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The A's Are Road Favorites Over the Kid Who Just Shut Them Out. I'll Take the Angels and the Plus Money.

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Here is tonight's board in Anaheim, stated plainly: the Athletics, a sub-.500 team hitting .237 over their last ten…

Just now

The Giants Found a Pulse. The Braves Lost Theirs. Take San Francisco at Even Money.

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Tuesday night the Giants did something they'd basically forgotten how to do: they scored late and meant it.

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Bielsa's Uruguay Walks Into Spain's Wall. I'm Taking the Under.

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Let me tell you where I'm an expert and where I'm a tourist, because the line between the two is the whole point of…

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The Possum and the Standings: Oakland's Other Baseball Team Is Losing, and Nobody at Raimondi Park Cares

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The Oakland Ballers are 14-19 and eighth in the Pioneer League, and this weekend they're hosting Phish Night, "Oakland…

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The Record Lies: Atlanta Walks Into Oracle as the Colder Team

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Here's the trap. You glance at the standings — Braves 48-31, first in the NL East; Giants 33-47, fourth in the West and…

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The Most Expensive Real Estate in Basketball Is Two Inches of Jersey, and a Bitcoin Miner Just Bought It

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On June 25 the Warriors announced the richest jersey-patch deal in North American team-sports history — north of $50…

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Three Runs in Nine Innings, Again: The Giants-A's Under Keeps Cashing, and Devers Finally Swung

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Two nights ago I wrote that two broken offenses were meeting at Oracle and the only honest number on the board was the…

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Aiyuk Says He'll Sign With Washington 'Tomorrow.' He's Negotiating From a List Reserved for Players Who Quit.

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No NFL game tonight. There's nothing here to bet — line not pulled, analysis only — so let's just read the leverage…

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The Same Day: Solomon Bates Came Out as a Giant, and Was Gone by Sundown

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In June 2026, three Giants pitchers wrote a Bible verse over the rainbow on their Pride caps and became a national…

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A Blowout Is the Wrong Bet: 1u on Scotland +1.5 Against a Shaky Brazil

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I'll say the quiet part first: I am not the guy to tell you who wins a Brazil match on tactical feel.

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Three Spike Holes in the Best Story Oakland Had Left

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For 24 games, Zack Gelof was the one clean, uncomplicated thing about a franchise that has none — an Athletics team…

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The Kid Who Hated Steph Arrives Late to the Party

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Yaxel Lendeborg was a 13-year-old Kyrie Irving loyalist in 2016, rooting against the Warriors when they were the most…

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A College Coach Walks Into a Big-League Room: The Vitello Experiment's Real Test Isn't Rafael Devers

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Here is the scene, because the scene is the whole thing.

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The Sharks Just Turned a 23-Year-Old Into a Draft Pick. That's the Tell.

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A week ago I wrote that the Sharks traded down for Michael Kesselring and got better, and that getting better through…

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Bosnia, Probably: Decoding Who the USMNT Actually Plays in Santa Clara on July 1

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We've established the where and the when.

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The Homecoming That Isn't: The A's Come Back to the Bay as Visitors

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On Tuesday night the Athletics play the Giants at Oracle Park — thirteen miles and one body of water from the Coliseum…

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Santa Clara Is Already Booked: USA Clinched Group D, So Thursday vs Turkey Is a Scrimmage — and the Bet Lives in the Under

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Everybody's doing the World Cup-fever thing right now — hotel screenshots, ticket-price freakouts, the Gia Vang…

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Two Broken Offenses Meet at Oracle. Take the Under.

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There's a temptation, when the A's roll into Oracle Park as the "road" team they technically are these days, to write…

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Jordan's World Cup Ends in Santa Clara, and Algeria Learned to Score From Corners Just in Time

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Jordan led a World Cup match for thirty-three minutes.

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The Warning Was Always Rubber: Manfred's Letter to Hawley Closes the Pride-Cap File

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Eleven days ago, MLB warned three Giants pitchers that writing Bible verses on Pride Night caps was "a violation of our…

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The Press Team That Can't Press: Half a Unit on Austria +1 Against Messi's Argentina

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Let me say the quiet part first, because I've now written some version of "take the dog to stay within one" three times…

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The Girl Dads Found Their Room

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In year two, the Golden State Valkyries have turned Chase Center into the hottest ticket in Bay Area sports — 31…

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Webb Is Great. The Giants' Bullpen Isn't. I'll Take the Hot Dog at +125.

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I have written about this Giants–Marlins series so many times this week that loanDepot Park should comp me a parking…

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Four Legs, One World Cup Saturday: Today's Group-Stage Card

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Some mornings the board just lines up. Four group-stage matches, four sides I'd happily put on a single, and a number…

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