No-Team Stadiums: Money Makers?

With the Oakland Athletics announcing that they'll move to a new, high-tech stadium in nearby Fremont, California, the City of Oakland is considering various options for how to use the now team-less McAfee Coliseum. City officials, however, aren't despairing: the A's leaving might actually benefit the city financially, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Ignacio De La Fuente, a City Council member who also serves on the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority's board of directors, says, "To be candid, we made more money in one Rolling Stones concert than the A's made (us) in a whole year. We will deal with it."

  

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