As Andrew Friedman and the rest of the Rays' front-office crew rolls into the Bellagio hotel today for baseball's winter meetings, one thing is certain: They won't draw any of those good-luck-with-that glances that might have been offered up in silent sympathy the past couple of years. ...more

December 7, 2008

For starters, you need to know that Ralph Hughes and those of us in the scribbling racket got along about as well as Alberto Gonzales and the Constitution. ...more

July 1, 2008

Battling for every dollar and delegate, Barack Obama raised $7.2 million in Super Tuesday's wake and Hillary Rodham Clinton pulled in $6.4 million, stunning totals reflecting the intensity of their neck-and-neck race for the Democratic presidential nomination. ...more

February 8, 2008