World Series

Many fans skipped the San Francisco Giants vs. Texas Rangers, which is a pity because the Giants played some extraordinary baseball as they captured the World Series. The poor ratings may prompt advertisers to ask for "make-goods" -- free commercials.

Dish Network reached an agreement with Fox on Friday, ending a blackout of some channels and ensuring customers will keep getting the World Series. So far, Cablevision subscribers are still out of luck.

Millions of sports fans in the Northeast are in danger of missing the World Series and other programs in the wake of a dispute between Cablevision and Fox TV. But some consumers are turning to ivi TV, a rapidly growing re-broadcaster that works on the Web.

Philadelphia Phillies fans are outspending the fans of every other team on League Championship Series and World Series tickets. They've also boosted post-season sales of Phillies gear up 40% year over year. Will all the fan ferver help the team to victory?

Fans of the Tampa Bay Rays can catch this afternoon's game against the Texas Rangers for the bargain-basement price of $77, according to FanSnap, a search engine which analyzes the secondary market for tickets.

I grew up in Milwaukee, the smallest city with its own Major League Baseball team. During my summer vacations from high school and college, I worked as a vendor at Milwaukee County Stadium, where the Brewers played before it was torn down and replaced by Miller Park. Not once during that time did...

When Don Zminda was the statistician for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball in the 1990s, he spent most of his Sundays calculating reams of data that were written onto a stack of note cards for announcers Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. That was the state of the art back then -- not now. "It would take me...

Wedneday's spectacular (for Phillies fans) Game 1 of the World Series posted stunning ratings, underscoring the bonanza News Corp.'s (NWS) Fox television network is reaping. Shares of the parent company of The Wall Street Journal and the Fox Business Channel rose 60 cents on Thursday, or 4.43...

Now that the New York Yankees and Jay-Z are going to the World Series (Jay-Z to sing, the Yankees to play baseball), fans can expect to have their pockets picked by Major League Baseball a little more next year. It may not be the end of civilization, but if the Yankees win the World Series, it...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. By guest blogger Mike Brewster I remember that Bucky Dent's home run came at precisely 5 p.m., because that's when the Ashlines ate dinner every day. Dent's home run off of Mike Torrez gave the...