Mayor Lisa Gillmor called the agreement a “loan shark” deal. The National Football League team had sued the City of Santa Clara because it wanted to pay lower public safety costs, and wanted the Santa Clara Stadium Authority to pay for the VIP buffet at games.

The Santa Clara City Council serves as the governing board for the Stadium Authority and will consider the proposed naming rights extension at its next meeting next Tuesday.

The Assembly has until the end of January to decide the fate of the youth tackle football bill, which would prevent kids under 12 from playing the sport to protect them from brain trauma.

The NFL team will leave the state for the next two home games due to a strict new health order that bans the use of Levi’s Stadium.

The 49ers say Santa Clara owes it $2.74 million. The city says the team owes it $1.1 million. Each side refuses to pay until the other side pays first.

Days before the former star quarterback settled his grievance against the NFL, someone saw a racist effigy of him right here in San Jose.

We take a look at the surging Earthquakes, the historic losing streak of the 49ers and the uncertain future of the Sharks.

In our new feature, Emanuel Lee poses several pressing questions as we look at what’s going on in local sports and what’s to come.

The 49ers and Santa Clara are locked in an epic grudge match over how money moves at Levi’s Stadium, and neither appears willing to blink.

Making San Jose easier to swallow for Middle America’s diabetic masses shouldn't involve sanitizing the streets of local color.

A youth soccer league ousted from its fields by the NFL may have found a new place to play and resolution to a lawsuit over the displacement.

A month shy of Super Bowl 50, local police agencies are going all out. There’s just a couple questions: How much will it cost and who will pay for it?

A youth sports league added the NFL to a lawsuit against Santa Clara, claiming the city hijacked nearby soccer fields to make way for Super Bowl 50.

Santa Clara City Council rejected a $3 million gift from the San Francisco 49ers after a dispute over some youth soccer fields.

A bill co-signed by two Silicon Valley lawmakers wants to strongarm the Washington Redskins into dropping the team’s racial slur mascot.

In a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, an aviation expert calls San Jose’s airport curfew insulting, and wonders why city leaders can’t get residents to put up with the noise, like they do in Oakland and San Francisco.