In Chicago, Julia Poe wrote the Sky’s new training facility in Bedford Park “will not be ready for the start of the season” -- but the team “will not return to Sachs Recreation Center.” A source said that the team will “hold training camp and all other team workouts at an undisclosed location within the city limits of Chicago while the training facility is being finished.” This will “provide more private accommodations and a significantly shorter commute for players, who also are being housed downtown this season” (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 4/11).
TAKING TIME: In Seattle, Matt Calkins wrote with the Kraken eliminated from the NHL playoffs for the third straight season and fourth time in the past five, they ceded “any potential attention to a Super Bowl-winning NFL team, a division-winning MLB team, and -- perhaps most pertinent -- a yet-to-return NBA team.” The “truth is this: A rebuild is likely the only way forward.” It is “hard to start over when you’re overseeing a fledgling franchise that sold out its inaugural season tickets in 12 minutes.” Fans are as “reluctant to accept the word ‘rebuild’ as the brass is to utter it.” Calkins: “It just looks like it’s time” (SEATTLE TIMES, 4/11).
