For Spring Training Locations, Florida Wanes as the Desert Blooms
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Baseballâs mass migration to Arizona for spring training is a development that would have been someoneâs spring fantasy a couple of decades ago.
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Chased out of Florida by Hurricane Ivan, the Marlins were forced to play a home game on the road but still managed to close the gap in the N.L. wild-card race.
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Players were back in shirt sleeves, and many of the 96 arches atop Busch Stadium were lit by the late-afternoon sun as the Red Sox took batting practice.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- There are a fleet of television trucks beached at the dead end of Edison Road. First time ever. There's also an electronic sign explaining that there's no place to park near the Red Sox minor league complex. Fans are instructed to drive 2.5 miles back to City of Palms Park and return on shuttle buses.
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It was darn nice of the new BCS Standings to throw a curve on its very first pitch. Miami sitting narrowly ahead of Oklahoma will get tongues wagging from South Beach to South Central, not far from the campus of No.
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NEW YORK (Ticker) - With the dark cloud of steroids continuing to hover over baseball, it appears a tougher drug-testing policy may be in effect by spring training.
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The champagne stains in the visitorsâ clubhouse at Busch Stadium havenât even dried yet. A victory parade in Beantown is a couple days away.
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Ben Shpigel , The New York Timesâs Mets beat writer, answers your questions about the team, from spring training camp in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch . . . An entire other baseball universe exists. While Daisuke Matsuzaka and the rest of the varsity were taking on the Florida Marlins across the state in Jupiter, the hopefuls and the wannabes were going about their business at the Red Sox minor league complex. Among them was a rookie ...
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Three words that warm the hearts of baseball fans -- "pitchers and catchers" -- are being tossed around this wintry week as Spring Training camps in Florida and Arizona open their gates for early arrivals.
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Jay Gibbons arrives at spring training unsure of where he'll be playing on Opening Day.
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Sammy Sosa found his power stroke, Kenny Rogers finally gave up a run and the Arizona Diamondbacks made it two triple plays in one weekend at spring training.
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Wally Backman is out of a job and the Arizona Diamondbacks are the laughingstocks of baseball. Other than that, itâs been a pretty normal week here in the desert.
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For veterans like Jeff Kent, spring training is usually a drag. Not this year. "It says something when I say I'd rather be here than racing motorcycles. I love motorcycles," Kent said with a smile before Friday's workout at the Los Angeles Dodgers' spring training complex.
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The luster of the annual Florida-Florida State game was dulled this year by the SeminolesÂ decline as a national power. But there was still much at stake in this intense rivalry.
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What was once the sleepy home of the NBA's Phoenix Suns, the Fiesta Bowl and baseball's spring training has blossomed into a national sports capital.
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It has been a season-long marketing campaign. From the moment Curt Schilling walked into the Red Sox' spring training facilities in Fort Myers, Fla., to the moment he walked into the champagne spray Sunday night, he has been working on himself, on himself for next season. Not that it was always overt - though there were certainly moments ...