Mercury News report--page one, above the fold--on new soccer stadium possibility

SPARTANS WOULD GET NEW HOME; PRO SOCCER WOULD RETURN
By Jon Wilner and Barry Witt
Mercury News

San Jose State, Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff and the city of San Jose are negotiating to build a multi-purpose stadium that could change the face of South Bay sports by bringing a professional soccer team back to San Jose and providing a new home for Spartan athletics.

The facility, tentatively scheduled to open in 2009, would be built just east of Spartan Stadium, which would be replaced with a parking garage.

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