Some changes are in the works at Phoenix Municipal Stadium, as Arizona State University is planning to add a new batting cage. (more…)
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Chase Field pitched as temporary ASU gridiron; D-Backs skeptical
Arizona State University officials want to play home football games at Chase Field while Sun Devil Stadium is being renovated, but Arizona Diamondbacks President Derrick Hall is skeptical. The Sun Devil Stadium renovation is scheduled for 2015, so the Sun Devils athletic department needs to find a temporary home for football. While the logical replacement […]
Marek new Voice of the Swampdogs
Nick Marek is the new Voice of the Fayetteville SwampDogs (summer collegiate; Coastal Plain League). Marek is a senior studying journalism and mass communication at Arizona State University. Despite going to school out west, Marek has lived in Chapel Hill since he was four years old. While at Arizona State, Marek co-founded the Walter Cronkite Sports Network (WCSN) […]
It’s official: Sun Devils to Phoenix Muni in 2015
It’s official: The Arizona State baseball team is moving from Packard Stadium and to Phoenix Municipal Stadium beginning with the 2015 NCAA baseball season. The reason for the move is simple: Packard Stadium needs a lot of work in order for the Sun Devils program to remain competitive, and the University wants to either sell […]
ASU, Phoenix sit down to discuss Muni lease
With a partnership with the Chicago Cubs on a facility dead, Arizona State University is turning to Phoenix Municipal Stadium as the future home of the Sun Devils baseball program. ASU was slated to share a new Mesa spring-training facility with the Cubs, but negotiations over who pays what quickly turned sour, with Sun Devils […]
Arizona State walks away from Cubs, will explore Phoenix Muni lease
Arizona State University athletic-department officials say they’re done negotiating with the Chicago Cubs to share the team’s new Mesa spring-training complex and will instead look to other potential homes for the Sun Devils baseball team. The following statement was issued late yesterday: “After many months of negotiation, ASU regrets that the effort to have the […]
Mesa: Cubs, ASU must put aside differences on ballpark lease
Mesa officials don’t want the ASU Sun Devils to abandon the idea of sharing a new spring-training facility with the Chicago Cubs, so they are initiating talks between the two sides. You can read the full story at our sister site, Spring Training Online. The basic issue: Arizona State thought it had a deal to […]
Groundbreaking for new Cubs complex set for Wednesday
The Chicago Cubs and the city of Mesa have scheduled a groundbreaking for a new spring-training complex that is most definitely still a work in progress. The complex is set to open in 2014, but there are many issues outstanding: whether Arizona State will be a tenant, the exact design (the above rendering is more […]
Arizona wins College World Series; Hi Corbett is seen as big factor
The University of Arizona won the College World Series in convincing fashion, and players credit the program’s move to Hi Corbett Field as a contributing factor. This was the first year the Wildcats played at the venerable WPA-era facility, used for spring training and minor-league ball for decades. Indeed, we’ve covered this story many times […]
The Week That Was: June 24
New-ballpark renderings, new affiliation deals and new life for old ballparks. The most popular stories of the past week on Ballpark Digest, as measured by page views. Life on the bottom indy league: $50 a week ASU-Cubs spat may have unexpected beneficiary: new life for Phoenix Muni West Virginia ballpark renderings released Boulders, we hardly […]
ASU-Cubs spat may have unexpected beneficiary: new life for Phoenix Muni
A disagreement between Arizona State and the Chicago Cubs over a new Mesa spring-training complex may see the Sun Devils baseball program relocate to Phoenix Municipal Stadium. It’s been a whirlwind couple of days for ASU officials, the Cubs management and Mesa politicians, as an agreement to place the Sun Devils at the new Chicago […]
Regents approve Sun Devils move to new Cubs training facility
The Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team will be sharing a new Mesa spring-training facility with the Chicago Cubs starting in 2014, as the move was approved by the Arizona Board of Regents last night. The move will cost the athletic department $2 million for the construction of a team clubhouse. In return, according to […]
Cubs courting Sun Devils as ballpark partner
The Chicago Cubs are pitching Arizona State University officials on sharing the team’s new Mesa spring-training facility in a move that could see the Sun Devils leave venerable Packard Stadium. It’s fairly unusual for an MLB team to court a college program to share a spring-training facility, but this isn’t a normal circumstance. The Sun […]