NFL appeals officer Derrick Brooks upheld Oakland Raiders linebacker Vontaze Burfict's season-ending suspension on Wednesday.
Burfict will miss the remainder of the 2019 season — including any playoff games if the Raiders reach the postseason — as a (...)
Mike Glennon and Nathan Peterman combined for 266 passing yards, and Peterman chipped in 56 rushing yards as the Oakland Raiders won their preseason opener 14-3 over the visiting Los Angeles Rams on Saturday night.
With starter Derek Carr sitting (...)
Fire crews in California on Sunday were searching the charred remains of a warehouse gutted by a blaze during a rave party, with officials saying the death toll could reach 40.
Relatives of dozens of people missing in the Friday night blaze in (...)
Andre Iguodala scored two hoops in an eight-point run to start the fourth quarter Monday as the Golden State Warriors rallied from a deficit to turn back the Atlanta Hawks 105-100 for their 12th straight win.
The Hawks took an 81-80 lead into the (...)
Protests against Donald Trump broke out in California's Bay Area late on Tuesday after the Republican candidate won the US presidential election, a witness and local media reported.
Demonstrators set fire to a likeness of Trump, smashed storefront (...)
Undefeated Andre Ward used a steady left hook to repeatedly score and unanimously outpointed Alexander Brand to take the WBO Intercontinental light heavyweight championship Saturday night.
Ward (30-0) was never seriously threatened by Brand (25-2), (...)
Stephen Curry realizes every last man on the bench can mean so much to winning a championship.
As he and Klay Thompson endured rare off nights that even featured Curry tossing his mouthpiece in frustration, the NBA Most Valuable Player's supporting (...)
Stephen Curry scored 31 points, raising his arms in the early moments to awaken Golden State's raucous crowd, as the defending champion Warriors staved off elimination with a 120-111 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder Thursday night in Game 5 of (...)
run double and Josh Hamilton also doubled in a run to back Derek Holland as Texas beat Oakland 6-3 Tuesday.
Yorvit Torrealba hit a sacrifice fly, Adrian Beltre singled twice and Holland (5-4) pitched 5 1-3 innings — looking far stronger than in his (...)
Rookie Jarrod Parker held Texas hitless until the eighth inning and Brandon Inge drove in four runs in Oakland's eight-run second inning as the Athletics beat the Rangers 12-1 Monday night.
Parker (2-2) easily worked his way through baseball's (...)
Colby Lewis and four relievers combined on a five-hitter and the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 7-1 Saturday.
Ian Kinsler had two hits and three RBIs for Texas, which increased its AL West lead to three games over the Los Angeles Angels. (...)
Sean Rodriguez hit a go-ahead, two-run home run in the eighth as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Oakland Athletics 5-4 Saturday to stay only a game off the lead in the American League.
Evan Longoria hit a home run and Ben Zobrist and Willy Aybar also (...)
Kevin Kouzmanoff scored the go-ahead run on second baseman Ben Zobrist's fielding error in the eighth inning as Oakland Athletics again beat Tampa Bay Rays by one run, 5-4 in the American League on Friday.
Rajai Davis hit a tying sacrifice fly in (...)
Shaun Marcum pitched a one-hitter, allowing only a home run to Conor Jackson leading off the seventh inning, while Jose Bautista hit his majors-best 37th home run to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 3-1 win over Oakland Athletics Monday night.
The (...)
Ramon Hernandez hit a tiebreaking leadoff home run in the 10th inning, Joey Votto and Scott Rolen added back-to-back shots as the Cincinnati Reds broke out of their offensive slump to beat the Oakland Athletics 6-4 Monday.
Oakland's Kevin (...)
It's never too late to earn your college degree. Just ask 94-year-old Hazel Soares.
The woman was one of about 500 students to pick up diplomas Saturday during a commencement ceremony at Mills College, an all-women's school in Oakland. “It's taken (...)
Dallas Braden pitched the 19th perfect game in major league history, a dazzling performance for the Athletics in a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays Sunday.
When Gabe Kapler grounded out to shortstop for the final out, Braden had completed the (...)
The Tampa Bay Rays' extraordinary start to the American League season got even better with a 4-1 win at the Oakland Athletics Friday.
At 22-7, the Rays are off to the best start to a season since the New York Yankees began 23-6 in 2003. Tampa Bay (...)
Kurt Suzuki hit a three-run homer and later grounded into the Yankees' first triple play since 1968 before New York lost 4-2 to the Oakland Athletics Thursday.
Dallas Braden (3-0) and Yankees star Alex Rodriguez got into a shouting match after the (...)
Alex Rodriguez hit a three-run homer to lift the New York Yankees to a 7-3 win over the Oakland Athletics Tuesday, notching a fifth straight American League win.
Yankees starter Javier Vazquez (1-2) finally showed the form that made him a 15-game (...)
Oakland's Brett Anderson held Seattle scoreless into the seventh inning to set up the Athletics' 6-2 win over the Mariners in Thursday's American League West clash.
Anderson struck out four and walked one to take the win.
Daric Barton drove in a (...)
Kurt Suzuki hit a walkoff RBI double with one out in the ninth inning to lift the Oakland Athletics to a 6-5 win over the Seattle Mariners in Wednesday's American League action.
Suzuki's seventh career walkoff hit provided a happy ending to a night (...)
New York's Derek Jeter had his third straight three-hit game and knocked in the go-ahead run to lift the Yankees to a 7-2 win over the Oakland Athletics in the American League Tuesday.
Jeter's RBI single in the sixth broke a 2-2 tie and the Yankees (...)
Brett Tomko pitched five scoreless innings to beat New York less than a month after being released by the Yankees, winning his debut with the Oakland Athletics 3-0 in the American League Monday.
Kurt Suzuki and Mark Ellis had RBI hits in a (...)
Shorn of its franchise-record winning streak, a drained Boston Celtics team gave up a 14-point lead and lost to the struggling Golden State Warriors 99-89 in the NBA on Friday.
A day after their 19-game streak was ended by the Los Angeles Lakers, (...)