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All Star Game ratings continued their decline, and two franchises choose a new spring training home.

Those of you still pining for Mark Cuban to become a Major League owner will be happy to hear that the insider trading charges have been dismissed. The dismissal is based on a pleading deficiency. In very basic terms, the government alleged that Cuban did X wrong, but the law requires that he have done […]

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Steroids? Overpaid players? Nope: A new Associated Press-Knowledge Networks poll finds that baseball fans think the high cost of attending games is by far the biggest problem in Major League Baseball right now. The poll released Thursday found a whopping 63 percent of respondents said high prices are the game’s top trouble – up from […]

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The Cubs deal is finally done. Apparently it’s “close to” the $900 million originally offered. Good job guys. Took you long enough. Now rehab the ballpark.

The Rangers’ financial woes continue: Amid increased internet chatter Wednesday that Tom Hicks’ sports group – Hicks Sports Group – financial woes are deepening and that the club has borrowed money from MLB’s rainy-day fund, team officials took a strange approach. They went silent. The chatter arose Wednesday after a local blog reported hearing on […]

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