The majority of Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises will be reducing or freezing ticket prices in 2009. In response to the ongoing economic woes, most teams have tried t find more fan-friendly ticket plans for the upcoming season. In 2008, overall attendance at baseball games was down for the first time in 5 years, according [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
School sports: the pros and cons (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Do athletics build character? Take up valuable study time? Why are some teams more popular? And what about the disparity between boys’ and girls’ programs? Our teen panel offers some thoughts.
Pensacola’s should-be resolutions (Pensacola News Journal)
I’m not good with the whole New Year’s resolution thing. So instead, for 2009, I’ll just make resolutions for someone else — the city of Pensacola.
Pioneer Press Sports Figure of the Year (Pioneer Press)
Joe Mauer chases history. Tubby Smith raises expectations. Adrian Peterson excites you. Brad Childress incites you.
No. 1 NFL draft pick Jake Long of Lapeer is Flint Journal’s top sports story of 2008 (The Flint Journal)
FLINT, Michigan — Even though he was projected as a top-five pick, Jake Long bypassed the 2007 National Football League draft for unselfish reasons.
Bounty of sports immortals passed on in 2008 (Contra Costa Times)
Gene Upshaw, Don Haskins and Jim McKay were preeminent out of a remarkable group
A look back at 2008: titles, tears and turnover (Knoxville News Sentinel)
There were medals awarded in Beijing, nets cut down in Tampa and a No. 1 ranking (for a week, anyway). Area high school teams did us proud. That includes Maryville, whose amazing 74-game football win streak finally ended one game short of another state title. But over at the University of Tennessee this fall, the earth moved. About a 7.5 on the Richter Scale. Damage, figuratively speaking, was …
Big Unit moves back to Bay Area (Lowell Sun)
The Big Unit is heading home to the Bay Area. Randy Johnson and the San Francisco Giants agreed to a one-year contract, meaning the 45-year-old pitcher will go for his 300th win with a new team. Johnson, a 21-year big league veteran who spent the past two seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks, was born in Walnut Creek, Calif.
The year Philly’s championship drought ended (Daily Local News)
PHILADELPHIA — The city of losers is no more.
Remembering Upshaw, Haskins, McKay in 2008 (Salina Journal)
One is remembered not so much for crushing blocks — although he made it to the Hall of Fame with plenty of those — than for the dense, exacting language of contracts that would leave NFL players richer than they ever hoped.
