Major League Baseball spring training returns to Tucson in March with two games: Padres vs. Rockies and a week later the White Sox and Dodgers will battle it out in a benefit game for the Christina-Taylor Green Memorial Foundation.... Read more»
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In honor of the memory of the nine-year-old girl killed in the Jan. 8 mass shooting, Major League Baseball will be back in Tucson.... Read more»
Major League Baseball will be in Tucson this year, at least for one day. The San Diego Padres have agreed to play an exhibition game in Tucson in 2011.... Read more»
State Sen. Russell Pearce and other SB 1070 supporters are sending off 70,000 petition signatures urging Major League Baseball to ignore “critics and activists” they say are endangering plans to hold the 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix.... Read more»1
Robert Menendez, the Senate’s only Hispanic-American, has asked Major League Baseball players to boycott the 2011 All Star Game in Phoenix to protest Arizona’s new immigration law.... Read more»1
Several Hispanic groups have organized a boycott of Arizona because of the state’s new immigration law.... Read more»2
Former Suns star Charles Barkley and Gov. Jan Brewer might not make for a great matchup on the boards, but what about in the war of words? Barkley is calling for professional sports to boycott Arizona because of SB 1070. Brewer penned an op-ed for ESPN saying a boycott is “the wrong play.”... Read more»
Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen has become the first prominent figure in Major League Baseball to declare that if asked to partake in the 2011 All-Star Game next season, he will decline the prestigious invite.... Read more»1
After years of negotiations, local official were unable to convince three teams to stay here for spring training. The White Sox left in 2008, and the Diamondbacks and Rockies will leave after this year.... Read more»1
Arizona made some changes in the off-season but needs Webb to get healthy quickly... Read more»
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