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PETERSBURG, Fla. — The mayor of St. Petersburg, Fla., is reopening talks about the future of the Tropicana Field site where baseball's Tampa Bay Rays play their home games. Mayor Ken Welch said recently that two previous proposals for the 86-acre downtown location are being scrapped, with a new round of plans to be solicited [...]
The Pac-12 can make a case as the most successful conference in collegiate athletics, amassing more than 500 NCAA championships while leading the nation in titles 56 of the past 62 years. But when it comes to the biggest moneymakers, football and men's basketball, the "Conference of Champions" has come up short for years. The [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers now have two of the top three overall picks from the 2018 NFL draft class on their roster, and both happen to be quarterbacks. The big question is which one will start this season for the team. The Panthers view their starting QB job as an open competition between [...]
Flag football will be played at an international, multisport event for the first time this week during the World Games in Birmingham, Ala. The NFL may be the sport's biggest cheerleader. "When we talk about the future of the game of football, it is, no question, flag," NFL executive Troy Vincent told The Associated Press. [...]
Hours before Canada beat the United States to win women’s hockey gold at the Beijing Olympics in February, International Ice Hockey Federation officials lamented having only two medal events on sports’ biggest stage. The IIHF and IOC have discussed adding to that, and a new 3-on-3 league that debuted last month could be another step [...]
BOSTON — Growing up as the son of a major league ballplayer, Terry Francona knew the rules: "Talk only when spoken to, or I'd be spanked." When Francona became a big league manager and his players would bring their kids around, he ran a more hospitable clubhouse. "There used to be a big sign that [...]
One of the biggest stories in the NHL this season was the increase in viewers in the league's first year of its television contracts with ESPN and TNT. The league also saw unparalleled growth in female and younger fans that should have a big impact for years to come. According to NHL research, 37 percent [...]
With summer underway and daytime high temperatures surpassing the 80-degree mark nearly daily, demand for paddle sports on central Ohio waterways is high. Canoe and kayak livery owners, however, have had a slow start this year to meet that demand — especially on weekends — mostly due to a weather pattern of heavy rainfalls in [...]
Lisa Lazarus walked around the backstretch at Belmont Park days before the final leg of horseracing’s Triple Crown selling as much as observing. The CEO of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority talked with trainers, riders and other horsemen about the sport’s federally mandated new governing body that she has been tabbed to oversee. Lazarus [...]
Bans on transgender women in international swimming and rugby last week opened the door for track and field to consider following suit in what could turn into a wave of policy changes in Olympic sports. The announcement June 19 by swimming's governing body, FINA, was followed quickly by a show of support from World Athletics [...]