Lockhart Stadium
Location	5201 NW 12th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Coordinates	26°11′35″N 80°9′40″W / 26.19306°N 80.16111°W / 26.19306; -80.16111Coordinates: 26°11′35″N 80°9′40″W / 26.19306°N 80.16111°W / 26.19306; -80.16111
Opened	1959
Owner	City of Fort Lauderdale
Surface	Grass
Construction cost	$5 million USD renovation in 1998 Renovations: ($7.13 million in 2012 dollars[1])
Capacity	20,450
Tenants
Fort Lauderdale Strikers (NASL) (2009–present) Florida Atlantic Owls football (NCAA) (2003–2010) Miami Fusion (MLS) (1998–2001) Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1994–1997) Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1988-1994) Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983) Fort Lauderdale Barracudas (SFL) (2011)

Lockhart Stadium is a stadium located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. It is currently home to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of North American Soccer League. In the past, Lockhart was the home field for both the original Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the original North American Soccer League as well as Miami Fusion F.C. of Major League Soccer.

DC United's 1998 victory over Vasco da Gama was also held there. The field is a FIFA-regulation field 75 yards by 116.

Built in 1959 as an athletic facility for local high schools, it is part of a sports complex that also includes Fort Lauderdale Stadium. Previously the stadium was used for high school football games for Fort Lauderdale High School, Stranahan High School, Northeast High School, and Dillard High School for home high school football games. The stadium also served as the home of the Florida Atlantic University football team from 2003 until 2010 (beginning in 2011, the Florida Atlantic Owls football team began playing at an on-campus stadium in Boca Raton).

Lockhart Stadium was host to the 2007 Caribbean Carnival for Broward County, after Miramar turned their request down.[1]

Lockhart Stadium also hosted the 2008 and 2009 MLS Combines. Billy Graham's final South Florida crusade took place at the Stadium in 1985.

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External links[link]

• Fort Lauderdale Strikers
• Stadium image

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John Rooney (born 1954) is an American sportscaster, currently best known for his role as a play-by-play announcer for radio broadcasts of Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals.

Early career[link]

A Richmond, Missouri, native,^[1] Rooney began his broadcast career in the 1970s, doing a number of assignments for various radio stations in Missouri and Oklahoma. In 1980, he began calling play-by-play for the Oklahoma City 89ers, a minor league baseball team. He broadcast for the Louisville Redbirds beginning in 1983. He also called Missouri basketball for many years, and did Chicago Bulls radio from 1989-91.

Major League Baseball career[link]

Rooney broadcast for the Minnesota Twins in the mid-1980s. In 1988, he joined the Chicago White Sox' television crew; the following year he switched to the team's radio booth, where he teamed with Wayne Hagin (1989–1991) and Ed Farmer (1992–2005).

In September 2005 it was announced that Rooney would be leaving the White Sox' radio crew after 18 years, due to a salary dispute with their new flagship station.^[2] His final broadcast with the team was Game 4 of the 2005 World Series, which ended in the White Sox' first Series championship since 1917. The following season he joined the Cardinals' radio crew on KTRS, teaming with former player and veteran broadcaster Mike Shannon. The Cardinals won the 2006 World Series, so Rooney has the unusual distinction of having called successive championship seasons for different teams.

National work[link]

Rooney worked for CBS Radio from 1984 to 2003, nationally broadcasting various sports events including Major League Baseball, the National Football League, college football, and college basketball. He called Saturday baseball telecasts for Fox Sports from 1996 to 1998, and postseason Division Series games for ESPN Radio in 2003 and 2004. In 2004, he was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.^[3]

Rooney continues to work the occasional baseball broadcast for ESPN Radio, and is also a play-by-play announcer for NFL coverage on the Sports USA Radio Network.

Catchphrases[link]

Rooney typically punctuates team victories with catchphrases, such as "That's a Cardinals/White Sox winner!" His calls punctuating a team's victory echoes Jack Buck's "That's a winner!" His signature home run call is "It's a goner!".

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