The Oakland Athletics finished off their three-game set with the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday with a 5-4 defeat that came down to the wire...again.It was a typical combative and competitive series between these intrastate rivals, highlighted by Monday night/Tuesday morning’s epic 19-inning marathon. As always, everything you have come to expect from these two teams did happen. There was excitement, fun, drama, suspense and overall admirable battling on both sides. The type of all-around play that has made this rivalry one of the best in all of baseball. Despite all the familiarities between these two ball clubs, there were ...
The Oakland Raiders were ranked No. 18 in rushing defense in 2012, surrendering nearly 1,900 yards and watching their opponents cross the goal line no less than 18 times. Sensing a weakness, opponents attacked the Raiders on the ground 444 times, where Oakland gave up an average of 4.3 yards per attempt.
This appeared to be a need that would be addressed during the draft, but it was not until their second pick in the sixth round (205 overall) that general manager Reggie McKenzie nabbed Stacy McGee from Oklahoma. At 6'3" and 308 pounds, McGee ran the 40-yard dash in 4.98 ...
The Oakland Raiders filled some holes in the NFL draft, but their draft wasn't perfect.Oakland selected D.J. Hayden with the 12th pick in the draft, and they got some potential stars in Sio Moore and Menelik Watson. However, they also failed to address some major needs, which will cost the team in the future.Which needs did the Raiders fail to address? Here are three glaring holes Oakland failed to fill in the draft.Begin Slideshow
After one month of baseball, some lower-rated Oakland Athletics prospects are making baseball look ridiculously easy while one of the top three guys might wish to remove April from his memory. The A's have several—a dozen, maybe more—quality prospects in their farm league right now. Scour the internet and you'll get a few different top 10 lists. For this list, I did the work for you and accumulated the most consistent list of names. Considered is the list by Mike Rosenbaum, MLB prospects lead writer for Bleacher Report. Jason Parks' (Baseball Prospectus) and Jim Shonerd's (Baseball America) lists were also ...
In October of 2011, the Oakland Raiders acquired unhappy quarterback Carson Palmer from the Cincinnati Bengals (via New York Times) to fill in for an injured Jason Campbell. To acquire Palmer, then-coach Hue Jackson convinced owner Mark Davis to give up the Raiders' 2012 first-round pick, as well as this year's second.Davis, incidentally, has said he pulled the trigger based on advice from Ron Wolf, John Madden and Ken Herock.Whatever the path, it's not a stretch to say the move didn't work out all that well.When current head coach Dennis Allen took over in 2012, he faced a tough task—rebuilding ...