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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?

News Corp.'s Fox has pulled its channels off Cablevision after a programming deal expired at midnight Saturday. The move means 3 million viewers in Philadelphia and New York could miss the first game in the National League Championship Series between the Phillies and the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night.

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.

The board of England's Liverpool Football Club accepted a £300 million ($477 million) offer from New England Sports Ventures, owner of the Boston Red Sox. "The board decided to accept NESV's proposal on the basis that it best met the criteria we set out originally for a suitable new owner,"...

In the climax of our discussion with Ken Burns about baseball, the documentary filmmaker, whose The Tenth Inning premieres tonight, talks explains that the infusion of huge salaries in Major League Baseball had a direct effect on the proliferation of performance-enhancing drugs. Burns, a...

Ken Burns may love baseball, and he's done more than any public figure to define its story for future generations, but he has bad news for you about it: It's always been corrupt. It goes way back before the controversies over Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Roger Clemens. It even goes past the...

On September 28, legendary filmmaker Ken Burns updates his classic 1994 PBS documentary Baseball with four new hours, called The Tenth Inning. When Burns left off telling the tale of baseball, a players' strike had crippled the sport. In the years since, an entire generation has grown up knowing...

The developer of the Yankees Stadium parking lots may be headed for default on the $237 million in bonds that were used to finance the construction. And the Yankees are hardly alone. Sports teams around the country are struggling to attract cash-strapped fans.

From brainstorming to patenting, Rick Miller followed the book in getting his RBI Pro Swing batting aid into production. Then he swung for the marketing fences: he got a former Major League hitting star and the New York Yankees to check it out. Now his small business is a hit, helping players from...

News Corp. may bid for the bankrupt Texas Rangers baseball franchise, according to The New York Post. News Corp. is "leaning toward making an offer" at Wednesday's bankruptcy court auction, The Post, which is owned by News Corp. said without naming its sources.