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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…

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…

by: Mike Petchenik Updated: Oct 25, 2016 – 7:44 PM Twtter “; var imageDivId = “#”+”imageDisplayModal_460562575”; if ($(“.reveal-modal-bg”).length == 0) { $(“#wrapper”).after(“”); } if ($(imageDivId).length == 0) { $(“#wrapper”).after(contentText); } MILTON, Ga. – A former metro Atlanta baseball star is about to make World Series history. Dexter Fowler, a standout on the Milton Eagles baseball team, will become the first African-American Cubs leadoff hitter in a World Series. “(I’m) overjoyed…

(Paulo Whitaker/Reuters) Routine heading of a soccer ball can cause damage to brain structure and function, according to a new study from the United Kingdom that is the first to detect direct neurological changes by impacts too minor to cause a concussion. The research, published this week in EBioMedicine, studied brain changes among amateur players, ages 19 to 25, who headed machine-projected soccer balls at speeds modeling a typical practice….

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s OK, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

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Members of the media surround the field as the Chicago Cubs workout in preparation for the 2016 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field in Cleveland, OH. Cubs fans know well the space between hope and disappointment. After all, they have been waiting for this day for 71 years — a lifetime. What happened in the space of those seven decades? Baseball unionized. Baseball became…

When the first game of the 2016 World Series begins on Tuesday night, every player on the field will be, as has always been the case with Major League Baseball, a man. But female ballplayers aren’t just the stuff of fiction or even wartime necessity. Case in point: the New York Female Giants, who came together in 1913. A New York Times article from that year explained that the Female…

The teams have been selected, the stadiums are getting prepped, and the 2016 World Series is so close that you can practically smell the hot dogs cooking. But the Fall Classic isn’t quite here yet, so in the meantime, let’s look back at the NCAA careers of the players on each team. Many major league players sign with the team that drafted them directly out of…

But Mr MacLean denies all blame, saying that Mr Ahmed rode down the ‘wrong part of the track’ and then, on a second attempt, ‘made exactly the same error’. “I am 100 per cent sure he made the same mistake twice,” he told the court. “I was surprised at the time. It has been on my mind for four-and-a-half years and I am absolutely positive it happened.” Tim Horlock QC…

The teams have been selected, the stadiums are getting prepped, and the 2016 World Series is so close that you can practically smell the hot dogs cooking. But the Fall Classic isn’t quite here yet, so in the meantime, let’s look back at the NCAA careers of the players on each team. Many major league players sign with the team that drafted them directly out of…

“My dad thought it was strange,” says Matveev. “He told me baseball is an American sport. So what? Soccer is English; hockey is Canadian. Older people can be a little too conservative.” In this remote place, baseball serves both as a window to the West and as a reason for hometown pride. Sugar Storm players dot the field in the caps of their favorite American teams. When I ask Matveev…