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The Tampa Bay Rays must be moved. The Rays' barely tenable existence in St. Petersburg, Fla., is getting worse and it's becoming, to borrow a word from star pitcher David Price in describing a critical but sparsely attended game late last season, "em...

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Here is a complete collection of ESPN The Magazine's World Cup preview issue content, ranging from a story about 'sweet spots' on the hardwood for Kobe and Paul (Pierce) to analysis of Spain, the rise of soccer in Africa and Clint Dempsey.

Joe Cowley writes about baseball in Toronto, and some of my Canadian friends -- who still haven't recovered from losing one team -- have been moved to drop f-bombs on Twitter. What's got them so incensed? Baseball is failing in Muddy York, as it w...

Funny, isn't it, how charges of racism inside MLB front offices have sprung up exactly when a bunch of old free agents are finding it difficult to get the contracts they believe they so richly deserve. As Tango explains, this isn't about skin color; ...

Today's links are just killing time until Jack Cust returns to the big leagues ... * Ask anybody who works for a team and they'll tell you that character (and by extension, "chemistry") really does matter. Well, guess what? MGL has found numbers t...

The NHL and now the NBA have played before gigantic, football-sized crowds, leading Big League Stew's 'Duk to wonder about baseball. Bigger? Well, MLB's already played a game in the Coliseum, and anyway baseball teams already play to fairly large cro...

As Forbes.com's Tom Van Riper writes, it's not been a good season for teams with low payrolls. And you can imagine what the owners of teams with low payrolls might think about that ... Should the Tigers hang on, this season will mark the fir...

Sean Allen hits the sweet spot between Cup play and the draft in fantasy hockey.