Team Turmoil played at the Oakland Coliseum on Sunday. And, no, the Raiders’ season hasn’t started yet.

The other form of football was being played: Mexico took on Nicaragua in the first round of the Gold Cup, a 12-team regional soccer tournament.

And while the dreary Coliseum was more crowded and livelier than it has been in a long time, it still wasn’t full. The crowd that watched Mexico defeat Nicaragua 2-0 was 32,057 — the kind of gathering the A’s would swoon for — but it wasn’t capacity. Read the rest of this entry »