As the World Turns

Professional sports is like a soap opera for men. Individual characters come and go, but the roles remain the same. Plot lines vary, but never too much. Each season builds to a crescendo -- then it all starts up again in a few months.

The saga of baseball in Richmond is turning into a soap opera, too -- full of fickleness and betrayal, on-again/off-again relationships, speculation and intrigue. The latest news says the owner of the Connecticut Defenders has asked permission to explore the possibility of moving the team to Richmond, after a group here failed to scrape up the dough to buy the club.

Will Lou DiBella move his team to River City? Will Ryan Sanders Baseball beat him to it? Will Shockoe Center developers win approval to build a stadium downtown -- or will historic preservationists and economic circumstances block the move?

Tune in next week for another exciting episode . . . .