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Mark Davis: I offered a piece of Raiders to A's in effort to stay in Oakland

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis reiterated his reasons for seeking relocation to Las Vegas, as he shared with ESPN.com last week, in a radio interview with the team’s flagship radio station on Tuesday.

Davis, though, went deeper, going on the record with his claim that he had offered to sell to the Oakland A’s a share of his team in hopes it would spur a two-stadium project – one for the Raiders, another for the A’s – on the Coliseum grounds.

“There’s a myth out there that I wouldn’t put up equity to help drive a deal in Oakland, and that’s the farthest thing from the truth,” Davis told show host J.