These warm-weather sites can handle all calls if Pennsylvania has severe winter weather.

Wanting to avoid the usual weather postponements, the schedule makers opened the season in as many domed stadiums and warm-weather sites as possible.

Traditionally, it was the season-ending game for the Fighting Irish in odd-numbered years, as they sought to end each season at a warm-weather site.

The unusual schedule, the schedule-makers said, is the result of a desire to open the season in as many warm-weather sites and domed parks as possible.

In my nightmares I see the World Series in neutral, warm-weather sites, with teams not representing cities but only themselves as brand names.

That is what the game has done this spring, bringing a cold chill to the warm-weather sites with a second labor disruption in this decade.

Keep it at a warm-weather site or, if it's in Detroit, as the 2006 Super Bowl is, in a domed stadium.

Play the World Series at warm-weather sites, they say, as the Super Bowl is played.

It was a wise and long overdue move to use warm-weather sites and domed stadiums to open the season.

I'd like to see us pick 16 or 17 locations that are either warm-weather sites or cities that have dome stadiums.