Sports: DC may get baseball this week
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NEW YORK Thursday will be exactly 33 years since the Washington Senators played their final game, and that&#39;s the day the nation&#39;s capital may learn that the Expos are coming.
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Major League Baseball has decided to relocate the Montreal Expos to Washington, DC The widely expected announcement is to be made later Wednesday, by city officials.
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony  Williams will try to get financing for a Major League Baseball  stadium back on the city council agenda next week after the  council added a deal-breaking provision to the original bill,  the mayor's spokesman said on Thursday.
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Reasonable people can disagree about Mayor Anthony Williams's latest plan for bringing professional baseball back to Washington. Unfortunately, a lot of the discussion so far has been based on misleading vocabulary and faulty assumptions. As the D.C. Council considers further action today, here's a business columnist's guide for thinking about the issue:
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Baseball&#39;s plan to move the Expos to Washington might come apart after the District of Columbia Council voted Tuesday night to require private financing for at least half the cost of a new ballpark.
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WASHINGTON - Major League Baseball will announce Wednesday that Washington will be the new home of the Montreal Expos, The Associated Press has learned. A city official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington has been notified by Major League Baseball of the impending announcement that will return the national pastime to the nation's capital for the first time in 33 years...
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Major League Baseball is poised to cancel the move of the Montreal Expos to Washington after the District of Columbia Council on Tuesday amended the agreement
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For Anthony Williams, the mayor of Washington, this week&#39;s deal to return Major League Baseball to the nation&#39;s capital after
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If Major League Baseball can negotiate a settlement with Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos, it could announce next week the Montreal Expos' new home is Washington, D.C.
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Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, an excellent venue for soccer, will revert to a less-than-adequate home for baseball next year. So, D.C. United could be playing their last game at the site when they host the Revolution in the MLS Eastern Conference final tonight at 7.
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Supporters and detractors of a plan to bring baseball to the District are lining up to make their case before the D.C. Council.
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WASHINGTON - It was more pep rally than news conference, with the mayor and city officials wearing red Washington Senators caps, the ones with the curly "W" on the front. Baseball returned to the nation's capital for the first time in 33 years Wednesday, with an announcement from Major League Baseball that the Montreal Expos will move to Washington next season...
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Washington decided on where to build a ballpark for the Montreal Expos if major league baseball moves the team to the nation's capital
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Three former Washington Senators attended Monday&#39;s press conference in which city and team officials announced that Washington, DC&#39;s new baseball team would be named the Nationals.
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WASHINGTON - It was more pep rally than news conference, with the mayor and city officials wearing red Washington Senators caps, the ones with the curly "W" on the front.   "After 30 years of waiting and waiting and waiting," said Mayor Anthony Williams, adding dramatic pauses for emphasis, "and lots of hard work and more than a few prayers, there will be baseball in Washington in 2005!"   Baseball returned to the nation's capital for the first time in 33 years Wednesday, with an announcement from Major League Baseball that the Montreal Expos will move to Washington next season...
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Washington, DC, City Council is due to debate stadium funding again today in an attempt to keep Major League Baseballâs return to the city from being stillborn.
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Major League Baseball selected  Washington, D.C., as the new home for the Montreal Expos on  Wednesday, bringing the iconic American sport back to the U.S.  capital after a 33-year absence.