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NYCFC Moves Four Games Out of Yankee Stadium to Citi Field

Major League Soccer announced the schedule for its 25th season and one of the notable highlights is the move of four New York City Football Club matches from one Major League Baseball ballpark to its in-city rival. NYCFC, which plays its home games at Yankee Stadium, will have four games at the New York Mets’ Citi […]

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Capital One Arena Moves to All-Digital Ticketing

The home of the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards will be eliminating paper tickets and going all-digital for sports events as well as concerts and other entertainment events. The change will take effect on January 1, 2020, for all non-sporting events at Capital One Arena. For Capitals and Wizards fans, the tickets will be all […]

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New Arlington Convention Center Project Approved

Arlington, Texas, will get a new 150,000-square-foot convention center as part of an expanded $810 million mega-project in the city’s entertainment district that will start construction in 2020 and be ready by 2023. The project, approved by the Arlington City Council, will be developed as a public-private partnership with Loews Hotels, the Texas Rangers, Cordish […]

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The Pechanga Founders Club at SoFi Stadium will be at ground level with the stadium's playing surface.

SoFi Stadium Signs Casino as Founding Partner

The future home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers has another big name that will be hanging outside one of its entrances. SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park named Pechanga Resort Casino as the newest founding partner of the new 70,000-seat stadium and 298-acre development, giving the casino the naming rights to a […]

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Tokyo Olympic Stadium Completed

Tokyo 2020 has declared the city’s Olympic Stadium ready to host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games, as well as soccer and track and field competition during the Games. The 68,000-seat venue will be open to the public on December 21 with a variety of Japanese cultural displays […]

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Cincinnati Out, Indianapolis In as NCAA Tournament 2022 Host

The NCAA has taken away NCAA Tournament first- and second-round hosting duties in 2022 from Cincinnati, Ohio, and reassigned those rights to Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The decision was made after arena upgrades for what was to be Cincinnati’s host site, the Heritage Bank Center, fell behind schedule and it appeared that they […]

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Housing Developer to Open Pickleball Venue

In the sport of pickleball, the future of venue expansion may come from private homebuilders. Kolter Homes, a developer of master-planned adult communities, has announced that it will build a pickleball venue with more than 30 courts, believed to be the largest private pickleball venue built in Georgia. The complex will be part of Cresswind […]

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