Saints Moving Training Camp To Metairie, Louisiana, HQs
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Saints Training Camp Will Return To HQs,
Mostly Because Of Gloomy Economy |
The Saints, "mostly because of a gloomy economy," announced yesterday that their training camp "will return to the team's main training facility" in Metairie, Louisiana, according to Rod Walker of the Jackson CLAIRON-LEDGER. The team had held training camp at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, the last three summers, and Millsaps officials "were notified of the Saints' decision on Friday." Millsaps College VP/Student Life Brit Katz: "A good number of NFL camps have announced that they are going to return to their home bases this year" (Jackson CLARION-LEDGER, 3/31). ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas wrote the holding of training camp at a team's HQs has "become the norm in the NFC South," as the Falcons train at their Flowery Branch, Georgia, facility and the Buccaneers recently "decided to leave Disney's Wide World of Sports to train at One Buccaneer Place in Tampa." The Saints' move leaves the Panthers "as the only NFC South team that will not hold training camp at its main facility" (ESPN.com, 3/30).
CHANGING SIDES: In San Antonio, Tom Orsborn reports San Antonio mayoral candidate Julian Castro, in a "dramatic reversal from a stance he held" as a City Council member, said that he is "'comfortable' with a contract that gives the Dallas Cowboys rent-free use of the Alamodome for training camp." Castro said he believes the deal, which runs through '11, "benefits both parties, and I look forward to partnering with the Cowboys for years into the future." Castro added that he "favors the current rent-free agreement because the city no longer pays the team to train" in San Antonio. Orsborn notes the Cowboys held training camp in San Antonio in '02 and '03, and then returned in '07 "in the first year of a five-year contract." A scheduling conflict at the Alamodome "forced the Cowboys to move to" Oxnard, California, last year, but the team is returning to the Alamodome this summer (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 3/31).
CLOSER TO HOME: Sources said that the Rams are "considering training at Lindenwood University and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and that camp probably will be held at one of those two St. Louis area colleges this summer." The team has previously held training camp at Concordia Univ.-Wisconsin (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 3/31).
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