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The Oakland A's announce a new stadium deal first, and will figure out financing, zoning approvals and all that small stuff later. A few interesting things so far—the stadium would be surrounded by shopping, and parking would be off site, with fans shuttled in. And Cisco, which has naming rights, has big ideas for using the stadium as a corporate showcase.The 49ers, who'd been planning to move to a new privately-financed arena adjacent to their current home, are now planning to leave San Francisco, likely for Santa Clara. Team owner John York claims the team won't leave the Bay Area, and won't change its name from the San Francisco 49ers. Any move, though, will damage San Francisco's bid for the 2016 Olympics, which was crafted in large part around the new stadium. The team claims that the San Francisco site would have demanded infrastructure and public transit improvements that were likely to exceed the $600-$800 million cost of the arena, and a complicated approval process that may well have kept the team from moving in to a new home as planned by 2012.L.A. and Anaheim joust with each other, as both plead with the NFL for a football team.Off the sports beat, John Fund catalogs Acorn's failings, scandals and sins, and asks if the advocacy group is becoming a cult.
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