Walker Stadium gets ready for Pickles

Written by Portland Tribune The players and coaching staff are in place for the first season of Portland Pickles baseball. The major work now being done is to the home ballpark, Walker Stadium, in Lents Park. Crews have completed extensive excavation work, demolished the condemned grandstand and press box and taken down the chain-link backstop. […]

The Dog Who Saved the World Cup

By Christopher Klein   –   HISTORY Four months before England won the World Cup in 1966, it actually lost it when a London thief swiped the solid gold trophy awarded to the tournament champions. While Scotland Yard came up empty in its search for soccer’s ultimate prize, it took a pooch named “Pickles” to get […]

PNC Park is selling a hot dog this year that has caramel sauce, Cracker Jack, jalapeños and macaroni and cheese on it.

By Alicia Jessop   –   FTW! We are human beings, people. We are organic creatures. We live and one day we will die. Our time on this earth is short, and while I can appreciate a treat, this is disrespectful to our bodies. This is hubris. This is us laughing at the heavens, chortling at the bodies […]

New menu items at Coors Field

Claire Sisun, KUSA DENVER – New menu items are coming to Coors Field for the 2016 season, according to Aramark. Aramark announced an expanded partnership with Andrew Zimmern, a three-time James Beard Award winning chef, to bring more menu options to baseball fans on Thursday. Coors Field and other baseball stadiums serviced by Aramark will get […]

The Best Way to Sample Fresh Maple Syrup Involves Pickles

BY CASEY ELSASS   –   Munchies It was a sunny afternoon in early March and the kitchen of Broad Brook Grange in Guilford, Vermont was kinetic. Carole Mills, the secretary of the Grange, had been there since 9 AM with Don McLean and Marli Rabinowitz prepping the food and space for the evening’s festivities. […]