In bid to keep Roots soccer in town, Oakland to buy county’s shares of former Raiders practice site, Coliseum lot

After months of back-and-forth negotiations with Alameda County went nowhere, Oakland officials have proposed spending a combined $20 million to buy the county’s ownership shares in two notable pieces of East Bay real estate — both with ties to professional sports. For years, the city and the county have co-owned the former Raiders practice site, which houses an athletics facility and multiple soccer fields in Alameda, as well as the Malibu property, a giant parking lot adjacent to the Coliseum in East Oakland. It is an arrangement that both sides...