Dan Moore
@danmoore.bsky.social
Contributing writer ESPN, The Ringer | Also in The Atlantic, Baseball Prospectus, Oaklandside, SF Standard, Longreads, others | East Bay 🌳 | Oliver’s dad ⚾️
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· Sep 25
I’m so excited to finally share this: I’m writing a book! It’s about Oakland—its rise as a great American sports town, its fall to the billionaires who abandoned it, and, most of all, the fans and activists and founders who fought to hold onto this aspect of the city’s identity and soul.
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Reeeeeeeeally excited for this
I’m so excited to finally share this: I’m writing a book! It’s about Oakland—its rise as a great American sports town, its fall to the billionaires who abandoned it, and, most of all, the fans and activists and founders who fought to hold onto this aspect of the city’s identity and soul.
September 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Reeeeeeeeally excited for this
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Pros may have left, but the tough and the plucky remain. Side note: Oakland is also home to California’s only dedicated curling ice.
I’m so excited to finally share this: I’m writing a book! It’s about Oakland—its rise as a great American sports town, its fall to the billionaires who abandoned it, and, most of all, the fans and activists and founders who fought to hold onto this aspect of the city’s identity and soul.
September 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Pros may have left, but the tough and the plucky remain. Side note: Oakland is also home to California’s only dedicated curling ice.
I’m so excited to finally share this: I’m writing a book! It’s about Oakland—its rise as a great American sports town, its fall to the billionaires who abandoned it, and, most of all, the fans and activists and founders who fought to hold onto this aspect of the city’s identity and soul.
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I’m so excited to finally share this: I’m writing a book! It’s about Oakland—its rise as a great American sports town, its fall to the billionaires who abandoned it, and, most of all, the fans and activists and founders who fought to hold onto this aspect of the city’s identity and soul.
Oakland lost every single one of its big league sports teams. So a pair of fans built Oakland an independent pro team of its own. Now the @oaklandballers.bsky.social are competing for the Pioneer League World Series before sell-out crowds. Coolest story in sports.
A sea of gold rally towels, deafoning Let’s Go Oakland chants, and a flyover?!
Championship baseball was on full display in OAKLAND!!!
This fanbase needed a night like tonight and the fellas of the @oaklandballers.bsky.social delivered!
Championship baseball was on full display in OAKLAND!!!
This fanbase needed a night like tonight and the fellas of the @oaklandballers.bsky.social delivered!
September 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Oakland lost every single one of its big league sports teams. So a pair of fans built Oakland an independent pro team of its own. Now the @oaklandballers.bsky.social are competing for the Pioneer League World Series before sell-out crowds. Coolest story in sports.
Apropos of nothing, I wrote about the historic endurance of Browns fans.
#DawgPound
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#DawgPound
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Cleveland Browns fans know how to keep the faith
The Dawg Pound has witnessed 30 years of futility. Will the team's bid for the burbs test the loyal fanbase?
www.espn.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Apropos of nothing, I wrote about the historic endurance of Browns fans.
#DawgPound
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
#DawgPound
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For my first story in @espn.com, I profiled the #DawgPound. It’s a story about Cleveland, the Browns, community in the Muni Lot, and what the most loyal fan base in sports is ultimately loyal to.
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Cleveland Browns fans know how to keep the faith
The Dawg Pound has witnessed 30 years of futility. Will the team's bid for the burbs test the loyal fanbase?
www.espn.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
For my first story in @espn.com, I profiled the #DawgPound. It’s a story about Cleveland, the Browns, community in the Muni Lot, and what the most loyal fan base in sports is ultimately loyal to.
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Finished The Pacific Circuit by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social. So very good. Infuriates, illuminates, & captures Oakland's centrality to other larger infuriating stories all at same time. Elegantly synthesizes a shit ton of research / reporting. Weaves a good yarn. My pages runneth over w/ notes. 👏
June 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Finished The Pacific Circuit by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social. So very good. Infuriates, illuminates, & captures Oakland's centrality to other larger infuriating stories all at same time. Elegantly synthesizes a shit ton of research / reporting. Weaves a good yarn. My pages runneth over w/ notes. 👏
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New from me at BP: An essay about the ecology of baseball stadiums, which stand as beautiful lifeless monuments to an era of urban command over nature, one that is quickly dying out. On ballparks, parks, and the growing divide between the two:
The Ecology of Baseball Stadiums | Baseball Prospectus
Nature is everywhere, except sometimes where the grass is greenest.
www.baseballprospectus.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New from me at BP: An essay about the ecology of baseball stadiums, which stand as beautiful lifeless monuments to an era of urban command over nature, one that is quickly dying out. On ballparks, parks, and the growing divide between the two:
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We're pleased to present the Best Sportswriting nominees for the 2025 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. Get article links and all the details at jenkinsmedal.com.
May 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I'm one of the casual basketball-watchers @redford.bsky.social refers to here and I thoroughly enjoyed + genuinely appreciated this smart / sharp take on how to watch basketball in a smarter / sharper way. Perfect timing for watching the Warriors slowly disassemble.
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How To Watch Basketball | Defector
The NBA playoffs are in full swing, and as such, I find myself watching and talking about the games with people who do not watch as much basketball as I do, probably because watching basketball is not...
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May 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I'm one of the casual basketball-watchers @redford.bsky.social refers to here and I thoroughly enjoyed + genuinely appreciated this smart / sharp take on how to watch basketball in a smarter / sharper way. Perfect timing for watching the Warriors slowly disassemble.
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Check out this week's SLR featuring @chameauleon.bsky.social, @danmoore.bsky.social, @livaaben.bsky.social, @chafkin.bsky.social, @flopuetz.bsky.social, @skornhaber.bsky.social & many more talented writers mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
The Sunday Long Read: Karate, Dreams, Masterminds
The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
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April 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Check out this week's SLR featuring @chameauleon.bsky.social, @danmoore.bsky.social, @livaaben.bsky.social, @chafkin.bsky.social, @flopuetz.bsky.social, @skornhaber.bsky.social & many more talented writers mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
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Get comfy and read this one.
Dan writes about Sacramento with the consideration, depth, and honesty it deserves.
Dan writes about Sacramento with the consideration, depth, and honesty it deserves.
I spent the last few months reporting on the strangest story in sports: the surreal, high-stakes experiment of the "Sacramento" A's. It’s a story about rootedness, compromise, & the competition for big-league status. It's out now in the @theringer.com.web.brid.gy
theringer.com/2025/04/22/m...
theringer.com/2025/04/22/m...
The Faustian Bargain of the “Sacramento” Athletics
The A’s three-year stay in Sacramento is a potential coup for the proud underdog sports town. It’s also a mess. What’s the price of big league dreams?
theringer.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Get comfy and read this one.
Dan writes about Sacramento with the consideration, depth, and honesty it deserves.
Dan writes about Sacramento with the consideration, depth, and honesty it deserves.
I spent the last few months reporting on the strangest story in sports: the surreal, high-stakes experiment of the "Sacramento" A's. It’s a story about rootedness, compromise, & the competition for big-league status. It's out now in the @theringer.com.web.brid.gy
theringer.com/2025/04/22/m...
theringer.com/2025/04/22/m...
The Faustian Bargain of the “Sacramento” Athletics
The A’s three-year stay in Sacramento is a potential coup for the proud underdog sports town. It’s also a mess. What’s the price of big league dreams?
theringer.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I spent the last few months reporting on the strangest story in sports: the surreal, high-stakes experiment of the "Sacramento" A's. It’s a story about rootedness, compromise, & the competition for big-league status. It's out now in the @theringer.com.web.brid.gy
theringer.com/2025/04/22/m...
theringer.com/2025/04/22/m...
I look forward to every @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social dispatch and this one is top notch 👌
Paul Skenes rocketed from next big thing to fully actualized ace with almost no time spent mired as the subject of doubt or discourse. He was never under the radar or overrated. For @theringer.com.web.brid.gy
www.theringer.com/2025/03/25/m...
www.theringer.com/2025/03/25/m...
Paul Skenes Is Ready to Be MLB’s League Leader
And becoming baseball’s best pitcher is just the start
www.theringer.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I look forward to every @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social dispatch and this one is top notch 👌
Jackie Robinson and the Twisted Mirror
by Steven Goldman (@stevengoldman.bsky.social)
by Steven Goldman (@stevengoldman.bsky.social)
Jackie Robinson and the Twisted Mirror | Baseball Prospectus
An aggressive Orwellian politics intrudes into baseball (whether you’d prefer to stick to sports or not).
www.baseballprospectus.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Played in my high school’s alumni baseball game yesterday. Got a few ABs and some time on the bump. Gave it my all—had to, in front of the boy. Today I’m icing everything. I regret nothing.
March 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Played in my high school’s alumni baseball game yesterday. Got a few ABs and some time on the bump. Gave it my all—had to, in front of the boy. Today I’m icing everything. I regret nothing.
The new Jeff Passan deep-dive on the A's and Ray's stadium dysfunction is excellent as usual but I wish it would have included a challenge to this: the idea that billionaire team owners NEED public funding in order to build what turn out to be purely privately valuable stadiums. They don't.
March 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The new Jeff Passan deep-dive on the A's and Ray's stadium dysfunction is excellent as usual but I wish it would have included a challenge to this: the idea that billionaire team owners NEED public funding in order to build what turn out to be purely privately valuable stadiums. They don't.
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Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
February 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
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I really enjoyed this. I suspect others will as well.
Blogged about Barkley: his decade-long beef w/ Warriors fans + San Francisco, his big donation to Glide, and what appears to be a change of heart—or at least the end of the bit.
cc @bradymccollough.bsky.social + @sfstandard.com
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cc @bradymccollough.bsky.social + @sfstandard.com
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What is Charles Barkley's beef with San Francisco — and is it finally squashed? - The San Francisco Standard
A mission to determine whether the NBA great is secretly 'a good guy who wants you to think he's an asshole' — or if it's not an act at all.
sfstandard.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I really enjoyed this. I suspect others will as well.
Blogged about Barkley: his decade-long beef w/ Warriors fans + San Francisco, his big donation to Glide, and what appears to be a change of heart—or at least the end of the bit.
cc @bradymccollough.bsky.social + @sfstandard.com
sfstandard.com/2025/02/17/s...
cc @bradymccollough.bsky.social + @sfstandard.com
sfstandard.com/2025/02/17/s...
What is Charles Barkley's beef with San Francisco — and is it finally squashed? - The San Francisco Standard
A mission to determine whether the NBA great is secretly 'a good guy who wants you to think he's an asshole' — or if it's not an act at all.
sfstandard.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Blogged about Barkley: his decade-long beef w/ Warriors fans + San Francisco, his big donation to Glide, and what appears to be a change of heart—or at least the end of the bit.
cc @bradymccollough.bsky.social + @sfstandard.com
sfstandard.com/2025/02/17/s...
cc @bradymccollough.bsky.social + @sfstandard.com
sfstandard.com/2025/02/17/s...
Hey crazy week huh. If you’re looking for a distraction, I spent a few weeks tailing San Francisco’s most terrifying mountain biker and learning all about the Bay Area’s long and fittingly confounding political battle over mbs in the region.
For @sfstandard.com
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For @sfstandard.com
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Meet the mountain biker going viral for bombing SF's most terrifying hills
Teddy Hayden tempts death — and the authorities — with his risky, sometimes illegal descents of park outcrops, city steps, and concrete ruins.
sfstandard.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Hey crazy week huh. If you’re looking for a distraction, I spent a few weeks tailing San Francisco’s most terrifying mountain biker and learning all about the Bay Area’s long and fittingly confounding political battle over mbs in the region.
For @sfstandard.com
sfstandard.com/2025/01/18/m...
For @sfstandard.com
sfstandard.com/2025/01/18/m...
At the final A’s game in Oakland, the most popular jersey in the stands was Rickey Henderson’s. That was not only because Rickey is the greatest Oakland A of all time. It’s because Rickey—who grew up playing ball at Bushrod—represented close to the best of what this place can be. RIP.
December 21, 2024 at 10:10 PM
At the final A’s game in Oakland, the most popular jersey in the stands was Rickey Henderson’s. That was not only because Rickey is the greatest Oakland A of all time. It’s because Rickey—who grew up playing ball at Bushrod—represented close to the best of what this place can be. RIP.
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December 13, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Easy decision. @oaklandside.bsky.social reporters are some of the best in the biz. Oakland has no other paper of record. At a time when there's just a mind-spinning amount of shit happening in the city—and no shortage of bad press to unpack/confront—Oaklandside is an actually crucial resource