The sports network has a major story and a full interactive map of the country’s sports stadiums and their food inspections reports.

The Arizona entries are Chase Field, US Airways Center, the Jobing.com Arena, and the University of Phoenix Stadium.

All have the distinction of having had between a quarter and a half of the different food concessions at each venue “cited for at least one ‘critical’ or ‘major’ health violation.”

[ESPN] submitted its findings to Dr. Robert Buchanan, director of the University of Maryland’s Center for Food Safety and Security Systems. His background includes 10 years overseeing food safety research at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which sets the guidelines by which most U.S. health departments conduct inspections.

[He said:] “Certainly, if you have a high rate of facilities within a stadium coming up with critical deficiencies, that to me strikes of systemic errors in either management of the stadium or in the infrastructure of the stadium, and both of them need to be corrected.”

For the record, what do “systemic errors” cause?

One of the most worrisome violations to health inspectors is food not being cooked, reheated or held at safe temperatures, because that’s when dangerous bacteria – such as E. coli, salmonella, and staphylococcus aureus – can grow and, if consumed, can trigger nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting.

The full story here