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Yankees-Red Sox Game Delayed By Stuck Fenway Door
An overhead door to a Fenway groundskeeping closet got stuck open, delaying the start of the third inning tonight as Red Sox staffers tried desperately to get it shut. NESN announcers Dave O’Brien and Jerry Remy had quite a time with the incident....
Big, Stupid Falcons Stadium To Feature Big, Stupid Bird Statue
The Atlanta Falcons appear to be very committed to building the most batshit insane football stadium in American history. They already went and approved a design that will make the stadium resemble a robot’s anus, and now they are going to grace the grounds with what is purported to be the largest b...
Fox Football Announcers Shamelessly Stump For New Publicly Financed Stadium
During yesterday’s preseason game between the San Diego Chargers and Minnesota Vikings, Fox announcers Kevin Burkhardt and John Lynch decided to shill on behalf of the people trying to steal $350 million from taxpayers so that they can build a new football stadium in San Diego. ...
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Report: Sheldon Adelson Up To Some Shady Shit On Las Vegas Raiders Stadium [UPDATE]
[Update, 8/31 5:45 p.m.: The managing editor of the Review-Journal has responded to the allegations in this post. Read his response below.]...
Raiders Stadium Backers To Las Vegas: Give Us $750 Million, Or Else
Representatives from Majestic Reality and the Las Vegas Sands casino company, the two groups looking to bring the Oakland Raiders and a brand new NFL stadium to Las Vegas, made their pitch to an oversight committee last night. The proposed stadium would cost $1.9 billion to build, and stadium propon...
Raiders Apply For "Las Vegas Raiders" Trademark, Release Stadium Renderings
None of this means a Raiders’ move is any closer to reality—we already know Mark Davis wants a new stadium or to get the hell out of Oakland, and the mean ol’ NFL won’t let him go to Los Angeles, and he doesn’t have to money to build a new place on his own—but these are two moves that, if the Las Ve...
You Don't Have To Call It Guaranteed Rate Field
The White Sox got themselves a new stadium naming-rights deal, and it’s a laugher. Starting next season, U.S. Cellular Field, formerly the second Comiskey Park, will go by: Guaranteed Rate Field. Yes it will....
Why Don't They Just Make The Whole Airplane Out Of Olympic Venues?
By now everybody knows the modern Olympic Games system—whereby competing cities bid for the right to piss the GDP of Iceland into shabbily constructed venues that will host esoteric sports competitions for three weeks and then persist as rotting, uninhabited, politically radioactive civic boondoggle...
Diamondbacks Try To Squeeze More Money From Taxpayers; County Supervisor Tells Team To Screw Themselves<em></em>
The Diamondbacks have been playing in their current ballpark since 1998. Their stadium cost $364 million to build, and Maricopa County picked up $238 million of the tab. Eighteen years later, it is need of some repairs, and the fight over who is going to pay for them has gotten ugly....
Panel of Droids Discuss Liverpool and Barcelona's Prospects
Towards the end of the halftime break in Liverpool-Barcelona on Saturday, ESPN’s Ian Darke sent viewers from Wembley Stadium back to the studio, which sometime during the commercial break had moved to the Mos Eisley Cantina....
The Battle Over The Rangers' Ballpark Scam Has Officially Begun
It is not unreasonable, I don’t believe, to portray the pending fight over a new $1 billion stadium for the Texas Rangers as a proxy war—or at least a referendum—over the public financing of stadiums in America. Here is every variable that should make sports fans recoil in horror at the now-accepted...
Poll: Las Vegas Residents Don't Want Public Funds Used For An NFL Stadium
Las Vegas ABC station KTNV polled Clark County residents about whether or not they would want to pay $500 million in order to help build the Raiders an NFL stadium. Of the 750 people polled, 55 percent said they opposed spending half a billion dollars on a new stadium, while only 35 percent were in ...
Politician Who Cooked Up Horrid Braves Stadium Deal Gets Voted Out Of Office
As chairman of Cobb County, Tim Lee helped oversee the deal that put Cobb County taxpayers on the hook for almost half a billion dollars to finance the Braves’ new stadium. Not only has the new traffic nightmare of a ball park depleted the county’s public parks fund and ushered in a new wave of sini...
The Braves Are Going To Ridiculous Lengths To Squeeze Every Dime Out Of Cobb County
The Braves’ new stadium out in the suburbs of Cobb County—whose taxpayers are giving the team $400 million to build the traffic-clogging ballpark—is a textbook case in all the lies and exploitation at the heart of the modern public stadium financing scheme. Residents never got to vote on the use of ...
Quebec Taxpayers Spent Hundreds Of Millions On An NHL-Ready Arena And Didn't Get An NHL Team
The Videotron Centre was built with one goal in mind: to play host to the reborn Nordiques, because NHL expansion wasn’t going to consider Quebec City without a modern arena in place. Well, the arena exists, and Quebec City still isn’t getting an NHL team. Money well spent?...
Proposed Las Vegas Raiders Stadium Would Cost Taxpayers A Record $750 Million
Oakland lawmakers have stood firm, refusing to pay a dime in public money toward a new stadium for the Raiders. Because this is how things work now, rather than obtain private financing, or sell the team, or continue to play in the Coliseum, owner Mark Davis is waiting to be wooed by relocation opti...
"Unprecedented" Clause In Rangers Ballpark Deal Will Sneakily Cost Taxpayers A Few More Hundred Million Dollars
The Texas Rangers are getting a new stadium, because duh, who wants to play in an obsolete 22-year-old ballpark? The official announcement said the costs of the billion-dollar stadium will be split right down the middle. “The deal is 50-50,” Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams claimed. “The city would put...
Richard Sherman Is Fed Up With Publicly Funded Stadiums
Seahawks cornerback and all-around good-opinion-haver Richard Sherman was talking politics on the radio yesterday, in a mostly jokey interview where he said that if he were elected President, he’d tap Doug Baldwin as his Secretary of Defense because “he’s an angry guy.” But this part wasn’t jokey:...
The New Stadium For Hartford's Minor League Baseball Team Is A Total Mess
The Rockies’ AA affiliate Hartford Yard Goats are performing well enough in their first season, and sit in third place in the Eastern League, but the Connecticut club’s stadium situation is a different story. To make matters worse, the mayor and developers are blaming each other for the fiasco....