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Game On: Navigating the Return of Sports in America with Michael Lewis, Billy Beane, and Daryl Morey

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Executive VP of Baseball Operations for the Oakland A’s & Subject of Moneyball. . Please click this URL to join. MICHAEL LEWIS. Best-Selling Author of The Fifth Risk, Moneyball, and The Big Short. . BILLY BEANE. DARYL MOREY. Houston Rockets’ GM & Managing Director of Basketball Operations.

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How AAA’s New Car-Share Service Thinks Beyond Ownership

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The service, a product of AAA’s innovation lab A3Ventures—“A3” is a great way to slacken up “AAA,” by the way—allows residents in the California cities of Oakland and Berkeley to pick up a car wherever one might be located, drop it off in a specific zone within the city, and grab a different car later on.

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Forget the Job Interview, Play a Video Game

Jamie Notter

As the article states at the beginning, this is kind of the message that Brad Pitt’s character was bringing to the Oakland A’s organization in the movie, Moneyball. The traditional criteria that baseball was using for choosing which players to use at the major league level was basically made up and not necessarily effective.

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Moneyball For Conferences: You Want Your Meeting to Mean Something

Velvet Chainsaw

We just won twenty games in a row , said the fictitious Peter Brand, advance scout for Oakland A’s. said Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane. The Oakland A’s baseball team did not have a winning record. And what’s the point? We just got the record , said Brand. Man, I’ve been doing this for… listen, man.

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The Happy Healthy Nonprofit Book Tour: You Are Invited To Join Us

Beth Kanter

Tue Jan 31 – OAKLAND 6pm-8pm. 439 International Blvd, Suite 1 Oakland, CA 94606. TechSoup Lunch Time Brown Bag , 435 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94107. Copies of our book available courtesy of Box.org. SOLD OUT BUT WAITLIST AVAILABLE for Tech Soup Event. ➳ Hack the Hood Book Party. Fri Feb 1 – Webinar (2pm ET/11am PT).

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NFL. Rams. Association Governance.

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along with San Diego and Oakland (other franchises seeking to move.) When the Relocation Committee chose an outcome that the staff (Goodell) didn't like (the Carson proposal backed by San Diego and Oakland, which would have kept owner Stan Kroenke and the Rams in St. Louis) Rams to move (again) to Los Angeles.

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As Coffee Loses Its Punch, Tea Association Steeps In Industry Growth

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But as Reem Rahim, cofounder of Numi Organic Tea in Oakland, California, notes, the changes in palate go even deeper than that, with consumers embracing a limitless number of flavors, natural organic tastes, and flavors from around the world.

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