BANDITS ANNOUNCE TRAINING CAMP TO MOVE TO NEW LOCATION The team announced that their annual preseason training camp will be moving to Sierra Community College, Rocklin, CA.  Rocklin is located just northeast of Sacramento, CA, and was the previous site of Bandits training camp before the team moved to Las Vegas.  The move is intended to re-establish the bonds with former Bandits fans in the Sacramento and Northern California area. "This move will help us reaffirm our bond with all the fans who supported us when the team used to be based here," said GM Patricia Willis.  "The league was all for it, and had actually been on the verge of suggesting the same thing to the Bandits." The Bandits played for 2 seasons in Sacramento before relocating to Las Vegas.  When asked if the Sacramento-area fans might be reluctant to the idea, Willis said she had already received encouraging messages from area and former fans.

"Rumors were already circulating as soon as our minicamp started here in Las Vegas, and I personally fielded several phone calls from Sacramento-area fans about the Bandits moving training camp to Rocklin.  However, there were also rumors of the team moving back to Sacramento permanently, but I quickly put the kabosh on that one.  The Bandits are Las Vegas' team, period.  We have no intentions of ever leaving Las Vegas.  So I just wanted to get that cleared up right away.

"The move to Rocklin is for training camp in the preseason only, and is a tribute to all the Northern California fans who supported us in the past.  We hope to re-establish bonds with these fans, and also hope to recruit even more fans in the near future.  We are currently exploring special package deals with airlines and local hotels for Northern California fans to attend home games in Las Vegas, and to travel to our road games in the area, such as San Francisco."