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...This year's National League Championship Series (NLCS) starts Thursday night, with the Los Angeles Dodgers visiting the Philadelphia Phillies. The American League Championship Series (ALCS), featuring the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays, begins on Friday. The first championship series was in 1969, the year baseball added four new franchises: the San Diego Padres, Montreal Expos, Kansas City Royals, and Seattle Pilots (who moved to Milwaukee the following year and became the Brewers) giving both leagues twelve teams each. Prior to that year, the regular season champs from each league went straight to the World Series. So when...
...Entering into this season, the Rays and the Texas Rangers were the only franchises in baseball who never qualified for an LCS. Call Texas the Lone Rangers - the Rays have now purged themselves from that list. If we're lucky, maybe Tampa Bay - or Boston, or Philly, or L.A. - will write the next chapter of LCS lore. And deliver another fall classic, before the Fall Classic sees its first pitch...
...there any resentment from your British fans for your jumping across the pond? Andrea Jackley, TAMPA...
...Piniella's sixth trip to the playoffs since 1990, the year he led the Cincinnati Reds to the title. In all that time, he hasn't gotten back to the Series. Here's a guy who has won everywhere he's been (can we just exclude that stint in Tampa, where God would have lost with those Devil Rays?), reversing the fortunes of the Reds, the Seattle Mariners and now the Cubs. He's long been one of the best in the game, and it's about time he ended that drought. "I would think he'd be due," says...
...first day of the Tampa-based Best Western Invitational proved to be a challenging one for the women’s volleyball team.Continuing its nine-game road trip, the Crimson (1-6) first matched up against the University of Toledo before playing the host team, University of Florida, several hours later.Harvard lost both games against the tough foes, going 1-6 for the day in games.“We have a pretty stacked preseason, because we want Ivy League competition to seem easier,” junior co-captain Lily Durwood said. “Hopefully we?...