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Today in the Fortune 500: GE to buy Converteam, BP employees could face...
GENERAL ELECTRIC'S ENERGY UNIT EXPANDS with the coming $3.2 billion purchase of power conversion company Converteam. The deal, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011, should help GE...
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Inside the New York Mets' financial ledger
The Mets' money woes have been widely known for months, but estimates of the team's debt don't give a full picture of the franchise's obligations. By Daniel Roberts, reporter FORTUNE -- Just how deep...
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Take me out to the boardroom (Fortune, 1997)
Corporate owners are revolutionizing the economics of pro sports. Now Rupert Murdoch is in the game, and he's throwing curve balls. By Roy S. Johnson with Rajiv M. Rao and Erin Davies
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Steal bases, snag sponsors?
Billy Hamilton just broke the minor league record for stolen bases in one season. But still, it's the minor leagues. What kind of endorsement potential does he have? By Daniel Roberts, reporter FORTUNE...
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A new video app for sports fans on the go
Imagine this: You’re out on the town while your favorite sports team is playing, and it’s impossible to watch the game. There’s no cable for miles and ESPN doesn’t mesh with your mobile phone carrier....
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Take me out to the boardroom (Fortune, 1997)
Editor’s note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week, we turn to a July 1997 feature on the Los Angeles Dodgers. Team owner Frank McCourt announced this...
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Letting a star slip away (Fortune, 2005)
Editor’s note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a story from our magazine archives. April 20 marked the 100th anniversary of the opening of Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. In 2004, the Red Sox...
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Big League Baseball (Fortune, 1937)
Editor’s note: Every Sunday we publish a favorite story from our magazine archives. As the summer sports season kicks off, we turn to this snapshot of the baseball business published in 1937. Neither...
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Bud Selig: Ready to play ball
Major League Baseball’s commissioner on the Mets and Madoff, Pete Rose, and labor problems in other leagues. Opening day is upon us, and with it the dreams of summer. Allan H. “Bud” Selig, 76, can’t...
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MLB’s David Eckstein is the “Smurf” that could
David Eckstein always seemed a little out of place in the baseball world. As a player he was listed, generously, at 5-foot-7, 175 pounds, and he seemed closer in stature to the prepubescent batboys...
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Stealing (data) bases? St. Louis Cardinals may have hacked Houston Astros
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly probing whether the St. Louis Cardinals breached the computer systems of rival team the Houston Astros in order to abscond with protected, proprietary...
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Everything you need to know about the bizarre Astros baseball hack
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating St. Louis Cardinals front office employees for allegedly hacking into the computer systems of the Houston Astros, the New York Times reported...
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Major League Baseball okays Apple Watches in the dugout
The irony was delicious. For his coaching duties at the All Star Game, the oldest major professional sports league in America and Canada gave Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost a thoroughly modern...
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Orsillo out: Another indignity for Red Sox fans
If Red Sox ownership thought firing the team’s TV play-by-play guy would go down easy, they have another think coming. News of the plan not to renew Orsillo’s contract after this year leaked late...
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This city just banned smokeless tobacco in all ballparks
A staple of professional baseball--smokeless tobacco--was just banned from one of the sport’s most iconic ballparks. On Wednesday, the Boston City Council voted to prohibit chewing tobacco and other...
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Live from Fenway Park, a behind-the-scenes look at MLB Statcast
Heading to Fenway Park for a late-season Red Sox-Yankees confrontation is a tough gig, but someone has to do it. So I did. The business reason was to get a look at how MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM)...
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Why the NFL, NCAA, and MLB are closely monitoring Hurricane Joaquin
A major storm is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean, and a number of big sporting events could be affected over the weekend, meaning headaches and potential added costs for the likes of the MLB, NFL and...
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Taco Bell is Giving Out Free Breakfast Today
Taco Bell is giving out free breakfast today between 7 and 11 a.m. thanks to Kansas City Royals’ Lorenzo Cain. The fast food chain announced on October 22 that it had teamed up with Major League...
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Baseball Fans Will Get Cheaper Prices in MLB Settlement, ‘Blackouts’ Remain
Major League Baseball will cut the price of its MLB Internet TV packages to as low as $85 annually and, for the first time, will let fans buy a single team package under the terms of a legal settlement...
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Here’s One Way to Liven Up Baseball
Even the biggest baseball fans sometimes find the actual games to be a bit, um, tedious. That feeling was crystalized this week with comments Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper made to ESPN...
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