It would have been easy to lose faith. The losses piled up year after year and baseball in Tampa Bay had become a metaphor for failure. ...more

October 19, 2008

If you've made the drive from anywhere in New Tampa or eastern Hillsborough County to Tropicana Field, you probably concluded long ago that placing a baseball stadium in St. Pete, uh, stinks. That is, unless you give aesthetic points for the view of Ybor City while stopped cold on I-4, waiting for traffic to clear. ...more

November 13, 2007

In sports, a little hate can be a good thing. The ratings for Sunday's Patriots-Colts matchup went through the Teflon roof of the RCA Dome partly because of the antipathy Bill Belichick's club has stirred up from the sporting public. ...more

November 7, 2007