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DETROIT -- The Detroit Pistons are ready to move downtown -- into what is already being billed as one of the most unique sports neighborhoods in the nation. Womens Vikings Super Bowl Jerseys .The Pistons formally announced plans Tuesday to move into Little Caesars Arena next season and share that new venue with the Detroit Red Wings, a relocation that would put all four of the citys major sports teams within a few blocks of each other. The arena is being built in the same part of downtown where the Tigers and Lions host their games at Comerica Park and Ford Field, respectively.Tuesdays news conference was held in a room at Cass Tech High School that had a view of all three of those nearby sports venues.This is the only city now with all four teams in the downtown area, Mayor Mike Duggan said. You can walk within 10 minutes to all of them. You can go around the country, and there are cities where all four teams are somewhere in the border of their city. In Denver, theyve got basketball and hockey and baseball downtown, and the Broncos play a mile outside.Duggan said after moving downtown next season, the Pistons will have their headquarters and a practice facility in the city by 2018.Duggan called the agreement for the Pistons to move preliminary and said final agreements would likely be approved early next year by Detroits Downtown Development Authority, the Michigan Strategic Fund and the Detroit City Council. The agreement calls for a contribution of $34.5 million from the DDA to cover modifications to the new arena to accommodate an NBA team.Duggan said by law, those funds can only be used for infrastructure and economic development downtown.These funds have to be spent on economic development purposes in this region, and we couldnt think of anything more important than bringing the Pistons back home, he said.Michael LaFaive of the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy was critical of the plan, saying taxpayers shouldnt be put in a position to back business ventures of private entrepreneurs.Let entrepreneurs risk their own resources and flourish or flounder on their own accord, he said in an email.Duggan and Pistons owner Tom Gores were at the news conference, along with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Ilitch Holdings President and CEO Christopher Ilitch. The Red Wings are owned by Mike and Marian Ilitch, and Gores said the opportunity to partner with them played a big role in the decision to move.I thought this would be a great partnership, and I would tell you, if I didnt feel it, then we have a home, and we wouldve stayed there, Gores said. But theres a bigger picture here.The Red Wings are in their final season at Joe Louis Arena before the NHL team moves to Little Caesars Arena. The Pistons have played at The Palace of Auburn Hills since 1988 and were at the Pontiac Silverdome for a decade before that.The Pistons were downtown when they called Cobo Arena home from 1961-78 before heading to Pontiac and then Auburn Hills. The Palace is about 30 miles from downtown Detroit.Watching our city decline over the years has been difficult, but emotionally, the most painful experiences were when our sports franchises either left town or tried to leave town, Duggan said.The Lions also played at the Silverdome before moving to Ford Field in 2002. Now, the Pistons are eager to make the same move to downtown Detroit.Weve seen these trends of our teams moving really from suburban areas outside of urban areas, back into downtown areas, Silver said. Little Caesars Arena is just another fantastic example of that trend.The Pistons move is subject to NBA approval and is expected to be presented to the board of governors sometime after Jan. 1.The Palace was built with private funds by William Davidson, who owned the Pistons before his death in 2009. The team has won three championships in Auburn Hills, although the atmosphere slipped in recent years as the Pistons went through a rough stretch.Detroit returned to the playoffs last season for the first time since 2009.Gores bought the Pistons from Karen Davidson in 2011, and by that point, the team had become a suburban outlier, with the Lions having moved downtown to play alongside the Ilitch-owned Tigers and Red Wings.Now, Gores is joining forces with the Ilitches and moving his team into that same area.This community is getting the world-class sports and entertainment district it deserves, Christopher Ilitch said. A perfect addition to a city in the midst of an incredible and historic transformation.---Follow Noah Trister at www.Twitter.com/noahtrister Ade Aruna Super Bowl Jersey . Numbers Game looks into the Canadiens securing the services of Thomas Vanek in a trade with the New York Islanders. The Canadiens Get: LW Thomas Vanek and a conditional fifth-round pick. 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Part-time Tamworth trainer and self-employed welder Jacob Perrett will test stable star Capitanos mettle as he chases a maiden city success.Perrett has five horses in work with Capitano leading the charge to give him his first Sydney winner in Saturdays TAB Rewards Handicap (1100m) at Rosehill.He originally leased Capitano with his father-in-law Gary Germon but before the horses debut the pair arranged to buy him outright.After Germon died in July 2014, his wife Jenelle took over the ownership and now races the horse with Perrett.Family is also how Perrett became a trainer, growing up around his fathers stable at Inverell.Hes always had horses since I was little and can remember so its gone through the family, Perrett said.While Capitano was eligible for Racing NSWs Breeder Owner Bonus Scheme, Perrett let that slide by waiting until the horse was a four-year-old before starting him.I got him as a late two-year-old but I didnt rush him, Perrett said.I think its proven now thats what he needed, just a bit of time to mature.Capitano won his first three starts and has six wins from 20 attempts ahead of his first race as a seven-year-old. Devante Downs Super Bowl Jersey. He has two midweek placings at Warwick Farm but Perrett has tinkered with his approach ahead of his next Sydney start by trialling him on Melbourne Cup day at Tamworth.He usually goes to the races without trialling, but I just wanted to make sure he was rock solid heading to Sydney first-up, Perrett said.Capitano goes up against Raphaels Cat who was Group Two placed as a three-year-old and returns after more than a year away from racing.Sugar Bay Leonard, Nieta and Infra Dig are all last-start winners rising in grade.While Perrett isnt underestimating the task which awaits Capitano, he is boosted by the horses first-up record of two wins and a third from four races.Hes getting better with age, Perrett said.The older hes getting the smarter hes getting and the better races hes running.Perrett has enlisted Tamworth jockey Darren Jones who will also ride Lonely Orphan for local trainer Leslie Jeffriess in the 2400m benchmark handicap. 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