Posted by Ashley Pastino on Friday, February 3, 2012
Would YOU pay $48 to park your car at Yankee Stadium???? Well neither would the Yankee Fans attending games, leaving the stadium in a big loss with parking!
THE FIRM that built and manages the new Yankee Stadium parking garages
can’t repay $237 million in tax-exempt bonds the Bloomberg
administration arranged for it four years ago, new financial records
show.
Bronx Parking Development Company... Continue reading...
Posted by Ashley Pastino on Friday, February 3, 2012
The 49ers now have the $200 million they need to move to Santa Clara!The 49ers now have
the final $200 million needed to leave San Francisco, their home of 66
years, for a new, long-awaited stadium in Santa Clara.
The National Football League announced Thursday it would give the
team $200 million in loans and straight payments for its $1 billion,
68,500-seat facility. Site work began in January on the venue, which
could open next to Great America as soon as the 2014 season.
“This means... Continue reading...
Posted by Ashley Pastino on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Hoping that this Super Bowl's venue will have a much better outcome with stadium tragedies! CBS News tells us the positive news
(AP) INDIANAPOLIS — Patriots coach Bill Belichick could leave his
familiar hoodies in the hotel drawer. There was no need to bundle up for
the start of only the fourth Super Bowl week in a northern city. Ice and snow? Notable no-shows. Fans
threw open their jackets as they walked around downtown streets near
Lucas Oil Stadium on Monday, hoping to get a glimpse o... Continue reading...
Posted by Ashley Pastino on Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Ann Arbor — The first night game at Michigan Stadium on Saturday
against Notre Dame has been the highest-demand ticket ever at Michigan,
and athletic director Dave Brandon said an additional 50,000 tickets
could have been sold. Michigan plays Notre Dame in the 39th
meeting of the rivals Saturday at 8 p.m., in a prime-time
nationally-televised game with ESPN's GameDay crew in Ann Arbor. Brandon
said Tuesday during a news conference that it will be the largest crowd
in Michigan Stadium... Continue reading...
Posted by Ashley Pastino on Monday, May 23, 2011
Over the past months, we've been discussing the Minnesota Vikings'
stadium bill in the context of Monday's required adjournment of the
Minnesota state legislature. That body hasn't given the bill so much as a
single committee hearing, and it now seems highly unlikely to consider
the proposal in a meaningful way before adjourning.
What does that mean for the future of the Vikings? The answer is not much, at least not yet.
All indications are that Gov. Mark Dayton will need to call
legis... Continue reading...
Posted by Ashley Pastino on Wednesday, February 9, 2011
The inside of Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas for Super Bowl XLV. (photo submitted by Andy Quintana).
NEW YORK, N.Y. (WTAQ) - The National Football League is still
trying to appease the 400 fans who bought tickets to the Super Bowl and
never got seats.
A good number of Wisconsin Packer fans were among those shut out of a
section of temporary seats that were not completed in time. They either
had to stand high above the fiel... Continue reading...
Posted by Ashley Pastino on Monday, February 7, 2011
Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones tried his damnedest to set a record, and he did -- for the worst fumble in Super Bowl history, a monumental screw-up that originally left 1,250 ticket-holders without seats.In his quest to set an all-time Super Bowl attendance record, the ego-driven Jones and the NFL sold tickets for hastily constructed, temporary seats at Cowboys Stadium that wound up being incorrectly installed and deemed unsafe just hours before kickoff.
About 850 of the unlucky fans eventua... Continue reading...
Posted by Ashley Pastino on Monday, January 24, 2011
By Steve Douglas, AP Sports WriterLONDON — A decision on the future of the Olympic Stadium was postponed Monday after weeks of heated debate on whether the venue should retain a running track after the 2012 London Games. The Olympic Park Legacy Company had been scheduled to announce its decision on Friday but said it needs more time to study the bids from Premier League clubs Tottenham and West Ham. Tottenham proposes tearing down the 537-million pound ($853 million) arena after the Olympics... Continue reading...
Posted by Ashley Pastino on Wednesday, January 19, 2011
According to a report, Philip Anschutz has agreed to finance
construction of a football stadium in downtown Los Angeles under four
conditions. Whether a stadium gets built remains to be seen. Proposals
that would return the National Football League to Los Angeles have been
floated like wobbly balls across the middle since the Rams and Raiders
left about 15 years ago, and two are in play now. How either proposal
affects the San Diego Chargers at this point is anyone's guess, as it
has b... Continue reading...
Posted by Ashley Pastino on Monday, December 13, 2010
At 5 am CST Sunday December 13, 2010, the roof of the Hubert H.
Humphrey Metrodome collapsed
due to high winds and up to 24 inches of snow that collected on it
overnight. The damage to the roof caused the cancellation of several
events, and one, the Vikings game against the New York Giants, to be
moved to Detroit. (First
posted at Zennie62.com) While the disaster took the public,
and thanks to New Media, the World, by surprise, featuring a dramatic
video of the action as it happened, a... Continue reading...
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