Last week’s news of the impending name change to Staples Center hit sports fans hard, and especially fans in Los Angeles. Come Christmas Day, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, Kings, Clippers and Sparks will be known as Crypto.com … Continue reading
Hockey is just around the corner, and for traveling puckheads awaiting the return of the NHL, there’s a good reason to be excited: Two new arenas will be making their debuts on the hockey landscape. These venues will have many … Continue reading
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
