Tampa remained in competition to host World Cup soccer games in 2018 and 2022 by passing the third stage of the U.S. city and stadium proposal review process along with 26 other cities, the USA Bid Committee announced Thursday. ...more

August 22, 2009

Actor/director Kevin Costner and his band 'Modern West' have recorded a song, "It's All Up to You," as a salute to the 2008 American League East Division Champion Tampa Bay Rays. ...more

October 1, 2008

For the second time in two years Tony Stewart had to yield to a relief driver to finish a race. ...more

July 6, 2008

The Tampa Bay Rays will abandon ambitious plans to build a $450 million baseball stadium on the downtown waterfront in four years and instead get more people involved in assessing other locations, the team announced Wednesday. ...more

June 26, 2008

Tuesday night marked the third time in about five weeks a Rays trainer has come to the mound to check on closer Troy Percival in the middle of a save situation. ...more

June 26, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG — The Tampa Bay Rays announced this afternoon that they will abandon their ambitious plans to build a $450 million stadium on the downtown waterfront by 2012. Rays President Matt Silverman said at a news conference the team will no longer seek a November referendum on the new ballpark the team proposed seven months ago for the site of Progress Energy Park, home of Al Lang Field. ...more

June 25, 2008

Mayor Rick Baker is recommending a Virginia-based developer to transform Tropicana Field and its parking lots into a massive mixed-use community of shops, restaurants, offices, hotels and residences. ...more

June 14, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- Mayor Rick Baker is recommending a Virginia-based developer to transform Tropicana Field and its parking lots into a massive mixed-use community of shops, restaurants, offices, hotels and residences. In a memo today to the city council, Baker said he concurs with the recommendation of his staff to select Archstone-Madison over the Tampa Bay Rays' preferred developer, Houston-based Hines Interests. ...more

June 13, 2008

More Pressing Problems Regarding "Stadium Proposal Takes 1st Step Toward Ballot" (Metro, June 6): ...more

June 12, 2008

The city council on Thursday advanced the Tampa Bay Rays' $450 million stadium proposal, starting the process of putting the issue before voters this fall. ...more

June 6, 2008