Goggles, plastic sheeting, change of clothes, 200 or so champagne bottles ready to be set free. The trappings of success suddenly have become very familiar to the Tampa Bay Rays. ...more

October 7, 2008

The Rays won the AL East with a payroll of about one-fifth that of the New York Yankees and one-third that of the Boston Red Sox. ...more

October 2, 2008

Tropicana Field was not sold out on Monday night. Even though it was the most important home game in Rays franchise history. Even though the Boston Red Sox were fighting the Rays for leadership of the American League East. And midway through the Red Sox's 13-5 romp, many Tampa Bay supporters were headed home. ...more

September 16, 2008

All that was missing was Stuart Sternberg rubbing his hands together in fiendish delight Friday night as he anticipated what was to come over the weekend at Yankee Stadium. ...more

September 14, 2008

In the hours leading up to Thursday's non-waiver trade deadline, the Rays apparently were prepared to offer up a hefty package of prospects to secure the player they wanted, Pittsburgh's Jason Bay. ...more

August 3, 2008

For a while now, B.J. Upton hasn't felt right at the plate. And even when he collected two of the Rays' four hits in their first game at Yankee Stadium last week, he knew he hadn't found his way out of the woods. ...more

July 19, 2008

Before Tuesday night, Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg last saw his team play in person about 21/2 weeks ago at Tropicana Field. ...more

July 9, 2008

There are many reasons why plans for the Tampa Bay Rays' new sandlot tanked faster than Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign. ...more

June 28, 2008

Stuart Sternberg freely admitted Saturday that superstition has been his motivation in avoiding his team for the better part of two months. ...more

June 22, 2008

The owner of the Major League Baseball team was frustrated. He was stuck in an old ballpark that was considered out of date and unable to provide the revenue streams professional teams need to compete in the modern-day sport world. ...more

June 15, 2008