window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"news_11989363": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11989363",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11989363",
"found": true
},
"title": "DSC04388",
"publishDate": 1717715453,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 11989311,
"modified": 1718053648,
"caption": "Swellcycle founder Patricio Guerrero works on a surfboard in his garage in Santa Cruz in October 2023. The 3D-printed boards are mostly hollow and made from recycled PETG plastic. ",
"credit": "Erin Malsbury/KAZU",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04388-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04388-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04388-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04388-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"2048x2048": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04388-2048x1365.jpg",
"width": 2048,
"height": 1365,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04388-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04388-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04388-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04388-scaled.jpg",
"width": 2560,
"height": 1707
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11988906": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11988906",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988906",
"found": true
},
"title": "Michael Kelly",
"publishDate": 1717526319,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 11988884,
"modified": 1717532348,
"caption": "Oakland Athletics' Michael Kelly during a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Oakland on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, Major League Baseball banned Kelly for one year after finding the player placed unrelated bets with a legal sportsbook. ",
"credit": "Jeff Chiu/The Associated Press",
"altTag": "A man in a baseball uniform with \"Athletics\" across his chest throws a baseball.",
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24156528051123-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24156528051123-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24156528051123-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24156528051123-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"2048x2048": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24156528051123-2048x1365.jpg",
"width": 2048,
"height": 1365,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24156528051123-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24156528051123-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24156528051123-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/AP24156528051123-scaled.jpg",
"width": 2560,
"height": 1707
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11988892": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11988892",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988892",
"found": true
},
"title": "Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED",
"publishDate": 1717524170,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1717526573,
"caption": "Kelsie Whitmore throws a pitch during a game in Kalispell, Montana, on May 23, 2024.",
"credit": "Courtesy of EJ Omaku",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11988458": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11988458",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988458",
"found": true
},
"title": "240528-BallersTranspo-45-BL_qut",
"publishDate": 1717186491,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1717449782,
"caption": "Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28 to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day.",
"credit": "Beth LaBerge/KQED",
"altTag": "A group of cyclists ride bicycles in the foreground with a large, graphic yellow painting on a building appears in the background, with a hand reaching down and grasping a building with the word 'Oakland' emblazoned over it.",
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-45-BL_qut-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-45-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-45-BL_qut-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-45-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-45-BL_qut-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-45-BL_qut-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-45-BL_qut.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11987572": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11987572",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11987572",
"found": true
},
"title": "Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Oakland Athletics",
"publishDate": 1716503784,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 11987568,
"modified": 1724007919,
"caption": "A view of the field before an Oakland Athletics MLB game at the Coliseum in Oakland on May 17, 2023.",
"credit": "Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images",
"altTag": "A wide shot of a baseball field with very green grass and a blue sky.",
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1491550733-800x526.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 526,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1491550733-1020x670.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 670,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1491550733-160x105.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 105,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1491550733-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1491550733-1024x576.jpg",
"width": 1024,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1491550733.jpg",
"width": 1024,
"height": 673
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11986343": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11986343",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11986343",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11986294,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1425517385-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1425517385-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1425517385-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1425517385-scaled.jpg",
"width": 2560,
"height": 1707
},
"2048x2048": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1425517385-2048x1365.jpg",
"width": 2048,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1365
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1425517385-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1425517385-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1425517385-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1425517385-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
}
},
"publishDate": 1715799179,
"modified": 1715799300,
"caption": "General view of seating leftover from the Raiders outside the RingCentral Coliseum during a regular season game between the Chicago White Sox and Oakland Athletics on July 2, 2023, at RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland.",
"description": null,
"title": "GettyImages-1425517385",
"credit": "Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": "Leftover seating in a parking lot with a rail system in the background.",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11985803": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11985803",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11985803",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11985802,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24131131133334-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24131131133334-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24131131133334-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24131131133334-scaled.jpg",
"width": 2560,
"height": 1707
},
"2048x2048": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24131131133334-2048x1365.jpg",
"width": 2048,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1365
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24131131133334-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24131131133334-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24131131133334-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24131131133334-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
}
},
"publishDate": 1715389528,
"modified": 1715389590,
"caption": "A Pac-12 logo is shown on the floor of Haas Pavilion as California forward Fardaws Aimaq (00) looks to pass while being defended by UCLA guard Brandon Williams during an NCAA college basketball game in Berkeley, Feb. 10, 2024. The University of California Board of Regents is expected to accept a recommendation that UCLA pay University of California at Berkeley $10 million a year for 6 years as a result of the Bruins’ upcoming move to the Big Ten and the demise of the Pac-12. ",
"description": null,
"title": "Fardaws AimaqBrandon Williams",
"credit": "Jeff Chiu/AP Photo",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": null,
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11985149": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11985149",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11985149",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11985145,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1715038067810-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1715038067810-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1715038067810-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1715038067810-scaled.jpg",
"width": 2560,
"height": 1716
},
"2048x2048": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1715038067810-2048x1373.jpg",
"width": 2048,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1373
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1715038067810-1020x684.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 684
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1715038067810-1536x1029.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1029
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1715038067810-1920x1287.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1287
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1715038067810-800x536.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 536
}
},
"publishDate": 1715039805,
"modified": 1715040801,
"caption": "The San Jose Earthquakes will face off the Oakland Roots as part of the U.S. Open Cup — only the second time these two Bay Area teams play against each other. Earthquakes midfielder Hernán López (left) debuted for the South Bay team on May 4, 2024, in a regular league game against Los Angeles FC, where the Quakes notched their biggest win of the season so far. Roots midfielder and Berkeley local Ali Elmasnaouy (right) stood out in the team's April 16, 2024, game versus San Francisco's El Farolito, scoring the game-winning goal in overtime.",
"description": null,
"title": "1715038067810",
"credit": "Credits for the photos, left and right: John Todd/ISI Photos/Getty Images // Doug Zimmerman/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images for USS",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": "Split images of two men in soccer uniforms running on the field. The man on the left is kicking a soccer ball.",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11983111": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11983111",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11983111",
"found": true
},
"parent": 0,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-OAKLAND-ROOTS-KQED-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-OAKLAND-ROOTS-KQED-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-OAKLAND-ROOTS-KQED-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-OAKLAND-ROOTS-KQED.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-OAKLAND-ROOTS-KQED-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-OAKLAND-ROOTS-KQED-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-OAKLAND-ROOTS-KQED-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240415-OAKLAND-ROOTS-KQED-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
}
},
"publishDate": 1713289800,
"modified": 1713295573,
"caption": "Despite playing in different leagues, San Francisco's El Farolito soccer team (in yellow and blue kits) will face off against the Oakland Roots on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, thanks to U.S. Open Cup rules. The Roots beat El Farolito at last year's Open Cup second-round match on April 4, 2023, pictured above, and El Farolito head coach Santiago López says his players are looking forward to a rematch.",
"description": null,
"title": "240415-OAKLAND ROOTS-KQED",
"credit": "Courtesy of Oakland Roots SC",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": "Three men wearing soccer equipment and kits play on a field with a goalie in the background.",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11982108": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11982108",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11982108",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11982105,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/070907-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-REUTERS-CM-01-copy-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/070907-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-REUTERS-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/070907-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-REUTERS-CM-01-copy-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/070907-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-REUTERS-CM-01-copy.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/070907-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-REUTERS-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/070907-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-REUTERS-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/070907-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-REUTERS-CM-01-copy-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/070907-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-REUTERS-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
}
},
"publishDate": 1712427054,
"modified": 1712427149,
"caption": "Then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom warms up before the All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game, held ahead of the All-Star Game in San Francisco, on July 8, 2007. ",
"description": null,
"title": "070907-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-REUTERS-CM-01 copy",
"credit": "Robert Galbraith/Reuters via CalMatters",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": "A middle aged man pitches a baseball in a full ballpark and wearting a \"nationals\" outfit.",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11952917": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11952917",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11952917",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11952845,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
}
},
"publishDate": 1686762748,
"modified": 1686779592,
"caption": "Fans of the Oakland A's gather during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team on June 13, 2023.",
"description": null,
"title": "20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-04-AC-KQED",
"credit": "Aryk Copley/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": "A crowd of people wearing Oakland A's clothing stand together in a parking lot. The person in the middle wears a plastic fish mask and holds a sign reading \"A's Fish(er) rots from the head down!\"",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11981235": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11981235",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11981235",
"found": true
},
"title": "Cleveland Guardians v Oakland Athletics",
"publishDate": 1711737205,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 11981232,
"modified": 1716411009,
"caption": "A general view of the pitch thrown by Alex Wood #57 of the Oakland Athletics during their game against the Cleveland Guardians at Oakland Coliseum on March 28, 2024.",
"credit": "Ezra Shaw/Getty Images",
"altTag": "A view of the Coliseum baseball diamond from the bleachers.",
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2121395164-800x534.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 534,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2121395164-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2121395164-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2121395164-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2121395164-1024x576.jpg",
"width": 1024,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2121395164.jpg",
"width": 1024,
"height": 683
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false,
"liveAudioPlayStartedAt": 0,
"liveAudioPlayContext": ""
},
"authorsReducer": {
"byline_news_11989311": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11989311",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11989311",
"name": "\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/people/erin-malsbury\">Erin Malsbury\u003c/a>, KAZU",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11988916": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11988916",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11988916",
"name": "Ronald Blum, The Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11986294": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11986294",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11986294",
"name": "Janie McCauley, The Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11985802": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11985802",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11985802",
"name": "Joe Reedy\u003cbr>Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11982105": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11982105",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11982105",
"name": "\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/alexei-koseff/\">Alexei Koseff\u003c/a>",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11981876": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11981876",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11981876",
"name": "Josh Dubow\u003cbr>Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_11981232": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_11981232",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_11981232",
"name": "Eric He\u003cbr>Associated Press",
"isLoading": false
},
"aproehl": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11296",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11296",
"found": true
},
"name": "Ariana Proehl",
"firstName": "Ariana",
"lastName": "Proehl",
"slug": "aproehl",
"email": "aproehl@KQED.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Culture Reporter, KQED",
"bio": "Ariana Proehl is a Culture Reporter and Host.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c96b24567eb5bb3a4f8bb295ed53e232?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "ArianaProehl",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": []
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": []
},
{
"site": "education",
"roles": []
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": []
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Ariana Proehl | KQED",
"description": "Culture Reporter, KQED",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c96b24567eb5bb3a4f8bb295ed53e232?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c96b24567eb5bb3a4f8bb295ed53e232?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/aproehl"
},
"ccabreralomeli": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11708",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11708",
"found": true
},
"name": "Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí",
"firstName": "Carlos",
"lastName": "Cabrera-Lomelí",
"slug": "ccabreralomeli",
"email": "ccabreralomeli@KQED.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Community Reporter",
"bio": "Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí is a community reporter with KQED's digital engagement team. He also reports and co-produces for KQED's bilingual news hub KQED en Español. He grew up in San Francisco's Mission District and has previously worked with Univision, 48 Hills and REFORMA in Mexico City.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c309be9665e484f887b818c89e273ecc673004f426f36b24d00a4d813a2e0518?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "@LomeliCabrera",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "about",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "perspectives",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "elections",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí | KQED",
"description": "Community Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c309be9665e484f887b818c89e273ecc673004f426f36b24d00a4d813a2e0518?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c309be9665e484f887b818c89e273ecc673004f426f36b24d00a4d813a2e0518?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/ccabreralomeli"
},
"afinney": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11772",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11772",
"found": true
},
"name": "Annelise Finney",
"firstName": "Annelise",
"lastName": "Finney",
"slug": "afinney",
"email": "afinney@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "Reporter",
"bio": "Annelise reports on reparations in California and East Bay politics. She co-produced the Sunday Music Drop, a limited-term radio series featuring Bay Area musicians that aired between Sept 2022 and Oct 2024. She joined KQED in 2021 as a general assignment reporter and is an alumna of KALW's Audio Academy. She was born and raised in the East Bay. She is currently away from KQED completing a year-long reporting project in Berlin, Germany as a Alexander Von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b439010ea6540bec1060ee74b3c94314480991106a4a84e774fe5a0fd6605878?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Annelise Finney | KQED",
"description": "Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b439010ea6540bec1060ee74b3c94314480991106a4a84e774fe5a0fd6605878?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b439010ea6540bec1060ee74b3c94314480991106a4a84e774fe5a0fd6605878?s=600&d=mm&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/afinney"
},
"adahlstromeckman": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11785",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11785",
"found": true
},
"name": "Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman",
"firstName": "Azul",
"lastName": "Dahlstrom-Eckman",
"slug": "adahlstromeckman",
"email": "adahlstrom-eckman@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "Reporter",
"bio": "Azul is a reporter for KQED focusing on transportation and features. He joined KQED in 2021 as an alumnus of KALW's Audio Academy radio journalism training program.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9cb750298435add7815a777f55bf1f46845c1386bb8452555c60a7b820b5aba3?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "@zuliemann",
"bluesky": "@azul415.bsky.social",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman | KQED",
"description": "Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9cb750298435add7815a777f55bf1f46845c1386bb8452555c60a7b820b5aba3?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9cb750298435add7815a777f55bf1f46845c1386bb8452555c60a7b820b5aba3?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/adahlstromeckman"
}
},
"pagesReducer": {
"news_category_sports": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_10",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10",
"score": 12.072931
},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Sports",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Sports Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 10,
"slug": "sports",
"isLoading": false,
"title": "Sports",
"pageMeta": {
"site": "news",
"WpPageTemplate": "page-topic-editorial",
"currentPage": 17
},
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardArticle2",
"query": "posts/news?category=sports",
"seeMore": false,
"paginated": true,
"page": 17
}
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad"
}
]
}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"news_11989311": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11989311",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11989311",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1718029841000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "santa-cruz-startup-3d-prints-surfboards-from-recycled-hospital-trays",
"title": "Santa Cruz Startup 3D Prints Surfboards From Recycled Hospital Trays",
"publishDate": 1718029841,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Santa Cruz Startup 3D Prints Surfboards From Recycled Hospital Trays | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 26731,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Ever since Hawaiian princes first brought surfing to Santa Cruz in 1885, the city has been on the cutting edge of a lot of surfing technology. It’s where surfers first began using wetsuits in the 1950s and a decade later, where builders first used CNC machines to automatically shape surfboards. Now, a new local company is contributing to that history of innovation while also making the sport more environmentally friendly: It’s using a 3D printer to craft surfboards out of recycled hospital trays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Santa Cruz garage, a huge homemade metal machine lays a clear plastic filament down, row by row. This 3D printer uses a digital file to create a three-dimensional object. Over the next couple of days, the rows will form a surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first board that kind of sparked the drive for everything else,” said Patricio Guerrero, pulling a finished board out of a rack next to the printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surfboard is hollow and translucent, with a diamond-shaped lattice pattern running through it. It almost looks like frosted glass, but it’s not much heavier than a normal surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Beginnings\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Guerrero started printing surfboards in his garage in the fall of 2022 and tested the first one at Steamer Lane, one of the most famous surf spots in Santa Cruz. People have been surfing there since the 1930s, and Steamer Lane has seen plenty of homemade boards. But this was the first made from a 3D printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was super nervous,” Guerrero recalled. “Man, maybe I’ll just jump in the water, and the whole thing will just break right under me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board worked, and Guerrero ended up surfing for two hours. From there, he started printing more surfboards. He began using recycled materials and founded a startup, which he called \u003ca href=\"https://swellcyclesurfboards.com/\">Swellcycle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989359\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2381px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2381\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998.jpg 2381w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-800x645.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1020x823.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1536x1239.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-2048x1651.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1920x1548.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2381px) 100vw, 2381px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricio Guerrero holds an early version of a Swellcycle 3D printed board in his garage in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A wasteful industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Surfboards are an estimated $13 billion global industry. It’s hard to say exactly how many boards are made each year. They’re made by big manufacturers but also by hobbyists in their garages. The best estimate is somewhere in the tens of millions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of those millions of boards are not environmentally friendly. Most surfboards start as a plastic foam block — called a blank — with a thin piece of wood running down the middle. They’re then sanded down to a desired shape and covered in fiberglass and plastic resin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foam cores in most surfboards can’t easily be recycled, and they don’t biodegrade. Old or broken surfboards usually end up in landfills, where they crumble into smaller and smaller pieces that can pollute water and soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 3D-printed boards don’t need foam. They’re mostly hollow, and they can be made from recycled plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can basically melt it down and create a filament that then you feed into your printer,” Guerrero said. For Swellcycle, he started ordering filament made from recycled hospital trays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Guerrero recruited a business partner to design the boards and started sending them to local surfboard shapers for the final fiberglassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz surfboard shaper Vince Broglio was the first to work with one of Guerrero’s boards. Throughout his nearly 40-year career, he has mostly worked with typical foam boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll have two different types of blanks, ones of polyurethane and ones EPS, expandable foam,” he said. “Hand-shaping a blank that will take me about two hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broglio’s shaping room is a two-room shack with an ocean view. The walls are lined with photos of waves, and shelves are packed with materials like fiberglass, carbon fiber and plastic resins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one room, Broglio uses a planar to shape a foam blank, which he then sands by hand. The other room is for putting fiberglass and resin coatings on boards. It smells strongly of plastic resin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555.jpg 1710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-800x579.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-1536x1111.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nearly finished foam surfboard is ready for fiberglassing and the final resin coating in Vince Broglio’s shaping room in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you’re laminating a board or ‘glassing,’ you’re putting the fiberglass and resin on the board and putting out a finished product,” Broglio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said glassing one of the 3D-printed boards wasn’t very different than working with a normal surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked really cool when it was done, you know, see-through board and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broglio said it could be hard for surf culture to accept new things, but that 3D printing is just another tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know there’s going to be guys [who say], ‘Oh my God, the soul of it’s gone,’ but, you know, you got to have somebody that knows surfing that’s been shaping and all that to design the board in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Introducing something new\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Swellcycle prototyped more boards and kept working with local shapers. Eventually, big wave surfer Tyler Fox tried one out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sustainability element — that these boards are using recycled plastics and they can also get recycled at the end of their life cycle — was something that really excited me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox said the boards also catch people’s eye in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Midday, where the sun’s shining right through it on a green wave, it just glows. It’s like you’re on a glowing hovercraft, and it’s pretty neat to see how excited people get,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1706px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1706\" height=\"1292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208.jpg 1706w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-1020x772.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-1536x1163.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1706px) 100vw, 1706px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Swellcycle team experiments with a variety of board shapes and plans to eventually sell several different models in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a sunny morning on the cliff above the surf spot Steamer Lane, people gathered around the printed surfboards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dude, it’s trippy how it’s kind of see-through,” said one surfer who stopped to ask the Swellcycle team questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels great,” said surfer Antonio Ramirez, who had just finished trying one out in the water. “I love it. It was smooth, fast and loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3D-printed boards have also earned the approval of local legend Bob Pearson, who founded Pearson-Arrow surfboards in the 1960s. He now ships boards to pro surfers around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the massive Pearson Arrow Factory in Santa Cruz, he points out boards destined for Japan and Hawaii. There are potato chip-thin 6-foot-long shortboards and thick, sharply-pointed 10-foot boards for big waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We make six boards a day,” Pearson said. “We’ve been doing that for years. We’ve made well over 100,000 boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the current process has room for improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do them out of polyurethane and EPS — expanded polystyrene, and there’s a lot of waste. That waste goes to landfill. That’s not a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Swellcycle team first approached him, Pearson was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people bring things in that are really funky,” he said. “They showed it to me, and I was impressed. Very impressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11772146,news_11139627,arts_13937866\"]Pearson compares the 3D printing technology to when he started using a CNC machine — which automatically sands a board to match a shape designed on a computer. He remembers how people criticized him for not doing everything by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was one of the first guys to have these in the world, and I got all kinds of crap for having a CNC machine because people didn’t know what the hell it was,” Pearson said. “[They said] it takes a soul out of it, and everyone was badmouthing it. And it’s amazing how many people who were badmouthing it now are utilizing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the Swellcycle boards have been finished at this factory, and Pearson thinks there’s a place in the market for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stoked, stoked from day one,” he said. “Great idea. 3D printing a surfboard. Unreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Swellcycle team recently moved out of Guerrero’s garage into a solar-powered warehouse in Santa Cruz. And they just unveiled a 10-foot longboard, opening up their market to newer surfers and people who prefer bigger boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they’re looking for surfers to try out the boards and provide long-term feedback. It’ll be the first real test of whether the surfing community is ready for something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "A new company in Santa Cruz wants to make California's state sport more environmentally friendly by making surfboards out of recycled hospital trays. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1718053652,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 44,
"wordCount": 1494
},
"headData": {
"title": "Santa Cruz Startup 3D Prints Surfboards From Recycled Hospital Trays | KQED",
"description": "A new company in Santa Cruz wants to make California's state sport more environmentally friendly by making surfboards out of recycled hospital trays. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Santa Cruz Startup 3D Prints Surfboards From Recycled Hospital Trays",
"datePublished": "2024-06-10T07:30:41-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-06-10T14:07:32-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"audioUrl": "https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/8d3dc45a-026d-40bb-86f6-b1850176a9b7/audio.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/people/erin-malsbury\">Erin Malsbury\u003c/a>, KAZU",
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11989311",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11989311/santa-cruz-startup-3d-prints-surfboards-from-recycled-hospital-trays",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ever since Hawaiian princes first brought surfing to Santa Cruz in 1885, the city has been on the cutting edge of a lot of surfing technology. It’s where surfers first began using wetsuits in the 1950s and a decade later, where builders first used CNC machines to automatically shape surfboards. Now, a new local company is contributing to that history of innovation while also making the sport more environmentally friendly: It’s using a 3D printer to craft surfboards out of recycled hospital trays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Santa Cruz garage, a huge homemade metal machine lays a clear plastic filament down, row by row. This 3D printer uses a digital file to create a three-dimensional object. Over the next couple of days, the rows will form a surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first board that kind of sparked the drive for everything else,” said Patricio Guerrero, pulling a finished board out of a rack next to the printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surfboard is hollow and translucent, with a diamond-shaped lattice pattern running through it. It almost looks like frosted glass, but it’s not much heavier than a normal surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Beginnings\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Guerrero started printing surfboards in his garage in the fall of 2022 and tested the first one at Steamer Lane, one of the most famous surf spots in Santa Cruz. People have been surfing there since the 1930s, and Steamer Lane has seen plenty of homemade boards. But this was the first made from a 3D printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was super nervous,” Guerrero recalled. “Man, maybe I’ll just jump in the water, and the whole thing will just break right under me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board worked, and Guerrero ended up surfing for two hours. From there, he started printing more surfboards. He began using recycled materials and founded a startup, which he called \u003ca href=\"https://swellcyclesurfboards.com/\">Swellcycle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989359\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2381px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2381\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998.jpg 2381w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-800x645.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1020x823.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1536x1239.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-2048x1651.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1920x1548.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2381px) 100vw, 2381px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricio Guerrero holds an early version of a Swellcycle 3D printed board in his garage in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A wasteful industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Surfboards are an estimated $13 billion global industry. It’s hard to say exactly how many boards are made each year. They’re made by big manufacturers but also by hobbyists in their garages. The best estimate is somewhere in the tens of millions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of those millions of boards are not environmentally friendly. Most surfboards start as a plastic foam block — called a blank — with a thin piece of wood running down the middle. They’re then sanded down to a desired shape and covered in fiberglass and plastic resin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foam cores in most surfboards can’t easily be recycled, and they don’t biodegrade. Old or broken surfboards usually end up in landfills, where they crumble into smaller and smaller pieces that can pollute water and soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 3D-printed boards don’t need foam. They’re mostly hollow, and they can be made from recycled plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can basically melt it down and create a filament that then you feed into your printer,” Guerrero said. For Swellcycle, he started ordering filament made from recycled hospital trays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Guerrero recruited a business partner to design the boards and started sending them to local surfboard shapers for the final fiberglassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz surfboard shaper Vince Broglio was the first to work with one of Guerrero’s boards. Throughout his nearly 40-year career, he has mostly worked with typical foam boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll have two different types of blanks, ones of polyurethane and ones EPS, expandable foam,” he said. “Hand-shaping a blank that will take me about two hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broglio’s shaping room is a two-room shack with an ocean view. The walls are lined with photos of waves, and shelves are packed with materials like fiberglass, carbon fiber and plastic resins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one room, Broglio uses a planar to shape a foam blank, which he then sands by hand. The other room is for putting fiberglass and resin coatings on boards. It smells strongly of plastic resin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555.jpg 1710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-800x579.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-1536x1111.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nearly finished foam surfboard is ready for fiberglassing and the final resin coating in Vince Broglio’s shaping room in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you’re laminating a board or ‘glassing,’ you’re putting the fiberglass and resin on the board and putting out a finished product,” Broglio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said glassing one of the 3D-printed boards wasn’t very different than working with a normal surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked really cool when it was done, you know, see-through board and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broglio said it could be hard for surf culture to accept new things, but that 3D printing is just another tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know there’s going to be guys [who say], ‘Oh my God, the soul of it’s gone,’ but, you know, you got to have somebody that knows surfing that’s been shaping and all that to design the board in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Introducing something new\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Swellcycle prototyped more boards and kept working with local shapers. Eventually, big wave surfer Tyler Fox tried one out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sustainability element — that these boards are using recycled plastics and they can also get recycled at the end of their life cycle — was something that really excited me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox said the boards also catch people’s eye in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Midday, where the sun’s shining right through it on a green wave, it just glows. It’s like you’re on a glowing hovercraft, and it’s pretty neat to see how excited people get,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1706px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1706\" height=\"1292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208.jpg 1706w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-1020x772.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-1536x1163.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1706px) 100vw, 1706px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Swellcycle team experiments with a variety of board shapes and plans to eventually sell several different models in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a sunny morning on the cliff above the surf spot Steamer Lane, people gathered around the printed surfboards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dude, it’s trippy how it’s kind of see-through,” said one surfer who stopped to ask the Swellcycle team questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels great,” said surfer Antonio Ramirez, who had just finished trying one out in the water. “I love it. It was smooth, fast and loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3D-printed boards have also earned the approval of local legend Bob Pearson, who founded Pearson-Arrow surfboards in the 1960s. He now ships boards to pro surfers around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the massive Pearson Arrow Factory in Santa Cruz, he points out boards destined for Japan and Hawaii. There are potato chip-thin 6-foot-long shortboards and thick, sharply-pointed 10-foot boards for big waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We make six boards a day,” Pearson said. “We’ve been doing that for years. We’ve made well over 100,000 boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the current process has room for improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do them out of polyurethane and EPS — expanded polystyrene, and there’s a lot of waste. That waste goes to landfill. That’s not a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Swellcycle team first approached him, Pearson was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people bring things in that are really funky,” he said. “They showed it to me, and I was impressed. Very impressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "Related Stories ",
"postid": "news_11772146,news_11139627,arts_13937866"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pearson compares the 3D printing technology to when he started using a CNC machine — which automatically sands a board to match a shape designed on a computer. He remembers how people criticized him for not doing everything by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was one of the first guys to have these in the world, and I got all kinds of crap for having a CNC machine because people didn’t know what the hell it was,” Pearson said. “[They said] it takes a soul out of it, and everyone was badmouthing it. And it’s amazing how many people who were badmouthing it now are utilizing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the Swellcycle boards have been finished at this factory, and Pearson thinks there’s a place in the market for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stoked, stoked from day one,” he said. “Great idea. 3D printing a surfboard. Unreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Swellcycle team recently moved out of Guerrero’s garage into a solar-powered warehouse in Santa Cruz. And they just unveiled a 10-foot longboard, opening up their market to newer surfers and people who prefer bigger boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they’re looking for surfers to try out the boards and provide long-term feedback. It’ll be the first real test of whether the surfing community is ready for something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11989311/santa-cruz-startup-3d-prints-surfboards-from-recycled-hospital-trays",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11989311"
],
"programs": [
"news_72",
"news_26731"
],
"categories": [
"news_31795",
"news_8",
"news_10",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_721",
"news_1071",
"news_20851",
"news_30162"
],
"featImg": "news_11989363",
"label": "news_26731"
},
"news_11988916": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11988916",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988916",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1717534845000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "oakland-as-pitcher-michael-kelly-suspended-in-biggest-betting-scandal-in-decades",
"title": "Oakland A's Pitcher Michael Kelly Suspended in Biggest Betting Scandal in Decades",
"publishDate": 1717534845,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Oakland A’s Pitcher Michael Kelly Suspended in Biggest Betting Scandal in Decades | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>San Diego Padres infielder \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/tucupita-marcano\">Tucupita Marcano\u003c/a> was banned from baseball for life for betting on the sport and four others, including Oakland Athletics pitcher, Michael Kelly, were suspended for one year by \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/mlb\">Major League Baseball\u003c/a> on Tuesday in the game’s biggest gambling scandal in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The A’s were disappointed to learn of the matter involving Michael Kelly. While we cannot comment on the details, this violation occurred prior to Michael joining the A’s organization and we fully support MLB’s sports betting policy and the need to adhere to all provisions of Rule 21,” the Oakland Athletics said in a statement to KQED. “We will continue to educate all members of our organization regarding their obligations under the policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB said Marcano placed 387 baseball bets totaling more than $150,000 in October 2022 and from last July through November with a legal sportsbook. He became the first active player in a century to be banned for life because of gambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland A’s pitcher Michael Kelly was suspended for one year for betting on baseball while in the minor leagues and three minor leaguers also were banned for one year for betting on big league games: pitchers Jay Groome of San Diego and Andrew Saalfrank of Arizona, and infielder José Rodríguez of Philadelphia. Each of those four players wagered under $1,000. Saalfrank and Rodríguez played previously in the majors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The strict enforcement of Major League Baseball’s rules and policies governing gambling conduct is a critical component of upholding our most important priority: protecting the integrity of our games for the fans,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “The longstanding prohibition against betting on Major League Baseball games by those in the sport has been a bedrock principle for over a century. We have been clear that the privilege of playing in baseball comes with a responsibility to refrain from engaging in certain types of behavior that are legal for other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano is the first active major leaguer banned for life under the sport’s gambling provision since New York Giants outfielder Jimmy O’Connell in 1924. Pete Rose, baseball’s career hits leader, agreed to a lifetime ban in 1989 after an investigation concluded he bet on\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cincinnati Reds games while managing the team.[aside postID=news_11988883 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Major League Rule 21, posted in every clubhouse, states betting on any baseball game in which a player, umpire, league official or team employee has no duty to perform results in a one-year suspension. Betting on a game in which the person has a duty to perform results in a lifetime ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano became the second North American athlete banned for gambling in recent months. \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/nba-jontay-porter-banned-265ad5cb703d9483347037762ee90a8f\">The NBA gave Toronto’s Jontay Porter a lifetime ban in April\u003c/a> after concluding he disclosed confidential information to bettors and wagered on games, including on the Raptors losing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB said it was tipped off in March about the betting activity by a legal sports betting operator. None of the players punished played in any games on which they wagered, and all players denied to MLB they had inside information relevant to their bets or the games they gambled on — testimonies that MLB says align with the data received from the sportsbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its announcement, MLB detailed the bets alleged for each player,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano’s 387 baseball bets included international games and 231 MLB-related wagers for $87,319 between Oct. 16, 2022, and last Nov. 1. Twenty-five of those bets included wagers on Pirates games while he was on the team’s major league roster. Now 24, Marcano has not played since tearing his right ACL last July 24 and was receiving medical treatment at PNC Park last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano bet almost exclusively on the outcomes of games and lost all of his parlay bets involving the Pirates, winning just 4.3% of his MLB-related bets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano made his major league debut on April 1, 2021, and has a .217 average with five homers, 34 RBIs and seven stolen bases in\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>149 games. He has played in both the infield and outfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the thorough investigation revealed no evidence of any games being compromised, influenced or manipulated in any way in this case, protecting the integrity of our game is paramount,” the Pirates said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other four players did not bet on games involving their assigned teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly placed 10 bets on nine major league games from Oct. 5–17, 2021, while a minor league player was assigned to Houston’s Triple-A Sugar Land farm team. The bets included wagers on outcomes, over/under on runs and an individual pitcher’s strikeout total. Three of the nine games involved the major league Astros. His wagers totaled $99.22 and resulted in $28.30 of winnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, 31, was 3–2 with a 2.59 ERA in 28 games this season, last pitching on Saturday at Atlanta. The former first-round draft pick appeared in 46 games over the past three seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groome, a 25-year-old who had been on a minor league injured list since mid-April, placed 32 MLB-related bets from July 22, 2020, through July 24, 2021, including 24 on the Boston Red Sox major league team while he was assigned to Boston’s High-A team in Greenville, South Carolina. The sport detailed he wagered $453.74 on 30 MLB games and had a net loss of $433.54, receiving payouts on only two wagers. His betting included parlays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodríguez, 23, has been at Double-A Reading this season. He placed 31 bets on baseball on Sept. 30, 2021, and from June 5 through July 30 in, 2022, including 28 on MLB and three on college baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total included seven involving the Chicago White Sox at the time he was assigned to their Double-A team in Birmingham, Alabama. Two of the White Sox bets involved outcomes and the others were on runs scored. He bet $749.09 on baseball, of which $724.09 was on MLB-related bets, including parlays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saalfrank, 26, pitched in 21 games for Arizona last year between the regular season and postseason, including three World Series games and two this year before he was optioned to Triple-A Reno on May 1. He placed 29 baseball bets from Sept. 9 through Oct. 29 in 2021 and on March 9, 2022, including 28 on MLB and one parlay on college baseball. He placed four bets on the big league Diamondbacks while on the injured list of their Low A farm team. His baseball bets totaled $445.87 on baseball, including $444.07 on MLB, and he lost $272.64 on MLB bets and $1.80 on the college wager. He won just five of 28 MLB bets, which included outcomes, runs and pitcher strikeouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "The Oakland Athletics’ pitcher was suspended for one year for betting on baseball in the minors. Three minor leaguers were also banned for one year for betting on big league games: pitchers Jay Groome of San Diego and Andrew Saalfrank of Arizona and infielder José Rodríguez of Philadelphia.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1717533798,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 24,
"wordCount": 1204
},
"headData": {
"title": "Oakland A's Pitcher Michael Kelly Suspended in Biggest Betting Scandal in Decades | KQED",
"description": "The Oakland Athletics’ pitcher was suspended for one year for betting on baseball in the minors. Three minor leaguers were also banned for one year for betting on big league games: pitchers Jay Groome of San Diego and Andrew Saalfrank of Arizona and infielder José Rodríguez of Philadelphia.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Oakland A's Pitcher Michael Kelly Suspended in Biggest Betting Scandal in Decades",
"datePublished": "2024-06-04T14:00:45-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-06-04T13:43:18-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "Ronald Blum, The Associated Press",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11988916/oakland-as-pitcher-michael-kelly-suspended-in-biggest-betting-scandal-in-decades",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Diego Padres infielder \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/tucupita-marcano\">Tucupita Marcano\u003c/a> was banned from baseball for life for betting on the sport and four others, including Oakland Athletics pitcher, Michael Kelly, were suspended for one year by \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/mlb\">Major League Baseball\u003c/a> on Tuesday in the game’s biggest gambling scandal in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The A’s were disappointed to learn of the matter involving Michael Kelly. While we cannot comment on the details, this violation occurred prior to Michael joining the A’s organization and we fully support MLB’s sports betting policy and the need to adhere to all provisions of Rule 21,” the Oakland Athletics said in a statement to KQED. “We will continue to educate all members of our organization regarding their obligations under the policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB said Marcano placed 387 baseball bets totaling more than $150,000 in October 2022 and from last July through November with a legal sportsbook. He became the first active player in a century to be banned for life because of gambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland A’s pitcher Michael Kelly was suspended for one year for betting on baseball while in the minor leagues and three minor leaguers also were banned for one year for betting on big league games: pitchers Jay Groome of San Diego and Andrew Saalfrank of Arizona, and infielder José Rodríguez of Philadelphia. Each of those four players wagered under $1,000. Saalfrank and Rodríguez played previously in the majors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The strict enforcement of Major League Baseball’s rules and policies governing gambling conduct is a critical component of upholding our most important priority: protecting the integrity of our games for the fans,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “The longstanding prohibition against betting on Major League Baseball games by those in the sport has been a bedrock principle for over a century. We have been clear that the privilege of playing in baseball comes with a responsibility to refrain from engaging in certain types of behavior that are legal for other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano is the first active major leaguer banned for life under the sport’s gambling provision since New York Giants outfielder Jimmy O’Connell in 1924. Pete Rose, baseball’s career hits leader, agreed to a lifetime ban in 1989 after an investigation concluded he bet on\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cincinnati Reds games while managing the team.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11988883",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-1020x680.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Major League Rule 21, posted in every clubhouse, states betting on any baseball game in which a player, umpire, league official or team employee has no duty to perform results in a one-year suspension. Betting on a game in which the person has a duty to perform results in a lifetime ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano became the second North American athlete banned for gambling in recent months. \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/nba-jontay-porter-banned-265ad5cb703d9483347037762ee90a8f\">The NBA gave Toronto’s Jontay Porter a lifetime ban in April\u003c/a> after concluding he disclosed confidential information to bettors and wagered on games, including on the Raptors losing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB said it was tipped off in March about the betting activity by a legal sports betting operator. None of the players punished played in any games on which they wagered, and all players denied to MLB they had inside information relevant to their bets or the games they gambled on — testimonies that MLB says align with the data received from the sportsbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its announcement, MLB detailed the bets alleged for each player,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano’s 387 baseball bets included international games and 231 MLB-related wagers for $87,319 between Oct. 16, 2022, and last Nov. 1. Twenty-five of those bets included wagers on Pirates games while he was on the team’s major league roster. Now 24, Marcano has not played since tearing his right ACL last July 24 and was receiving medical treatment at PNC Park last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano bet almost exclusively on the outcomes of games and lost all of his parlay bets involving the Pirates, winning just 4.3% of his MLB-related bets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano made his major league debut on April 1, 2021, and has a .217 average with five homers, 34 RBIs and seven stolen bases in\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>149 games. He has played in both the infield and outfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the thorough investigation revealed no evidence of any games being compromised, influenced or manipulated in any way in this case, protecting the integrity of our game is paramount,” the Pirates said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other four players did not bet on games involving their assigned teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly placed 10 bets on nine major league games from Oct. 5–17, 2021, while a minor league player was assigned to Houston’s Triple-A Sugar Land farm team. The bets included wagers on outcomes, over/under on runs and an individual pitcher’s strikeout total. Three of the nine games involved the major league Astros. His wagers totaled $99.22 and resulted in $28.30 of winnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, 31, was 3–2 with a 2.59 ERA in 28 games this season, last pitching on Saturday at Atlanta. The former first-round draft pick appeared in 46 games over the past three seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groome, a 25-year-old who had been on a minor league injured list since mid-April, placed 32 MLB-related bets from July 22, 2020, through July 24, 2021, including 24 on the Boston Red Sox major league team while he was assigned to Boston’s High-A team in Greenville, South Carolina. The sport detailed he wagered $453.74 on 30 MLB games and had a net loss of $433.54, receiving payouts on only two wagers. His betting included parlays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodríguez, 23, has been at Double-A Reading this season. He placed 31 bets on baseball on Sept. 30, 2021, and from June 5 through July 30 in, 2022, including 28 on MLB and three on college baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total included seven involving the Chicago White Sox at the time he was assigned to their Double-A team in Birmingham, Alabama. Two of the White Sox bets involved outcomes and the others were on runs scored. He bet $749.09 on baseball, of which $724.09 was on MLB-related bets, including parlays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saalfrank, 26, pitched in 21 games for Arizona last year between the regular season and postseason, including three World Series games and two this year before he was optioned to Triple-A Reno on May 1. He placed 29 baseball bets from Sept. 9 through Oct. 29 in 2021 and on March 9, 2022, including 28 on MLB and one parlay on college baseball. He placed four bets on the big league Diamondbacks while on the injured list of their Low A farm team. His baseball bets totaled $445.87 on baseball, including $444.07 on MLB, and he lost $272.64 on MLB bets and $1.80 on the college wager. He won just five of 28 MLB bets, which included outcomes, runs and pitcher strikeouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11988916/oakland-as-pitcher-michael-kelly-suspended-in-biggest-betting-scandal-in-decades",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11988916"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_18203",
"news_4694",
"news_34054",
"news_161"
],
"featImg": "news_11988906",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11988883": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11988883",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988883",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1717527631000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "oakland-ballers-pitcher-kelsie-whitmore-keeps-making-history",
"title": "Oakland Ballers Pitcher Kelsie Whitmore Keeps Making History",
"publishDate": 1717527631,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Oakland Ballers Pitcher Kelsie Whitmore Keeps Making History | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>The new \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandballers.com/landing/index\">Oakland Ballers\u003c/a> minor league baseball season is underway, and among the players suiting up for the B’s is barrier-breaking pitcher \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kelsie_whitmore/\">Kelsie Whitmore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Whitmore took the mound during the team’s opening series in Montana against the Glacier Range Riders, she became the first woman to play in the Pioneer League — an independent Major League Baseball partner league. While she says her first outing with the B’s didn’t go as well as she wanted, Whitmore, a right-handed pitcher, pulled herself together for the next one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the name of the game. There’ll be ups and downs, and it’s just like how well you can maintain yourself, with your mindset,” Whitmore says in an interview over Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 25, she’s been playing baseball since she was 6. In 2016, she started her pro career \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/28980/field-report-two-women-played-professional-baseball-and-the-world-didnt-end\">with the Sonoma Stompers\u003c/a>, and six years later, she became the first woman to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/kelsie-whitmore-signed-by-staten-island-ferryhawks\">sign with a team\u003c/a> in the prestigious Atlantic League. She also plays for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usabaseball.com/team/womens\">women’s USA Baseball team\u003c/a>, which will compete for a World Cup in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know when you have something in your heart that just feels right, and you just can’t see yourself not doing? That’s how baseball has felt to me,” says Whitmore, who was born in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitmore was one of three players from open tryouts who signed with the B’s. Ballers manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/micahfranklin56/\">Micah Franklin\u003c/a> says Whitmore’s desire to compete at a professional level stands out to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big step, stepping into this realm,” Franklin says. “You have so many alphas in here, and it is very intimidating, and she is not intimidated at all.”[aside postID=news_11989078 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-05-KQED.jpg']Whitmore says she’s had to train her mind over the years to handle being a woman in baseball, where she faces her fair share of negativity from naysayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, I let it eat me up — but then I switched it because I was so tired of letting it affect me. I was like, you know what? I’m just going to use it as fuel to my fire,” Whitmore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations like the Ballers can be more supportive, though. That’s according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/justinesiegal/\">Justine Siegal\u003c/a>, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://baseballforall.com/\">Baseball for All\u003c/a>, a national nonprofit building gender equity in baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that minor league baseball is more open to women playing, at least at the independent level,” Siegal says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siegal, who was the first woman to coach pro baseball as part of the Oakland A’s staff in 2015, says that the battle for opportunities to play starts early. From ages 7 and 8, girls get told they need to switch from baseball to softball to pursue a softball scholarship. Whitmore was funneled into softball when she attended Cal State Fullerton for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siegal says that the Ballers being one of the hottest new teams and signing Whitmore sends a great signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows that they take players who can compete. And that’s what women want,” Siegal says. “They’re not looking for special exceptions, but rather the chance to show what they can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the surge in support for pro women’s sports like soccer, basketball and hockey has yet to hit baseball, Siegal has noticed \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/baseball-options-for-girls-and-women-after-little-league-expanding\">a shift happening\u003c/a>. “When I started Baseball for All, I used to have to explain to people why girls playing baseball matters. And now the conversation has turned more to ‘how can I help?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitmore has noticed the shift in attitudes, too. She says people often attempted to “correct her” more often when she’d say she plays baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll go, ‘you mean softball’ — like, every time,” Whitmore says. “And I’ve noticed over the years, like now when I say it, they’re like, ‘Oh, cool, what position do you play?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the next question is, “What are your hopes for your baseball career?” Whitmore has a clear answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to get to the big leagues,” Whitmore says. “I’m trying to get as far as I can. That’s been the dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, she says she kept that dream private between her and her father after sharing it with someone else who shot it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But now it’s like, nah, screw that. Like, I don’t care what people think,” Whitmore says. “Whatever my biggest dreams are, I’m going to do what I want to do. And if they happen, they happen. If they don’t, they don’t. I want to know I did everything I could to make it happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, her goal is to help the B’s get a championship ring this year for the Oakland fans, who she says are more energized than any other fanbase she’s experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t realize how invested they were out here in Oakland and how much baseball meant to them,” Whitmore says. “I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited for a home opener.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Kelsie Whitmore is the first woman to sign with the Pioneer League, a Major League Baseball partner league. She joins the Oakland Ballers, who make their home debut at Raimondi Park in West Oakland on June 4.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1717607801,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 24,
"wordCount": 948
},
"headData": {
"title": "Oakland Ballers Pitcher Kelsie Whitmore Keeps Making History | KQED",
"description": "Kelsie Whitmore is the first woman to sign with the Pioneer League, a Major League Baseball partner league. She joins the Oakland Ballers, who make their home debut at Raimondi Park in West Oakland on June 4.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Oakland Ballers Pitcher Kelsie Whitmore Keeps Making History",
"datePublished": "2024-06-04T12:00:31-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-06-05T10:16:41-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"audioUrl": "https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/c6767b3a-5fac-4dd4-9846-b185010d6349/audio.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11988883",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11988883/oakland-ballers-pitcher-kelsie-whitmore-keeps-making-history",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The new \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandballers.com/landing/index\">Oakland Ballers\u003c/a> minor league baseball season is underway, and among the players suiting up for the B’s is barrier-breaking pitcher \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kelsie_whitmore/\">Kelsie Whitmore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Whitmore took the mound during the team’s opening series in Montana against the Glacier Range Riders, she became the first woman to play in the Pioneer League — an independent Major League Baseball partner league. While she says her first outing with the B’s didn’t go as well as she wanted, Whitmore, a right-handed pitcher, pulled herself together for the next one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the name of the game. There’ll be ups and downs, and it’s just like how well you can maintain yourself, with your mindset,” Whitmore says in an interview over Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 25, she’s been playing baseball since she was 6. In 2016, she started her pro career \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/28980/field-report-two-women-played-professional-baseball-and-the-world-didnt-end\">with the Sonoma Stompers\u003c/a>, and six years later, she became the first woman to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/kelsie-whitmore-signed-by-staten-island-ferryhawks\">sign with a team\u003c/a> in the prestigious Atlantic League. She also plays for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usabaseball.com/team/womens\">women’s USA Baseball team\u003c/a>, which will compete for a World Cup in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know when you have something in your heart that just feels right, and you just can’t see yourself not doing? That’s how baseball has felt to me,” says Whitmore, who was born in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitmore was one of three players from open tryouts who signed with the B’s. Ballers manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/micahfranklin56/\">Micah Franklin\u003c/a> says Whitmore’s desire to compete at a professional level stands out to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big step, stepping into this realm,” Franklin says. “You have so many alphas in here, and it is very intimidating, and she is not intimidated at all.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11989078",
"hero": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-05-KQED.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Whitmore says she’s had to train her mind over the years to handle being a woman in baseball, where she faces her fair share of negativity from naysayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first, I let it eat me up — but then I switched it because I was so tired of letting it affect me. I was like, you know what? I’m just going to use it as fuel to my fire,” Whitmore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizations like the Ballers can be more supportive, though. That’s according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/justinesiegal/\">Justine Siegal\u003c/a>, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://baseballforall.com/\">Baseball for All\u003c/a>, a national nonprofit building gender equity in baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that minor league baseball is more open to women playing, at least at the independent level,” Siegal says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siegal, who was the first woman to coach pro baseball as part of the Oakland A’s staff in 2015, says that the battle for opportunities to play starts early. From ages 7 and 8, girls get told they need to switch from baseball to softball to pursue a softball scholarship. Whitmore was funneled into softball when she attended Cal State Fullerton for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siegal says that the Ballers being one of the hottest new teams and signing Whitmore sends a great signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shows that they take players who can compete. And that’s what women want,” Siegal says. “They’re not looking for special exceptions, but rather the chance to show what they can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the surge in support for pro women’s sports like soccer, basketball and hockey has yet to hit baseball, Siegal has noticed \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/baseball-options-for-girls-and-women-after-little-league-expanding\">a shift happening\u003c/a>. “When I started Baseball for All, I used to have to explain to people why girls playing baseball matters. And now the conversation has turned more to ‘how can I help?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitmore has noticed the shift in attitudes, too. She says people often attempted to “correct her” more often when she’d say she plays baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll go, ‘you mean softball’ — like, every time,” Whitmore says. “And I’ve noticed over the years, like now when I say it, they’re like, ‘Oh, cool, what position do you play?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the next question is, “What are your hopes for your baseball career?” Whitmore has a clear answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to get to the big leagues,” Whitmore says. “I’m trying to get as far as I can. That’s been the dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a long time, she says she kept that dream private between her and her father after sharing it with someone else who shot it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But now it’s like, nah, screw that. Like, I don’t care what people think,” Whitmore says. “Whatever my biggest dreams are, I’m going to do what I want to do. And if they happen, they happen. If they don’t, they don’t. I want to know I did everything I could to make it happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, her goal is to help the B’s get a championship ring this year for the Oakland fans, who she says are more energized than any other fanbase she’s experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t realize how invested they were out here in Oakland and how much baseball meant to them,” Whitmore says. “I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited for a home opener.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11988883/oakland-ballers-pitcher-kelsie-whitmore-keeps-making-history",
"authors": [
"11296"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_18203",
"news_27626",
"news_34054",
"news_34078"
],
"featImg": "news_11988892",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11988762": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11988762",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11988762",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1717509635000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "oakland-ballers-encourage-fans-to-leave-car-at-home",
"title": "Oakland Ballers Encourage Fans To Leave Car At Home",
"publishDate": 1717509635,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Oakland Ballers Encourage Fans To Leave Car At Home | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>The last few weeks have seen astonishing changes at West Oakland’s Raimondi Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Ballers have turned the park’s historic baseball field, which city officials described just two months ago as “unplayable” due to years of neglect, into an instant stadium that will welcome a sellout crowd of 4,000 for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pioneerleague.com/landing/index\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pioneer League\u003c/a> team’s first home game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the facilities the team says will be ready for those fans are three parking lots adjacent to the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s about a thousand parking spaces in total,” says Paul Freedman, co-founder of the Oakland Ballers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling man wearing a black hoodie, holding a green helmet with a baseball diamond behind him, along with a green warehouse in the distance painted with a white 'B's'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers co-founder Paul Freedman talks with members of the Oakland Department of Transportation after a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28. The purpose of the ride was to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while the team is providing parking at prices ranging from $8 to $20, Freedman says he hopes many fans leave their cars at home and find other ways to the ballpark. This season, the team says its goal is to have 25% of fans get to the ballpark without driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freedman says the team’s transit goals are both climate-conscious and practical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been told by people who do parking and transportation management for the city that if we didn’t do anything, as many as 80 to 90% of people would drive,” Freedman says.[aside postID=\"news_11986294,arts_13956931,news_11968536\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing traffic jams has been an important part of planning for the ballpark. Freedman says he’s met with neighborhood groups about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard tremendous excitement about the idea of activating this park with baseball, and then, concerns about parking, transportation and traffic,” Freedman says. “And the best way to solve those problems is to encourage people to use other methods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On game days, the Ballers are running a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandballers.com/information/transportation-and-parking\">free shuttle\u003c/a> to Raimondi Park from West Oakland BART. They’re providing a free bike and scooter valet for those who want to roll to the stadium and encouraging people to use AC Transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, the city of Oakland has repaved pothole-ridden streets, repaired sidewalks, removed derelict train tracks, and added high-visibility crosswalks in the immediate vicinity of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of smiling people riding bicycles along a tree-lined street approaches the camera\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Tripper Ortman told KQED he plans to organize a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ballersbiketotheballpark/\">Bike to the Ballpark\u003c/a>” group bicycle ride from Rockridge BART on weekend game days. He’s had success with this sort of thing before, as an organizer of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rootsmarchtothematch/\">March to the Match\u003c/a>”, a 3.8-mile walk from Rockridge to Laney College to see Oakland Roots games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of bad press around biking in Oakland,” Ortman says. “I don’t know that I feel totally safe at night riding around, but in a big caravan during the day on the weekends, it feels like something safe you can do. And it’s fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brian Culbertson, a member of the traffic safety advocacy group Traffic Violence Rapid Response who lives near Raimondi Park, people’s decisions on walking or biking to the game will be based on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has a traffic violence crisis where a lot of people who are walking or biking are being hit by cars,” Culbertson says, “It is a difficult decision to say, ‘I’m going to take my family and bike across Oakland and put myself in threat by the cars.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/CityofOakland_CrashAnalysis_Infographic_08.29.18.pdf\">citywide crash analysis \u003c/a>from the city, people who walk, bike or take public transit make up fewer than 30% of commute trips in the city but experience nearly 50% of severe and fatal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson points to “multilane arterial streets,” of which there are more than one in the area around Raimondi, as the main problem areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand at a railing with the green grass of a baseball diamond behind them\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation look at Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28, after a bicycle ride from City Hall to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you have a lot of people on game day driving here, then you have a lot more people with cars interacting with people walking and biking,” Culbertson says. “So then a street like 18th, which is only really safe because hardly anyone uses it, will suddenly become a place for people to speed down and will become more dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson says Oakland needs to install traffic-calming infrastructure, such as speed bumps, roundabouts, and concrete curbs, to slow drivers down not just in West Oakland but throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just up to the Ballers. It’s also up to the city of Oakland to plan that network of safe ways to get around Oakland to get here,” Culbertson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic safety advocates hope improvements made to nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/8th-st-project\">8th Street\u003c/a>, where a soon-to-be-completed project has installed a number of traffic calming elements on a 1.1-mile stretch between Market and Pine streets, can become a template for future street redesigns in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few blocks away from Raimondi is Kilovolt Coffee. Andrea Mallea is the manager, and she takes the bus to work. Her advice for Ballers fans who want to take AC Transit to a game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people ride bicycles around a roundabout in a residential neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d say plan your time wisely because sometimes things get kind of dicey as far as buses even arriving on schedule,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four AC Transit routes, running every 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the day, will get you within walking distance of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think that there just needs to be an increase in routes and service if people are going to find that option to even be viable or appealing,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, it remains to be seen just how Ballers fans decide to get to the ballpark and how the neighborhood accommodates the new crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers plan to use parking data to track how many people drive to the opening game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballers’ co-founder Freedman says he’d love it if the new team could get fans excited about coming out to the ballpark during this first season while minimizing traffic impacts to the Raimondi neighborhood. If the Ballers can do that, he says, it would be a home run for the team and the community.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "The team will provide parking at a price but encourages fans to take transit, bike, scooter and walk to the West Oakland ballpark.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1717718783,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 30,
"wordCount": 1220
},
"headData": {
"title": "Oakland Ballers Encourage Fans To Leave Car At Home | KQED",
"description": "The team will provide parking at a price but encourages fans to take transit, bike, scooter and walk to the West Oakland ballpark.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Oakland Ballers Encourage Fans To Leave Car At Home",
"datePublished": "2024-06-04T07:00:35-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-06-06T17:06:23-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"audioUrl": "https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/ba368d26-f2c4-43e1-bb61-b1840100c626/audio.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11988762",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11988762/oakland-ballers-encourage-fans-to-leave-car-at-home",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The last few weeks have seen astonishing changes at West Oakland’s Raimondi Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Ballers have turned the park’s historic baseball field, which city officials described just two months ago as “unplayable” due to years of neglect, into an instant stadium that will welcome a sellout crowd of 4,000 for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pioneerleague.com/landing/index\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pioneer League\u003c/a> team’s first home game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the facilities the team says will be ready for those fans are three parking lots adjacent to the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s about a thousand parking spaces in total,” says Paul Freedman, co-founder of the Oakland Ballers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988460\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling man wearing a black hoodie, holding a green helmet with a baseball diamond behind him, along with a green warehouse in the distance painted with a white 'B's'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-54-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers co-founder Paul Freedman talks with members of the Oakland Department of Transportation after a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28. The purpose of the ride was to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while the team is providing parking at prices ranging from $8 to $20, Freedman says he hopes many fans leave their cars at home and find other ways to the ballpark. This season, the team says its goal is to have 25% of fans get to the ballpark without driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freedman says the team’s transit goals are both climate-conscious and practical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been told by people who do parking and transportation management for the city that if we didn’t do anything, as many as 80 to 90% of people would drive,” Freedman says.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11986294,arts_13956931,news_11968536",
"label": "Related Stories "
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preventing traffic jams has been an important part of planning for the ballpark. Freedman says he’s met with neighborhood groups about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard tremendous excitement about the idea of activating this park with baseball, and then, concerns about parking, transportation and traffic,” Freedman says. “And the best way to solve those problems is to encourage people to use other methods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On game days, the Ballers are running a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandballers.com/information/transportation-and-parking\">free shuttle\u003c/a> to Raimondi Park from West Oakland BART. They’re providing a free bike and scooter valet for those who want to roll to the stadium and encouraging people to use AC Transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, the city of Oakland has repaved pothole-ridden streets, repaired sidewalks, removed derelict train tracks, and added high-visibility crosswalks in the immediate vicinity of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of smiling people riding bicycles along a tree-lined street approaches the camera\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-47-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Tripper Ortman told KQED he plans to organize a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ballersbiketotheballpark/\">Bike to the Ballpark\u003c/a>” group bicycle ride from Rockridge BART on weekend game days. He’s had success with this sort of thing before, as an organizer of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rootsmarchtothematch/\">March to the Match\u003c/a>”, a 3.8-mile walk from Rockridge to Laney College to see Oakland Roots games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of bad press around biking in Oakland,” Ortman says. “I don’t know that I feel totally safe at night riding around, but in a big caravan during the day on the weekends, it feels like something safe you can do. And it’s fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brian Culbertson, a member of the traffic safety advocacy group Traffic Violence Rapid Response who lives near Raimondi Park, people’s decisions on walking or biking to the game will be based on safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has a traffic violence crisis where a lot of people who are walking or biking are being hit by cars,” Culbertson says, “It is a difficult decision to say, ‘I’m going to take my family and bike across Oakland and put myself in threat by the cars.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/CityofOakland_CrashAnalysis_Infographic_08.29.18.pdf\">citywide crash analysis \u003c/a>from the city, people who walk, bike or take public transit make up fewer than 30% of commute trips in the city but experience nearly 50% of severe and fatal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson points to “multilane arterial streets,” of which there are more than one in the area around Raimondi, as the main problem areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988461\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand at a railing with the green grass of a baseball diamond behind them\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-59-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation look at Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in West Oakland on May 28, after a bicycle ride from City Hall to observe and discuss improvements made to infrastructure in the area ahead of the Ballers Opening Day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you have a lot of people on game day driving here, then you have a lot more people with cars interacting with people walking and biking,” Culbertson says. “So then a street like 18th, which is only really safe because hardly anyone uses it, will suddenly become a place for people to speed down and will become more dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culbertson says Oakland needs to install traffic-calming infrastructure, such as speed bumps, roundabouts, and concrete curbs, to slow drivers down not just in West Oakland but throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just up to the Ballers. It’s also up to the city of Oakland to plan that network of safe ways to get around Oakland to get here,” Culbertson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic safety advocates hope improvements made to nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/projects/8th-st-project\">8th Street\u003c/a>, where a soon-to-be-completed project has installed a number of traffic calming elements on a 1.1-mile stretch between Market and Pine streets, can become a template for future street redesigns in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few blocks away from Raimondi is Kilovolt Coffee. Andrea Mallea is the manager, and she takes the bus to work. Her advice for Ballers fans who want to take AC Transit to a game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988457\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people ride bicycles around a roundabout in a residential neighborhood\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240528-BallersTranspo-28-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Oakland Department of Transportation lead a bicycle ride from City Hall to Raimondi Field, the new home of the Oakland Ballers baseball team, in Oakland on May 28. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’d say plan your time wisely because sometimes things get kind of dicey as far as buses even arriving on schedule,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four AC Transit routes, running every 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the day, will get you within walking distance of the ballpark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really think that there just needs to be an increase in routes and service if people are going to find that option to even be viable or appealing,” Mallea says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, it remains to be seen just how Ballers fans decide to get to the ballpark and how the neighborhood accommodates the new crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers plan to use parking data to track how many people drive to the opening game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballers’ co-founder Freedman says he’d love it if the new team could get fans excited about coming out to the ballpark during this first season while minimizing traffic impacts to the Raimondi neighborhood. If the Ballers can do that, he says, it would be a home run for the team and the community.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11988762/oakland-ballers-encourage-fans-to-leave-car-at-home",
"authors": [
"11785"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_18203",
"news_3234",
"news_34054",
"news_92",
"news_5042",
"news_20517"
],
"featImg": "news_11988458",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11987568": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11987568",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11987568",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1716504731000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts",
"title": "Oakland Coliseum Sale Expected to Help City Avoid Drastic Budget Cuts",
"publishDate": 1716504731,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Oakland Coliseum Sale Expected to Help City Avoid Drastic Budget Cuts | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s plan to sell its share of the Oakland Coliseum Complex will help the city to close its budget deficit without laying off city employees or cutting public safety, Mayor Sheng Thao announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is facing a $117 million shortfall this year and $175 million next year. At a press conference on Thursday, Thao laid out her priorities for the mid-cycle budget adjustment and said Oakland is contending with some of the same financial difficulties as other cities: High interest rates have slowed construction and real estate sales, inflation has led to higher costs, and businesses are still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Oakland got a boost with the announcement on Wednesday that it plans to sell its half of the Coliseum property for at least $105 million to the Oakland-based African American Sports & Entertainment Group. Francis Zamora, spokesperson for the mayor, said the city’s plan has been years in the making, but the timing didn’t hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zamora said the influx of cash means they will no longer go through with their plan to lay off around 100 police officers and between 50 and 90 civil servants. The mayor’s new proposal also no longer includes plans to close four fire stations, cancel some of the city’s police academies, or shorten the hours of some recreation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up for the remaining shortfall, the mayor’s plan would consolidate some administrative and financial services and initiate a review of the city’s contracts, ending those that are underperforming or non-critical. Just under a hundred unfilled positions, paid for through the city’s general fund, will be frozen and might be eliminated down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said the city is working to develop the Coliseum site with AASEG, which is also in negotiations with the Oakland A’s to buy the other half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working with them to transform the Coliseum Complex into a world-class housing, entertainment, and entertainment center, retail and sports destination,” Thao said, describing the potential development as the biggest infusion of capital in East Oakland in decades. “And when we build, we’re going to make sure those jobs go to Oakland residents and that that money stays right here in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11981232,news_11986294,news_11981876\"]Moving forward, Zamora said property taxes from the Coliseum will help the city address some of its structural deficit. To further boost revenue, the mayor’s plan includes an initiative designed to draw filmmakers to the city. The mayor said the initiative will maximize the city’s benefit from productions like the 2018 film \u003cem>Blindspotting\u003c/em>, set in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parts of it were filmed here; however, if 100% of that film was filmed here, and if we had the infrastructure for the film initiative, then that means that about $85 million would have been pushed back as revenues into our economy here,” Thao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office is expected to release its complete mid-cycle budget adjustment plan on Friday. After that, the City Council and labor leaders will weigh in before the June 30 budget deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao welcomed the deal with Oakland-based African American Sports & Entertainment Group, saying it would help close the $117 million budget deficit without laying off city employees.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1722643525,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 12,
"wordCount": 546
},
"headData": {
"title": "Oakland Coliseum Sale Expected to Help City Avoid Drastic Budget Cuts | KQED",
"description": "Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao welcomed the deal with Oakland-based African American Sports & Entertainment Group, saying it would help close the $117 million budget deficit without laying off city employees.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Oakland Coliseum Sale Expected to Help City Avoid Drastic Budget Cuts",
"datePublished": "2024-05-23T15:52:11-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-08-02T17:05:25-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11987568",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland’s plan to sell its share of the Oakland Coliseum Complex will help the city to close its budget deficit without laying off city employees or cutting public safety, Mayor Sheng Thao announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is facing a $117 million shortfall this year and $175 million next year. At a press conference on Thursday, Thao laid out her priorities for the mid-cycle budget adjustment and said Oakland is contending with some of the same financial difficulties as other cities: High interest rates have slowed construction and real estate sales, inflation has led to higher costs, and businesses are still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Oakland got a boost with the announcement on Wednesday that it plans to sell its half of the Coliseum property for at least $105 million to the Oakland-based African American Sports & Entertainment Group. Francis Zamora, spokesperson for the mayor, said the city’s plan has been years in the making, but the timing didn’t hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zamora said the influx of cash means they will no longer go through with their plan to lay off around 100 police officers and between 50 and 90 civil servants. The mayor’s new proposal also no longer includes plans to close four fire stations, cancel some of the city’s police academies, or shorten the hours of some recreation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make up for the remaining shortfall, the mayor’s plan would consolidate some administrative and financial services and initiate a review of the city’s contracts, ending those that are underperforming or non-critical. Just under a hundred unfilled positions, paid for through the city’s general fund, will be frozen and might be eliminated down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said the city is working to develop the Coliseum site with AASEG, which is also in negotiations with the Oakland A’s to buy the other half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working with them to transform the Coliseum Complex into a world-class housing, entertainment, and entertainment center, retail and sports destination,” Thao said, describing the potential development as the biggest infusion of capital in East Oakland in decades. “And when we build, we’re going to make sure those jobs go to Oakland residents and that that money stays right here in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "Related Stories ",
"postid": "news_11981232,news_11986294,news_11981876"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Moving forward, Zamora said property taxes from the Coliseum will help the city address some of its structural deficit. To further boost revenue, the mayor’s plan includes an initiative designed to draw filmmakers to the city. The mayor said the initiative will maximize the city’s benefit from productions like the 2018 film \u003cem>Blindspotting\u003c/em>, set in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parts of it were filmed here; however, if 100% of that film was filmed here, and if we had the infrastructure for the film initiative, then that means that about $85 million would have been pushed back as revenues into our economy here,” Thao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office is expected to release its complete mid-cycle budget adjustment plan on Friday. After that, the City Council and labor leaders will weigh in before the June 30 budget deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts",
"authors": [
"11772"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_27626",
"news_17596",
"news_31962"
],
"featImg": "news_11987572",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11986294": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11986294",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11986294",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1715794248000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1715794248,
"format": "standard",
"title": "With a Bid for Abandoned Coliseum Seats, Oakland Ballers Try to Connect With City's Sports History",
"headTitle": "With a Bid for Abandoned Coliseum Seats, Oakland Ballers Try to Connect With City’s Sports History | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>The new Oakland Ballers independent baseball team hopes to incorporate a bit of Oakland sports history in its renovated ballpark as the club prepares for its opener next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An expansion team in the independent Pioneer League, the “B’s,” are inquiring about purchasing some or all of the approximately 5,000 unused bleacher seats that formerly were brought in for Raiders games at the Oakland Coliseum. The bleachers have been stored outside near a parking lot on the southeast side of the formally dual-purpose stadium since the Raiders departed for Las Vegas after the 2019 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11981232,news_11949532\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Ballers co-founder and CEO Paul Freedman sent a letter Tuesday to Oakland City Councilmember and Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, who is chair of the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum Authority JPA Commission. It is a joint powers agency established by the City of Oakland and the County of Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an innovative and worthwhile idea that I am excited to pursue with the Ballers and with my colleagues at the coliseum authority,” Kaplan said in an email. “Being able to put the previously used seats into positive and productive new use to serve the community would be a win-win example of recycling and creative reuse. I’m glad the Ballers are proposing it and that they are dedicated to being rooted in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1995, the Raiders built a new upper deck section of seats called Mount Davis after late owner Al Davis, a move to lure the team back from Los Angeles to Oakland. However, these seats took away picturesque views of the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moveable bleachers added for game days were part of the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These seats are pretty significant for folks who follow Oakland sports. For me, these are the seats that started it all, like started all the downhill,” Freedman said in a phone interview. “These are the seats that were brought in because the Raiders made a ton of promises about what was going to happen. These are the seats that contributed to, I think, diminishing the Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers will play their first two weeks on the road before they host the Yolo High Wheelers in their home opener on June 4 at Oakland’s Raimondi Park. The team has invested $1.6 million into renovating the park to accommodate 4,000 fans and upgrade the surrounding area — including a playground — for youth baseball, softball and other activities such as movie nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum seats would be incorporated for next year, the club’s second season. Temporary grandstands and infrastructure are going up for the inaugural season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we prepare for Year 1, we are at the same time looking ahead to our long-term future. We hope to continue playing at Raimondi Park after our inaugural season and are planning for what the ballpark will look like in subsequent seasons as we establish our permanent home,” Freedman wrote in the letter, viewed by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To that end, we think there is a great opportunity to repurpose these seats for our future seasons at Raimondi Park. While we anticipate that some of the seats may have experienced deterioration over the years due to exposure to the elements and lack of use, we believe that many seats remain functional. We see the installation of these seats at Raimondi Park as an excellent opportunity to pay tribute to the legacy of Oakland’s major league teams while ensuring that a part of their history lives on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers are prepared to pay $45 per seat, minus removal costs, after researching the value, Freedman said, and they checked with the new Oakland Roots soccer team, and it didn’t have a use for the seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additionally, this initiative presents the Commission with the opportunity to realize several significant benefits, including generating revenue from the sale of the seats, which could be reinvested in enhancing public safety in the area and eliminating the public eyesore that the seats have become,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Baseball owners unanimously approved the A’s relocation to Las Vegas in November, and the team plans to move into a new stadium on the Las Vegas Strip in 2028. The A’s are scheduled to play the next three seasons in Sacramento from 2025-27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The B’s announced their new team last November, with a similar font to the A’s and plans to carry on the city’s green-and-gold color scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freedman can’t wait to see his team continue to honor Oakland’s proud history — with acquiring these seats being another part of that process. He knows they might generate mixed emotions in fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can bring them back and make sure baseball is watched in those seats,” he said. “For those who follow the details of the Oakland sports saga, these seats have a specific significance, and thus, it’s really important for us to try to reclaim them as part of the belief baseball needs to continue in the town.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 882,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 19
},
"modified": 1715799304,
"excerpt": "The new Oakland Ballers independent baseball team hopes to incorporate a bit of Oakland sports history in its renovated ballpark as the club prepares for its opener next month.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The new Oakland Ballers independent baseball team hopes to incorporate a bit of Oakland sports history in its renovated ballpark as the club prepares for its opener next month.",
"title": "With a Bid for Abandoned Coliseum Seats, Oakland Ballers Try to Connect With City's Sports History | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "With a Bid for Abandoned Coliseum Seats, Oakland Ballers Try to Connect With City's Sports History",
"datePublished": "2024-05-15T10:30:48-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-05-15T11:55:04-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "with-a-bid-for-abandoned-coliseum-seats-oakland-ballers-try-to-connect-with-citys-sports-history",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "Janie McCauley, The Associated Press",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"sticky": false,
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"WpOldSlug": "oakland-ballers-pay-homage-to-raiders-with-purchase-of-coliseum-bleacher-seats",
"articleAge": "0",
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11986294",
"path": "/news/11986294/with-a-bid-for-abandoned-coliseum-seats-oakland-ballers-try-to-connect-with-citys-sports-history",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The new Oakland Ballers independent baseball team hopes to incorporate a bit of Oakland sports history in its renovated ballpark as the club prepares for its opener next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An expansion team in the independent Pioneer League, the “B’s,” are inquiring about purchasing some or all of the approximately 5,000 unused bleacher seats that formerly were brought in for Raiders games at the Oakland Coliseum. The bleachers have been stored outside near a parking lot on the southeast side of the formally dual-purpose stadium since the Raiders departed for Las Vegas after the 2019 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11981232,news_11949532",
"label": "Related Stories "
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ballers co-founder and CEO Paul Freedman sent a letter Tuesday to Oakland City Councilmember and Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, who is chair of the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum Authority JPA Commission. It is a joint powers agency established by the City of Oakland and the County of Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an innovative and worthwhile idea that I am excited to pursue with the Ballers and with my colleagues at the coliseum authority,” Kaplan said in an email. “Being able to put the previously used seats into positive and productive new use to serve the community would be a win-win example of recycling and creative reuse. I’m glad the Ballers are proposing it and that they are dedicated to being rooted in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1995, the Raiders built a new upper deck section of seats called Mount Davis after late owner Al Davis, a move to lure the team back from Los Angeles to Oakland. However, these seats took away picturesque views of the Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moveable bleachers added for game days were part of the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These seats are pretty significant for folks who follow Oakland sports. For me, these are the seats that started it all, like started all the downhill,” Freedman said in a phone interview. “These are the seats that were brought in because the Raiders made a ton of promises about what was going to happen. These are the seats that contributed to, I think, diminishing the Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers will play their first two weeks on the road before they host the Yolo High Wheelers in their home opener on June 4 at Oakland’s Raimondi Park. The team has invested $1.6 million into renovating the park to accommodate 4,000 fans and upgrade the surrounding area — including a playground — for youth baseball, softball and other activities such as movie nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum seats would be incorporated for next year, the club’s second season. Temporary grandstands and infrastructure are going up for the inaugural season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we prepare for Year 1, we are at the same time looking ahead to our long-term future. We hope to continue playing at Raimondi Park after our inaugural season and are planning for what the ballpark will look like in subsequent seasons as we establish our permanent home,” Freedman wrote in the letter, viewed by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To that end, we think there is a great opportunity to repurpose these seats for our future seasons at Raimondi Park. While we anticipate that some of the seats may have experienced deterioration over the years due to exposure to the elements and lack of use, we believe that many seats remain functional. We see the installation of these seats at Raimondi Park as an excellent opportunity to pay tribute to the legacy of Oakland’s major league teams while ensuring that a part of their history lives on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers are prepared to pay $45 per seat, minus removal costs, after researching the value, Freedman said, and they checked with the new Oakland Roots soccer team, and it didn’t have a use for the seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Additionally, this initiative presents the Commission with the opportunity to realize several significant benefits, including generating revenue from the sale of the seats, which could be reinvested in enhancing public safety in the area and eliminating the public eyesore that the seats have become,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Baseball owners unanimously approved the A’s relocation to Las Vegas in November, and the team plans to move into a new stadium on the Las Vegas Strip in 2028. The A’s are scheduled to play the next three seasons in Sacramento from 2025-27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The B’s announced their new team last November, with a similar font to the A’s and plans to carry on the city’s green-and-gold color scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freedman can’t wait to see his team continue to honor Oakland’s proud history — with acquiring these seats being another part of that process. He knows they might generate mixed emotions in fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can bring them back and make sure baseball is watched in those seats,” he said. “For those who follow the details of the Oakland sports saga, these seats have a specific significance, and thus, it’s really important for us to try to reclaim them as part of the belief baseball needs to continue in the town.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11986294/with-a-bid-for-abandoned-coliseum-seats-oakland-ballers-try-to-connect-with-citys-sports-history",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11986294"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_18203",
"news_33130"
],
"featImg": "news_11986343",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11985802": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11985802",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11985802",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1715390063000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1715390063,
"format": "standard",
"title": "UC President Recommends UCLA Pay Cal Berkeley $10 Million Per Year for 6 Years Over Bruins' Big Ten Move",
"headTitle": "UC President Recommends UCLA Pay Cal Berkeley $10 Million Per Year for 6 Years Over Bruins’ Big Ten Move | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>The University of California Board of Regents is expected to accept a recommendation that UCLA pay University of California at Berkeley $10 million a year for six years as a result of the Bruins’ upcoming move to the Big Ten and the demise of the Pac-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendation was made by UC president Michael Drake and will be voted on during a regents meeting Tuesday at UC Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order for the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sports-education-california-big-ten-conference-4ebdb9c736f46ca0a97610e87f08de97\">Regents to affirm UCLA’s move to the Big Ten\u003c/a> in December, 2022, the university agreed to pay UC Berkeley between $2 million and $10 million because of how the move would affect the Cal athletic program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal agreed to join the Atlantic Coast Conference last year after the Pac-12 couldn’t negotiate a media deal, causing eight of its members to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides increased travel costs, Cal will have a reduced share of the ACC’s media rights deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report by UC’s president, the difference between UCLA’s annual media rights distribution from the Big Ten and UC Berkeley’s share from the ACC will be approximately $50 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake is also recommending that if there is a significant change in revenues and/or expenses for either school, exceeding 10% over 2024–25 projections, UCLA’s contribution can be reevaluated by the regents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA and the University of Southern California announced on June 30, 2022, that they were leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten. USC is private and not part of the UC system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Regents became involved shortly after the announcement when Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized UCLA’s move because chancellor Gene Block and athletic director Martin Jarmond did not give advance notice to the regents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101893987,news_11959989\"]In 1991, campus chancellors were delegated authority by the UC Office of the President to execute their own contracts, including intercollegiate athletic agreements. But the regents heard during an August 2022, meeting that they retain the authority to review decisions impacting the UC system, meaning they could affirm, overturn or abstain from following up on UCLA’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Regents voted four months later to let the move go ahead. Besides the payments to its sister school, UCLA agreed to make further investments for athletes, including nutritional support, mental health services, academic support while traveling and charter flights to reduce travel time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the very beginning we said we understand we may need to help Berkeley. We’re OK with it and happy it is resolved,” Block said after the regents approved the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 450,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 14
},
"modified": 1715390351,
"excerpt": "UCLA agreed to pay UC Berkeley between $2 million and $10 million because of how the move would affect the Cal athletic program.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "UCLA agreed to pay UC Berkeley between $2 million and $10 million because of how the move would affect the Cal athletic program.",
"title": "UC President Recommends UCLA Pay Cal Berkeley $10 Million Per Year for 6 Years Over Bruins' Big Ten Move | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "UC President Recommends UCLA Pay Cal Berkeley $10 Million Per Year for 6 Years Over Bruins' Big Ten Move",
"datePublished": "2024-05-10T18:14:23-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-05-10T18:19:11-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "uc-president-recommends-ucla-pay-cal-berkeley-10-million-per-year-for-6-years-over-bruins-big-ten-move",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "Joe Reedy\u003cbr>Associated Press",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"sticky": false,
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11985802",
"path": "/news/11985802/uc-president-recommends-ucla-pay-cal-berkeley-10-million-per-year-for-6-years-over-bruins-big-ten-move",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The University of California Board of Regents is expected to accept a recommendation that UCLA pay University of California at Berkeley $10 million a year for six years as a result of the Bruins’ upcoming move to the Big Ten and the demise of the Pac-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendation was made by UC president Michael Drake and will be voted on during a regents meeting Tuesday at UC Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order for the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sports-education-california-big-ten-conference-4ebdb9c736f46ca0a97610e87f08de97\">Regents to affirm UCLA’s move to the Big Ten\u003c/a> in December, 2022, the university agreed to pay UC Berkeley between $2 million and $10 million because of how the move would affect the Cal athletic program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal agreed to join the Atlantic Coast Conference last year after the Pac-12 couldn’t negotiate a media deal, causing eight of its members to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides increased travel costs, Cal will have a reduced share of the ACC’s media rights deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report by UC’s president, the difference between UCLA’s annual media rights distribution from the Big Ten and UC Berkeley’s share from the ACC will be approximately $50 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake is also recommending that if there is a significant change in revenues and/or expenses for either school, exceeding 10% over 2024–25 projections, UCLA’s contribution can be reevaluated by the regents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA and the University of Southern California announced on June 30, 2022, that they were leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten. USC is private and not part of the UC system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Regents became involved shortly after the announcement when Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized UCLA’s move because chancellor Gene Block and athletic director Martin Jarmond did not give advance notice to the regents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "Related Stories ",
"postid": "forum_2010101893987,news_11959989"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 1991, campus chancellors were delegated authority by the UC Office of the President to execute their own contracts, including intercollegiate athletic agreements. But the regents heard during an August 2022, meeting that they retain the authority to review decisions impacting the UC system, meaning they could affirm, overturn or abstain from following up on UCLA’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Regents voted four months later to let the move go ahead. Besides the payments to its sister school, UCLA agreed to make further investments for athletes, including nutritional support, mental health services, academic support while traveling and charter flights to reduce travel time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the very beginning we said we understand we may need to help Berkeley. We’re OK with it and happy it is resolved,” Block said after the regents approved the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11985802/uc-president-recommends-ucla-pay-cal-berkeley-10-million-per-year-for-6-years-over-bruins-big-ten-move",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11985802"
],
"categories": [
"news_18540",
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_20013",
"news_111",
"news_17597",
"news_2792"
],
"featImg": "news_11985803",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11985145": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11985145",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11985145",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1715092232000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "its-a-408-vs-510-showdown-as-san-jose-earthquakes-take-on-oakland-roots",
"title": "It’s a 408 vs. 510 Showdown as San Jose Earthquakes Take on Oakland Roots",
"publishDate": 1715092232,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "It’s a 408 vs. 510 Showdown as San Jose Earthquakes Take on Oakland Roots | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>This year’s U.S. Open Cup keeps getting better and better for Bay Area soccer fans. After knocking out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983120/a-new-bay-area-clasico-sfs-el-farolito-and-oakland-roots-set-to-battle-in-hayward\">San Francisco’s El Farolito in the previous round\u003c/a>, Oakland Roots Soccer Club will play against the San Jose Earthquakes on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in San José’s PayPal Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The game will also be streamed live. \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/watch?matchId=5d5a6a7a-70df-4007-8429-3eec21629119\">\u003ci>You can watch it here.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever wins will move forward to the fifth round of the Open Cup, the oldest soccer competition in the country that brings teams together that usually play in different leagues — the Earthquakes compete in the Major League Soccer and the Roots in the United Soccer League Championship, for example. The stakes are high: whoever ends up winning the Open Cup will also be granted a spot in next year’s Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Champions Cup. And thanks to the tournament’s open format, you get very original matchups that you won’t see anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In none of the “Big Four” sports leagues — the MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL — does a team repping the South Bay face off against an East Bay team. But in soccer, anything can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Earthquakes are coming into this match fresh off a 3–1 win against SoCal rival Los Angeles FC on Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, a game that \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/san-jose-earthquakes-bounce-back-against-lafc-derby-games-are-always-different#:~:text=L%C3%B3pez%20debuts,with%20options%20for%202027%2D28.\">drew in more than 43,000 fans\u003c/a>, many of them \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjearthquakes.com/news/match-highlights-quakes-dominate-lafc-in-3-1-win-at-levi-s-stadium\">hyped to see the Bay Area once again #BeatLA\u003c/a>. Due to competition rules, the South Bay team is jumping into the Open Cup this year, along with a handful of other MLS teams, much later, during the tournament’s fourth round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2–1 victory against El Farolito on April 16 was the last time the Roots won a game, with the East Bay team unable to notch a win in their recent regular league matches. And despite their stadiums being a 30-minute drive away from each other, the Roots and Quakes have only played against each other once before: a 3–2 win for the Quakes at PayPal Park \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjearthquakes.com/news/news-earthquakes-to-host-oakland-roots-sc-in-2024-lamar-hunt-u-s-open-cup-round-of-32-on-may-7\">during the 2021 preseason\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roots are feeling excited about this second opportunity to play the Quakes. “Facing an MLS team, you have to be fully prepared,” said Tommy Hodul, vice president of public relations for the Roots. “But there’s nothing that we can’t accomplish in that game with the staff and the players that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of two men dressed in soccer uniforms with the man on the right covering his mouth with his shirt.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Elmasnaouy, #45 of the Oakland Roots, celebrates scoring a goal during the U.S. Open Cup third-round match between the Oakland Roots and El Farolito on April 16, 2024, at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Doug Zimmerman/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images for USSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This 510 vs. 408 area codes matchup also brings together a lot of homegrown soccer talent, with Bay Area-born-and-raised players featured on both rosters — and winning matches as well. In the match against El Farolito, Roots midfielder and Berkeley High alum Ali Elmasnaouy not only played his first game for the team, but the 19-year-old also scored the tie-breaking goal in overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A local kid scoring the game-winning goal in his professional debut for his hometown team —it doesn’t get much more special than that,” Hodul said. “It’s really special to see players from the 510 area code making it at the professional level through our club.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When local clubs seek out local talent, it doesn’t just benefit those clubs, but it also boosts soccer’s overall place in a community. Simon Tobin, head coach of men’s soccer at San José State University, has seen firsthand how quickly soccer has grown throughout California in the past few decades and said that local clubs, in particular, have helped boost the love for the sport among fans and young players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when the NFL or the NBA were what local great athletes were looking towards,” he said. “I think the arrival of the MLS and especially the Quakes in this community gives local kids that aspiration to play at the top level in this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11983120,news_11961286,news_11952128\" label=\"Related Stories\"]And the Bay is currently experiencing a boom of local professional teams: in 2021, the Earthquakes announced the creation of their very own MLS Next Pro team, now called The Town FC, which plays at Saint Mary’s Stadium in Contra Costa County and also serves as the Quakes’ reserve squad. For its part, the Roots launched in 2021 the all-female Oakland Soul team, which plays in the USL W League. And just this year, the Bay FC kicked off its first game \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980330/a-new-pro-womens-soccer-team-kicks-off-in-the-bay\">as the Bay Area’s first-ever National Women’s Soccer League team\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many more pro teams in the Bay, fans are winning too, Tobin said. “It’s starting to mirror a little bit what you see if you live in South America or Europe, where you’ve got two or three teams in your vicinity, and you have a strong allegiance for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as soccer grows in the U.S., so does the role of money, especially in the sport’s premier league, the MLS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, MLS teams \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkwakefield/2024/03/08/big-brands-like-apple-buy-the-mls-pitch-our-soccer-is-calling/?sh=4a48a5d56ddd\">made 15% more in sponsorship revenue\u003c/a> — nearly $600 million more than the previous year. A factor in that seems to be Argentinean superstar Lionel Messi’s move to Inter Miami. Having a big name like Messi can turbocharge a fanbase — and sponsors — but \u003ca href=\"https://theathletic.com/4674349/2023/07/10/messi-miami-beckham-money/\">it also represents a big financial responsibility to the team\u003c/a>. After all, Inter Miami has agreed to pay Messi $60 million a year (compare that to the $47.61 million that LeBron James got paid this season). As for the Quakes, they’re also going in for some big contracts: last month, the San Jose team spent a club-record $6 million to bring in Argentine midfielder Hernán López.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985172\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men wearing soccer uniforms on a soccer field are huddled together.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Earthquakes huddle before a game between Los Angeles FC and San Jose Earthquakes at Levi’s Stadium on May 4, 2024 in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(John Todd/ISI Photos/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, this recent wave of investment has \u003ca href=\"https://www.backheeled.com/mls-leave-us-open-cup-usl-lower-division-preach-importance/\">also changed the relationship between the MLS and the Open Cup\u003c/a>. Because the Open Cup welcomes teams from all different leagues, MLS teams often play against much smaller teams with fewer resources, and the Cup’s match schedule \u003ca href=\"https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/why-mls-teams-withdraw-us-open-cup-2024-tournament-decision/b9a77a56ebcdc164e9ed0bb0#:~:text=In%20mid%2DDecember%20of%202023,soccer%20competition%20in%20the%20country.\">interferes with the increasingly busy MLS calendar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, ESPN reported that MLS Commissioner Don Garber \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37638582/mls-commissioner-garber-criticizes-state-us-open-cup\">publicly shared his disappointment with the much smaller reach Open Cup games have\u003c/a>. “I would say that they’re not games that we would want our product to be shown to a large audience … So I appreciate the enthusiasm about it, but we need to get better with the U.S. Open Cup,” he said. “It’s just not the proper reflection of what soccer in America at the professional level needs to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the number of MLS teams in the Open Cup is also dwindling. In 2023, all 26 teams in the league played. And the MLS \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-plans-to-be-represented-by-mls-next-pro-clubs-in-2024-us-open-cup?ref=backheeled.com\">originally intended for no MLS teams to participate this year\u003c/a> but reached a deal with the U.S. Soccer Federation, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/why-mls-teams-withdraw-us-open-cup-2024-tournament-decision/b9a77a56ebcdc164e9ed0bb0#:~:text=In%20mid%2DDecember%20of%202023,soccer%20competition%20in%20the%20country.\">struck a deal to have eight teams come in this time\u003c/a>, the Quakes being one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s uncertain how many MLS teams will appear in next year’s Open Cup, making Tuesday’s uniquely Bay Area matchup between the Quakes and Roots even more special.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "The Oakland Roots face against the San Jose Earthquakes in the fourth round of the U.S. Open Cup. Here’s when and where to watch or stream this uniquely Bay Area game.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721133451,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 21,
"wordCount": 1323
},
"headData": {
"title": "It’s a 408 vs. 510 Showdown as San Jose Earthquakes Take on Oakland Roots | KQED",
"description": "The Oakland Roots face against the San Jose Earthquakes in the fourth round of the U.S. Open Cup. Here’s when and where to watch or stream this uniquely Bay Area game.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "It’s a 408 vs. 510 Showdown as San Jose Earthquakes Take on Oakland Roots",
"datePublished": "2024-05-07T07:30:32-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-16T05:37:31-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-11985145",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11985145/its-a-408-vs-510-showdown-as-san-jose-earthquakes-take-on-oakland-roots",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This year’s U.S. Open Cup keeps getting better and better for Bay Area soccer fans. After knocking out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983120/a-new-bay-area-clasico-sfs-el-farolito-and-oakland-roots-set-to-battle-in-hayward\">San Francisco’s El Farolito in the previous round\u003c/a>, Oakland Roots Soccer Club will play against the San Jose Earthquakes on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in San José’s PayPal Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The game will also be streamed live. \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/watch?matchId=5d5a6a7a-70df-4007-8429-3eec21629119\">\u003ci>You can watch it here.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever wins will move forward to the fifth round of the Open Cup, the oldest soccer competition in the country that brings teams together that usually play in different leagues — the Earthquakes compete in the Major League Soccer and the Roots in the United Soccer League Championship, for example. The stakes are high: whoever ends up winning the Open Cup will also be granted a spot in next year’s Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Champions Cup. And thanks to the tournament’s open format, you get very original matchups that you won’t see anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In none of the “Big Four” sports leagues — the MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL — does a team repping the South Bay face off against an East Bay team. But in soccer, anything can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Earthquakes are coming into this match fresh off a 3–1 win against SoCal rival Los Angeles FC on Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, a game that \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/san-jose-earthquakes-bounce-back-against-lafc-derby-games-are-always-different#:~:text=L%C3%B3pez%20debuts,with%20options%20for%202027%2D28.\">drew in more than 43,000 fans\u003c/a>, many of them \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjearthquakes.com/news/match-highlights-quakes-dominate-lafc-in-3-1-win-at-levi-s-stadium\">hyped to see the Bay Area once again #BeatLA\u003c/a>. Due to competition rules, the South Bay team is jumping into the Open Cup this year, along with a handful of other MLS teams, much later, during the tournament’s fourth round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2–1 victory against El Farolito on April 16 was the last time the Roots won a game, with the East Bay team unable to notch a win in their recent regular league matches. And despite their stadiums being a 30-minute drive away from each other, the Roots and Quakes have only played against each other once before: a 3–2 win for the Quakes at PayPal Park \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjearthquakes.com/news/news-earthquakes-to-host-oakland-roots-sc-in-2024-lamar-hunt-u-s-open-cup-round-of-32-on-may-7\">during the 2021 preseason\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roots are feeling excited about this second opportunity to play the Quakes. “Facing an MLS team, you have to be fully prepared,” said Tommy Hodul, vice president of public relations for the Roots. “But there’s nothing that we can’t accomplish in that game with the staff and the players that we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of two men dressed in soccer uniforms with the man on the right covering his mouth with his shirt.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2149318986-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Elmasnaouy, #45 of the Oakland Roots, celebrates scoring a goal during the U.S. Open Cup third-round match between the Oakland Roots and El Farolito on April 16, 2024, at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward. \u003ccite>(Doug Zimmerman/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images for USSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This 510 vs. 408 area codes matchup also brings together a lot of homegrown soccer talent, with Bay Area-born-and-raised players featured on both rosters — and winning matches as well. In the match against El Farolito, Roots midfielder and Berkeley High alum Ali Elmasnaouy not only played his first game for the team, but the 19-year-old also scored the tie-breaking goal in overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A local kid scoring the game-winning goal in his professional debut for his hometown team —it doesn’t get much more special than that,” Hodul said. “It’s really special to see players from the 510 area code making it at the professional level through our club.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When local clubs seek out local talent, it doesn’t just benefit those clubs, but it also boosts soccer’s overall place in a community. Simon Tobin, head coach of men’s soccer at San José State University, has seen firsthand how quickly soccer has grown throughout California in the past few decades and said that local clubs, in particular, have helped boost the love for the sport among fans and young players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when the NFL or the NBA were what local great athletes were looking towards,” he said. “I think the arrival of the MLS and especially the Quakes in this community gives local kids that aspiration to play at the top level in this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11983120,news_11961286,news_11952128",
"label": "Related Stories "
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And the Bay is currently experiencing a boom of local professional teams: in 2021, the Earthquakes announced the creation of their very own MLS Next Pro team, now called The Town FC, which plays at Saint Mary’s Stadium in Contra Costa County and also serves as the Quakes’ reserve squad. For its part, the Roots launched in 2021 the all-female Oakland Soul team, which plays in the USL W League. And just this year, the Bay FC kicked off its first game \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980330/a-new-pro-womens-soccer-team-kicks-off-in-the-bay\">as the Bay Area’s first-ever National Women’s Soccer League team\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many more pro teams in the Bay, fans are winning too, Tobin said. “It’s starting to mirror a little bit what you see if you live in South America or Europe, where you’ve got two or three teams in your vicinity, and you have a strong allegiance for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as soccer grows in the U.S., so does the role of money, especially in the sport’s premier league, the MLS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, MLS teams \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/kirkwakefield/2024/03/08/big-brands-like-apple-buy-the-mls-pitch-our-soccer-is-calling/?sh=4a48a5d56ddd\">made 15% more in sponsorship revenue\u003c/a> — nearly $600 million more than the previous year. A factor in that seems to be Argentinean superstar Lionel Messi’s move to Inter Miami. Having a big name like Messi can turbocharge a fanbase — and sponsors — but \u003ca href=\"https://theathletic.com/4674349/2023/07/10/messi-miami-beckham-money/\">it also represents a big financial responsibility to the team\u003c/a>. After all, Inter Miami has agreed to pay Messi $60 million a year (compare that to the $47.61 million that LeBron James got paid this season). As for the Quakes, they’re also going in for some big contracts: last month, the San Jose team spent a club-record $6 million to bring in Argentine midfielder Hernán López.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11985172\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men wearing soccer uniforms on a soccer field are huddled together.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-2151500763-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Earthquakes huddle before a game between Los Angeles FC and San Jose Earthquakes at Levi’s Stadium on May 4, 2024 in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(John Todd/ISI Photos/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, this recent wave of investment has \u003ca href=\"https://www.backheeled.com/mls-leave-us-open-cup-usl-lower-division-preach-importance/\">also changed the relationship between the MLS and the Open Cup\u003c/a>. Because the Open Cup welcomes teams from all different leagues, MLS teams often play against much smaller teams with fewer resources, and the Cup’s match schedule \u003ca href=\"https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/why-mls-teams-withdraw-us-open-cup-2024-tournament-decision/b9a77a56ebcdc164e9ed0bb0#:~:text=In%20mid%2DDecember%20of%202023,soccer%20competition%20in%20the%20country.\">interferes with the increasingly busy MLS calendar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, ESPN reported that MLS Commissioner Don Garber \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37638582/mls-commissioner-garber-criticizes-state-us-open-cup\">publicly shared his disappointment with the much smaller reach Open Cup games have\u003c/a>. “I would say that they’re not games that we would want our product to be shown to a large audience … So I appreciate the enthusiasm about it, but we need to get better with the U.S. Open Cup,” he said. “It’s just not the proper reflection of what soccer in America at the professional level needs to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the number of MLS teams in the Open Cup is also dwindling. In 2023, all 26 teams in the league played. And the MLS \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-plans-to-be-represented-by-mls-next-pro-clubs-in-2024-us-open-cup?ref=backheeled.com\">originally intended for no MLS teams to participate this year\u003c/a> but reached a deal with the U.S. Soccer Federation, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/why-mls-teams-withdraw-us-open-cup-2024-tournament-decision/b9a77a56ebcdc164e9ed0bb0#:~:text=In%20mid%2DDecember%20of%202023,soccer%20competition%20in%20the%20country.\">struck a deal to have eight teams come in this time\u003c/a>, the Quakes being one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s uncertain how many MLS teams will appear in next year’s Open Cup, making Tuesday’s uniquely Bay Area matchup between the Quakes and Roots even more special.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11985145/its-a-408-vs-510-showdown-as-san-jose-earthquakes-take-on-oakland-roots",
"authors": [
"11708"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_32793",
"news_1489",
"news_34078"
],
"featImg": "news_11985149",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11983120": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11983120",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11983120",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1713301252000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "a-new-bay-area-clasico-sfs-el-farolito-and-oakland-roots-set-to-battle-in-hayward",
"title": "A New Bay Area Clásico? SF's El Farolito and Oakland Roots Set to Battle in Hayward",
"publishDate": 1713301252,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "A New Bay Area Clásico? SF’s El Farolito and Oakland Roots Set to Battle in Hayward | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Two Bay Area teams — one hailing from San Francisco and the other representing Oakland — face off on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both teams boast storied histories and steadfast fans. But this isn’t the Giants and A’s we’re talking about, but rather \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/watch?matchId=cd399be4-9cc2-4806-aeb9-dd2ae5b927e7\">San Francisco’s El Farolito soccer team vs. Oakland Roots Soccer Club\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This crucial match, kicking off at Cal State East Bay’s Pioneer Stadium in Hayward at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, marks the third round of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/\">U.S. Open Cup\u003c/a> — the oldest soccer competition in the country that brings teams together that usually play in different leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Stream the game \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/watch?matchId=cd399be4-9cc2-4806-aeb9-dd2ae5b927e7\">live here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for everything you need to know about this uniquely Bay Area face-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The taquería that started a soccer team\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the San Francisco team name sounds familiar to you, that’s because, yes, it’s named after the longstanding local taquería chain El Farolito, with 12 locations all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Santiago López, head coach and general manager, El Farolito soccer team\"]‘The group is very motivated for this opportunity.’[/pullquote]The taquería chain’s founder Salvador López, who passed away in 2021, started the team in 1985, and whose players sport a bright yellow and blue soccer kit in the same color palette you’ll see in any of the El Farolito taquerías. Since its inception in 1985, the team — which has now risen to play in the semi-professional National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) — has charted a very successful path for itself, winning multiple regional and national championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Farolito players balance all the responsibilities of being on the team with other full-time jobs. Some, like goalkeeper Julian Escobar, grew up in the Bay Area and came up playing for other local teams. But many in the team were recruited from professional teams across Latin America — striker Dembor Benson, for example, was a professional player in Honduras before joining El Farolito, \u003ca href=\"https://thecup.us/2024/04/15/2024-us-open-cup-round-2-dembor-benson-of-el-farolito-voted-thecup-us-player-of-the-round/\">where he has stood out in this year’s Open Cup, scoring the winning goal in the last two matches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s a special energy this year among the team, says head coach and general manager Santiago López, who is Salvador’s son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11961286,news_11952128,news_11915080\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The team started training in early January, much earlier than in previous years – something that combined with extra preseason games “really helped us out to get the team together and get into the competition mentality and the weekly routine,” López says. “If it wasn’t for the early start, we wouldn’t be in this type of rhythm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Win it all or lose it all in one game’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The El Farolito team has started the season without missing a single beat. The team is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npsl.com/schedule-2024/\">currently leading the standings for their conference in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL\u003c/a>) with three wins and one draw. All of this is happening as they \u003ci>also \u003c/i>play in the Open Cup, where teams from all over the country compete in a knockout format.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was El Farolito’s first win in this year’s competition — against Timbers 2, the reserve squad for the Portland Timbers of the Major League Soccer — \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/burritooooooooooal-el-farolito-team-beats-major-league-soccer-affiliate/\">that brought renewed attention to the team and its unique standing in San Francisco’s Mission District\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done a lot more interviews and seen more photographers coming out,” López says of the heightened attention on his team. But his players nonetheless “still have a lot of ground to cover,” he says. “The group is very motivated for this opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Motivation will be critical in Tuesday’s game against the Oakland Roots — the same team that knocked out El Farolito 3-1 in last year’s Open Cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roots, along with 15 other USL Championship clubs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uslchampionship.com/news_article/show/1306095\">are joining the Open Cup in the third round due to competition rules\u003c/a>. The East Bay team is coming in hot after a 3-2 win against El Paso Locomotive in the USL Championship season, putting them back in the clear for playoffs. With two goals in that match, forward Johnny Rodriguez became the team’s all-time league scorer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The knockout format of the Open Cup will make Tuesday’s game especially exciting, says Tommy Hodul, vice president of public relations for the Roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can win it all or lose it all in one game,” Hodul says, adding that “you have to prepare just as well as you do for a USL Championship game — no matter who the opponent is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite playing in different leagues, the Roots and El Farolito usually play each other during the preseason, and Hodul says his team is “well aware of what [El Farolito] brings, and the talent that they have on the roster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playing against El Farolito, he says, is “a really good test for our guys getting ready for the USL Championship season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Soccer is here to stay in the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For longtime soccer fans all over the Bay Area, Tuesday’s game is another example of how much soccer has grown in strength locally. In a time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons\">when other sports are seeing teams leave the Bay\u003c/a>, soccer’s role in the region’s identity has only grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Bay FC kicked off their season — a first for the team and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980330/a-new-pro-womens-soccer-team-kicks-off-in-the-bay\">for Northern California, its first National Women’s Soccer League team\u003c/a>. A year before that, Oakland Soul — part of the Roots organization — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915080/oakland-roots-soccer-club-to-start-new-amateur-womens-team\">joined the USL W League\u003c/a>. And even the most casual of soccer fans had to admire the latest kit released by USL League Two’s San Francisco City FC, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFCityFC/status/1772658868058730637/\">which features bright orange California poppies, Sutro Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge and the parrots that flock on Telegraph Hill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If El Farolito goes on to win the Open Cup, it would be a replay almost three decades in the making. The team already tasted championship glory in this competition back in 1993, when it went by the name of CD Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very focused on what we need to do,” coach López says.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "After two wins, El Farolito faces off against the Oakland Roots on Tuesday in the third round of the U.S. Open Cup. Get the details on when and where to watch or stream the game.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721126950,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 25,
"wordCount": 1105
},
"headData": {
"title": "A New Bay Area Clásico? SF's El Farolito and Oakland Roots Set to Battle in Hayward | KQED",
"description": "After two wins, El Farolito faces off against the Oakland Roots on Tuesday in the third round of the U.S. Open Cup. Get the details on when and where to watch or stream the game.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "A New Bay Area Clásico? SF's El Farolito and Oakland Roots Set to Battle in Hayward",
"datePublished": "2024-04-16T14:00:52-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-16T03:49:10-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11983120/a-new-bay-area-clasico-sfs-el-farolito-and-oakland-roots-set-to-battle-in-hayward",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two Bay Area teams — one hailing from San Francisco and the other representing Oakland — face off on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both teams boast storied histories and steadfast fans. But this isn’t the Giants and A’s we’re talking about, but rather \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/watch?matchId=cd399be4-9cc2-4806-aeb9-dd2ae5b927e7\">San Francisco’s El Farolito soccer team vs. Oakland Roots Soccer Club\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This crucial match, kicking off at Cal State East Bay’s Pioneer Stadium in Hayward at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, marks the third round of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/\">U.S. Open Cup\u003c/a> — the oldest soccer competition in the country that brings teams together that usually play in different leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Stream the game \u003ca href=\"https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/watch?matchId=cd399be4-9cc2-4806-aeb9-dd2ae5b927e7\">live here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for everything you need to know about this uniquely Bay Area face-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The taquería that started a soccer team\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the San Francisco team name sounds familiar to you, that’s because, yes, it’s named after the longstanding local taquería chain El Farolito, with 12 locations all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "‘The group is very motivated for this opportunity.’",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"size": "medium",
"align": "right",
"citation": "Santiago López, head coach and general manager, El Farolito soccer team",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The taquería chain’s founder Salvador López, who passed away in 2021, started the team in 1985, and whose players sport a bright yellow and blue soccer kit in the same color palette you’ll see in any of the El Farolito taquerías. Since its inception in 1985, the team — which has now risen to play in the semi-professional National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) — has charted a very successful path for itself, winning multiple regional and national championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Farolito players balance all the responsibilities of being on the team with other full-time jobs. Some, like goalkeeper Julian Escobar, grew up in the Bay Area and came up playing for other local teams. But many in the team were recruited from professional teams across Latin America — striker Dembor Benson, for example, was a professional player in Honduras before joining El Farolito, \u003ca href=\"https://thecup.us/2024/04/15/2024-us-open-cup-round-2-dembor-benson-of-el-farolito-voted-thecup-us-player-of-the-round/\">where he has stood out in this year’s Open Cup, scoring the winning goal in the last two matches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s a special energy this year among the team, says head coach and general manager Santiago López, who is Salvador’s son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11961286,news_11952128,news_11915080",
"label": "Related Stories "
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The team started training in early January, much earlier than in previous years – something that combined with extra preseason games “really helped us out to get the team together and get into the competition mentality and the weekly routine,” López says. “If it wasn’t for the early start, we wouldn’t be in this type of rhythm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Win it all or lose it all in one game’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The El Farolito team has started the season without missing a single beat. The team is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npsl.com/schedule-2024/\">currently leading the standings for their conference in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL\u003c/a>) with three wins and one draw. All of this is happening as they \u003ci>also \u003c/i>play in the Open Cup, where teams from all over the country compete in a knockout format.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was El Farolito’s first win in this year’s competition — against Timbers 2, the reserve squad for the Portland Timbers of the Major League Soccer — \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/burritooooooooooal-el-farolito-team-beats-major-league-soccer-affiliate/\">that brought renewed attention to the team and its unique standing in San Francisco’s Mission District\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done a lot more interviews and seen more photographers coming out,” López says of the heightened attention on his team. But his players nonetheless “still have a lot of ground to cover,” he says. “The group is very motivated for this opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Motivation will be critical in Tuesday’s game against the Oakland Roots — the same team that knocked out El Farolito 3-1 in last year’s Open Cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roots, along with 15 other USL Championship clubs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uslchampionship.com/news_article/show/1306095\">are joining the Open Cup in the third round due to competition rules\u003c/a>. The East Bay team is coming in hot after a 3-2 win against El Paso Locomotive in the USL Championship season, putting them back in the clear for playoffs. With two goals in that match, forward Johnny Rodriguez became the team’s all-time league scorer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The knockout format of the Open Cup will make Tuesday’s game especially exciting, says Tommy Hodul, vice president of public relations for the Roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can win it all or lose it all in one game,” Hodul says, adding that “you have to prepare just as well as you do for a USL Championship game — no matter who the opponent is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite playing in different leagues, the Roots and El Farolito usually play each other during the preseason, and Hodul says his team is “well aware of what [El Farolito] brings, and the talent that they have on the roster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playing against El Farolito, he says, is “a really good test for our guys getting ready for the USL Championship season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Soccer is here to stay in the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For longtime soccer fans all over the Bay Area, Tuesday’s game is another example of how much soccer has grown in strength locally. In a time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons\">when other sports are seeing teams leave the Bay\u003c/a>, soccer’s role in the region’s identity has only grown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Bay FC kicked off their season — a first for the team and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980330/a-new-pro-womens-soccer-team-kicks-off-in-the-bay\">for Northern California, its first National Women’s Soccer League team\u003c/a>. A year before that, Oakland Soul — part of the Roots organization — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915080/oakland-roots-soccer-club-to-start-new-amateur-womens-team\">joined the USL W League\u003c/a>. And even the most casual of soccer fans had to admire the latest kit released by USL League Two’s San Francisco City FC, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFCityFC/status/1772658868058730637/\">which features bright orange California poppies, Sutro Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge and the parrots that flock on Telegraph Hill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If El Farolito goes on to win the Open Cup, it would be a replay almost three decades in the making. The team already tasted championship glory in this competition back in 1993, when it went by the name of CD Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very focused on what we need to do,” coach López says.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11983120/a-new-bay-area-clasico-sfs-el-farolito-and-oakland-roots-set-to-battle-in-hayward",
"authors": [
"11708"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_32793",
"news_20013",
"news_27626",
"news_38",
"news_1489",
"news_34078",
"news_28623"
],
"featImg": "news_11983111",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11982105": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11982105",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11982105",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1712487634000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "gavin-newsom-says-baseball-saved-him-but-the-legend-of-his-career-doesnt-always-match-the-reality",
"title": "Gavin Newsom Says Baseball Saved Him. But the Legend of His Career Doesn’t Always Match the Reality",
"publishDate": 1712487634,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Gavin Newsom Says Baseball Saved Him. But the Legend of His Career Doesn’t Always Match the Reality | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 18481,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>For their 2004 home opener, the San Francisco Giants invited a special guest to throw the ceremonial first pitch: Gavin Newsom, then just a few months into his first term as mayor of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Newsom took the pitcher’s mound, wearing dress shoes and a button-down shirt underneath his custom Giants jersey, the announcer informed the crowd that “he played first base for the University of Santa Clara and was drafted by the Texas Rangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The introduction was quickly overshadowed by Newsom nearly hitting a photographer with the ball. But it left a lasting impact on a few attendees that day — a group of former Santa Clara University baseball players who were struck by the glowing treatment of Newsom’s resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of the standing joke that Newsom played on the team,” said Vince Machi, who arrived at Santa Clara in 1985, the same year as Newsom, and played baseball for three years. “There’s always been kind of a joke between the guys who stay in touch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years later, as the Giants kick off their latest home season Friday, Newsom is now a national political figure — not just an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/newsom-desantis-debate/\">outspoken champion of the Democratic Party\u003c/a> but a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/10/gavin-newsom-campaign-president/\">potential future presidential contender\u003c/a>. He regularly appears on cable news to discuss California policies and attack Republicans. Lately he has traveled the country as a leading surrogate for President Biden’s re-election campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through his rise over the intervening two decades, his baseball career has provided Newsom a triumphant narrative to push back on the perception that his upbringing was privileged and easy: The high school standout scouted by the major leagues, who overcame his dyslexia and academic shortcomings to earn a partial scholarship to Santa Clara University before an injury forced him to find a new purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has become so closely associated with Newsom that “Saturday Night Live” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpNCwUzIPtU\">opened a show in March with a sketch\u003c/a> where the Democratic governor, portrayed by Michael Longfellow, defends President Biden’s mental fitness by recounting: “The other day he was taking a nap and I whipped a baseball at him and he caught it like De Niro in ‘Awakenings.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Vince Machi, former Santa Clara baseballer\"]‘It’s kind of the standing joke that Newsom played on the team.’[/pullquote]Newsom told the story himself again in January on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIn1YknOSsc#t=1h00m38s\">the podcast Pod Save America\u003c/a>: Because of poor test scores, he was headed to community college until he got a call from the Santa Clara University baseball coaches. “It was literally the ticket to a four-year university. It changed my life, my trajectory,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But former coaches and teammates said that biography, repeated again and again through interviews and glossy magazine profiles and coverage of his 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/30/gov-newsom-writes-childrens-book-inspired-by-personal-experience-with-dyslexia/\">baseball-themed children’s book\u003c/a> on overcoming dyslexia, has inflated Newsom’s baseball credentials, giving the impression that he was a more accomplished player than he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, Newsom never played an official game for Santa Clara University; he was a junior varsity recruit who played only during the fall tryouts his freshman and sophomore years, then left the baseball program before the regular season began. He does not appear on the Broncos’ \u003ca href=\"https://santaclarabroncos.com/sports/2023/6/20/all-time-roster-bold-indicates-current-player-bb.aspx\">all-time roster\u003c/a> or in media guides published by the athletic department to preview the upcoming season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man wearing jeans and a blue buttoned shirt and sunglasses throws a snowball with snow and trees in the background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom tosses a snowball after the California Department of Water Resources conducted a media snow survey at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada on April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A deeper look at his recruitment also reveals that Newsom’s admission to Santa Clara University — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/\">so many of his formative opportunities\u003c/a> — was substantially boosted by friends and acquaintances of his father, William Newsom, a San Francisco judge and financial adviser to the Gettys, the wealthy oil family. One associate connected Newsom to the baseball program when he was in high school, while his father’s best friend, then a member of the university’s board of regents, wrote him a letter of recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Cummins, the assistant coach at Santa Clara while Newsom was there, said the governor has “embellished his baseball career a little bit at times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never played in a varsity game. He may have played in some scrimmages,” said Cummins, who is now the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypioneers.com/staff-directory/mike-cummins/193\">head baseball coach\u003c/a> at California State University, East Bay. “He’s embellished it. It’s half-truths. He was recruited to Santa Clara, he was there in the fall, but he never played. He didn’t have a varsity career there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misconception has been propelled as much by what Newsom doesn’t say as what he does — a polished sweep over his time at Santa Clara University that rarely gets more detailed than, “I played a little baseball. Just my first and second year,” as he told The Santa Clara, the student newspaper, in \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090426073753/http:/media.www.thesantaclara.com/media/storage/paper946/news/2008/02/14/News/San-Franciscos.Gavin.Newsom.Sits.Down.With.The.Santa.Clara-3210314.shtml\">a 2008 interview\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for the first time in his career, Newsom has allowed a more flattering version of events to develop in the public discourse while being slow to clear up the inaccuracies. During his first gubernatorial campaign in 2018, he acknowledged that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209176644.html\">he never attended rehab\u003c/a>, as was widely reported more than a decade earlier after he pledged to seek treatment for problems with alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Broncos players from the era, who said they still regularly get asked about Newsom when people find out they played baseball at Santa Clara, wanted to correct the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t earn it. He didn’t earn the right to say it,” said Kevin Schneider, who pitched for two seasons and now runs a pitching academy in San Francisco. “I worked my ass off. So did everyone else on that team. For him to just go all these years, to say he did something he didn’t that takes not just talent but also dedication and effort and sacrifice, it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Newsom rejected multiple requests to interview the governor about his baseball career. They said Newsom had never exaggerated his experience at Santa Clara University and that it was not his job to fix whatever mistaken assumptions the public may have developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been very honest and consistent about what happened to him in college and more personable than you would get from most politicians,” spokesperson Bob Salladay said. “He is not responsible for other people’s impressions or interpretations of him and his life. He is doing his job, and he cannot spend his entire day correcting people when they make errors about him. He’s moved on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom speaks about his baseball journey with “emotional, real truth that is visceral to him,” said Nathan Click, another spokesperson for the governor. “We all go through life and remember the emotions we feel about things, not, you know, facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He chooses to talk about the emotional side of it, because he thinks that is the place that young people in particular, who are going through struggles, people with dyslexia, can find themselves in his story,” Click said. “That matters way more than, you know, whether he was a rostered player or what his stats were in the fall ball, JV, freshman year, Santa Clara University season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From high school standout to Santa Clara University\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Newsom was a talented baseball player at Redwood High School in Marin County, where he was also a star on the basketball team before graduating in 1985. His name appears in the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>’s prep coverage from the time — banging home runs, hitting a game-winning single in the Marin County Athletic League championship his senior year and being named to the all-league first team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publications including \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/gavin-newsom-the-next-head-of-the-california-resistance\">\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2007/07/08/dave-albee-sf-mayor-takes-his-licks-at-att-park/\">the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20091127090647/http:/www.mensjournal.com/newsom\">Men’s Journal\u003c/a> \u003c/em>have reported over the years that the Texas Rangers drafted, recruited or showed interest in Newsom in high school.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In 2009, a Newsom spokesperson \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090430051404/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=39062\">clarified\u003c/a> to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> that he had merely been scouted, not drafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nathan Click, spokesperson for Gavin Newsom\"]‘He chooses to talk about the emotional side of it, because he thinks that is the place that young people in particular, who are going through struggles, people with dyslexia, can find themselves in his story.’[/pullquote]Newsom was among the hundreds of high school players across the country whom the Rangers organization looked at while preparing for the annual amateur draft, according to a spokesperson for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson John Blake wrote in an email that the Rangers’ chief California scout from the time “said that we did watch Governor Newsom play in high school, but he doesn’t remember us specially scouting him.” He said major league teams are very thorough in scouting California and “it is likely there were several players on this particular high school team that our scouts had interest in seeing, including Governor Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom spokesperson Click said the governor received business cards from those scouts after they watched him play, which he has spoken about in past interviews. “They made a point to come up to him and introduce themselves, which means something,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom headed down the Peninsula to Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit college where he was a freshman in the fall of 1985. Having struggled in high school, with a reported SAT score of 960 out of 1600, Newsom has long \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">credited baseball\u003c/a> with securing his admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a pretty severe learning disability, dyslexia, struggled academically, and the only reason Santa Clara University would have ever accepted me was because I was a left-handed first baseman who could hit fairly well,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">told \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A young high school male with baseball uniform crouches on one knee and leans on a baseball bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom played baseball and graduated from Redwood High School in 1985. \u003ccite>(Photo from Gavin Newsom’s social media via CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom also had help from several well-connected alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Connolly, a San Francisco investment banker and associate of William Newsom who played baseball at Santa Clara in the 1960s, put the younger Newsom on the team’s radar, according to Cummins, the former assistant coach. Connolly \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.scu.edu/classnote/bill-connolly/\">died in 2017\u003c/a>, and his widow could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connolly “was a very good supporter of us at the time, money-wise,” Cummins said, and pushed the coaches to check Newsom out. “That was pretty normal at the time,” Cummins said, especially in a pre-internet era when recruiting was more regional and word-of-mouth. He said the baseball team was not a “backdoor” to admit Newsom into the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom does not remember his family asking Connolly to recommend him to Santa Clara University “and if it’s true, it would be news to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside then-head coach John Oldham, who died in February, Cummins eventually visited Newsom at home and recruited him to Santa Clara. The team had a junior varsity squad at the time, which it used as a “minor league,” Cummins said, so Newsom had a guaranteed spot in the program, but would have to perform well enough to play in varsity games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was offered a scholarship of $500 in October 1985, during fall quarter of his freshman year, according to a photograph of a section of the paperwork provided by Click, though it’s unclear if that’s the only payment he received. Click said Newsom was unable to locate the original document. The cost of attendance for Santa Clara University that year was $10,251, including tuition, room and board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager to ensure his spot, Newsom’s family also solicited letters of recommendation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article7965822.html\">from former Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>, who attended Santa Clara University for one year and appointed William Newsom to the Superior Court and the state Court of Appeal during his first term as governor, and from John Mallen, an attorney who served on Santa Clara’s board of regents at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen, who described William Newsom as “my best friend for 75 years,” said he did not frequently write letters of recommendation for applicants while he was on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration with newspaper clippings.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of newspaper clippings that highlight Newsom’s baseball accomplishments during high school. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I may not have helped anybody else get in,” Mallen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he does not have a copy of the letter anymore, Mallen said it was probably addressed to the president of the university and would have been a character reference for the younger Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’d known him since birth,” Mallen said. “He was a good athlete. That I remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen said it “absolutely” would have been “hugely influential” in helping Newsom gain admission to Santa Clara: “I think it was a big help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click denied that the letters of recommendations played any role in Newsom’s acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball was the reason he got into university and the partial baseball scholarship shows it,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>College baseball cut short by elbow injury\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom has previously said he played baseball his first two years at Santa Clara University before injuring his throwing arm and reevaluating his path, a timeline repeated in major profiles of Newsom, most recently by \u003ca href=\"https://lamag.com/featured/gavin-newsom-recall\">Los Angeles Magazine\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, I had an ulnar nerve issue and threw out my arm and had a surgery and really didn’t come back,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2019/10/18/california-governor-gavin-newsom-lebron-james-fair-pay-to-play-act\">he told WBUR\u003c/a>, a Boston public radio station, in 2019. “And then I had to make that tough choice of, ‘What the hell do I do with my life?’ Because I was just so consumed by baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To report this story, CalMatters reached out to coaches and teammates listed on the Broncos rosters for the 1986 and 1987 seasons. They\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>said Newsom played only during the fall tryout periods of his freshman and sophomore years, when prospective players trained and rotated into practice games against other local universities, and no official statistics were kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people recalled that Newsom was around\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>for just the first few weeks, perhaps as much as six weeks, as a freshman. He did not make the 1986 roster, as reflected in the game program and media guide “The Boys of Spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A team roster on an illustrated background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom does not appear on the 1986 Santa Clara University baseball roster. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom was not one of the standout prospects that year — “We would have known he was a big scholarship player who crapped out,” said Jim Flynn, who was a freshman pitcher — but no one interviewed by CalMatters disputes his athletic ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Cole, a freshman in the 1986 season who split his time pitching and playing outfield for the varsity team and playing outfield for the junior varsity team, said Newsom “was a good athlete” and “he looked like somebody who could play college ball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone who was recruited had talent. So he had talent,” said Cole, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/2695/victor-cole\">briefly played\u003c/a> for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992 and \u003ca href=\"https://cbubucs.com/sports/baseball/roster/coaches/victor-cole/504\">now coaches\u003c/a> at Christian Brothers University in Memphis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machi, who also arrived in 1985, said Newsom caught his attention because they were competing for the same spot, playing first base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do recall him being a fairly athletic guy. It wasn’t like he was a fish out of water,” Machi said. “As a competitor, you’re always looking around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within a few weeks, Newsom had “just disappeared,” Machi said. “He didn’t have any accolades on the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gavin Newsom\"]‘I had to make that tough choice of, ‘What the hell do I do with my life?’ Because I was just so consumed by baseball.’[/pullquote]Struggling with pain in his left elbow, Newsom underwent ulnar nerve surgery in late 1985 and took the rest of the season off, Click said. Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.poadocs.com/provider/michael-f-dillingham-md\">Michael Dillingham\u003c/a>, an orthopedic surgeon in Daly City who was the team doctor at the time, confirmed to CalMatters that he performed the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the surgery, however, Newsom did not rehabilitate his arm through the Santa Clara baseball program, recalled Larry Donahe, then a freshman pitcher who also sat out the 1986 season recovering from an elbow operation for the same injury as Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he had a bad elbow and was hurt and was doing any sort of rehab, I probably would have seen him,” said Donahe, who had a full-ride scholarship and continued to play for the Broncos through other surgeries his sophomore and junior years. “He never came into the training room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom was in a cast and then physical therapy for several months and did not begin training seriously to return to baseball until the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried out for the Broncos again in fall 1986 as a sophomore but “couldn’t make it work” because of continued elbow pain, Click said. Before the regular season began, Newsom gave up his beloved sport for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players said Newsom was not particularly close to his teammates and they were uncertain of the circumstances of his departure. Many wondered if he lost interest in baseball because of the fierce demands of Santa Clara’s program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the NCAA had not yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/10/sports/ncaa-cuts-practice-scholarships-and-seasons.html\">established limits on student-athletes’ time\u003c/a>, players described the team in that era as a full-time job, even during fall tryouts: multiple games each week; practices that ran from the early afternoon until after the dining hall stopped serving dinner and all day on the weekends; extra training including 5 a.m. workouts; and vision strengthening and success visualization classes, where players would lie on the floor with their eyes closed and imagine how to improve their technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had a life, you chose to do something else. If you were a baseball lifer you loved it,” Matt Toole, who played baseball at Santa Clara from 1985 to 1989 and then two seasons in the minor leagues, wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom “actually played well enough to make our team both years,” he wrote. “He had a lot of potential but he chose not to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a young boy in baseball uniform with a hat and bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Gavin Newsom in a baseball uniform. \u003ccite>(CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom may not have felt comfortable sharing his injury publicly at the time because he was ashamed not to live up to the success he experienced earlier in his baseball career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a crushing moment for him,” Click said, “especially somebody who had been really hyped up by everyone around him in Little League, in high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the legend of Newsom’s feats on the diamond\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>endured. In a 2010 story previewing the Giants-Rangers World Series, The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">contrasted the baseball careers\u003c/a> of the mayors for the two teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert joked about his brief stint playing junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College: “They put me in when it was time for the outfielders to do wind sprints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times called Newsom “more serious about the game,” noting the then-San Francisco mayor played for two years at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was your standard 6-foot-3-inch first baseman,” Newsom told the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Public biographies of Gov. Gavin Newsom have long touted his baseball career, and playing at Santa Clara University. But he was never on the roster, among other misperceptions of his accomplishments. Newsom has not corrected the record.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1722644076,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 69,
"wordCount": 3413
},
"headData": {
"title": "Gavin Newsom Says Baseball Saved Him. But the Legend of His Career Doesn’t Always Match the Reality | KQED",
"description": "Public biographies of Gov. Gavin Newsom have long touted his baseball career, and playing at Santa Clara University. But he was never on the roster, among other misperceptions of his accomplishments. Newsom has not corrected the record.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Gavin Newsom Says Baseball Saved Him. But the Legend of His Career Doesn’t Always Match the Reality",
"datePublished": "2024-04-07T04:00:34-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-08-02T17:14:36-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/alexei-koseff/\">Alexei Koseff\u003c/a>",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11982105/gavin-newsom-says-baseball-saved-him-but-the-legend-of-his-career-doesnt-always-match-the-reality",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For their 2004 home opener, the San Francisco Giants invited a special guest to throw the ceremonial first pitch: Gavin Newsom, then just a few months into his first term as mayor of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Newsom took the pitcher’s mound, wearing dress shoes and a button-down shirt underneath his custom Giants jersey, the announcer informed the crowd that “he played first base for the University of Santa Clara and was drafted by the Texas Rangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The introduction was quickly overshadowed by Newsom nearly hitting a photographer with the ball. But it left a lasting impact on a few attendees that day — a group of former Santa Clara University baseball players who were struck by the glowing treatment of Newsom’s resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of the standing joke that Newsom played on the team,” said Vince Machi, who arrived at Santa Clara in 1985, the same year as Newsom, and played baseball for three years. “There’s always been kind of a joke between the guys who stay in touch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years later, as the Giants kick off their latest home season Friday, Newsom is now a national political figure — not just an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/newsom-desantis-debate/\">outspoken champion of the Democratic Party\u003c/a> but a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/10/gavin-newsom-campaign-president/\">potential future presidential contender\u003c/a>. He regularly appears on cable news to discuss California policies and attack Republicans. Lately he has traveled the country as a leading surrogate for President Biden’s re-election campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through his rise over the intervening two decades, his baseball career has provided Newsom a triumphant narrative to push back on the perception that his upbringing was privileged and easy: The high school standout scouted by the major leagues, who overcame his dyslexia and academic shortcomings to earn a partial scholarship to Santa Clara University before an injury forced him to find a new purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has become so closely associated with Newsom that “Saturday Night Live” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpNCwUzIPtU\">opened a show in March with a sketch\u003c/a> where the Democratic governor, portrayed by Michael Longfellow, defends President Biden’s mental fitness by recounting: “The other day he was taking a nap and I whipped a baseball at him and he caught it like De Niro in ‘Awakenings.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "‘It’s kind of the standing joke that Newsom played on the team.’",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"align": "right",
"size": "medium",
"citation": "Vince Machi, former Santa Clara baseballer",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom told the story himself again in January on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIn1YknOSsc#t=1h00m38s\">the podcast Pod Save America\u003c/a>: Because of poor test scores, he was headed to community college until he got a call from the Santa Clara University baseball coaches. “It was literally the ticket to a four-year university. It changed my life, my trajectory,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But former coaches and teammates said that biography, repeated again and again through interviews and glossy magazine profiles and coverage of his 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/30/gov-newsom-writes-childrens-book-inspired-by-personal-experience-with-dyslexia/\">baseball-themed children’s book\u003c/a> on overcoming dyslexia, has inflated Newsom’s baseball credentials, giving the impression that he was a more accomplished player than he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, Newsom never played an official game for Santa Clara University; he was a junior varsity recruit who played only during the fall tryouts his freshman and sophomore years, then left the baseball program before the regular season began. He does not appear on the Broncos’ \u003ca href=\"https://santaclarabroncos.com/sports/2023/6/20/all-time-roster-bold-indicates-current-player-bb.aspx\">all-time roster\u003c/a> or in media guides published by the athletic department to preview the upcoming season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man wearing jeans and a blue buttoned shirt and sunglasses throws a snowball with snow and trees in the background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom tosses a snowball after the California Department of Water Resources conducted a media snow survey at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada on April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A deeper look at his recruitment also reveals that Newsom’s admission to Santa Clara University — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/\">so many of his formative opportunities\u003c/a> — was substantially boosted by friends and acquaintances of his father, William Newsom, a San Francisco judge and financial adviser to the Gettys, the wealthy oil family. One associate connected Newsom to the baseball program when he was in high school, while his father’s best friend, then a member of the university’s board of regents, wrote him a letter of recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Cummins, the assistant coach at Santa Clara while Newsom was there, said the governor has “embellished his baseball career a little bit at times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never played in a varsity game. He may have played in some scrimmages,” said Cummins, who is now the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypioneers.com/staff-directory/mike-cummins/193\">head baseball coach\u003c/a> at California State University, East Bay. “He’s embellished it. It’s half-truths. He was recruited to Santa Clara, he was there in the fall, but he never played. He didn’t have a varsity career there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misconception has been propelled as much by what Newsom doesn’t say as what he does — a polished sweep over his time at Santa Clara University that rarely gets more detailed than, “I played a little baseball. Just my first and second year,” as he told The Santa Clara, the student newspaper, in \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090426073753/http:/media.www.thesantaclara.com/media/storage/paper946/news/2008/02/14/News/San-Franciscos.Gavin.Newsom.Sits.Down.With.The.Santa.Clara-3210314.shtml\">a 2008 interview\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for the first time in his career, Newsom has allowed a more flattering version of events to develop in the public discourse while being slow to clear up the inaccuracies. During his first gubernatorial campaign in 2018, he acknowledged that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209176644.html\">he never attended rehab\u003c/a>, as was widely reported more than a decade earlier after he pledged to seek treatment for problems with alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Broncos players from the era, who said they still regularly get asked about Newsom when people find out they played baseball at Santa Clara, wanted to correct the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t earn it. He didn’t earn the right to say it,” said Kevin Schneider, who pitched for two seasons and now runs a pitching academy in San Francisco. “I worked my ass off. So did everyone else on that team. For him to just go all these years, to say he did something he didn’t that takes not just talent but also dedication and effort and sacrifice, it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Newsom rejected multiple requests to interview the governor about his baseball career. They said Newsom had never exaggerated his experience at Santa Clara University and that it was not his job to fix whatever mistaken assumptions the public may have developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been very honest and consistent about what happened to him in college and more personable than you would get from most politicians,” spokesperson Bob Salladay said. “He is not responsible for other people’s impressions or interpretations of him and his life. He is doing his job, and he cannot spend his entire day correcting people when they make errors about him. He’s moved on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom speaks about his baseball journey with “emotional, real truth that is visceral to him,” said Nathan Click, another spokesperson for the governor. “We all go through life and remember the emotions we feel about things, not, you know, facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He chooses to talk about the emotional side of it, because he thinks that is the place that young people in particular, who are going through struggles, people with dyslexia, can find themselves in his story,” Click said. “That matters way more than, you know, whether he was a rostered player or what his stats were in the fall ball, JV, freshman year, Santa Clara University season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From high school standout to Santa Clara University\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Newsom was a talented baseball player at Redwood High School in Marin County, where he was also a star on the basketball team before graduating in 1985. His name appears in the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>’s prep coverage from the time — banging home runs, hitting a game-winning single in the Marin County Athletic League championship his senior year and being named to the all-league first team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publications including \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/gavin-newsom-the-next-head-of-the-california-resistance\">\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2007/07/08/dave-albee-sf-mayor-takes-his-licks-at-att-park/\">the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20091127090647/http:/www.mensjournal.com/newsom\">Men’s Journal\u003c/a> \u003c/em>have reported over the years that the Texas Rangers drafted, recruited or showed interest in Newsom in high school.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In 2009, a Newsom spokesperson \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090430051404/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=39062\">clarified\u003c/a> to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> that he had merely been scouted, not drafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "‘He chooses to talk about the emotional side of it, because he thinks that is the place that young people in particular, who are going through struggles, people with dyslexia, can find themselves in his story.’",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"align": "right",
"size": "medium",
"citation": "Nathan Click, spokesperson for Gavin Newsom",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom was among the hundreds of high school players across the country whom the Rangers organization looked at while preparing for the annual amateur draft, according to a spokesperson for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson John Blake wrote in an email that the Rangers’ chief California scout from the time “said that we did watch Governor Newsom play in high school, but he doesn’t remember us specially scouting him.” He said major league teams are very thorough in scouting California and “it is likely there were several players on this particular high school team that our scouts had interest in seeing, including Governor Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom spokesperson Click said the governor received business cards from those scouts after they watched him play, which he has spoken about in past interviews. “They made a point to come up to him and introduce themselves, which means something,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom headed down the Peninsula to Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit college where he was a freshman in the fall of 1985. Having struggled in high school, with a reported SAT score of 960 out of 1600, Newsom has long \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">credited baseball\u003c/a> with securing his admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a pretty severe learning disability, dyslexia, struggled academically, and the only reason Santa Clara University would have ever accepted me was because I was a left-handed first baseman who could hit fairly well,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">told \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A young high school male with baseball uniform crouches on one knee and leans on a baseball bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom played baseball and graduated from Redwood High School in 1985. \u003ccite>(Photo from Gavin Newsom’s social media via CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom also had help from several well-connected alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Connolly, a San Francisco investment banker and associate of William Newsom who played baseball at Santa Clara in the 1960s, put the younger Newsom on the team’s radar, according to Cummins, the former assistant coach. Connolly \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.scu.edu/classnote/bill-connolly/\">died in 2017\u003c/a>, and his widow could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connolly “was a very good supporter of us at the time, money-wise,” Cummins said, and pushed the coaches to check Newsom out. “That was pretty normal at the time,” Cummins said, especially in a pre-internet era when recruiting was more regional and word-of-mouth. He said the baseball team was not a “backdoor” to admit Newsom into the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom does not remember his family asking Connolly to recommend him to Santa Clara University “and if it’s true, it would be news to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside then-head coach John Oldham, who died in February, Cummins eventually visited Newsom at home and recruited him to Santa Clara. The team had a junior varsity squad at the time, which it used as a “minor league,” Cummins said, so Newsom had a guaranteed spot in the program, but would have to perform well enough to play in varsity games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was offered a scholarship of $500 in October 1985, during fall quarter of his freshman year, according to a photograph of a section of the paperwork provided by Click, though it’s unclear if that’s the only payment he received. Click said Newsom was unable to locate the original document. The cost of attendance for Santa Clara University that year was $10,251, including tuition, room and board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager to ensure his spot, Newsom’s family also solicited letters of recommendation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article7965822.html\">from former Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>, who attended Santa Clara University for one year and appointed William Newsom to the Superior Court and the state Court of Appeal during his first term as governor, and from John Mallen, an attorney who served on Santa Clara’s board of regents at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen, who described William Newsom as “my best friend for 75 years,” said he did not frequently write letters of recommendation for applicants while he was on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration with newspaper clippings.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of newspaper clippings that highlight Newsom’s baseball accomplishments during high school. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I may not have helped anybody else get in,” Mallen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he does not have a copy of the letter anymore, Mallen said it was probably addressed to the president of the university and would have been a character reference for the younger Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’d known him since birth,” Mallen said. “He was a good athlete. That I remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen said it “absolutely” would have been “hugely influential” in helping Newsom gain admission to Santa Clara: “I think it was a big help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click denied that the letters of recommendations played any role in Newsom’s acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball was the reason he got into university and the partial baseball scholarship shows it,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>College baseball cut short by elbow injury\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom has previously said he played baseball his first two years at Santa Clara University before injuring his throwing arm and reevaluating his path, a timeline repeated in major profiles of Newsom, most recently by \u003ca href=\"https://lamag.com/featured/gavin-newsom-recall\">Los Angeles Magazine\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, I had an ulnar nerve issue and threw out my arm and had a surgery and really didn’t come back,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2019/10/18/california-governor-gavin-newsom-lebron-james-fair-pay-to-play-act\">he told WBUR\u003c/a>, a Boston public radio station, in 2019. “And then I had to make that tough choice of, ‘What the hell do I do with my life?’ Because I was just so consumed by baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To report this story, CalMatters reached out to coaches and teammates listed on the Broncos rosters for the 1986 and 1987 seasons. They\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>said Newsom played only during the fall tryout periods of his freshman and sophomore years, when prospective players trained and rotated into practice games against other local universities, and no official statistics were kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people recalled that Newsom was around\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>for just the first few weeks, perhaps as much as six weeks, as a freshman. He did not make the 1986 roster, as reflected in the game program and media guide “The Boys of Spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A team roster on an illustrated background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom does not appear on the 1986 Santa Clara University baseball roster. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom was not one of the standout prospects that year — “We would have known he was a big scholarship player who crapped out,” said Jim Flynn, who was a freshman pitcher — but no one interviewed by CalMatters disputes his athletic ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Cole, a freshman in the 1986 season who split his time pitching and playing outfield for the varsity team and playing outfield for the junior varsity team, said Newsom “was a good athlete” and “he looked like somebody who could play college ball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone who was recruited had talent. So he had talent,” said Cole, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/2695/victor-cole\">briefly played\u003c/a> for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992 and \u003ca href=\"https://cbubucs.com/sports/baseball/roster/coaches/victor-cole/504\">now coaches\u003c/a> at Christian Brothers University in Memphis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machi, who also arrived in 1985, said Newsom caught his attention because they were competing for the same spot, playing first base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do recall him being a fairly athletic guy. It wasn’t like he was a fish out of water,” Machi said. “As a competitor, you’re always looking around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within a few weeks, Newsom had “just disappeared,” Machi said. “He didn’t have any accolades on the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "‘I had to make that tough choice of, ‘What the hell do I do with my life?’ Because I was just so consumed by baseball.’",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"align": "right",
"size": "medium",
"citation": "Gavin Newsom",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Struggling with pain in his left elbow, Newsom underwent ulnar nerve surgery in late 1985 and took the rest of the season off, Click said. Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.poadocs.com/provider/michael-f-dillingham-md\">Michael Dillingham\u003c/a>, an orthopedic surgeon in Daly City who was the team doctor at the time, confirmed to CalMatters that he performed the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the surgery, however, Newsom did not rehabilitate his arm through the Santa Clara baseball program, recalled Larry Donahe, then a freshman pitcher who also sat out the 1986 season recovering from an elbow operation for the same injury as Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he had a bad elbow and was hurt and was doing any sort of rehab, I probably would have seen him,” said Donahe, who had a full-ride scholarship and continued to play for the Broncos through other surgeries his sophomore and junior years. “He never came into the training room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom was in a cast and then physical therapy for several months and did not begin training seriously to return to baseball until the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried out for the Broncos again in fall 1986 as a sophomore but “couldn’t make it work” because of continued elbow pain, Click said. Before the regular season began, Newsom gave up his beloved sport for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players said Newsom was not particularly close to his teammates and they were uncertain of the circumstances of his departure. Many wondered if he lost interest in baseball because of the fierce demands of Santa Clara’s program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the NCAA had not yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/10/sports/ncaa-cuts-practice-scholarships-and-seasons.html\">established limits on student-athletes’ time\u003c/a>, players described the team in that era as a full-time job, even during fall tryouts: multiple games each week; practices that ran from the early afternoon until after the dining hall stopped serving dinner and all day on the weekends; extra training including 5 a.m. workouts; and vision strengthening and success visualization classes, where players would lie on the floor with their eyes closed and imagine how to improve their technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had a life, you chose to do something else. If you were a baseball lifer you loved it,” Matt Toole, who played baseball at Santa Clara from 1985 to 1989 and then two seasons in the minor leagues, wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom “actually played well enough to make our team both years,” he wrote. “He had a lot of potential but he chose not to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a young boy in baseball uniform with a hat and bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Gavin Newsom in a baseball uniform. \u003ccite>(CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom may not have felt comfortable sharing his injury publicly at the time because he was ashamed not to live up to the success he experienced earlier in his baseball career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a crushing moment for him,” Click said, “especially somebody who had been really hyped up by everyone around him in Little League, in high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the legend of Newsom’s feats on the diamond\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>endured. In a 2010 story previewing the Giants-Rangers World Series, The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">contrasted the baseball careers\u003c/a> of the mayors for the two teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert joked about his brief stint playing junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College: “They put me in when it was time for the outfielders to do wind sprints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times called Newsom “more serious about the game,” noting the then-San Francisco mayor played for two years at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was your standard 6-foot-3-inch first baseman,” Newsom told the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11982105/gavin-newsom-says-baseball-saved-him-but-the-legend-of-his-career-doesnt-always-match-the-reality",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11982105"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_18203",
"news_27626",
"news_16"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_18481"
],
"featImg": "news_11982108",
"label": "news_18481"
},
"news_11981876": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11981876",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11981876",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1712250258000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1712250258,
"format": "standard",
"title": "Oakland A's Relocate to Sacramento River Cats' Home Stadium for 3 Seasons",
"headTitle": "Oakland A’s Relocate to Sacramento River Cats’ Home Stadium for 3 Seasons | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>The Athletics will leave Oakland after this season and play temporarily at a minor league park near Sacramento until their planned new stadium in Las Vegas is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s announced the decision to play at the home of the Sacramento River Cats from 2025–27 with an option for 2028 on Thursday after being unable to reach an agreement to extend their lease in Oakland during that time. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"John Fisher, owner, Oakland Athletics\"]‘We understand the disappointment this news brings to our fans, as this season marks our final one in Oakland.’[/pullquote]“We explored several locations for a temporary home, including the Oakland Coliseum,” owner John Fisher said in a statement. “Even with the long-standing relationship and good intentions on all sides in the negotiations with Oakland, the conditions to achieve an agreement seemed out of reach. We understand the disappointment this news brings to our fans, as this season marks our final one in Oakland. Throughout this season, we will honor and celebrate our time in Oakland, and will share additional details soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s announced their intention last April to move to Las Vegas and MLB owners unanimously approved in November the application to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision angered the fans in Oakland and the team’s previously low attendance dropped precipitously with the club drawing a league-low 832,352 fans to the outdated Coliseum last season. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Vivek Ranadivé, owner, Sacramento Kings and the minor league River Cats\"]‘I’m thrilled to welcome the A’s to Sutter Health Park, where players and fans alike can enjoy a world-class baseball experience and create unforgettable memories.’[/pullquote]The A’s drew 13,522 fans on opening night this year with a few thousand others protesting Fisher in the parking lot, and failed to reach 7,000 fans in any of the next six games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s will now play the next three seasons at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, near the state capitol and the NBA arena where the Sacramento Kings play. The minor league stadium has 10,624 fixed seats and can currently hold 14,014 fans with lawn seating and standing room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m thrilled to welcome the A’s to Sutter Health Park, where players and fans alike can enjoy a world-class baseball experience and create unforgettable memories,” said Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé, who also owns the minor league River Cats. “Today marks the next chapter of professional sports in Sacramento. The passion of our fans is second to none, and this is an incredible opportunity to showcase one of the most dynamic and vibrant markets in the country.” [aside postID=news_11967603 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/AP23319732816713-1020x680.jpg']The River Cats will still play in their stadium the next three years and share it with the A’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Rob Manfred thanked the Kings and the leaders in the Sacramento area for getting an agreement done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By staying in Northern California, the A’s are hopeful of keeping a large share of their local television rights held by NBC Sports California, which is worth a reported $67 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 572,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 10
},
"modified": 1712337451,
"excerpt": "The A’s announced the decision to play at the home of the Sacramento River Cats minor league team from 2025–27 with an option for 2028 after being unable to reach an agreement to extend their lease in Oakland.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The A’s announced the decision to play at the home of the Sacramento River Cats minor league team from 2025–27 with an option for 2028 after being unable to reach an agreement to extend their lease in Oakland.",
"title": "Oakland A's Relocate to Sacramento River Cats' Home Stadium for 3 Seasons | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Oakland A's Relocate to Sacramento River Cats' Home Stadium for 3 Seasons",
"datePublished": "2024-04-04T10:04:18-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-04-05T10:17:31-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "Josh Dubow\u003cbr>Associated Press",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"sticky": false,
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Athletics will leave Oakland after this season and play temporarily at a minor league park near Sacramento until their planned new stadium in Las Vegas is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s announced the decision to play at the home of the Sacramento River Cats from 2025–27 with an option for 2028 on Thursday after being unable to reach an agreement to extend their lease in Oakland during that time. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "‘We understand the disappointment this news brings to our fans, as this season marks our final one in Oakland.’",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"size": "medium",
"align": "right",
"citation": "John Fisher, owner, Oakland Athletics",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We explored several locations for a temporary home, including the Oakland Coliseum,” owner John Fisher said in a statement. “Even with the long-standing relationship and good intentions on all sides in the negotiations with Oakland, the conditions to achieve an agreement seemed out of reach. We understand the disappointment this news brings to our fans, as this season marks our final one in Oakland. Throughout this season, we will honor and celebrate our time in Oakland, and will share additional details soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s announced their intention last April to move to Las Vegas and MLB owners unanimously approved in November the application to relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision angered the fans in Oakland and the team’s previously low attendance dropped precipitously with the club drawing a league-low 832,352 fans to the outdated Coliseum last season. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "‘I’m thrilled to welcome the A’s to Sutter Health Park, where players and fans alike can enjoy a world-class baseball experience and create unforgettable memories.’",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"size": "medium",
"align": "right",
"citation": "Vivek Ranadivé, owner, Sacramento Kings and the minor league River Cats",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The A’s drew 13,522 fans on opening night this year with a few thousand others protesting Fisher in the parking lot, and failed to reach 7,000 fans in any of the next six games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s will now play the next three seasons at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, near the state capitol and the NBA arena where the Sacramento Kings play. The minor league stadium has 10,624 fixed seats and can currently hold 14,014 fans with lawn seating and standing room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m thrilled to welcome the A’s to Sutter Health Park, where players and fans alike can enjoy a world-class baseball experience and create unforgettable memories,” said Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé, who also owns the minor league River Cats. “Today marks the next chapter of professional sports in Sacramento. The passion of our fans is second to none, and this is an incredible opportunity to showcase one of the most dynamic and vibrant markets in the country.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11967603",
"hero": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/AP23319732816713-1020x680.jpg",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The River Cats will still play in their stadium the next three years and share it with the A’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Rob Manfred thanked the Kings and the leaders in the Sacramento area for getting an agreement done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By staying in Northern California, the A’s are hopeful of keeping a large share of their local television rights held by NBC Sports California, which is worth a reported $67 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11981876/oakland-as-relocate-to-sacramento-river-cats-home-stadium-for-3-seasons",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11981876"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_33130",
"news_4694",
"news_18",
"news_161",
"news_111"
],
"featImg": "news_11952917",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11981232": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11981232",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11981232",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1711738404000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "were-fighting-back-as-fans-throw-block-party-outside-oakland-coliseum-to-protest-las-vegas-move",
"title": "'We're Fighting Back': A's Fans Throw Block Party Outside Oakland Coliseum to Protest Las Vegas Move",
"publishDate": 1711738404,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "‘We’re Fighting Back’: A’s Fans Throw Block Party Outside Oakland Coliseum to Protest Las Vegas Move | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Many fans at the Oakland Coliseum were still hanging out in the parking lot when Alex Wood delivered the first pitch of the season for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/opening-day-guardians-athletics-score-bieber-vogt-c823ba3f92d4587f3bf0f5a6a010b730\">the Athletics against the Cleveland Guardians.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they had no intention of going into the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In protest of the A’s planned move to Las Vegas in 2028, fan groups boycotted the home opener on Thursday, purchasing tickets to the game to organize a block party outside the stadium. Paid attendance for the game was 13,522, but many never made it inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A half-hour before the game’s first pitch, hundreds of fans gathered in the far corner of the parking lot. They displayed “Sell” T-shirts and flags, threw beanbags at caricatures of team executives — including owner John Fisher and president Dave Kaval — and danced to live music while munching on dinner from food trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Hal Gordon, economist and former Coliseum hot dog vendor\"]‘We’re raising money to fight back. We’re urging people not to go in so they have less money to build their stadium.’[/pullquote]“Everyone’s in such a good mood because we’re all here for the same thing,” said Edward Silva, a student at San José State and a lifelong A’s fan. “Everyone knows the score. So everyone’s on the same page and just creating a wonderful atmosphere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s opened gates to parking lots just two hours before the game to align with what they said was the expected attendance, but fan groups that organized the boycott, including the Oakland 68’s and The Last Dive Bar, said it was an attempt to limit the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Biles, an organizer with the Oakland 68’s, said at a rally in the parking lot that Thursday was the first A’s home game he missed in five years. Biles, a season ticket holder since 2007, chose to attend college locally so he could still go to A’s games. He noted that other fans probably made similar sacrifices to support the club, small or large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time, I really believed that the A’s were actually dedicated to the community,” Biles said. “And I really bought into that whole spiel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981236\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with sunglasses and green and yellow hat watches through a net, another man with the same hat stands a little to his left.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A’s manager Mark Kotsay watches batting practice before the game against the Guardians at RingCentral Coliseum on Thursday, March 28. \u003ccite>(Lachlan Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The A’s plan to relocate to Las Vegas in 2028, but where they will play after this season remains uncertain, as their lease at the Coliseum expires. Sacramento and Salt Lake City have been floated as options, as has sharing Oracle Park with the San Francisco Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland 68’s and the Oakland United Coalition called at the rally for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to back out of their agreement to sell their 50% stake of the Coliseum to the A’s. At another booth were organizers at Schools Over Stadiums, a group attempting to block public funding for the Las Vegas stadium in favor of money for education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday was the second large action taken by A’s fans during home games after plans to move to Las Vegas were announced. Last June, fans packed the Coliseum for a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oakland-as-fans-reverse-boycott-sell-492340255543278241c63de72e2ddf77\">reverse boycott,\u003c/a> urging Fisher to sell the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like that was for us to know that it was important,” said Hal Gordon, an economist and former hot dog vendor at the Coliseum who became a fan favorite before he left in 2022. “This time, we’re fighting. We’re fighting back. We’re raising money to fight back. We’re urging people not to go in so they have less money to build their stadium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “There’s no playbook when someone says, ‘We’re stealing your team from you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11952845,news_11947286,news_11949532\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Managers for both teams empathized with the fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t expect anything less from Oakland A’s fans,” manager Mark Kotsay said. “When they come out, they come out with support, with love, and they do it full force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotsay added that the fans who show up to the game itself would “have a way to just be loud and create energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just to put a uniform on and to have this opportunity to be a big leaguer, to manage a big league club — I’m honored, regardless if there’s one fan or 60,000 fans,” Kotsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland remains a special place for Guardians manager Stephen Vogt, who debuted \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/opening-day-guardians-vogt-675745b51a6856acf824eebe1d682cc6\">against the club\u003c/a> for which he played six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart goes out to the fans and the people of Oakland, obviously the organization as well,” Vogt said. “They’re in a tough place right now, and hopefully, they’ll get some answers and some clarity soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "In protest of the A’s planned move to Las Vegas in 2028, fan groups boycotted the home opener on Thursday, purchasing tickets to the game to organize a block party outside the stadium. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1723061904,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 21,
"wordCount": 882
},
"headData": {
"title": "'We're Fighting Back': A's Fans Throw Block Party Outside Oakland Coliseum to Protest Las Vegas Move | KQED",
"description": "In protest of the A’s planned move to Las Vegas in 2028, fan groups boycotted the home opener on Thursday, purchasing tickets to the game to organize a block party outside the stadium. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "'We're Fighting Back': A's Fans Throw Block Party Outside Oakland Coliseum to Protest Las Vegas Move",
"datePublished": "2024-03-29T11:53:24-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-08-07T13:18:24-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"nprByline": "Eric He\u003cbr>Associated Press",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"showOnAuthorArchivePages": "No",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/11981232/were-fighting-back-as-fans-throw-block-party-outside-oakland-coliseum-to-protest-las-vegas-move",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Many fans at the Oakland Coliseum were still hanging out in the parking lot when Alex Wood delivered the first pitch of the season for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/opening-day-guardians-athletics-score-bieber-vogt-c823ba3f92d4587f3bf0f5a6a010b730\">the Athletics against the Cleveland Guardians.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they had no intention of going into the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In protest of the A’s planned move to Las Vegas in 2028, fan groups boycotted the home opener on Thursday, purchasing tickets to the game to organize a block party outside the stadium. Paid attendance for the game was 13,522, but many never made it inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A half-hour before the game’s first pitch, hundreds of fans gathered in the far corner of the parking lot. They displayed “Sell” T-shirts and flags, threw beanbags at caricatures of team executives — including owner John Fisher and president Dave Kaval — and danced to live music while munching on dinner from food trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "‘We’re raising money to fight back. We’re urging people not to go in so they have less money to build their stadium.’",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"align": "right",
"size": "medium",
"citation": "Hal Gordon, economist and former Coliseum hot dog vendor",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Everyone’s in such a good mood because we’re all here for the same thing,” said Edward Silva, a student at San José State and a lifelong A’s fan. “Everyone knows the score. So everyone’s on the same page and just creating a wonderful atmosphere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s opened gates to parking lots just two hours before the game to align with what they said was the expected attendance, but fan groups that organized the boycott, including the Oakland 68’s and The Last Dive Bar, said it was an attempt to limit the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Biles, an organizer with the Oakland 68’s, said at a rally in the parking lot that Thursday was the first A’s home game he missed in five years. Biles, a season ticket holder since 2007, chose to attend college locally so he could still go to A’s games. He noted that other fans probably made similar sacrifices to support the club, small or large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time, I really believed that the A’s were actually dedicated to the community,” Biles said. “And I really bought into that whole spiel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981236\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with sunglasses and green and yellow hat watches through a net, another man with the same hat stands a little to his left.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A’s manager Mark Kotsay watches batting practice before the game against the Guardians at RingCentral Coliseum on Thursday, March 28. \u003ccite>(Lachlan Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The A’s plan to relocate to Las Vegas in 2028, but where they will play after this season remains uncertain, as their lease at the Coliseum expires. Sacramento and Salt Lake City have been floated as options, as has sharing Oracle Park with the San Francisco Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland 68’s and the Oakland United Coalition called at the rally for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to back out of their agreement to sell their 50% stake of the Coliseum to the A’s. At another booth were organizers at Schools Over Stadiums, a group attempting to block public funding for the Las Vegas stadium in favor of money for education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday was the second large action taken by A’s fans during home games after plans to move to Las Vegas were announced. Last June, fans packed the Coliseum for a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oakland-as-fans-reverse-boycott-sell-492340255543278241c63de72e2ddf77\">reverse boycott,\u003c/a> urging Fisher to sell the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like that was for us to know that it was important,” said Hal Gordon, an economist and former hot dog vendor at the Coliseum who became a fan favorite before he left in 2022. “This time, we’re fighting. We’re fighting back. We’re raising money to fight back. We’re urging people not to go in so they have less money to build their stadium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “There’s no playbook when someone says, ‘We’re stealing your team from you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11952845,news_11947286,news_11949532",
"label": "Related Stories "
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Managers for both teams empathized with the fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t expect anything less from Oakland A’s fans,” manager Mark Kotsay said. “When they come out, they come out with support, with love, and they do it full force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotsay added that the fans who show up to the game itself would “have a way to just be loud and create energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just to put a uniform on and to have this opportunity to be a big leaguer, to manage a big league club — I’m honored, regardless if there’s one fan or 60,000 fans,” Kotsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland remains a special place for Guardians manager Stephen Vogt, who debuted \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/opening-day-guardians-vogt-675745b51a6856acf824eebe1d682cc6\">against the club\u003c/a> for which he played six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart goes out to the fans and the people of Oakland, obviously the organization as well,” Vogt said. “They’re in a tough place right now, and hopefully, they’ll get some answers and some clarity soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11981232/were-fighting-back-as-fans-throw-block-party-outside-oakland-coliseum-to-protest-las-vegas-move",
"authors": [
"byline_news_11981232"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_10"
],
"tags": [
"news_18203",
"news_161",
"news_34078"
],
"featImg": "news_11981235",
"label": "news"
}
},
"podcastsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"podcasts": {}
},
"radioProgramsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"radioPrograms": {}
},
"radioSearchSegmentsReducer": {},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9a90d476-aa04-455d-9a4c-0871ed6216d4/bay-curious",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/26099305-72af-4542-9dde-ac1807fe36d5/kqed-s-the-california-report",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/44420f75-3b0e-4301-ab3b-16da6b09e543/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Perspectives",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e0c2d153-ad36-4c8d-901d-f1da6a724824/political-breakdown",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Snap Judgment",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Spooked",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d800ea4c-7a2c-42f2-b861-edaf78a5db0b/the-bay",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026Reducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026PresidentialReducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/news?category=sports": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 192,
"size": 12
},
"vitalsOnly": false,
"totalRequested": 12,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 1378,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"news_11989311",
"news_11988916",
"news_11988883",
"news_11988762",
"news_11987568",
"news_11986294",
"news_11985802",
"news_11985145",
"news_11983120",
"news_11982105",
"news_11981876",
"news_11981232"
],
"complete": true
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"newslettersReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"newsletters": {},
"isSubscribing": false,
"isUnsubscribing": false,
"subscribedNewsletters": {}
},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"careers": {
"name": "Careers",
"type": "terms",
"id": "careers",
"slug": "careers",
"link": "/careers",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"newsletters": {
"name": "newsletters",
"type": "terms",
"id": "newsletters",
"slug": "newsletters",
"link": "/newsletters",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news_category_sports": {
"isLoading": true
},
"news_10": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_10",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Sports",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Sports Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 10,
"slug": "sports",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/sports"
},
"news_72": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_72",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "72",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/TCR-2-Logo-Web-Banners-03.png",
"name": "The California Report",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "The California Report Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6969,
"slug": "the-california-report",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/the-california-report"
},
"news_26731": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_26731",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "26731",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "The California Report Magazine",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "The California Report Magazine Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 26748,
"slug": "the-california-report-magazine",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/the-california-report-magazine"
},
"news_31795": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_31795",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "31795",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 31812,
"slug": "california",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/california"
},
"news_8": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_8",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "8",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 8,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/news"
},
"news_248": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_248",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "248",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Technology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Technology Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 256,
"slug": "technology",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/technology"
},
"news_721": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_721",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "721",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Santa Cruz",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Santa Cruz Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 730,
"slug": "santa-cruz",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/santa-cruz"
},
"news_1071": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1071",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1071",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "surfing",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "surfing Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1082,
"slug": "surfing",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/surfing"
},
"news_20851": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20851",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20851",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "The California Report",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "The California Report Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20868,
"slug": "the-california-report",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/the-california-report"
},
"news_30162": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_30162",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "30162",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "The California Report Magazine",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "The California Report Magazine Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 30179,
"slug": "the-california-report-magazine",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/the-california-report-magazine"
},
"news_33738": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33738",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33738",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33755,
"slug": "california",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/california"
},
"news_33733": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33733",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33733",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33750,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/news"
},
"news_18203": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18203",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18203",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "baseball",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "baseball Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18237,
"slug": "baseball",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/baseball"
},
"news_4694": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4694",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4694",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Major League Baseball",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Major League Baseball Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4713,
"slug": "major-league-baseball",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/major-league-baseball"
},
"news_34054": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34054",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34054",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "oakland",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "oakland Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 34071,
"slug": "oakland",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/oakland"
},
"news_161": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_161",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "161",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Oakland As",
"slug": "oakland-as",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Oakland As | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 168,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/oakland-as"
},
"news_33730": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33730",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33730",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Oakland",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Oakland Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33747,
"slug": "oakland",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/oakland"
},
"news_27626": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_27626",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "27626",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "featured-news",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "featured-news Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 27643,
"slug": "featured-news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/featured-news"
},
"news_34078": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34078",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34078",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "sports",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "sports Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 34095,
"slug": "sports",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sports"
},
"news_33741": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33741",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33741",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "East Bay",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "East Bay Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33758,
"slug": "east-bay",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/east-bay"
},
"news_33749": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33749",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33749",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Entertainment",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Entertainment Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33766,
"slug": "entertainment",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/entertainment"
},
"news_3234": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3234",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3234",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "bicyclists",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "bicyclists Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3252,
"slug": "bicyclists",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/bicyclists"
},
"news_92": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_92",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "92",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "traffic",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "traffic Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 95,
"slug": "traffic",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/traffic"
},
"news_5042": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5042",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5042",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "transit safety",
"slug": "transit-safety",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "transit safety | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 5062,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/transit-safety"
},
"news_20517": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20517",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20517",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "transportation",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "transportation Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20534,
"slug": "transportation",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/transportation"
},
"news_1758": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1758",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1758",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Economy",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Full coverage of the economy",
"title": "Economy Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2648,
"slug": "economy",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/economy"
},
"news_17596": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17596",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17596",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Oakland Coliseum",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Oakland Coliseum Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17630,
"slug": "oakland-coliseum",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/oakland-coliseum"
},
"news_31962": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_31962",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "31962",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Sheng Thao",
"slug": "sheng-thao",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Sheng Thao Archives | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 31979,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sheng-thao"
},
"news_33130": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33130",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33130",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Bay Area sports",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Bay Area sports Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33147,
"slug": "bay-area-sports",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/bay-area-sports"
},
"news_18540": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18540",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18540",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Education",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Education Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2595,
"slug": "education",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/education"
},
"news_20013": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20013",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20013",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "education",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "education Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20030,
"slug": "education",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/education"
},
"news_17597": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17597",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17597",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "UC Berkeley",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "UC Berkeley Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17631,
"slug": "uc-berkeley",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/uc-berkeley"
},
"news_2792": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2792",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2792",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "UCLA",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "UCLA Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2810,
"slug": "ucla",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/ucla"
},
"news_33742": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33742",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33742",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Berkeley",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Berkeley Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33759,
"slug": "berkeley",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/berkeley"
},
"news_33746": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33746",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33746",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Education",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Education Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33763,
"slug": "education",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/education"
},
"news_32793": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_32793",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "32793",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Bay Area soccer",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Bay Area soccer Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 32810,
"slug": "bay-area-soccer",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/bay-area-soccer"
},
"news_1489": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1489",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1489",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "soccer",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "soccer Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1501,
"slug": "soccer",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/soccer"
},
"news_33740": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33740",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33740",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Events",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Events Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33757,
"slug": "events",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/events"
},
"news_38": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_38",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "38",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 58,
"slug": "san-francisco",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco"
},
"news_28623": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_28623",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "28623",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "women's soccer",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "women's soccer Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 28640,
"slug": "womens-soccer",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/womens-soccer"
},
"news_33729": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33729",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33729",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "interest",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33746,
"slug": "san-francisco",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/interest/san-francisco"
},
"news_16": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_16",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "16",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Gavin Newsom",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Gavin Newsom Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 16,
"slug": "gavin-newsom",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gavin-newsom"
},
"news_18481": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18481",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18481",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "CALmatters",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "affiliate",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "CALmatters Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18515,
"slug": "calmatters",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/affiliate/calmatters"
}
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {
"region": {
"key": "Restaurant Region",
"filters": [
"Any Region"
]
},
"cuisine": {
"key": "Restaurant Cuisine",
"filters": [
"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
"restaurantDataById": {},
"restaurantIdsSorted": [],
"error": null
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
},
"requestOutcomesReducer": {
"notFound": []
},
"navPromosReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": true,
"promos": {
"news": {
"name": "2026 Voter Guide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"imageURL": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Nav-News-Nov2026ElectionCoverage@2x-7bd4aad4.png",
"description": "Get informed in minutes with our Voter Guide for California’s November 3 election."
},
"podcasts-radio": {},
"video-tv": {},
"events": {},
"support": {}
}
}
}