The community-based coalition that will consider alternative sites for the Tampa Bay Rays' new ballpark is recruiting volunteer members and expects to spend roughly 12 to 18 months on research, organizers announced today. The coalition filed paperwork today to become a nonprofit charitable organization known as A Baseball Community, said Jeff Lyash, the president of Progress Energy Florida and a member of the group. ...more

July 21, 2008

This fall, the University of South Florida will play nationally ranked Kansas and West Virginia and host its first ESPN Thursday night game. However, the toughest ticket in USF program history: at Florida International? ...more

July 18, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- The city administration is proposing that the City Council begin the process for scheduling a November referendum on the Tampa Bay Rays' proposed downtown ballpark. In a four-page memo released today, city staff members suggest that the council on Thursday initiate the referendum process so it can retain the option of allowing voters to decide on the Rays' proposed 34,000-seat stadium at the site of Progress Energy Park, home of Al Lang Field. ...more

May 30, 2008

Saddlebrook Resort owner Tom Dempsey and Pasco County officials still are finalizing a management and construction contract for the Pasco National Tennis Stadium. ...more

May 20, 2008

For the first time since the spring training days of the Cincinnati Reds, Plant City Stadium was nearly packed last week for a sporting event. ...more

May 10, 2008

Say goodbye to Legends Field. The New York Yankees announced Thursday that the team will rename its spring-training facility along Dale Mabry Highway after the team's owner, George M. Steinbrenner. ...more

February 15, 2008

More than five years after the county commission agreed to build a tennis stadium in Wesley Chapel with Saddlebrook Resort, the parties still are at odds on key issues. ...more

January 9, 2008

DADE CITY - More than five years after the county commission agreed to build a tennis stadium in Wesley Chapel with Saddlebrook Resort, the parties still are at odds on key issues. ...more

January 8, 2008

Apart from ditching the "Devil" in 2007, the Tampa Bay Rays proposed building an open-air ballpark on the downtown St. Petersburg waterfront. ...more

December 25, 2007

As people headed toward Tampa International Airport in March at the end of the Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament, they passed a massive billboard erected by the Tampa Bay Sports Commission. ...more

December 13, 2007