against an independent team from the Pioneer League — no mean feat considering each league operates on different season calendars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had to really accelerate our off-season plan to pull this game off,” said Casey Pratt, vice president of communications and fan entertainment for the Oakland Ballers. While the Ballers will have their own \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandballers.com/news/2025/03/opening-day-tickets-for-sale-2025\">Opening Day on May 20\u003c/a>, Pratt said the team wanted to give Oakland’s baseball fans the experience of a season opener around the same time as the MLB Opening Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004485/oakland-as-athletics-leaving-last-games\">many A’s fans are still grieving the loss\u003c/a> of their team to West Sacramento, the Battle of the Bay 2.0 “hopefully helps the healing process,” Pratt said. “This is baseball that is for the people and for the community first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What to expect at Wednesday’s ‘Battle of the Bay 2.0’ at Excite Ballpark\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All attendees at Wednesday’s game will receive a free Battle of the Bay 2.0 poster designed by local artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/guysliwinski/\">Guy Sliwinski\u003c/a>, who will sign posters at the ballpark. J.T. Snow, former first baseman for the San Francisco Giants and currently part of the Oakland Ballers coaching staff, will throw the first pitch. And both team mascots — the Ballers’ Scrappy the Rally Possum and Gigante from the San José Giants — will be hyping up fans throughout the game.[aside postID=news_12032881 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_4275_qed-1020x680.jpg']“This is going to be the unofficial opening day for Bay Area professional baseball,” said Taylor with the San José Giants. He adds that both teams are coming into this game after making it to their respective post-seasons last year. “All that energy and excitement will be inside the ballpark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elected officials for both Bay Area cities are also trying to get behind this new rivalry. Last week, San José Mayor Matt Mahan and Oakland interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1905698327200780477\">announced a wager for Wednesday’s game\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am so confident that the San José Giants are going to win this thing that I’m putting a bottle of La Vic’s famous orange sauce on the line,” said Mahan, referencing a popular salsa sold by the San José-based La Victoria Taquería. In response, Jenkins has bet a bottle of barbeque sauce from Oakland’s Everett & Jones restaurant chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ballers will be successful, mark my words,” Jenkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowcanIwatchSanJoseGiantsv.OaklandBallers\">\u003c/a>How can I watch San José Giants vs. Oakland Ballers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who: \u003c/strong>San José Giants vs. Oakland Ballers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where: \u003c/strong>Excite Ballpark in San José\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When: \u003c/strong>Wednesday, April 2 — first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official tickets to Wednesday’s game between the San José Giants and the Oakland Ballers \u003ca href=\"https://mlb.tickets.com/?orgId=56749&agency=MILB_MPV&eventId=12355&tfl=#/event/E12355/seatmap/?selectBuyers=false&minPrice=23&maxPrice=53&quantity=1&sort=price_desc&ada=false&seatSelection=true&onlyCoupon=true&onlyVoucher=false\">are still available at mlb.tickets.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plan to take public transit, you can take BART to Berryessa/North San José BART Station, take the 500 Rapid VTA bus to San José Diridon and then transfer to the 73 VTA bus to the Senter & Alma Avenue bus station. Oakland 68’s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oakland68s/?hl=en\">an independent fan group\u003c/a>, is organizing a bus to take fans from Raimondi Park in West Oakland to San José. The bus will leave Raimondi Park at 4 p.m. Bus tickets \u003ca href=\"https://www.oakland68s.org/product-page/bus-ticket?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZRLJNtwFiKnDZ_tcBZzuw0dMbjR9x7wCwwVqjS79rvZSApKKZ2_Pa1rf8_aem__qrinlJS5Z_D6SVsecCuoQ\">are sold for $40 each\u003c/a>, which comes with two drinks but do not include game tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not able to watch the game in person at San José’s Excite Ballpark? You can watch the game live on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.milb.com/san-jose\">San José Giants official website\u003c/a>, stream it on your cellphone using the \u003ca href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/milb/id508217833\">MiLB app\u003c/a> or watch it on TV on KPIX+ (channel 44 cable 12).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As fans nationwide celebrate the start of the Major League Baseball season, the Bay Area is adjusting to a new reality: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006211/sad-devastated-bittersweet-oakland-as-fans-process-feelings-during-teams-final-week-of-home-games\">a baseball season with just one MLB team\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the San Francisco Giants \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUtpRW3Lau4\">celebrated an Opening Day victory against the Cincinnati Reds on March 27\u003c/a>, the Oakland Athletics — their historic rivals across the Bay — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6243315/2025/03/31/sacramento-athletics-oakland-mlb-kings/\">now play their home games in West Sacramento\u003c/a> as of Monday, following the team ownership’s decision to leave the Town. Their move means this will also be the first year without an official “Battle of the Bay”: the nickname given to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000643/giants-and-as-fans-gather-for-one-last-battle-of-the-bay\">the beloved face-offs between the Giants and the A’s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But baseball lovers rejoice: this tradition is back — with a twist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowcanIwatchSanJoseGiantsv.OaklandBallers\">How can I watch San José Giants vs. Oakland Ballers?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the San José Giants — the Single-A minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants — will play against the Pioneer League’s Oakland Ballers in a single-date exhibition game at Excite Ballpark in San José at 6 p.m. And both teams are, naturally, calling this game “The Battle of the Bay 2.0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Battle of the Bay 2.0, at its core, is a celebration of Bay Area baseball fans and the history of baseball in this region,” said Ben Taylor, president of the San José Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/DSC5811_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pitcher Derrick Cherry tosses his pitch during the Oakland Ballers game against the Yolo High Wheelers in Oakland, California, on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copely for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who has grown up in the Bay Area knows the history between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics and the great ball games that used to take place between them,” Taylor said. And when it became clear that the A’s would not play the 2025 season from Oakland, he and the Oakland Ballers ownership met to think of how they could once again give fans the experience of seeing two Bay Area teams face off against each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s game marks the first time in history that an MLB-affiliated team will play against an independent team from the Pioneer League — no mean feat considering each league operates on different season calendars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is going to be the unofficial opening day for Bay Area professional baseball,” said Taylor with the San José Giants. He adds that both teams are coming into this game after making it to their respective post-seasons last year. “All that energy and excitement will be inside the ballpark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elected officials for both Bay Area cities are also trying to get behind this new rivalry. Last week, San José Mayor Matt Mahan and Oakland interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1905698327200780477\">announced a wager for Wednesday’s game\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am so confident that the San José Giants are going to win this thing that I’m putting a bottle of La Vic’s famous orange sauce on the line,” said Mahan, referencing a popular salsa sold by the San José-based La Victoria Taquería. In response, Jenkins has bet a bottle of barbeque sauce from Oakland’s Everett & Jones restaurant chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ballers will be successful, mark my words,” Jenkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowcanIwatchSanJoseGiantsv.OaklandBallers\">\u003c/a>How can I watch San José Giants vs. Oakland Ballers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who: \u003c/strong>San José Giants vs. Oakland Ballers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where: \u003c/strong>Excite Ballpark in San José\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When: \u003c/strong>Wednesday, April 2 — first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official tickets to Wednesday’s game between the San José Giants and the Oakland Ballers \u003ca href=\"https://mlb.tickets.com/?orgId=56749&agency=MILB_MPV&eventId=12355&tfl=#/event/E12355/seatmap/?selectBuyers=false&minPrice=23&maxPrice=53&quantity=1&sort=price_desc&ada=false&seatSelection=true&onlyCoupon=true&onlyVoucher=false\">are still available at mlb.tickets.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plan to take public transit, you can take BART to Berryessa/North San José BART Station, take the 500 Rapid VTA bus to San José Diridon and then transfer to the 73 VTA bus to the Senter & Alma Avenue bus station. Oakland 68’s, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oakland68s/?hl=en\">an independent fan group\u003c/a>, is organizing a bus to take fans from Raimondi Park in West Oakland to San José. The bus will leave Raimondi Park at 4 p.m. Bus tickets \u003ca href=\"https://www.oakland68s.org/product-page/bus-ticket?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZRLJNtwFiKnDZ_tcBZzuw0dMbjR9x7wCwwVqjS79rvZSApKKZ2_Pa1rf8_aem__qrinlJS5Z_D6SVsecCuoQ\">are sold for $40 each\u003c/a>, which comes with two drinks but do not include game tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not able to watch the game in person at San José’s Excite Ballpark? You can watch the game live on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.milb.com/san-jose\">San José Giants official website\u003c/a>, stream it on your cellphone using the \u003ca href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/milb/id508217833\">MiLB app\u003c/a> or watch it on TV on KPIX+ (channel 44 cable 12).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Gambling addiction experts warn that online sports betting, which is not legal in the state, makes it easier to bet in excess and harder to pull away — especially on cellphones. When there’s a major event like the ongoing NCAA basketball tournament, sports betting activity spikes, and in the aftermath, so do the numbers of people seeking treatment for problem gambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2018–2019 fiscal year, 36% of problem gamblers between 18 and 30 years old reported betting on sports, according to the California Gambling Education and Treatment Services Program. Five years later, that number jumped to more than 60% even as rates of other types of gambling like poker and lotteries fell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leong said his parents eventually caught on after noticing him spending whole days watching football games on his laptop as credit card bills piled up. He finally sought treatment at 24 after his parents threatened to kick him out of their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial destruction of it was absolutely insane. I ended up with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and a bankruptcy when I was pretty young,” Leong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A casino in your pocket’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dozens of states have legalized sports betting after a 2018 Supreme Court ruling overturned a federal ban, but California is not among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not for lack of trying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of 2022 ballot measures, which would have legalized online sports betting and sports betting in Native American tribal casinos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931029/california-sports-gambling-measures-losing-bets\">both failed to pass. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians are still able to wager money on sports through several means. One is daily fantasy sports, where users pay an “entry fee” and draft mock lineups or make predictions about individual players, such as whether one will score higher or lower than 20 points, or whether another will get more or less than 12 rebounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies operating these apps argue that their users aren’t gambling because they are competing against other players, not against the house, and because the games are more skill-based than chance-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people also use online sportsbooks from companies that are based in other countries, and therefore aren’t inclined to abide by state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101908531 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/01/GettyImages-1406738183-1-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Timothy Fong, co-director of UCLA’s Gambling Studies Program, which helps oversee CalGETS, said the majority of patients he sees now are specifically struggling with online sports betting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gambling is ubiquitous, it’s accessible … you can’t turn without seeing it. You have a casino in your pocket,” Fong said. “Contrast that to me when I was 26 … if I wanted to bet on sports, I had to have a tremendous amount of effort to place any bet. I needed to drive somewhere, I needed to go to the bank, I needed to carry cash. I mean, it was an entirely different world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong believes that many of his younger patients would not be gambling excessively were it not for that access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many patients who’ve said to me, ‘I’ve never set foot inside a brick and mortar casino in my entire life,’ and yet, they have a substantial gambling disorder,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early adulthood is also a common time for people to begin gambling. State gambling helpline data shows that more people reported their gambling issues started between the ages of 18 and 25 than any other age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leong, who quit gambling after lots of work, is now 32 and a social worker helping other people struggling with gambling problems. He said he’s also concerned by the increased access to gambling through phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think addiction is much more severe than it used to be,” Leong said. “I’d hear about stories where you call your bookie 10 times a day. Now, gambling online, you hear people firing off like 50 bets in an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tomorrow’s gamblers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gambling disorder experts argue that daily fantasy sports apps use similar tactics as social media sites to keep users engaged and coming back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intermittent reinforcement, gamify it, constantly have this pressure that something new and fresh is coming and if you log off, you’re going to miss it,” Fong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not only seen in sports betting and daily fantasy. Some experts are also criticizing video game companies for using similar tactics, which they say could prime children for gambling later in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many video games sell so-called loot boxes. The boxes contain mystery prizes, and players buy them — often with real money — for a chance to win high-value items like special characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Video games for many years, since the introduction of in-app purchasing, have utilized methods of sales for in-game consumable items, or digital items that follow psychological practices that make people more likely to continue to spend more money,” said Robert Jacobson, executive director of the California Council on Problem Gambling, which runs the state’s 1-800-GAMBLER helpline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our position that many of those practices meet the legal definition of gambling,” Jacobson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comparison makes sense. When a user purchases a loot box, they’re doing so in the hopes of winning a big prize, much like buying a scratch-off in the hopes of winning a jackpot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the connection isn’t lost on the users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2018, the helpline began asking some callers whether they’ve ever spent more time or money on video games than they could afford because it gave them a gambling-like rush. In 2019, 219 callers answered yes. Five years later, that figure had climbed to 345.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong said he saw firsthand how captivating loot boxes could be for his own son, who was playing an NBA video game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He kept buying these packs to try and get the player he wanted,” Fong said. “But he kept buying, and he kept not getting it. Buy, buy, buy. Eventually, in the span of about two hours, he spent $1,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the A’s packed their bags and left the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> for good last September, longtime ballpark workers like Erica Quinonez looked forward to a token of appreciation from the team. The A’s had created a $1 million “Oakland Coliseum Vendor Assistance Fund”, intended to help alleviate the financial hardship caused by the team’s departure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Yes! This is going to help me move,” said Quinonez, a former supervisor for Allied Universal, which provided security services during A’s games at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her excitement quickly turned to despair and anger when her application was denied. It felt like a slap in the face, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could have used that money. It really could have helped,” said Quinonez, who said the loss of income resulting from professional sports teams — like the A’s and Raiders — leaving Oakland made her decide to move away from the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just had a baby 11 months ago,” Quinonez said. “When we didn’t get the money, I was like, ‘Oh man, what are we going to do now?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinonez is one of four workers who told KQED they were upset by their experience applying to the fund. They described a variety of outcomes ranging from outright rejection of their application, to lack of a response, to disappointment over paltry amounts of cash. For some, the financial hardship will extend into the upcoming baseball season, as the A’s home opener is set for Monday at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_As-Vendor-Fund_DMB_00042-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Silva, a member of Teamsters Local 853, shows off her lanyard with pins and memorabilia from her time working for the Oakland A’s. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The application and eligibility requirements for the Oakland Coliseum Vendor Assistance Fund appeared to be straightforward. According to a letter sent to workers, employees of third-party vendors — Aramark, Allied Universal, ASM, Fanatics and ProPark — had two and a half months to apply online to the fund, which would disburse a payout of between $250 and $2,500 in the form of a taxable grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applicants had to be employed by one of the five vendors, have provided gameday services at the Oakland Coliseum and have worked a minimum number of hours between the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Relief Fund Services Group, a company that aims to streamline aid disbursement, administered the website where workers applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinonez told KQED she worked security for Allied Universal at the Coliseum “every game she could” from 2017 to 2024. After she applied for the fund, she found out she was denied for reasons not listed in the application.[aside postID=news_12032881 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_4275_qed-1020x680.jpg']An email sent to Quinonez from Oakland A’s People Operations and obtained by KQED stated the following: “In order to be eligible for the grant, employees needed to be regularly stationed at the Oakland branch, not Union City or Chase Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Quinonez worked out of Allied Universal’s Union City office, not the Oakland branch, she was denied funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When KQED reached out to the A’s for comment, a spokesperson initially requested “additional details” but, after multiple follow-up messages, stopped responding to emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relief Fund Services Group did not respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other employees of Allied Universal who worked out of the Union City branch said they also applied for the Vendor Assistance Fund but did not hear back and never received any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ There was a lot of us that worked every single game they let us work, and it wasn’t acknowledged in any way, shape or form,” said one worker, who is currently employed by Allied Universal and asked not to be named due to concerns of professional repercussions. The employee estimated that a few dozen other workers could have also been denied funds because they were based in Union City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan holds a sign at the A’s last home game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024.. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even if it was $500, just something to acknowledge our hard work there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allied Universal did not respond to interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 400 and 450 security officers represented by SEIU-USWW worked at the Coliseum and were employed by Allied Universal, according to Stephen Boardman, communications director for the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any SEIU-USWW member who worked at the Coliseum and feels they were wrongly denied this benefit should contact the union right away,” Boardman said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Rosenthal, who worked at the Coliseum since the first A’s game there in 1968, most recently as a merchandise vendor at a fan store for the concessionaire Fanatics, applied to the fund and received money.[aside postID=news_12030157 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240818_LastBoB_GC-53_qed-1020x680.jpg']Rosenthal declined to say how much he was awarded but said it “ wasn’t a ton of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It did help as far as putting food on the table because obviously I was unemployed at the time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenthal is a member of Teamsters Local 853, which represented about 60 Coliseum vendors last baseball season. He said he hadn’t heard of anyone else being denied by the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody I’m close to, that I work with, all got theirs,” he added. “This is news to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Silva, another member of Teamsters Local 853 who worked for the A’s as an employee of Aramark and Fanatics over 15 years doing retail and warehouse work, received $1,500 from the fund but was offended by the lack of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I really felt like they could have done better, especially for a lot of the people that have been there since the stadium opened,” Silva said. “It wasn’t even a hundred dollars for every year that I worked there, and I just felt like that was kind of cheap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947217\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54992_005_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Oakland A's baseball fan holds a special green and yellow book that chronicles 50 years of the team. 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Both unions said they were not in direct contact with the A’s about the creation of that fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the A’s now based in West Sacramento, former Coliseum workers like Silva are bracing for a significant loss in income during a typically lucrative time of year. Working retail and earning commission during A’s games, Silva said she could make between $200 to $1,000 a night. Silva said she was not made aware of a hiring fair at the Sutter Health Park and has missed out on employment there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s going to be a huge impact because it’s almost half of my income that I lose. It’s a very hefty chunk of change,” Silva said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Rosenthal declined to say how much he was awarded but said it “ wasn’t a ton of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It did help as far as putting food on the table because obviously I was unemployed at the time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenthal is a member of Teamsters Local 853, which represented about 60 Coliseum vendors last baseball season. He said he hadn’t heard of anyone else being denied by the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody I’m close to, that I work with, all got theirs,” he added. “This is news to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Silva, another member of Teamsters Local 853 who worked for the A’s as an employee of Aramark and Fanatics over 15 years doing retail and warehouse work, received $1,500 from the fund but was offended by the lack of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I really felt like they could have done better, especially for a lot of the people that have been there since the stadium opened,” Silva said. “It wasn’t even a hundred dollars for every year that I worked there, and I just felt like that was kind of cheap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947217\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54992_005_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Oakland A's baseball fan holds a special green and yellow book that chronicles 50 years of the team. She is wearing a white and blue floral top.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54992_005_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54992_005_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54992_005_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54992_005_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54992_005_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland A’s fan holds a book chronicling 50 years of the team during a fan event in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unite Here Local 2, a labor union that represented around 400 Coliseum workers employed by the food-service giant Aramark, made an unsuccessful bid for severance and extended health benefits for its members before the vendor assistance fund was announced, according to Ted Waechter, a spokesperson for the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really have to fight to get anything out of these companies, and we didn’t have the leverage we needed,” Waechter told KQED. “We didn’t have anything to strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waechter said the union hasn’t heard of any of its members who applied to the Vendor Assistance Fund being denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from both Unite Here Local 2 and Teamsters 853 said that besides the Vendor Assistance Fund, there was no other monetary assistance offered to workers from the team or the companies they worked for upon the A’s departure from Oakland. Both unions said they were not in direct contact with the A’s about the creation of that fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the A’s now based in West Sacramento, former Coliseum workers like Silva are bracing for a significant loss in income during a typically lucrative time of year. Working retail and earning commission during A’s games, Silva said she could make between $200 to $1,000 a night. Silva said she was not made aware of a hiring fair at the Sutter Health Park and has missed out on employment there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s going to be a huge impact because it’s almost half of my income that I lose. It’s a very hefty chunk of change,” Silva said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The list of teams that are scheduled to play at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> this year just got longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023859/oakland-roots-soul-want-to-play-in-the-coliseum-for-years-to-come\">the Oakland Roots and Soul\u003c/a>, the storied venue will soon host the best cricket players in the country to kick off the 2025 Cognizant Major League Cricket season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Straight off the bat, as we say in cricket. It’s very exciting,” said David White, the CEO of the San Francisco Unicorns, one of the six teams in the league. Cognizant, a technology company, is the league’s title sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The league announced Wednesday that beginning June 12, the Coliseum will host nine matches over seven days before the tournament moves to Prairie, Texas, and Broward County Stadium, in Florida, to play the remainder of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Cricket does not have a home-and-away stadium format. Instead, last year, teams played tournament style in Texas and North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White said this is an exciting opportunity to bring the sport within reach for the many fans here in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11935325/cricket-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-sports-goes-to-bat-in-the-tri-valley\">particularly among South Asian communities\u003c/a>. 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Over 100 million fans worldwide watched games last year, according to a press release from MLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the sport has a reputation for matches that can stretch on for days, White said the type of cricket played in MLC, called T20, is much more palatable for American audiences — namely because the games are much shorter. He said he hopes games at the Coliseum grow cricket’s fanbase here in the Bay Area.[aside postID=news_12029804 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/SanJoseGiantsGetty-1020x680.jpg']“It’s made for the U.S. market. It’s a two-and-a-half to three-hour version. There’s constant big hits, constant big catches and fielding with no mitts,” White continued. “ If we get it right, cricket can have a foothold here in the Bay Area and in the USA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Establishing the Coliseum as a venue that can successfully host cricket matches could raise the chances that the venue would be selected to host the sport for the Olympics in 2028, according to Matthew Atencio, Professor of Kinesiology at Cal State University East Bay and the co-director for the Center for Sport and Social Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ There will be a need for cricket-specific venues that can host events,” Atencio said. “There aren’t many of them right now, so my view is that this would position the Bay Area as a potential venue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cricket is set to return to the games in 2028 for only the second time in Olympic history after a 128-year hiatus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atencio said the arrival of cricket at the Coliseum builds on the buzz generated by other teams like the Roots, who now call the stadium home. Last weekend, both the lower and upper deck of the stadium was nearly packed, as the team played in front of a crowd of more than 26,000 for the first game of their inaugural season, complete with a halftime performance by Too $hort and a post-game fireworks show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_11420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_11420.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_11420-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_11420-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_11420-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_11420-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250322_Roots_11420-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Too $hort, center, poses for a photo with a fan as the Oakland Roots hosted the San Antonio FC at the Oakland Coliseum on Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(David M. 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Substantially,” said Dawna Williams, the interim executive director of the East Oakland Boxing Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, who declined to provide the exact amount, said the EOBA \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029450/steph-curry-surprised-oakland-youth-gym-with-50000-its-leader-kept-the-cash-feds-say\">reported the theft\u003c/a> to the Internal Revenue Service more than two years ago and that the $100,000 figure cited in the complaint was based on the most direct evidence of impropriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solomon Howard, who served as the EOBA’s executive director from 2017-2021, is accused of using the East Oakland Boxing Association’s debit cards to make personal Amazon purchases — including a queen-size bed and a memory foam mattress — and falsely reporting them as “program supplies” and other generic descriptions, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/SolomonHowardCharges.pdf\">charges filed in February\u003c/a> in an Oakland federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard pleaded not guilty last week in Oakland federal court to mail fraud and tax evasion, following accusations that he embezzled funds from the organization — including a $50,000 donation that Stephen and Ayesha Curry presented to him in 2019 on an episode Ellen DeGeneres’ show, “Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was on the organization’s board of directors in 2021 when she said board members began noticing numerous accounting irregularities. When the board questioned Howard, he was suspiciously evasive, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were met with lots of excuses and things like that,” she said, noting that he “had the gift of gab.” “And that was just like, ‘Oh no, something’s not right here. Something is really off.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the board continued questioning Howard, he abruptly laid off his entire staff of about nine people and then resigned, Williams, who became interim director in March 2024, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He terminated everyone to kind of cover his tracks, I think,” she said. “We hired an independent accounting expert to come in and review our books because he had also terminated the bookkeeper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like a DOGE moment here,” she added, referring to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence became irrefutable, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that we could not allow somebody to do this to the kids and do this to the people who trusted us with this funding,” she said, noting that the IRS ultimately referred the case to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “We knew that we had to find justice here. However long it took, whatever it took, we had to find justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also allege that Howard used the organization’s funds to pay for a vacation rental, reporting it as business expense, and to purchase a Ford Explorer, which he later traded in for a Cadillac Escalade and registered in his own name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all greed-related,” Williams said. “Literally, the things that he spent money on, he could have done those same things with the salary that he made, but he chose not to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard’s attorney declined KQED’s multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 1987, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eoba.org/youth-programs\">the East Oakland nonprofit\u003c/a> offers boxing lessons to children and young adults, as well as a range of other youth development programming, including gardening and academic support. Most participants come from low-income backgrounds.[aside postID=news_12029450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/BoxingGetty.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids that come to this program, they already don’t have much,” Williams said. That makes it that much harder to understand how “somebody [could] take it from them, what somebody entrusted us with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2019 episode of DeGeneres’ show, Howard described the organization as an after-school program “focused on keeping young folks off the streets and engaged in more holistic wellness activity.” He said it serves kids in “essentially kind of the forgotten part of Oakland, where a lot of poverty, crime, violence and negative activities happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the episode, the Currys delivered a box-truck full of supplies and revealed a surprise $50,000 donation from the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, it goes a long way, man,” Steph Curry told Howard as the two men hugged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors allege that Howard subsequently deposited that entire donation into his own personal account without the knowledge of EOBA staff or its board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted of the charges, Howard faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, as well as restitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He needs to have his day in court. And hopefully, he makes some level of restitution,” said Williams, who predicts there will be a plea deal. “I don’t think he’s remorseful at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said EOBA has since taken aggressive steps to ensure this will never happen again, including using an external bookkeeper and requiring multiple signatures on all checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The small mom-and-pop nonprofits, they do need to have someone who is professionally there to manage their books and have some level of oversight,” she said, noting that this kind of theft is probably more common than most people realize. “I’m happy for us to have that oversight.\u003cbr>\nThat just keeps us on our Ps and Qs, [so] this will never happen again for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jaylon Tyson, a former basketball guard at UC Berkeley, gets $390,000 from a group of private donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Chiles, a UCLA gymnast and Olympic gold-medal winner, is paid $3,000 by Grammarly, an AI writing company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mekhi Mays, a former Cal State Long Beach sprinter, makes $390 from a local barbecue joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These payments — derived from data that public universities provided to CalMatters — were part of “name, image and likeness deals” requiring students to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=271783325357651&id=100075779560692&_rdr\">favorable posts\u003c/a> on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such sponsorship deals were unheard of just four years ago. In 2021, California enacted a law allowing athletes to make these kinds of brand deals. It was the first state to pass such a law, prompting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/10/name-image-likeness/\">similar changes\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first-ever look at what many California athletes have actually made. University records show that money is flowing, but how much college athletes earn depends largely on the popularity of the sport, the gender and star power of its players and the fanbase of the university. While UCLA gymnasts earned over $2 million in the last three school years, university records show that players on the UCLA women’s water polo team earned just $152 during the same time frame, despite winning the national championship last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For companies, these name, image and likeness deals are akin to paying any other celebrity or professional athlete to promote a product. University alumni and sports fans can’t give money directly to a student athlete — at least not yet — but they are allowed to make name, image and likeness deals. Many universities have private donor groups, known as collectives or booster clubs, that offer athletes money, sometimes more than $400,000 in a single transaction, in exchange for an autograph or participation in a brief charity event. Often, those deals are a pretext to send money to top-tier players and discourage them from seeking better deals at other colleges.[aside postID=news_12029450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/BoxingGetty-1020x701.jpg']CalMatters reached out to every public and private university in the state with Division 1 teams, where the potential for profit is typically highest, and requested data that shows how much money each of its student athletes have made since 2021. State law requires all student athletes to report to their school any compensation they receive from their name, image and likeness, and public universities are required to disclose certain kinds of data upon request. Private universities, such as Stanford University and the University of Southern California, are not required to disclose any data about their students’ earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the public Division 1 universities responded to CalMatters’ inquiry, though they did not all provide the same degree of transparency. San Jose State and Cal State Northridge said they had no records of any deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no consequence for students who fail to report what are known as NIL deals, so the data from public institutions may be incomplete. Still, certain trends emerge:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>College athletes at the state’s public universities received millions of dollars from collectives or booster clubs. At four University of California schools, around 70% or more of all compensation came from these collectives, according to university records. That’s just below national trends, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/The_Annual_Opendorse_Report_-Version-2.pdf#page=3\">a report (PDF)\u003c/a> by Opendorse, a tech company that tracks students’ deals.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Male basketball players earned the most. While football is more popular and lucrative, nationally, many public Division 1 schools in California lack a football team. The football data may also be incomplete. For instance, all football players at UC Berkeley reported making a total of just over $113,000 since 2021 — less than what all San Diego State players made — even though Berkeley is in a more prominent conference.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For high-profile football or basketball players in particular, it’s becoming more common for students to transfer multiple times, often in search of better name, image and likeness deals. Some California institutions, such as UC Davis and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, have seen top athletes transfer colleges or threaten to transfer in order to attain better compensation elsewhere.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Except for a few star players, such as Chiles, most female college athletes made very little, according to the data provided to CalMatters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Collectively, athletes at UCLA and UC Berkeley earned more than double what those attending other UC and California State University campuses made. Some donors, such as those supporting Sacramento State and UC San Diego, have rapidly raised money to compete, while at other schools, athletic directors say they’ll never be able to guarantee such high-dollar deals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Schools often removed any information that could identify an individual student. While UCLA generally did not provide the individual names of its athletes, the school was more transparent than most and shared the date of each transaction, the name of the brand or company, the amount of money it gave, and the sport. In February, a UCLA gymnast reported receiving $250,000 from the beverage company Bubbl’r. Since then, Chiles has \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jordanchiles/reel/C9TAj5XRfwa/\">promoted\u003c/a> that brand, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@jordanchiles/video/7420501352352058654\">repeatedly\u003c/a>. In May, a UCLA gymnast reported receiving $210,000 from the cosmetic brand Milani for “social media” — just a few months before Chiles posted a video on Instagram, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jordanchiles/reel/C9gUkFYxOZ7/?hl=en\">promoting its makeup\u003c/a>. One or more members of the UCLA gymnastics team have also reported deals with the food company Danone for $300,000 and with the health care company Sanofi for $285,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno State shared less information. In the 2021–22 academic year, the Fresno State women’s basketball team raked in over $1.1 million from multiple name, image and likeness deals, but the university did not disclose which players were involved or how many were paid. After influencers and former basketball players \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/haleycavinder/?hl=en\">Haley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hanna.cavinder/?hl=en\">Hanna Cavinder\u003c/a> transferred to the University of Miami in April 2022, the number and dollar amount of deals for the Fresno team diminished. In the 2023–24 academic year, the team made just over $1,000 from 10 different deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two women college basketball players from different teams vie for the ball during a game with other players and full bleachers around and behind them.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno State Bulldogs forward Mia Jacobs #23 attempts to block the shot of an Arizona State Sun Devils forward during a game in Phoenix on Dec. 20, 2023. During their most lucrative year to date, Fresno women on the team collected over $1.1 million in NIL deals. \u003ccite>(Christopher Hook/Icon Sportswire via AP Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Money from boosters or collectives is the hardest to trace. In May, for example, a group of UCLA donors gave an undisclosed football player $450,000 for “social media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While private universities are not required to disclose students’ earnings, market estimates from \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/nil/rankings/player/nil-valuations/\">On3\u003c/a>, a media and technology company focused on college sports, say the highest-earning Stanford University athlete, basketball player \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/db/maxime-raynaud-152092/\">Maxime Raynaud\u003c/a>, could collect $1.5 million in the next 12 months. The top USC athlete, football player \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/db/jayden-maiava-58668/\">Jayden Maiava\u003c/a>, could make $603,000 in the next year, according to the same estimates. These numbers are based on an algorithm that uses aggregate deals from college athletes across the country. Nationwide, the Opendorse report estimates that college athletes will earn $1.65 billion in the 2024–25 academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, college athletes may make even more. A high-profile \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-v.-NCAA-Original-Complaint.pdf\">class-action lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> will likely allow schools to pay athletes directly, while still classifying them as students, not employees. If the proposed settlement agreement goes into effect, students could see payouts as early as this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a school pays a student directly, the money should be divided roughly proportional to the number of male and female athletes, the Biden administration said in a U.S. Department of Education \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ocr-factsheet-benefits-student-athletes.pdf\">fact sheet (PDF)\u003c/a> issued in January. The page \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/media/document/ocr-factsheet-benefits-student-athletes\">no longer exists\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last few months, attorneys have rescinded federal labor petitions asking that USC and Dartmouth College student athletes be reclassified as employees, but new cases are likely on the horizon, said Mit Winter, an attorney who specializes in name, image and likeness law: “I do think at some point — two years, five years, whatever it is — at least some college athletes will be employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Times Square billboard reads: NIL has begun\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, college sports have been a big business, though most of the money flowed to universities, not students. Nationally, Division 1 universities reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/10/14/finances-of-intercollegiate-athletics-division-i-dashboard.aspx\">$17.5 billion in athletic revenue\u003c/a> in 2022, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). That’s more than the gross domestic product of \u003ca href=\"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD\">83 countries\u003c/a>. For schools with top-performing football programs, such as UCLA and Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/research/Finances/2023RES_DI-RevExpReport_FINAL.pdf\">broadcast deals (PDF)\u003c/a> and other kinds of marketing represent over a third of total revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before California’s law went into effect, college athletes weren’t allowed to profit off their sport, though they frequently received scholarships equal to the cost of college tuition. On July 1, 2021 the new law took effect, and Haley and Hanna Cavinder were the first to benefit, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/ncaa-name-image-likeness-nil-student-athletes/10849337/\">signing deals \u003c/a>with Boost Mobile, a cell phone company, and Sixstar, a nutrition company, just after the stroke of midnight. A\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CavinderHanna/status/1410636794908057604\"> Times Square billboard\u003c/a> proclaimed they were the first such deals in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Student athletes have reported at least $11.9 million in name, image and likeness compensation\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-1xezO\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1xezO/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"517\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, other California college athletes have signed advertising deals with clothing brands such as Crocs, Heelys and Aeropostale and food brands such as Liquid I.V. and Jack in the Box. FTX, the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, signed contracts with \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DominiqueOnu/status/1468324467533234176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1468324467533234176%7Ctwgr%5Ea9a79c13c1bc7d717d0e88e987e66747e6b4989d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fcollege%2Fucla%2Fnews%2Ftracking-every-ucla-student-athlete-name-image-likeness-nil-deal\">at least six players\u003c/a> on the UCLA women’s basketball team in 2021. In 2022, the Biden campaign gave a UCLA gymnast $7,000, but public records did not disclose the purpose of the transaction. No other politicians appeared in any university’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Visit Fresno County, a nonprofit that promotes tourism, paid former Fresno State football players \u003ca href=\"https://gobulldogs.com/sports/football/roster/dean-clark/14671\">Dean Clark\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://gobulldogs.com/sports/football/roster/kosi-agina/14651\">Kosi Agina\u003c/a> just under $10,000 to post Instagram videos about \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kosiaagina/reel/C5hEuyxv3uh/\">a local farmer’s market\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Hjh9oSDVG/\">a minor league baseball team\u003c/a>, according to President and CEO Lisa Oliveira. She said the posts were so successful that she asked Agina to make another video, promoting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kosiaagina/reel/C51uJhfPs67/\">hiking trail in the Sierra National Forest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But much of the money for students’ name, image and likeness doesn’t come from brands at all — it’s from private donors. Philanthropist and entertainment lawyer Mark Kalmansohn has given nearly $150,000 in 12 different transactions to athletes on UCLA’s volleyball, softball and women’s basketball teams since 2022, according to the data, which runs through May of last year. In an interview with CalMatters, Kalmansohn said he’s given more than $175,000 since May. “Women’s sports were almost always treated in a second-hand nature and given inferior resources,” he said, adding that his philanthropy is about “women’s rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for money, he asks each recipient to issue a free license of their name, image and likeness to a nonprofit organization that’s relevant to the athlete’s sport. But he said that’s not the norm. “In men’s football and men’s basketball, it’s pretty obvious that money is not for an ‘appearance.’” Instead, he explained that it’s a way to support the player and keep the team competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most donors give money to specific athletes through a collective, where the donors’ identities are largely hidden. At UCLA, public data through the 2023–24 academic year shows that a collective known as the Men of Westwood channeled nearly $2 million in private donations to the football, basketball and baseball teams. At Berkeley, collectives gave over $1.3 million to athletes since the 2022–23 academic year — the vast majority of which went to the men’s basketball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Supporting ‘elite talent’ at UC and Cal State\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, NCAA rules made it difficult for college athletes to transfer schools, but in 2021, right around the time that California started to allow name, image and likeness deals, the NCAA eased \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2021/4/15/di-council-adopts-new-transfer-legislation.aspx\">those rules\u003c/a>. The number of students who transfer suddenly \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20220425163915/https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/4/25/transfer-portal-data-division-i-student-athlete-transfer-trends.aspx\">jumped in 2021\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/4/25/transfer-portal-data-division-i-student-athlete-transfer-trends.aspx\">has ticked up each year since\u003c/a>, according to NCAA data. In practice, the new rules means that a well-endowed collective can lure athletes who want to make more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, over 11% of all Division 1 football players have tried to transfer colleges, an increase from the previous year, said Matt Kraemer, whose organization, \u003ca href=\"https://theportalreport.com/about/#\">The Portal Report\u003c/a>, uses social media posts and tips from insiders to gauge college athletes’ transfer activity. Quarterbacks are even more likely to try to transfer, Kraemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For institutions like UC Davis, the threat of losing a top athlete can be costly. Late in the 2023–24 academic year, donors from other universities promised top athletes lucrative deals if they agreed to transfer, so UC Davis formed a collective, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aggieedge.com/\">Aggie Edge\u003c/a>, to make counter-offers, said Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca. “It’s a means to retain elite talent here at Davis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLuca said the collective gave men’s basketball guard \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/ty-johnson/18342\">TY Johnson\u003c/a> $50,000 and UC Davis running back \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/football/roster/lan-larison/18128\">Lan Larison\u003c/a> $25,000. Those transactions were for “social media, appearances, autographs,” according to the university’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A male basketball player dribbles toward a player from the opposing team during a game.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1076.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Davis Aggies guard TY Johnson dribbles up the court during a game against Cal State Bakersfield in Bakersfield on Jan. 26, 2023. The UC Davis athletic director said a collective gave Johnson $50,000 for what university records describe as ‘social media, appearances, autographs.’ \u003ccite>(David Dennis/Icon Sportswire via AP Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, all other UC Davis athletes — more than 700 students over 25 sports — have reported just under $19,000 in deals since 2021. A few other athletes received products, such as a free cryotherapy session or a commission based on sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, former UC Berkeley quarterback Fernando Mendoza transferred to Indiana University, where he later signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hoosiersconnect/p/DFNwwqQuWAP/\">a name, image and likeness deal\u003c/a> with a collective for an undisclosed amount. UC Berkeley then recruited former Ohio State quarterback Devin Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/college-football/ohio-state-quarterback-transfers-acc-program-after-national-title\">the day after he won a national championship.\u003c/a> It’s not clear if the Berkeley collective offered Brown a deal, since the university’s data doesn’t name Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin DiTolla, Berkeley’s associate athletic director, said the university is “not affiliated with the collective” and that the university provides “equal support to all student athletes.” “We recognize that there is a difference in NIL support,” he said, “But it isn’t under our scope or umbrella.” The Berkeley collective, California Legends, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, some football players sought more money through a name, image and likeness deal by transferring to another school, but they didn’t all succeed, said Don Oberhelman, the university’s athletic director. “That’s the dirty little secret of all of this: the number of kids who blow an opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, nine football players at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo announced their intention to transfer, he said. Six of them found a new university, he said, including University of Texas El Paso, San Diego State, Stanford, and Washington State — but three of them never received an offer from another school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said that his football coach begins recruiting a replacement the moment a player announces his intention to transfer. If that student doesn’t end up transferring, he may lose his spot on the football team and the entirety of his athletic scholarship, which can be up to $30,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s raw emotion involved in these kinds of decisions,” he said. “I don’t think that’s how we would operate, but I can see a lot of people say, ‘You broke up with us.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said he doesn’t know what happened to the three players from the football team who failed to transfer. “For me, it would boil down to: Did we promise that money to someone else? Did we find another transfer or a high school person to replace you? If we did, that would put your future financial aid with us in jeopardy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Small-town name, image and likeness deals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of top football and men’s basketball programs, many of California’s college athletes vie for smaller name, image and likeness deals, often with local businesses, lesser-known clothing or athletic brands, or anything else they can find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Berkeley softball player \u003ca href=\"https://georgiadogs.com/sports/softball/roster/randi-roelling/8621\">Randi Roelling\u003c/a> got $50 from one woman to give a pitching lesson to her daughter. In July 2023, chiropractor Lance Casazza started giving out free sessions to at least one Sacramento State football player in exchange for social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gopoly.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/annika-shah/9572\">Annika Shah\u003c/a>, a basketball player at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, got her first deal through a local restaurant, Jewel of India, which occasionally has a pop-up tent outside the college gym. “I just said, ‘Hey I can market you. Let’s think of a cool slogan to put out.’” Customers who ask to “swish with Shah” at the checkout counter get a discount on their meal, she said. Shah doesn’t get any money, she said, but she does get free food whenever she visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a cool relationship and connection that I made with this family and the owners of Jewel of India, where they just want to help me out and I want to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A woman of South Asian ethnicity wearing a green basketball outfit looks at the camera.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annika Shah, a senior business administration student and basketball player, at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walking around campus, friends jokingly refer to Shah as their own “Jewel of India” and she likes it. “It’s such a marketable slogan now, and it kind of identifies who I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Division 1 schools have their own websites where customers can buy gear with an athlete’s name on it, but last fall, no such platform existed at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, said Shah, so she created her own. She partnered with a company, Cloud 9 Sports, and launched her own apparel brand. It’s brought in about $2,000 in sales so far, but after the university and Cloud 9 Sports take a cut, Shah said she’s left with about $800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said she was never told to report any of her monetary or in-kind contributions. After CalMatters asked, Oberhelman, the athletic director, said the school is now requiring it. “We haven’t done a great job following up because we’re just not going to have student athletes that are getting even five-figure deals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said he only knew of eight deals, each for $2,000, all to the men’s football team from a group of private donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno State provided more data than Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, but it did not designate which deals came from its collective, known as Bulldog Bread. On \u003ca href=\"https://bulldogbread.com/\">its website\u003c/a> the collective says it has raised more than $690,000 in corporate donations for Fresno State. At the top tier, that includes money from former Fresno State quarterbacks David and Derek Carr, property developer Lance Kashian, and construction company Tarlton and Son, Inc. The collective recently launched a vodka brand in partnership with a distillery, where a portion of all proceeds support students’ name, image and likeness deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletes at UC Santa Barbara have reported $1,800 from their collective, Gold & Blue, but many other transactions reported by the school provide few details. According to the school’s data, an unnamed person or group made 15 deals with one or more members of the UC Santa Barbara men’s basketball team, totaling over $50,000 in “appearance fees” for an event last August associated with Heal the Ocean, a local environmental nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s executive director, Hillary Hauser, said the nonprofit made no such contribution and had no events in August. University spokesperson Kiki Reyes said it’s “possible” that a collective made those payments, but she refused to respond to CalMatters’ questions regarding Hauser’s statement the event never occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From August 2023 to August 2024, male basketball and baseball athletes at UC Santa Barbara reported roughly $500,000 in compensation for appearance fees related to various charities. Over the same time frame, all other athletes reported receiving free products, sales referrals, and cash payments totaling about $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UCLA, the CEO of the Men of Westwood collective, Ken Graiwer, is listed in university records as the “point of contact” for a $450,000 contribution, distributed over six transactions in the 2023–24 academic year, to the men’s basketball team for “public appearances.” For each of those transactions, the university’s data lists the Team First Foundation, a sports nonprofit, as the vendor. Neither UCLA nor the Team First Foundation responded to questions about who made the payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months before those transactions, the Men of Westwood posted a few photos on its Instagram account, showing UCLA men’s basketball players on the court with smiling children from the Team First Foundation programs. In the post, the Men of Westwood said it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/menofwestwood/p/CvY5lpZO-Ab/?img_index=2\">“NIL outreach.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California universities try to ‘stay competitive’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since becoming legal in 2021, the market for name, image and likeness compensation has exploded. Sports commentators, attorneys, and athletic directors say the landscape is a kind of “wild West” or “gold rush”: The money is pouring in, but the regulations are sparse or evolving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters has partial data from the 2024–25 academic year, but early indicators suggest that even more cash will soon flow to players. In September, a group of Sacramento State alumni, including some state lawmakers, said they \u003ca href=\"https://sactownsports.com/ncaa-sacramento-state-football-nil-funds-pac-12-mountain-west/\">raised over $35 million in one day\u003c/a> for name, image and likeness deals. Cal State Bakersfield and UC San Diego recently formed their own collectives too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, former Democratic Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley — one of the co-authors of the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206\">watershed name, image and likeness law\u003c/a> — proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb906?slug=CA_202320240SB906\">a new bill\u003c/a> to gather more data about spending by collectives and its impact on women’s sports. Newsom vetoed the bill, saying “Further changes to this dynamic should be done nationally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Basketball, women’s gymnastics and football lead name, image and likeness compensation\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-6HWwF\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/6HWwF/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"622\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, the NCAA tried to prevent colleges from directly assisting athletes with deals, but the association has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/4/22/media-center-division-i-board-of-directors-ratifies-transfer-nil-rule-changes.aspx\">eased those regulations recently\u003c/a>, blurring the lines between universities and the private collectives that support them. Many states have passed laws explicitly allowing universities to make deals directly with students. In October, Skinner and former Democratic Sen. Steven Bradford wrote \u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd09.senate.ca.gov/files/pdf/10-9-24%20Open%20Letter%20to%20Stakeholders%20about%20California%20NIL%20Law.pdf\">a letter (PDF)\u003c/a> to California universities, encouraging them to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I strongly urge California schools to make full use of (the watershed law) to stay competitive in college sports, especially now that other states are copying California and allowing their schools to make direct NIL deals with their student athletes,” said Skinner in a press release about the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spring, California District Judge Claudia Wilken is expected to approve a settlement between athletes and the NCAA that would further expand the ways universities can pay their players. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/7/26/media-center-settlement-documents-filed-in-college-athletics-class-action-lawsuits.aspx\">the proposed settlement\u003c/a>, a college could directly spend up to a combined $20.5 million per year on payments to all of its athletes. The spending limit would grow over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the settlement, athletic directors at many of California’s public institutions, such as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Cal State Bakersfield, said they don’t plan on giving any more money directly to students because their athletic programs lack the cash. “They’re already on full scholarship, so there aren’t any more existing dollars we can really offer that person,” said Oberhelman, with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Even if the university did have the money, he said he’s concerned about the legal implications of paying students directly. “Are they going to get a W-2 now? Are we paying workers comp? Nobody seems to have answered a lot of these questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy.jpg\" alt='An empty basketball court with a banner behind the hoop that reads \"Cal Poly\"' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mott Athletics Center at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DiTolla, at Berkeley, said the university will start paying its athletes once the settlement is finalized. UC San Diego joined Division 1 sports last year, and Athletic Director Earl Edwards said it is “seriously considering” paying its athletes too “if that’s what we need to do to be competitive.” UCLA refused to comment on the proposed settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USC Senior Associate Athletic Director Cody Worsham said the university will “invest the full permissible $20.5 million in 2025–26.” Stanford refused to answer any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no Division 1 school in California has shared details about how it plans to pay its athletes, experts, such as attorney Mit Winter, say the proposed settlement is unlikely to change the current disparities in college sports, especially within the four most lucrative and dominant athletic conferences, known as the Power Four. Stanford, USC, UC Berkeley and UCLA are all in the Power Four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For female rowers like \u003ca href=\"https://uclabruins.com/sports/womens-rowing/roster/anaiya-singer/15078\">Anaiya Singer\u003c/a>, a freshman at UCLA, the disparities among men’s and women’s sports — and between football, basketball and everyone else — are no surprise. “Those big sports do bring in the most revenue, and they’re the most watched,” she said, while acknowledging that other athletes, such as fellow rowers, “deserve much more than we’re getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singer said she’s been working on building her social media brand and has nearly 3,000 followers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@anaiya_singer\">TikTok\u003c/a> and just over 1,300 on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/anaiya_singer/\">Instagram\u003c/a>. A few “very small companies” reached out to her through TikTok about promoting beauty products, but none of the brands felt like a good fit, she said. She has yet to agree to any deals or receive any funding from a collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither have most of her peers. The UCLA women’s rowing team has reported less than $500 in name, image and likeness compensation since 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the proposed settlement, each school will each be able to independently determine how to distribute their funds, but Winter said universities will likely follow their peers. “If you’re in UCLA, Berkeley … you’re in the Power Four and you’re going to have to stay competitive in recruiting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the Power Four schools have all sort of landed on a similar way they’re going to pay that money out,” he added: 75% to the football team, 15% to the basketball team, around 5% to women’s basketball, and 5% to all other sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jaylon Tyson, a former basketball guard at UC Berkeley, gets $390,000 from a group of private donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Chiles, a UCLA gymnast and Olympic gold-medal winner, is paid $3,000 by Grammarly, an AI writing company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mekhi Mays, a former Cal State Long Beach sprinter, makes $390 from a local barbecue joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These payments — derived from data that public universities provided to CalMatters — were part of “name, image and likeness deals” requiring students to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=271783325357651&id=100075779560692&_rdr\">favorable posts\u003c/a> on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such sponsorship deals were unheard of just four years ago. In 2021, California enacted a law allowing athletes to make these kinds of brand deals. It was the first state to pass such a law, prompting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/10/name-image-likeness/\">similar changes\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>CalMatters reached out to every public and private university in the state with Division 1 teams, where the potential for profit is typically highest, and requested data that shows how much money each of its student athletes have made since 2021. State law requires all student athletes to report to their school any compensation they receive from their name, image and likeness, and public universities are required to disclose certain kinds of data upon request. Private universities, such as Stanford University and the University of Southern California, are not required to disclose any data about their students’ earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the public Division 1 universities responded to CalMatters’ inquiry, though they did not all provide the same degree of transparency. San Jose State and Cal State Northridge said they had no records of any deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no consequence for students who fail to report what are known as NIL deals, so the data from public institutions may be incomplete. Still, certain trends emerge:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>College athletes at the state’s public universities received millions of dollars from collectives or booster clubs. At four University of California schools, around 70% or more of all compensation came from these collectives, according to university records. That’s just below national trends, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/The_Annual_Opendorse_Report_-Version-2.pdf#page=3\">a report (PDF)\u003c/a> by Opendorse, a tech company that tracks students’ deals.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Male basketball players earned the most. While football is more popular and lucrative, nationally, many public Division 1 schools in California lack a football team. The football data may also be incomplete. For instance, all football players at UC Berkeley reported making a total of just over $113,000 since 2021 — less than what all San Diego State players made — even though Berkeley is in a more prominent conference.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For high-profile football or basketball players in particular, it’s becoming more common for students to transfer multiple times, often in search of better name, image and likeness deals. Some California institutions, such as UC Davis and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, have seen top athletes transfer colleges or threaten to transfer in order to attain better compensation elsewhere.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Except for a few star players, such as Chiles, most female college athletes made very little, according to the data provided to CalMatters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Collectively, athletes at UCLA and UC Berkeley earned more than double what those attending other UC and California State University campuses made. Some donors, such as those supporting Sacramento State and UC San Diego, have rapidly raised money to compete, while at other schools, athletic directors say they’ll never be able to guarantee such high-dollar deals.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Schools often removed any information that could identify an individual student. While UCLA generally did not provide the individual names of its athletes, the school was more transparent than most and shared the date of each transaction, the name of the brand or company, the amount of money it gave, and the sport. In February, a UCLA gymnast reported receiving $250,000 from the beverage company Bubbl’r. Since then, Chiles has \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jordanchiles/reel/C9TAj5XRfwa/\">promoted\u003c/a> that brand, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@jordanchiles/video/7420501352352058654\">repeatedly\u003c/a>. In May, a UCLA gymnast reported receiving $210,000 from the cosmetic brand Milani for “social media” — just a few months before Chiles posted a video on Instagram, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jordanchiles/reel/C9gUkFYxOZ7/?hl=en\">promoting its makeup\u003c/a>. One or more members of the UCLA gymnastics team have also reported deals with the food company Danone for $300,000 and with the health care company Sanofi for $285,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno State shared less information. In the 2021–22 academic year, the Fresno State women’s basketball team raked in over $1.1 million from multiple name, image and likeness deals, but the university did not disclose which players were involved or how many were paid. After influencers and former basketball players \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/haleycavinder/?hl=en\">Haley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hanna.cavinder/?hl=en\">Hanna Cavinder\u003c/a> transferred to the University of Miami in April 2022, the number and dollar amount of deals for the Fresno team diminished. In the 2023–24 academic year, the team made just over $1,000 from 10 different deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two women college basketball players from different teams vie for the ball during a game with other players and full bleachers around and behind them.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/122023-Fresno-State-Basketball-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno State Bulldogs forward Mia Jacobs #23 attempts to block the shot of an Arizona State Sun Devils forward during a game in Phoenix on Dec. 20, 2023. During their most lucrative year to date, Fresno women on the team collected over $1.1 million in NIL deals. \u003ccite>(Christopher Hook/Icon Sportswire via AP Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Money from boosters or collectives is the hardest to trace. In May, for example, a group of UCLA donors gave an undisclosed football player $450,000 for “social media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While private universities are not required to disclose students’ earnings, market estimates from \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/nil/rankings/player/nil-valuations/\">On3\u003c/a>, a media and technology company focused on college sports, say the highest-earning Stanford University athlete, basketball player \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/db/maxime-raynaud-152092/\">Maxime Raynaud\u003c/a>, could collect $1.5 million in the next 12 months. The top USC athlete, football player \u003ca href=\"https://www.on3.com/db/jayden-maiava-58668/\">Jayden Maiava\u003c/a>, could make $603,000 in the next year, according to the same estimates. These numbers are based on an algorithm that uses aggregate deals from college athletes across the country. Nationwide, the Opendorse report estimates that college athletes will earn $1.65 billion in the 2024–25 academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, college athletes may make even more. A high-profile \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/House-v.-NCAA-Original-Complaint.pdf\">class-action lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> will likely allow schools to pay athletes directly, while still classifying them as students, not employees. If the proposed settlement agreement goes into effect, students could see payouts as early as this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a school pays a student directly, the money should be divided roughly proportional to the number of male and female athletes, the Biden administration said in a U.S. Department of Education \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ocr-factsheet-benefits-student-athletes.pdf\">fact sheet (PDF)\u003c/a> issued in January. The page \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/media/document/ocr-factsheet-benefits-student-athletes\">no longer exists\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last few months, attorneys have rescinded federal labor petitions asking that USC and Dartmouth College student athletes be reclassified as employees, but new cases are likely on the horizon, said Mit Winter, an attorney who specializes in name, image and likeness law: “I do think at some point — two years, five years, whatever it is — at least some college athletes will be employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Times Square billboard reads: NIL has begun\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, college sports have been a big business, though most of the money flowed to universities, not students. Nationally, Division 1 universities reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/10/14/finances-of-intercollegiate-athletics-division-i-dashboard.aspx\">$17.5 billion in athletic revenue\u003c/a> in 2022, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). That’s more than the gross domestic product of \u003ca href=\"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD\">83 countries\u003c/a>. For schools with top-performing football programs, such as UCLA and Berkeley, \u003ca href=\"https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/research/Finances/2023RES_DI-RevExpReport_FINAL.pdf\">broadcast deals (PDF)\u003c/a> and other kinds of marketing represent over a third of total revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before California’s law went into effect, college athletes weren’t allowed to profit off their sport, though they frequently received scholarships equal to the cost of college tuition. On July 1, 2021 the new law took effect, and Haley and Hanna Cavinder were the first to benefit, \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/ncaa-name-image-likeness-nil-student-athletes/10849337/\">signing deals \u003c/a>with Boost Mobile, a cell phone company, and Sixstar, a nutrition company, just after the stroke of midnight. A\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CavinderHanna/status/1410636794908057604\"> Times Square billboard\u003c/a> proclaimed they were the first such deals in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Student athletes have reported at least $11.9 million in name, image and likeness compensation\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-1xezO\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1xezO/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"517\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, other California college athletes have signed advertising deals with clothing brands such as Crocs, Heelys and Aeropostale and food brands such as Liquid I.V. and Jack in the Box. FTX, the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, signed contracts with \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DominiqueOnu/status/1468324467533234176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1468324467533234176%7Ctwgr%5Ea9a79c13c1bc7d717d0e88e987e66747e6b4989d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fcollege%2Fucla%2Fnews%2Ftracking-every-ucla-student-athlete-name-image-likeness-nil-deal\">at least six players\u003c/a> on the UCLA women’s basketball team in 2021. In 2022, the Biden campaign gave a UCLA gymnast $7,000, but public records did not disclose the purpose of the transaction. No other politicians appeared in any university’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Visit Fresno County, a nonprofit that promotes tourism, paid former Fresno State football players \u003ca href=\"https://gobulldogs.com/sports/football/roster/dean-clark/14671\">Dean Clark\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://gobulldogs.com/sports/football/roster/kosi-agina/14651\">Kosi Agina\u003c/a> just under $10,000 to post Instagram videos about \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kosiaagina/reel/C5hEuyxv3uh/\">a local farmer’s market\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Hjh9oSDVG/\">a minor league baseball team\u003c/a>, according to President and CEO Lisa Oliveira. She said the posts were so successful that she asked Agina to make another video, promoting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kosiaagina/reel/C51uJhfPs67/\">hiking trail in the Sierra National Forest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But much of the money for students’ name, image and likeness doesn’t come from brands at all — it’s from private donors. Philanthropist and entertainment lawyer Mark Kalmansohn has given nearly $150,000 in 12 different transactions to athletes on UCLA’s volleyball, softball and women’s basketball teams since 2022, according to the data, which runs through May of last year. In an interview with CalMatters, Kalmansohn said he’s given more than $175,000 since May. “Women’s sports were almost always treated in a second-hand nature and given inferior resources,” he said, adding that his philanthropy is about “women’s rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for money, he asks each recipient to issue a free license of their name, image and likeness to a nonprofit organization that’s relevant to the athlete’s sport. But he said that’s not the norm. “In men’s football and men’s basketball, it’s pretty obvious that money is not for an ‘appearance.’” Instead, he explained that it’s a way to support the player and keep the team competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most donors give money to specific athletes through a collective, where the donors’ identities are largely hidden. At UCLA, public data through the 2023–24 academic year shows that a collective known as the Men of Westwood channeled nearly $2 million in private donations to the football, basketball and baseball teams. At Berkeley, collectives gave over $1.3 million to athletes since the 2022–23 academic year — the vast majority of which went to the men’s basketball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Supporting ‘elite talent’ at UC and Cal State\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, NCAA rules made it difficult for college athletes to transfer schools, but in 2021, right around the time that California started to allow name, image and likeness deals, the NCAA eased \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2021/4/15/di-council-adopts-new-transfer-legislation.aspx\">those rules\u003c/a>. The number of students who transfer suddenly \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20220425163915/https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/4/25/transfer-portal-data-division-i-student-athlete-transfer-trends.aspx\">jumped in 2021\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/4/25/transfer-portal-data-division-i-student-athlete-transfer-trends.aspx\">has ticked up each year since\u003c/a>, according to NCAA data. In practice, the new rules means that a well-endowed collective can lure athletes who want to make more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, over 11% of all Division 1 football players have tried to transfer colleges, an increase from the previous year, said Matt Kraemer, whose organization, \u003ca href=\"https://theportalreport.com/about/#\">The Portal Report\u003c/a>, uses social media posts and tips from insiders to gauge college athletes’ transfer activity. Quarterbacks are even more likely to try to transfer, Kraemer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For institutions like UC Davis, the threat of losing a top athlete can be costly. Late in the 2023–24 academic year, donors from other universities promised top athletes lucrative deals if they agreed to transfer, so UC Davis formed a collective, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aggieedge.com/\">Aggie Edge\u003c/a>, to make counter-offers, said Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca. “It’s a means to retain elite talent here at Davis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLuca said the collective gave men’s basketball guard \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/ty-johnson/18342\">TY Johnson\u003c/a> $50,000 and UC Davis running back \u003ca href=\"https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/football/roster/lan-larison/18128\">Lan Larison\u003c/a> $25,000. Those transactions were for “social media, appearances, autographs,” according to the university’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A male basketball player dribbles toward a player from the opposing team during a game.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-800x560.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012623-UC-Davis-Ty-Johnson-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1076.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Davis Aggies guard TY Johnson dribbles up the court during a game against Cal State Bakersfield in Bakersfield on Jan. 26, 2023. The UC Davis athletic director said a collective gave Johnson $50,000 for what university records describe as ‘social media, appearances, autographs.’ \u003ccite>(David Dennis/Icon Sportswire via AP Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, all other UC Davis athletes — more than 700 students over 25 sports — have reported just under $19,000 in deals since 2021. A few other athletes received products, such as a free cryotherapy session or a commission based on sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, former UC Berkeley quarterback Fernando Mendoza transferred to Indiana University, where he later signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hoosiersconnect/p/DFNwwqQuWAP/\">a name, image and likeness deal\u003c/a> with a collective for an undisclosed amount. UC Berkeley then recruited former Ohio State quarterback Devin Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/college-football/ohio-state-quarterback-transfers-acc-program-after-national-title\">the day after he won a national championship.\u003c/a> It’s not clear if the Berkeley collective offered Brown a deal, since the university’s data doesn’t name Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin DiTolla, Berkeley’s associate athletic director, said the university is “not affiliated with the collective” and that the university provides “equal support to all student athletes.” “We recognize that there is a difference in NIL support,” he said, “But it isn’t under our scope or umbrella.” The Berkeley collective, California Legends, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, some football players sought more money through a name, image and likeness deal by transferring to another school, but they didn’t all succeed, said Don Oberhelman, the university’s athletic director. “That’s the dirty little secret of all of this: the number of kids who blow an opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, nine football players at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo announced their intention to transfer, he said. Six of them found a new university, he said, including University of Texas El Paso, San Diego State, Stanford, and Washington State — but three of them never received an offer from another school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said that his football coach begins recruiting a replacement the moment a player announces his intention to transfer. If that student doesn’t end up transferring, he may lose his spot on the football team and the entirety of his athletic scholarship, which can be up to $30,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s raw emotion involved in these kinds of decisions,” he said. “I don’t think that’s how we would operate, but I can see a lot of people say, ‘You broke up with us.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said he doesn’t know what happened to the three players from the football team who failed to transfer. “For me, it would boil down to: Did we promise that money to someone else? Did we find another transfer or a high school person to replace you? If we did, that would put your future financial aid with us in jeopardy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Small-town name, image and likeness deals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of top football and men’s basketball programs, many of California’s college athletes vie for smaller name, image and likeness deals, often with local businesses, lesser-known clothing or athletic brands, or anything else they can find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Berkeley softball player \u003ca href=\"https://georgiadogs.com/sports/softball/roster/randi-roelling/8621\">Randi Roelling\u003c/a> got $50 from one woman to give a pitching lesson to her daughter. In July 2023, chiropractor Lance Casazza started giving out free sessions to at least one Sacramento State football player in exchange for social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gopoly.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/annika-shah/9572\">Annika Shah\u003c/a>, a basketball player at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, got her first deal through a local restaurant, Jewel of India, which occasionally has a pop-up tent outside the college gym. “I just said, ‘Hey I can market you. Let’s think of a cool slogan to put out.’” Customers who ask to “swish with Shah” at the checkout counter get a discount on their meal, she said. Shah doesn’t get any money, she said, but she does get free food whenever she visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a cool relationship and connection that I made with this family and the owners of Jewel of India, where they just want to help me out and I want to help them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A woman of South Asian ethnicity wearing a green basketball outfit looks at the camera.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_07-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annika Shah, a senior business administration student and basketball player, at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walking around campus, friends jokingly refer to Shah as their own “Jewel of India” and she likes it. “It’s such a marketable slogan now, and it kind of identifies who I am.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Division 1 schools have their own websites where customers can buy gear with an athlete’s name on it, but last fall, no such platform existed at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, said Shah, so she created her own. She partnered with a company, Cloud 9 Sports, and launched her own apparel brand. It’s brought in about $2,000 in sales so far, but after the university and Cloud 9 Sports take a cut, Shah said she’s left with about $800.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said she was never told to report any of her monetary or in-kind contributions. After CalMatters asked, Oberhelman, the athletic director, said the school is now requiring it. “We haven’t done a great job following up because we’re just not going to have student athletes that are getting even five-figure deals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oberhelman said he only knew of eight deals, each for $2,000, all to the men’s football team from a group of private donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno State provided more data than Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, but it did not designate which deals came from its collective, known as Bulldog Bread. On \u003ca href=\"https://bulldogbread.com/\">its website\u003c/a> the collective says it has raised more than $690,000 in corporate donations for Fresno State. At the top tier, that includes money from former Fresno State quarterbacks David and Derek Carr, property developer Lance Kashian, and construction company Tarlton and Son, Inc. The collective recently launched a vodka brand in partnership with a distillery, where a portion of all proceeds support students’ name, image and likeness deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Athletes at UC Santa Barbara have reported $1,800 from their collective, Gold & Blue, but many other transactions reported by the school provide few details. According to the school’s data, an unnamed person or group made 15 deals with one or more members of the UC Santa Barbara men’s basketball team, totaling over $50,000 in “appearance fees” for an event last August associated with Heal the Ocean, a local environmental nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s executive director, Hillary Hauser, said the nonprofit made no such contribution and had no events in August. University spokesperson Kiki Reyes said it’s “possible” that a collective made those payments, but she refused to respond to CalMatters’ questions regarding Hauser’s statement the event never occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From August 2023 to August 2024, male basketball and baseball athletes at UC Santa Barbara reported roughly $500,000 in compensation for appearance fees related to various charities. Over the same time frame, all other athletes reported receiving free products, sales referrals, and cash payments totaling about $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UCLA, the CEO of the Men of Westwood collective, Ken Graiwer, is listed in university records as the “point of contact” for a $450,000 contribution, distributed over six transactions in the 2023–24 academic year, to the men’s basketball team for “public appearances.” For each of those transactions, the university’s data lists the Team First Foundation, a sports nonprofit, as the vendor. Neither UCLA nor the Team First Foundation responded to questions about who made the payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months before those transactions, the Men of Westwood posted a few photos on its Instagram account, showing UCLA men’s basketball players on the court with smiling children from the Team First Foundation programs. In the post, the Men of Westwood said it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/menofwestwood/p/CvY5lpZO-Ab/?img_index=2\">“NIL outreach.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California universities try to ‘stay competitive’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since becoming legal in 2021, the market for name, image and likeness compensation has exploded. Sports commentators, attorneys, and athletic directors say the landscape is a kind of “wild West” or “gold rush”: The money is pouring in, but the regulations are sparse or evolving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters has partial data from the 2024–25 academic year, but early indicators suggest that even more cash will soon flow to players. In September, a group of Sacramento State alumni, including some state lawmakers, said they \u003ca href=\"https://sactownsports.com/ncaa-sacramento-state-football-nil-funds-pac-12-mountain-west/\">raised over $35 million in one day\u003c/a> for name, image and likeness deals. Cal State Bakersfield and UC San Diego recently formed their own collectives too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, former Democratic Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley — one of the co-authors of the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB206\">watershed name, image and likeness law\u003c/a> — proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb906?slug=CA_202320240SB906\">a new bill\u003c/a> to gather more data about spending by collectives and its impact on women’s sports. Newsom vetoed the bill, saying “Further changes to this dynamic should be done nationally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Basketball, women’s gymnastics and football lead name, image and likeness compensation\" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-6HWwF\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/6HWwF/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"622\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, the NCAA tried to prevent colleges from directly assisting athletes with deals, but the association has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/4/22/media-center-division-i-board-of-directors-ratifies-transfer-nil-rule-changes.aspx\">eased those regulations recently\u003c/a>, blurring the lines between universities and the private collectives that support them. Many states have passed laws explicitly allowing universities to make deals directly with students. In October, Skinner and former Democratic Sen. Steven Bradford wrote \u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd09.senate.ca.gov/files/pdf/10-9-24%20Open%20Letter%20to%20Stakeholders%20about%20California%20NIL%20Law.pdf\">a letter (PDF)\u003c/a> to California universities, encouraging them to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I strongly urge California schools to make full use of (the watershed law) to stay competitive in college sports, especially now that other states are copying California and allowing their schools to make direct NIL deals with their student athletes,” said Skinner in a press release about the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spring, California District Judge Claudia Wilken is expected to approve a settlement between athletes and the NCAA that would further expand the ways universities can pay their players. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/7/26/media-center-settlement-documents-filed-in-college-athletics-class-action-lawsuits.aspx\">the proposed settlement\u003c/a>, a college could directly spend up to a combined $20.5 million per year on payments to all of its athletes. The spending limit would grow over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the settlement, athletic directors at many of California’s public institutions, such as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Cal State Bakersfield, said they don’t plan on giving any more money directly to students because their athletic programs lack the cash. “They’re already on full scholarship, so there aren’t any more existing dollars we can really offer that person,” said Oberhelman, with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Even if the university did have the money, he said he’s concerned about the legal implications of paying students directly. “Are they going to get a W-2 now? Are we paying workers comp? Nobody seems to have answered a lot of these questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy.jpg\" alt='An empty basketball court with a banner behind the hoop that reads \"Cal Poly\"' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020525_Annikah-Shah_JLB_CM_13-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mott Athletics Center at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo on Feb. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Julie Leopo-Bermudez for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>DiTolla, at Berkeley, said the university will start paying its athletes once the settlement is finalized. UC San Diego joined Division 1 sports last year, and Athletic Director Earl Edwards said it is “seriously considering” paying its athletes too “if that’s what we need to do to be competitive.” UCLA refused to comment on the proposed settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USC Senior Associate Athletic Director Cody Worsham said the university will “invest the full permissible $20.5 million in 2025–26.” Stanford refused to answer any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no Division 1 school in California has shared details about how it plans to pay its athletes, experts, such as attorney Mit Winter, say the proposed settlement is unlikely to change the current disparities in college sports, especially within the four most lucrative and dominant athletic conferences, known as the Power Four. Stanford, USC, UC Berkeley and UCLA are all in the Power Four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For female rowers like \u003ca href=\"https://uclabruins.com/sports/womens-rowing/roster/anaiya-singer/15078\">Anaiya Singer\u003c/a>, a freshman at UCLA, the disparities among men’s and women’s sports — and between football, basketball and everyone else — are no surprise. “Those big sports do bring in the most revenue, and they’re the most watched,” she said, while acknowledging that other athletes, such as fellow rowers, “deserve much more than we’re getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singer said she’s been working on building her social media brand and has nearly 3,000 followers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@anaiya_singer\">TikTok\u003c/a> and just over 1,300 on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/anaiya_singer/\">Instagram\u003c/a>. A few “very small companies” reached out to her through TikTok about promoting beauty products, but none of the brands felt like a good fit, she said. She has yet to agree to any deals or receive any funding from a collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither have most of her peers. The UCLA women’s rowing team has reported less than $500 in name, image and likeness compensation since 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the proposed settlement, each school will each be able to independently determine how to distribute their funds, but Winter said universities will likely follow their peers. “If you’re in UCLA, Berkeley … you’re in the Power Four and you’re going to have to stay competitive in recruiting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the Power Four schools have all sort of landed on a similar way they’re going to pay that money out,” he added: 75% to the football team, 15% to the basketball team, around 5% to women’s basketball, and 5% to all other sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> Giants will continue playing Minor League Baseball in the South Bay city for a quarter century longer, under a newly hammered out lease extension unanimously approved by the City Council on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said the restructuring of a deal between the city and the Single-A affiliate of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-giants\">San Francisco Giants\u003c/a> would pave the way for significant upgrades to 83-year-old Excite Ballpark — formerly known as San José Municipal Stadium — and will ensure a lower-cost entertainment option is preserved for residents and visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Giants provide an incredible resource and opportunity for families to come to the area,” Nanci Klein, the city’s economic development director, said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets to most games start at $8 per person, though the team runs many discount promotions and distributes free tickets to some games at grocers and other community centers. The stadium is also the home field of the San José State University Spartans baseball team, which rents use of the park from the Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While professional baseball has been played in some form in the stadium since it opened in 1942, the team known as the San José Giants has played at the stadium since 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2021, the team has been owned by Diamond Baseball Holdings, which owns more than 40 minor-league teams. DBH is, in turn, owned by Menlo Park-based private equity firm Silver Lake, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.silverlake.com/purpose/\">has more than $100 billion in assets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a change enacted by Major League Baseball in 2021 to increase standards for player development and safety, the park is required to undergo a major renovation, including new clubhouses, batting cages, renovated dugouts and a regraded field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/BoxingGetty-1020x701.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The risk was that if we couldn’t ensure that the improvements would happen, that Major League Baseball would insist the San José Giants play elsewhere. It was with that understanding and urgency that we came together and were able to work out a plan that met all three parties’ needs,” Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a 25-year lease through 2050, in which the team will put up about $20 million for the required upgrades, which team officials said they need to complete by Opening Day of the 2026 season, a little more than a year away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city, which is currently working to close a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026772/san-jose-faces-60-million-budget-shortfall-as-negotiations-begin\">$60 million budget gap\u003c/a> for the current year, will reimburse DBH for about $5 million of that cost. Klein said the city will spread the payments out over seven years beginning in fiscal year 2027–28, when the city’s budget picture is expected to be a bit rosier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, to keep the Giants here, invest in our stadium, it makes financially, from the city point of view as a real estate holder, a lot of sense,” Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To further help “level out the deal” for DBH, Klein told the council at its Tuesday meeting that the city will forgo all revenue it currently collects from the naming rights contracts for the stadium and video board rentals or advertisements, which is used to fund maintenance and upkeep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, DBH will keep that money, estimated at about $3 million over the 25 years of the lease. The team will also pay an increased rent of $40,000 annually, double its current $20,000, and that money will be put into a shared account the team can draw on to pay for maintenance needs, with city approval, city staff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, the city pledged to rent the rights to build a cell phone tower on the property to a wireless carrier, and to turn that money over to DBH, as well. Under a standard 15-year term, city staff said the telecommunications lease could generate about $675,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Taylor, the president of the San José Giants, said the team and its ownership group are making the largest single investment in the history of the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This agreement solidifies the ballpark for decades as a memory-making place for really what makes San José what it is, and it’s the people of this city,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the upgrades will benefit the team, it will also mean the facilities are in better shape for college and high school teams that use it, as well as for roughly 100 or more non-baseball events ranging from Chamber of Commerce barbeques to blood drives and fundraisers that are hosted there annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the reality is that this is a community asset, and having participation from the city is recognition of that,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan, during the council meeting on Tuesday, said the San José Giants represent the best the city has to offer, and he’s happy to see the deal come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is accessible, family-friendly fun. People are just having a good time, you see people of all backgrounds, all walks of life, and everybody is just having a good time together,” he said. “It’s a great experience that’s an important part of our history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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