Raiders reportedly negotiating with Coliseum again
The Raiders could be staying for one more season in Oakland, as talks have resumed with Coliseum officials, according to an ABC7 News report Friday. ABC7 reported the team and Coliseum officials have resumed talks for the first time since December about playing its final season in Oakland before moving to Las Vegas.
Owner Mark Davis stopped talks with Oakland after the city filed a lawsuit against the Raiders and the NFL over the move to Las Vegas. The team’s new stadium in Las Vegas will not be ready until the 2020 season.
It had been reported earlier this week that the Raiders had reached a deal to play at Oracle Park in San Francisco, but those talks stalled.
Women’s college basketball
STANFORD HANDLES OSU >> Stanford handled its first top-10 opponent of the weekend as the No. 10 Cardinal downed seventhranked Oregon State (194, 9-2 Pac-12) 61-44 at Maples Pavilion. Kiana Williams scored 18 points for the Cardinal (19-3, 9-2), and Alanna Smith added 17. Third-ranked Oregon is up next Sunday for Stanford.
Baseball
INDIANS’ LINDOR HURTING Cleveland Indians shortstop >> Francisco Lindor will be sidelined seven to nine weeks after suffering a right calf strain, the team announced. The Indians said Lindor, 25, recently hurt the calf while preparing for spring training in Orlando, Florida.
Figure skating
ZHOU TAKES LEAD AFTER SHORT PROGRAM >> Palo Alto Olympian Vincent Zhou continued to soar this year with a season’s best score of 100.18 points to win the men’s short program in his Four Continents figure skating championships debut late Thursday.
Zhou, 18, will compete for the gold medal tonight in Anaheim in the free skate after impressive jumps that included a quadruple lutztriple toe combination and a quadruple salchow. He earned level 4 marks on every element after getting downgraded earlier in the season for under-rotating jumps.
American Bradie Tennell won the women’s short program with a season’s best 73.91 points after finishing second to Richmond’s Alysa Liu at the U.S. championships.
Zhou leads fellow 2018 Olympians Junhwan Cha of Korea (97.33 points), defending champion Boyang Jin of China (92.17) and Olympic silver medalist Shoma Uno of Japan (91.76).
Soccer
YOUTH PLAYERS KILLED IN BRAZIL FIRE >> Fire swept through an unlicensed lodging at the training center of Rio de Janeiro soccer club Flamengo on Friday, killing 10 members of the club’s youth team and injuring three more, one of them seriously, firefighters and news reports said.
All 10 of the dead were aged between 14 and 16 and either played for the club or were having trials there, according to detailed information on Brazil’s Globo website.
College football
FIELDS EARNS RIGHT TO PLAY RIGHT AWAY >> Transfer quarterback Justin Fields is eligible to play immediately for Ohio State in the 2019 season, the NCAA has ruled, the school announced Friday. Fields, a five-star recruit in the Class of 2018, played last season at Georgia but entered the NCAA transfer portal after the regular season.
Golf
PARNEVIK LEADS BY ONE >> Jesper Parnevik strung together four consecutive birdies down the stretch to shoot a career-best 9-under-par 63 and take a onestroke lead after the first round of the PGA Champions Tour Oasis Championship in Boca Raton, Florida. Parnevik sits just ahead of Bernhard Langer.