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Maria Stephanie Amaya 03/30/2017 Moneyball film extra credit The film “Moneyball” is about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane reinventing how people view the game of baseball and how players are scouted for teams. Faced with the dilemma of being unable to re-sign Oakland’s best 3 players after the 2001 season due to their limited payroll, Beane uses the power of statistics to find value in players and understand the sport of baseball. Beane meets an Ivy League graduate named Peter Brand.…

Community-based activism was the driving force behind the fight against development and gentrification in the SOMA and Tenderloin neighborhoods, and even across the bay in Oakland. In the video, “Oakland: Our City” the narrator describes the benefits of urban renewal on blighted neighborhoods, but never addresses the impact it may have on the people who live in these areas. Revitalization of the city’s life and value is a key motivating force to development. Another motivating force is high-rise…

Hills is home to two very different colleges, Oakland University and Rochester College. When the two meet it is much like the U of M versus MSU during football season. The RC versus OU hockey matches, known as the Battle of the Jug, is one of the biggest hockey series of the season. The Battle for the Jug is one of the few series of games that the city divides and one team comes out victorious. Rochester Hills is home to two very different colleges. Oakland University (OU), a public institution,…

Carlos Ruiz has a value, the front office of ball clubs are tasked with finding out how much that is exactly. Until the years of the Oakland Athletics, under the general management of Billy Beane, sabermetrics had been regarded as an absurd way of placing value on players and a flawed system to predict wins based on runs produced. However, in 2002, the Oakland A’s won 20 consecutive games and advanced to the ALDS, all while the team only had 39,722,689 dollars to spend on players in free…

Chargers’ relocation application was thought of as BS by the San Diego leaders. The lead negotiator for the county and city efforts to keep the Chargers in town tried unsuccessfully in obtaining a copy of the teams’ application to relocate to Los Angeles. The officials are concerned that the application might have inaccuracies in it. Attorney Chris Melvin tried requesting the document from the NFL and the Chargers and they have not provided it to him. Monday night the Chargers’ had a video…

Oakland is a community flourishing in the arts, poetry and literature that has historically ignored in academia by major publishing companies. Most of this work consists of oral/performance poetry and flourishes in communal spaces, spaces that work towards unifying the community and creating a safe environment for underrepresented and marginalized communities.From the beginning of the Black Arts Movement in the 70s with writers such as Ishmael Reed and Sarah Webster Fabio have pushed the…

meaner and his worst nightmare. The next season in a preseason game he tore his ACL and was out for the season. After physical therapy he came back the following season but was traded to the Oakland Raiders. That year he won the Super Bowl, now he was really getting to understand the NFL. He was with the Oakland Raiders for 2 more years before getting traded to the San Francisco 49ers. He stayed with the San Francisco 49ers for the rest of his career, and went on to win 3 more Super Bowls. In…

“It is only recently that we have understood traumatic brain injuries, the helmets that we are using today were not designed to protect the brain, they are designed to protect the skull fracture”(University Study). People everywhere around the world are receiving concussions everyday for everyday activities or participating in a sport. A concussion is a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. The term is also used loosely of the aftereffects such as confusion or temporary…

society, it’s still better to not start a war. War has been always considered the worst solution for any problem, because it has many bad effects on individuals and the society without solving the problem itself. In the short story “Dangerland” by Oakland Ross, the cruelty of war causes the lack of morality. In the war zone, dishonesty becomes important in order to reach one’s goals. People there try to lie so many times so that it becomes a habit that they tend to lie carefully under all…

In 1996, Bobby Seale alongside Huey Newton became one of two co-founders of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) in Oakland, California. The FBI presented the group as a terrorist or hate group, and made part of the mission of the organization to destroy the BPP, even though the BPP was nowhere near being as violent a threat. In his book Seize the Time, Seale wrote of the group’s victories and downfalls, including how the FBI exaggerated the nefariousness of the group and deceived the…