Facility Notes

The Titans will hold training camp at the Nashville’s Baptist Sports Park this summer instead of returning to Austin Peay State Univ. in Clarksville, which hosted the camp for the first two weeks last year. Austin Peay AD Dave Loos said, “I don’t know why the decision was made. We ... were planning for them to come back.” He added that the school, which received money from the team for its services, proposed a higher payment than last year, “but not by a large amount.” In Nashville, Jim Wyatt notes another factor in the decision may have been the cost of moving the weight room, football and operational equipment (TENNESSEAN, 5/4).

J-RICH: The NBA fined Warriors G Jason Richardson $35,000 for what the league called “improper interaction with a fan” during Game Five against the Mavericks in Dallas on Wednesday. Mavericks fan Crockett Gambrel said Richardson struck him in the chest after Richardson was knocked into the seats by F Dirk Nowitzki. But Richardson responded, “Come on. Me, punching somebody? When have you ever known me being violent?” (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 5/4).

NOTES: St. Petersburg Managing Dir of Development Coordination Kevin Dunn said that the D’Rays, who recently put “large baseballs on the roof of Tropicana Field,” are also planning to make the ballpark’s “outside columns look like oversized bats, and the balls will appear to be resting on the bats” (ST. PETE TIMES, 5/4)....Suns President & COO Rick Welts said the team is in discussions with the NBA regarding the possibility of showing a road game at US Airways Center in 3D if the team advances to the Western Conference Finals. But in Phoenix, Dan Bickley reports a “cost of about $300,000 for the broadcast is just one of many hurdles” to staging such an event (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 5/4)....IMG Golf Course Management has reached a ten-year pre-opening agreement to operate and manage Al Ruwaya Golf Course in Dubai, the first designed by Tiger Woods (IMG).