• Former general manager and team co-owner Chet Soda said that previous reports saying that the team had lost about $400,000, or about $50,000 per owner, last season were overstating the figure

• By his calculations, including what he called typical business practices, he had only lost about $15,000 and thought that his fellow owners had lost about the same amount

• The Raiders and the 49ers announced they would compete against each other in a basketball game game scheduled for February 21 on a court in Pleasanton