It looks like Tampa Bay Rays fans will have plenty more years to cheer on the team as new ownership appears to be around the corner. According to a report from The Athletic, the Rays will be sold to a group led by Jacksonville,

With the start of the 2025 Florida high school football season is getting closer, it is time to preview the top returning running backs for the Tampa Bay area.

A Jacksonville group led by billionaire Patrick Zalupski have agreed to buy the Rays for an estimated price of $1.7 billion, according to The Athletic. The deal is expected to be finalized by September after negotiations took place over the past weeks. The Rays' principal owner, Stu Sternberg, bought the franchise in 2004 for $200 million.

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Some counties and cities across the Tampa Bay area opened up free sandbag locations to help residents prepare for the possibility of heavy rains and flooding.

From about 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, showers and thunderstorms dumped 9 inches of rain over a tiny pocket of Plant City. The National Weather Service has deemed the rainfall totals a 1-in-1,000-year event, meaning the probability for Plant City to see that much rain in that period of time is just 0.1%,

Nineteen people throughout Lakeland and Tampa were indicted on federal charges relating to gang activity, identity fraud and drug trafficking, according to U.S. Attorney Gregory Kehoe.

The Tampa Bay Rays have been playing their home games this season at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida, because of the the damage sustained by Tropicana Field after Hurricane Milton in October.