The calendar has turned to March, and so we’re coming up on one year since we last saw full stadiums and arenas across American sports. For me, it’s been nearly one year exactly since the last sporting event I saw … Continue reading
I was a serious doodler during my school years, and one of the things I loved to draw was stadiums and arenas. They were nearly always down in seating-chart form, and created using materials from my math classes — usually … Continue reading
(Note: This post was updated on July 23 with further information.) As we waited for Major League Baseball and its players to come to an agreement on playing games in 2020, we did so with the assumption that MLB’s stadiums … Continue reading
It has been almost two months since the COVID-19 crisis came to a head in the United States, shutting down all sports leagues currently in play. Since then we’ve heard of a number of scenarios for the return of the … Continue reading
With my sports travel plans for 2020 on pause, I figured now is a good time to take stock in my pursuit of “Club 123” — that is, my quest to see a home game for every team in each … Continue reading
I read last weekend’s news about the New York Islanders staying at Nassau Coliseum through the 2020-21 season with great interest. First off, it’s clearly the right move for a team that has been shuttling back and forth between two … Continue reading
Most sports fans, whether they’re avid travelers or not, have a stadium or two that is near and dear to their hearts — because it’s where their favorite team plays, or because it’s the one in which they watched many … Continue reading
For whatever reason, Friday brought quite a bit of news on the arena front, with several teams still on the lookout for new facilities. All are interesting in their own right, so let’s take a look at each tidbit and … Continue reading
One thing that seems to be constant in the world of pro sports venues is that a few new ones open every year. It’s not occurring at the same rate it did in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but … Continue reading
One of our favorite pastimes around here is looking at plans for proposed stadiums and arenas around the country. And in most of them, we’ve noticed a pattern: the stadium or arena isn’t the only component of the overall plan. … Continue reading
