Tony La Russa, Jim Leyland, Joe Torre and Mike Scioscia were selected Tuesday for the "special committee for on-field matters," which baseball Commissioner Bud Selig will chair and will meet for the first time next month. ...more

December 15, 2009

There have been no advertisements in prime time featuring Woods since Nov. 29, according to data from Nielsen Co. ...more

December 9, 2009

"Googled: The End of the World As We Know It," by Ken Auletta (Penguin Press, $28) ...more

November 8, 2009

What's in a name? If Sci Fi becomes Syfy will viewers be able to find it? A name change is in the works for the Sci Fi Channel. NBC Universal, which owns the science fiction and fantasy network, is set to announce today Sci Fi and its companion Web site (scifi.com) to morph into Syfy — pronounced the same as "Sci Fi" — on July 7. ...more

March 16, 2009

It's been 10 years since Faith Ford left her "Murphy Brown" character behind. But she is still best known as the perky, slightly dense Corky Sherwood. ...more

December 26, 2008

As 2008 comes to a close, dark days loom ahead for the television industry. The whole country has been in a blue funk for months. Layoffs. Foreclosures. Bankruptcies. Bailouts. The bad news just keeps piling up. ...more

December 15, 2008

Fans of "Pushing Daisies" are sending flowers to ABC. ...more

November 19, 2008

The 2008 presidential election was all about change, but, for the most part, local television news in the Tampa area stuck to old-school ways Tuesday night. Every time the major broadcast networks cut back to the local stations, it was like going from a Ferrari to a Gremlin. ...more

November 6, 2008

As much as people complained about how they were sick of the 2008 presidential race, there's going to be a big void to fill today. ...more

November 5, 2008

Major League Baseball has agreed to postpone the first pitch of Game 6 of the World Series by about 15 minutes in order to enable Fox to join CBS and NBC in running Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's 30-minute infomercial Oct. 29. ...more

October 16, 2008