Topic: Houston Astrodome

Evolution of the NFL: 16 ways the game has changed

Forty-seven years after the first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles before a less-than-capacity crowd, let’s look back at some of the ways the NFL has changed.

Baseball fans: Take a quick tour of all 30 major league ballparks

Authors Josh Pahigian and Kevin O’Connell explore America's major league ballparks in "The Ultimate Baseball Road."

MLB Opening Day: Looking back at 100 years of baseball history

To get a sense of the historic arc Major League Baseball has taken over just the past 100 years, hop on our time machine and review some of its key news and developments at 10-year intervals, beginning in 1912.

10 bits of baseball history I learned from "A Game of Inches"

"A Game of Inches" by Peter Morris takes present-day readers on a tour of baseball's origins. Here are 10 interesting glimpses into the game of the past – and how it impacts baseball as we know it today.

Houston stadium debt called in early

JPMorgan Chase chose to call in Houston's debt for Reliant Stadium years before the original loan schedule predicted. Why?

Red Sox leave their spring training stadium – and its debt – behind

An increasing number of teams, now including the Boston Red Sox, will leave a town even before their taxpayer-funded stadiums are paid off, leaving debt and unhappy fans behind.

The stadiums may be gone, but they're still being paid for

In some cases, stadium debt outlasts the teams that play in them - and sometimes even the stadium itself.

Shhhh... Joe Biden ditches work for baseball game in Baltimore