CSUN and the Stanford Cardinal battled at Cal State Northridge on Tues Dec 15, 2020. The Cardinal will be sharing the Kaiser Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz with San Jose State, Santa Clara, and the Santa Cruz Warriors for home games until the Santa Clara County shutdown expires (gomatadors.com photo)

On That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary podcast:

#1 Three colleges from Santa Clara County one location Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz Warriors the main tenant at Kaiser Permanente Arena will share their building with three college basketball teams Santa Clara, Stanford, and San Jose State University. This move takes a lot of pressure off the schools who had no place to play until Santa Cruz stepped up as all sports in Santa Clara is under Covid 19 lockdown.

#2 Amaury the Las Vegas Raiders started the season with strong but they are fading quickly losing three of the last four games and the game that they won they barely beat a winless New York Jets team on Dec 6th.

#3 Recently it was announced that former Edmonton Oilers superstar Wayne Gretkey’s 1979 O Pee Chee hockey rookie card was worth over $1 million. Two theives who were arrested didn’t get their hands on the card but they did break into Gretzkey’s father’s house and took $500,000 worth of game used pucks, jerseys, sticks, skates, shoulder pads, pants, that the Great One used in NHL games. Brantford Police in Ontario arrested a 58 year old man and a 58 year old woman in the theft and all the property had been returned to Gretzey’s father.

#4 Amaury, how much influence will the Philadelphia Phillies Bryce Harper have on pushing the Phils to sign catcher JT Realmuto? Realmuto hit .266, 46 hits, 11 home runs and 32 RBIs for the 2020 season. There is a chance that Realmuto could wind up playing somewhere else according to reports.

#5 Two updates at the A’s Amaury, A’s team vice president Billy Beane who was rumored to take a partnership at the Boston Red Sox with team owner John Henry in non baseball related issues. At the time of the rumors it was reported that Henry and Beane would working on public traded business where it’s MLB policy that no teams are allowed to do business that’s publicly traded since then no word on Beane leaving for Bean Town.

#6 A’s general manager Billy Owen who looked like he would go to work for the Los Angeles Angels until the Halos ended up hiring Perry Minasian. Now that former A’s team president Sandy Alderson is the Mets team president there are strong rumors that Owens will be pursued for the Met’s GM job.

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