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The St. Louis Cardinals announced Tuesday a second phase of Ballpark Village, the restaurant and entertainment district that opened next to Busch Stadium in 2014. The $220 million, 550,000-square-foot second phase, targeted for completion in 2019, will include a 29-story residential tower, a Class A office building and more retail, restaurant and entertainment space, the Cardinals said.

In a move designed to hopefully promote driver development, NASCAR announced on Wednesday that it will limit the number of events a Premier Series driver can enter in the XFINITY Series and the Camping World Truck Series, beginning next season. In a release, NASCAR said that it hopes this will “put an even brighter spotlight on the next generation of stars and bolster the identity of all three of its…

Comcast’s profit rose 12 percent in the July-September quarter thanks to the Olympics and the first third-quarter gains in video subscribers in a decade. NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke has said that the company made over $250 million in Rio as ad sales rose, even though Olympics ratings fell 16 percent in prime time on NBC from the London Olympics. Ratings were down 9 percent if viewers watching on NBCUniversal’s cable…

The company, led by CEO Steve Burke, posts a lower film profit, but lauds the success of ‘Secret Life of Pets,’ as parent Comcast adds 32,000 video subscribers for its best third quarter in a decade. Cable giant Comcast on Wednesday reported its third-quarter financials, including profit figures for its entertainment arm NBCUniversal, whose results were driven by the Summer Olympics in Rio. Kicking off earnings season for big…

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The St. Louis Cardinals announced Tuesday a second phase of Ballpark Village, the restaurant and entertainment district that opened next to Busch Stadium in 2014. The $220 million, 550,000-square-foot second phase, targeted for completion in 2019, will include a 29-story residential tower, a Class A office building and more retail, restaurant and entertainment space, the Cardinals said.

Hillary Clinton continues to campaign in Florida on Wednesday. Donald Trump stops at his hotel in Washington, D.C. before heading to North Carolina. Newt Gingrich tells Megyn Kelly she’s “fascinated with sex.” Donald Trump says “congratulations Newt” Another Trump surrogate shows a different way to answer tough questions Hillary Clinton promises to fix Obamacare rate hikes but that’s unlikely Check out the South Korean political scandal involving a foundation and…

Microsoft is expanding its Arena platform by letting players create their own competitive gaming tournaments. First launched in preview back in October, Arena is an e-sports platform that lets players compete in organized tournaments through Xbox Live. Previously Arena tournaments were organized by Microsoft, game developers, and e-sports organizations, but today’s news means that eventually players will be able to start their own custom tournaments as well. “We want to…

CLEVELAND — The Cavaliers and Indians play in the same footprint in Cleveland, the same city block. This was an uninteresting factlet for 20 years or so. The two teams shared a general geographic area because it was a marriage of convenience. A bunch of rich people decided that was where all the sports should go, so that’s where they put all the sports. On Tuesday night, though, Progressive…

So here on a sports day out of Cleveland’s wildest dreams, one that would end with that banner-raising courtesy of LeBron and a rollicking Indians victory, an old Catholic-educated Cleveland kid who never saw it coming did the penance he had to do. He jumped in Lake Erie. “It was cold.” ***** Joe Babin is 100 years old. He has multiple forms of proof. There’s a birth certificate, of course….

11:54 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment This is what it looks like when a city finds true love after a lifetime of sports heartbreak: Strangers high-five and hug one another. Hardened cynics find themselves wiping away a stray tear. Fans young and old don goofy costumes and paint their faces, dancing to live music in the cool night air; friends and family snap countless selfies, trying to…

AT 6PM on a sweltering weekday evening, a street junction in Ahmedabad in western India is abuzz. On a footpath outside a big stadium, a hawker peddles colourful jerseys and wrist bands as young men line up to have the country’s flag painted on their faces. Selfies abound. A long queue snakes around the stadium’s corner, waiting for its gates to be opened. Tilak Patel, an engineering student, has driven six…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay As the Indians took on the Chicago Cubs in game one of the World Series on Tuesday, Cleveland fans were grappling with a new and not unpleasant reality — when it comes to sports, they’re not losers anymore. In June, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA finals and ended the city’s 52-year major championship drought. And while the Cleveland…

Competitive videogaming, or e-sports, is becoming a significant new category of entertainment with the potential to even disrupt traditional sports viewership, strategist Michael Wolf predicts. By 2020, e-sports will make up roughly 10% of U.S. sports viewing, according to a presentation prepared by Mr. Wolf’s consulting firm Activate Inc. for WSJDLive, The Wall Street Journal’s global tech conference. E-sports will reach 88 million fans in the U.S. and 495 million…