Assistant Sports Editor
Laurence Miedema
Laurence has held a variety of roles with the Bay Area News Group sports deparment since arriving in 2000. He is a former A's beat writer who has helped cover MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL as well as college and high schools in addition to serving as the Sports copy desk director.
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Oakland A’s fans return to Bay Area after taking their case directly to John Fisher, MLB owners
"I feel like (John Fisher) lives in his own little world, and so he thinks that he's coming off as genuine. But he's not. He's tone deaf."
Oakland A’s extend manager Mark Kotsay’s contract through 2025 season
“Picking up his option was an obvious decision to make for our club, and I look forward to having him lead the A’s on the field through 2025 and hopefully...
SF Giants’ Krukow and Kuiper, Oakland A’s Korach finalists for MLB Hall of Fame’s Frick Award
The Giants' Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper, and the A's Ken Korach, all Bay Area broadcasting staples for more than three decades.
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SF Giants’ search for a new manager to replace Kapler appears to be heating up
Mark Hallberg, 37, just completed his second season as the team’s third base coach. Hallberg was a teammate of Buster Posey at Florida State and has been a coach in...
Stanford picked behind Utah, UCLA in Pac-12 women’s basketball poll
The Pac-12 coaches and media made their preseason picks and Stanford, the 26-time regular season champs, received it's lowest ranking ever.
Oakland A’s lose franchise-record 109th game of season, but Esteury Ruiz’s pursuit of stolen base mark on the horizon
Ruiz will win the A.L. stolen base crown easily – Kansas City’s Bobby Witt Jr. is a distance second with 48 – and has a chance to catch Atlanta Braves...
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Stanford-USC history: No shortage of great moments in the century-long rivalry
The Stanford Cardinal and USC Trojans have met for more than 100 years, but Saturday night's Pac-12 opener could be their final meeting in quite a while.
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Turf wars: NFL players and owners are at odds over replacing artificial surfaces with grass
The merits and safety concerns of artificial turf vs. natural grass have been debated since the Philadelphia Eagles became the first NFL team to play on AstroTurf in 1969 –...
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Oakland A’s prospect Soderstrom back in the majors as MLB rosters expand for September
MLB teams expanded their rosters for the final month of the season on Friday, and the A's brought their top prospect back from Triple-A Las Vegas.
Tampa Bay Rays to play series against SF Giants without Wander Franco as MLB looks into social media posts
The Rays placed their 22-year-old All-Star on leave for the start of a three-game series against the Giants that begins tonight at Oracle Park.