RealClearSports: Oakland: Sports Boomtown Going Bust
By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
OAKLAND -- Never thought of this place as the city where dreams go to die.
Battered metaphorically as the poor sibling of San Francisco across the bay -- "There's no there, there,'' said local girl Gertrude Stein -- Oakland for a long while survived on its championship teams.
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2010
For RealClearSports.com
OAKLAND -- Never thought of this place as the city where dreams go to die.
Battered metaphorically as the poor sibling of San Francisco across the bay -- "There's no there, there,'' said local girl Gertrude Stein -- Oakland for a long while survived on its championship teams.
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2010