Tropicana Field is a goofy place in so many ways to watch a baseball game, but it has something Fenway Park will never have. ...more

June 10, 2008

AVON PARK –– Panther Field is a lot like Wrigley Field when the wind is blowing out –– you can expect a high-scoring game. The South Florida Community College baseball team took advantage of the windy conditions to pound out 21 base hits on its way to a 20-8 win over the Tampa University "B" team in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday. The second game was rained out. "We play in a small yard and when the conditions were like they were, the ball has a chance to travel a long ways," said Panther coach Rick Hitt. "We were fortunate to get some balls up in the air and they got out of the park." ...more

February 24, 2008

Leo McNellis is not a sports demagogue; he just plays one on the Internet. By day, he's a chemistry teacher at Washington High in South Bend, Ind., and an avowed Cubs fan. Yet, when McNellis, 41, became fed up with what he perceived was a lack of voice being given to baseball fans in the conversation about the abuse of performance enhancing drugs, he decided to act by founding the Web site, fanstrike.net. ...more

February 13, 2008

Real estate mogul Sam Zell strode into Tribune Co.'s ornate headquarters in his trademark jeans and cowboy boots and declared that things will be different at the debt-laden, 160-year-old newspaper and TV company. ...more

December 22, 2007

If all goes as planned, downtown St. Petersburg will have a new open-air baseball stadium, shaded by a massive white sail, ready for games in 2012 and close enough to the water for home runs to splash down into the Bay. ...more

November 29, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - If all goes as planned, downtown St. Petersburg will have a new open-air baseball stadium, shaded by a massive white sail, ready for games in 2012 and close enough to the water for home runs to splash down into the Bay. ...more

November 29, 2007

which serves as the hotel for most of the Rays' opponents - has proven to be much scarier. ...more

October 30, 2007

The Phillies put so much into just making the playoffs, they couldn't do anything once they got there. ...more

October 8, 2007

A sweet sweep for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Another cry of 'Wait Til Next Year' from the crestfallen Chicago Cubs. ...more

October 7, 2007

Rich Hill loosened up his arm and legs during a light workout Friday, not far from where the ivy on the Wrigley Field walls is beginning to turn from green to brown. ...more

October 6, 2007