No Meeting Between Baseball, DC Officials Before Vote
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The vote is Tuesday - but it looks as though there will be no meeting between Major League Baseball and DC officials before the City Council&#39;s second vote on the stadium bill.
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A bill to add a voting representative for the District of Columbia and another House member from Utah appears unlikely to be brought up in the upcoming lame-duck session.
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Washington's new baseball team shut down business and promotional operations indefinitely Wednesday as its move to the nation's capital teetered on the brink of collapse. The decision by major league baseball followed the D.C. Council's decision Tuesday to require private financing for at least half the cost of building a new stadium.
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WASHINGTON (Sports Network) - The NHL and NHL Players'  Association met for more than five hours Sunday with federal  mediators, but still no progress was reported in an attempt to  end the labor dispute.
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The chairwoman of the District of Columbia Council delayed a vote on a plan to build a baseball stadium on the Anacostia River in southeast Washington that would host the Montreal Expos.
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Washington, D.C.'s City Council on Tuesday delayed its first vote on a debt and tax-funded baseball stadium proposal by two weeks so the council chairwoman could consider an alternative.
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Preprinted absentee ballots that list resigned Rep. Mark Foley as a candidate will not include an explanation that he withdrew from the race, election supervisors said.
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No ceremony due to writers' strike.
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With a &quot;NO&quot; banner in the foreground, Washington Mayor Anthony Williams, right, DC Sports Commission Chairman Mark Tuohey, left, and others, look as a the DC City Council debates stadium finance legislation for the return of Major League Baseball
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Baseball's plan to move the Expos to Washington might come apart after the District of Columbia Council voted last night to require private financing for at least half the cost of a new ballpark.
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Baseball players and baseball fans will never understand each other. There is a fundamental disconnect.
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D.C. Council members refused to endorse a plan to use private money to build a stadium in Southeast Washington because it would require the city to reopen negotiations with Major League Baseball.
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The Washington Nationals have postponed a news conference for Wednesday to unveil their new uniforms. A team spokesman tells The Associated Press they&#39;ll issue a statement later Wednesday about why the event is being delayed.
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WASHINGTON -- The DC City Council is scheduled to vote today on a revised plan to build a new baseball stadium, and two top city officials say everyone now seems to be on the same page.
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Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee will face off at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform tomorrow without any testimony from two other ballplayers or a steroids distributor who had also been scheduled to testify, the committee announced last night.
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The governor's race is still undecided in Washington state, and Democratic Party volunteers are frantically calling voters with disputed provisional ballots after a judge orders officials to release the names. Republicans are miffed.
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Two days after city officials gave preliminary approval to finance a ballpark for the Nationals, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said he would not renegotiate part of the stadium agreement with the DC Council.