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Mesa: Cubs, ASU need to agree on ballpark lease

With Arizona State University threatening to walk away from an agreement to share the new Chicago Cubs spring-training facility, Mesa officials are urging the two sides to set aside their differences and come up with a deal. ASU is committed to leaving Packard Stadium in the future — the school is already marketing the ballpark […]

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Athletics exploring move to HoHoKam Park in 2015

The Oakland Athletics have entered into an exclusive negotiating period with the city of Mesa for a move to HoHoKam Park in 2015, once the Chicago Cubs shift to a new facility. The Athletics currently play spring matches at Phoenix Municipal Stadium and train at nearby Papago Park. Neither set of facilities approaches state of […]

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Tentative 2012 Oakland A’s spring-training sched posted

We’ve posted a tentative and incomplete spring-training schedule for the Oakland A’s, who are playing a partial slate of games through March 21 before departing for a season-launching series with Seattle in Japan. You can view the schedule here. The A’s are slated to begin play on March 2 at Peoria Stadium against the Seattle […]

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Could Phoenix lose spring training?

Despite money set aside for ballpark improvements, it looks like the Milwaukee Brewers and Oakland Athletics are shopping for new spring-training complexes come 2013 and 2015, respectively, which could lead to the loss of spring training in the city of Phoenix. The two teams are the last training in the actual city of Phoenix, with […]

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