Sox announce spring schedule

11/17/2005
CHICAGO -- The world champion Chicago White Sox will open their ninth season of Cactus League play on March 1 against the Colorado Rockies at Tucson Electric Park.
The White Sox will play 30 spring games (15 home and road), and nine will be in the Phoenix area. The team will play 10 of its first 11 games and 15 of the first 18 in Tucson. The team will make a three-day trip to the Phoenix area March 23-25.
On March 2, the White Sox will play their only scheduled split-squad game when they face Arizona at TEP and play the Rockies at Hi Corbett Field. The White Sox face their crosstown rivals, the Chicago Cubs, twice -- in Tucson on March 18 and at HoHoKam Park in Mesa, Ariz., on March 27.
All Sox home games at TEP are scheduled to begin at 1:05 p.m. MT, except for a 12:05 p.m. start on March 30 vs. Colorado to conclude the Cactus League slate. The White Sox will play a pair of exhibition games at Atlanta's Turner Field on March 31 at 7:05 p.m. ET, and April 1 at 1:05 p.m. ET before kicking off defense of the championship. The regular season opens April 3 against Cleveland.
The White Sox went 14-18 in Cactus League play in 2005 and drew 76,784 fans in 15 home dates, an average of 5,125 per game. All time, the Sox are 124-122-7 in Tucson.
The Spring Training broadcast schedule will be released at a later date.

Source: http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/