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==Sports== [[Image:Zephyr Field New Orleans, LA.jpg|thumb|right|225px|[[Shrine on Airline]]]] Metairie was home to the [[New Orleans Baby Cakes]] [[Triple-A (baseball)|Triple-A]] [[Minor League Baseball]] team of the [[Pacific Coast League]] from 1993 to 2019. The [[minor league baseball|minor league]] club played its home games at [[Privateer Park]], home to the [[University of New Orleans]]'s [[NCAA]] baseball team, from 1992 through 1996, and at [[Shrine on Airline]] from 1997 to 2019. The training facilities of [[NFL]] franchise [[New Orleans Saints]] and the [[NBA]] franchise [[New Orleans Pelicans]] are located in Metairie.<ref>{{cite web|title=Training Camp in Metairie |url=http://www.neworleanssaints.com/team/tc_metairie.html|publisher=neworleanssaints.com|access-date=October 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017213126/http://www.neworleanssaints.com/team/tc_metairie.html|archive-date=October 17, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Pelicans Practice Facility Tour|url=https://www.nba.com/pelicans/gallery/pelicans-practice-facility-tour|website=New Orleans Pelicans|access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref> As such, many players reside in the area.<ref>{{cite news |last=Duncan |first=Jeff|title=Some New Orleans Saints can't resist lure of life in the big city |url=http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2013/05/saints_in_the_city_column.html|newspaper=[[The Times-Picayune]]|date=May 30, 2013}}</ref> Boxing cards have been held in the [[Copeland Tower Suites]] (formerly Landmark Hotel).<ref>{{cite web |title=Professional boxing set to return to Metairie's Landmark Hotel |url=https://www.nola.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/06/professional_boxing_set_to_ret.html |publisher=nola.com |date=June 5, 2013 |access-date=July 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=TKO Promotions brings professional boxing back to Metairie on June 2 |url=https://crescentcitysports.com/tko-promotions-brings-professional-boxing-back-to-metairie-on-june-2/ |publisher=crescentcitysports.com |date=May 3, 2018 |access-date=July 18, 2018}}</ref> Beginning in 2020, the [[New Orleans Gold]] of [[Major League Rugby]] play their homes games in Metairie at the [[Gold Mine on Airline]].
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