The Tampa Bay Rays have reportedly bought the Tampa Bay Rowdies, a soccer team in the second-tier United Soccer League. An official announcement will come tomorrow at 10:30 am.
The Rowdies play their games at Al Lang Stadium on the St. Petersburg waterfront, a site that had once been under discussion as a potential site for the Rays new stadium. Al Lang Stadium had previously been a baseball field that served as the spring training home for the Rays.
Since 2013 the Rowdies have been owned by Bill Edwards, a St. Petersburg businessman whose enterprises cross the worlds of entertainment and real estate.