Fiji prime minister, 75, wins shot put bronze medal at Oceania athletics championships | Athletics

Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, 75, turned back the clock by winning bronze in the shot put at the Oceania Athletics Championships on Wednesday. Rabuka represented Fiji at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in the decathlon, shot put, discus and hammer throw and also represented the country in rugby union. The People’s Alliance leader placed behind […]
Matthew Hudson-Smith storms to new European 400m record in Oslo | Athletics

Matthew Hudson-Smith set a new European 400m record with a brilliant season-opening run at the Diamond League meet in Oslo. The 29-year-old Briton won in a dominant time of 44.07 seconds, beating his own European record of 44.26 seconds set at the world championships in Budapest last August. On that occasion, Hudson-Smith was leading until […]
Parent Claims Oregon Athletics Association Threatens to Ban Girls Who Speak Out Against Trans Athletes

The Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) is reportedly planning to ban girls from making anti-transgender comments in sports. News of the alleged ban came after Aiden Gallagher, a transgender athlete who lives as a girl, won a high school track championship in Oregon over the weekend. As Breitbart News reported: High school sophomore boy Aiden […]
Athletics Move One Step Closer To Las Vegas Relocation After Proposed Ballot Initiative Over Funds Struck Down: REPORT

The A’s are that much closer to Sin City — and this is courtesy of the Nevada Supreme Court. The court struck down a proposed ballot initiative Monday that would’ve put the Oakland Athletics‘ public funding from Nevada on the 2024 ballot, giving taxpayers the power to decide whether to keep the funding in place […]
The Athletics’ Mason Miller has taken the baseball world by storm

When it comes to early season standings, my personal advice is to not take them too seriously until Memorial Day at the earliest. That would give baseball enough time to really start getting the kind of sample size they can rely on going forward. That being said, the holidays are just around the corner so […]
A Game Of Backyard Football At Your House Today Would Probably Get A Bigger Crowd Than The Oakland Athletics

The Oakland Athletics are an embarrassment to American sports. The flailing franchise is breaking records for extreme lows in attendance since owner John Fisher announced the team will be moving to Las Vegas in 2028 and Sacramento in the interim. Through 36 games the team is averaging a mind-blowingly low 6,235 fans per game, according […]
Rangers vs. Athletics, odds, prediction: MLB picks, best bets

Commercial content. Over 21 years old. Action Network is the official betting partner of the New York Post, which edits this content. After the Athletics lost 112 games last season, Pecota set his prediction for Oakland’s win total in 2024 at 64.8. Twenty-five games into the season, the Athletics (17-18) are on pace for 79 […]
Aaron Judge, Juan Soto homer as Yankees roll past Athletics

A few hours before the game, Brian Cashman inspected the Yankees’ struggling offensive line and basically shrugged it off. The general manager had seen many of the club’s best hitters fall silent over the first few weeks of the season, and he expressed no concerns at all. “We want to be firing on all cylinders […]
National Collegiate Athletics Org Rules Male Athletes Can’t Compete In Women’s Sports

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced Monday that only biological females would be allowed to play in women’s sports. The organization’s Council of Presidents voted to approve a policy allowing “only students whose biological sex is female” in its women’s sports competitions, according to The Washington Post. The policy will go into effect […]
Oakland Athletics’ Team Store Sheet Was Found By Fans, And Holy Hell, It’s Gonna Be A Long Season For These Guys

The bridge between the Athletics and city of Oakland is on absolute FIRE. The Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox squared off Tuesday, with the A’s getting thrashed in a 9-0 contest. Yeah, no shocker there, the Athletics suck. But there was something interesting found at the game. While watching their really bad baseball team, […]