Same old Cardinals despite new stadium
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What's the old saying? Put lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig. Well, put the Arizona Cardinals in a magnificent new home stadium and, so far at least, they're the same old Cardinals.
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The Phoenix Coyotes have seen plenty of change in recent years. They moved into a state-of-the-art building, underwent an ownership shuffle and switched colors.
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The sign at Busch Stadium pleaded: "Will the real Cardinals report and play?" The answer in Game 4, just as in the first three games, was emphatic: No!
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ST. LOUIS - For the first time in a long time, the St. Louis Cardinals are in a must-win predicament. The Cardinals won 105 games, one off the 52-year-old franchise record.
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LOS ANGELES -The outcome of Sunday night&#39;s Game 4 against the Los Angeles Dodgers had little bearing on the Cardinals&#39; thinking about their NLCS starting rotation.
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The St. Louis Cardinals haven&#39;t been to the World Series since 1987. The Houston Astros are coming off their first-ever playoff series victory.
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well, sort of very own â-t. Louis Cardinals are in the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. (How did that happen?). Having been a Cardinals
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Monday&#39;s workout at Busch Stadium contained a few more St. Louis Cardinals than you&#39;d expect considering it was optional, but you could understand why they&#39;d want to
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Corey Dillon had seen similar scores before in the same stadium and been on the wrong end of them, just as he was Saturday night at Paul Brown Stadium.
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The baseball playoffs begin, but this time each city team is dominant in its league. Nothing like this has happened since 1956, a year of magic.
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By JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer. a job that might last only a few months while the team is being sold. funding for a new ballpark.
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CHICAGO Â· The Marlins are beginning to identify with the Montreal Expos as far as playing home games on the road. The Marlins already had to make up one of last weekend&#39;s three postponed
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Some fans think 44-year-old Candlestick Park is already a dinosaur. Now the San Francisco 49ers' home stadium has the name to match.
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In 1946 and 1967, the St. Louis Cardinals brought bitter endings to otherwise-glorious seasons for the Boston Red Sox. The 2004 Sox, already famous for bringing down their arch-rival
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ST. LOUIS -- Even a cookie-cutter stadium -- which is the pejorative term that came to describe the multipurpose bowls that seemed to spring up simultaneously in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Queens, Philadelphia, and St. Louis in the late 1960s and early '70s -- can have their quirks.
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NEW YORK -- Maybe 19 games going on 26 is too many. Maybe the familiarity that has brought contempt between the two combatants has also created boredom for those not in the two cities.
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The Yankees and the Cardinals have won more World Series rings than any other teams in baseball. Which comes as cold comfort, if you happen to be enduring their agonizingly awful performances to date this year. Two fans, on coping with loss.