Tag Archives: Stadiums
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MLB Ballpark Rankings: The Best Places to Catch a Game in 2013
The 2013 Major League Baseball season is officially underway, and the last round of Home Openers will be played today. However, we all know the season doesn’t really heat up until the end of May or so. That means you’ve still got plenty of time to plan some summer road trips to some of the [...]
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9 Worst Places To Watch An NHL Game
With the NHL season at its midway point, it is a good time to step back and take stock of what we’ve seen so far. And while a lot of pundits have focused their mid-season reviews on the top plays, how teams have performed (who are the big surprises?), and the state of the game [...]
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12 Weirdest Stadium Malfunctions
If you happened to be watching the Monday Night Football game between the 49ers and Steelers the other day, then you were treated to a bizarre spectacle. Early in the second quarter, with the home team up 6-0, all the lights went out at Candlestick Park. Personally, after the brawls that occurred at Candlestick during [...]
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11 Most Expensive Stadiums In The World
For a long time, stadiums were all function and no form. All any team was trying to do was fit as many paying customers as possible around the field of play. If you had asked the designers of Wrigley Field, for example, what “amenities” they planned to include in the stadium, they might have said, [...]
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13 Best Places To Watch College Football
Any fan of football has to admit that, if you want to understand the soul or essence of the sport, you’ve got to start with college football. Don’t get me wrong, I love the NFL. They obviously have the better on-field product and, frankly, I’m really an NFL guy at heart. But when it comes [...]
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9 Historic Sports Sites That Should Never Be Torn Down
Yesterday, we did a list of 9 old stadiums that just have to go. Today, we have for you, the companion to that list: 9 historic sports sites that should never be torn down. These are those special atmospheric places where sports history was made, places which have come to embody the essence of the [...]
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9 Older Stadiums That Need To Go
For any huge sports fan, the stadium his or her team plays in, even if brand new, should be a of kind of shrine to legendary accomplishments, players, and memories. Unfortunately, some stadiums aren’t up to the task. Rather than serving as monuments to past achievements or future hopes, a handful of run-down stadiums suck [...]
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9 Best NBA Arenas to Watch a Playoff Game
This is/was a more difficult to assemble than those for baseball, football or even hockey. Though crowd plays a big role in the performance of a home team, NBA action is largely bird’s-eye. So on TV, the casual observer, or even the astute one, won’t really distinguish one from the other. Even fan noise is [...]
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9 Reasons Watching the Game at a Sports Bar is Better Than at the Stadium
A debate that’s getting more and more heated as technology gets better is the old battle between going to the game in person or watching at a sports bar. Unless it’s a monumental game, I’m going to the bar every time. The electricity isn’t quite the same, but all the peripheral benefits are much, much [...]
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Picture Of The Day: Who’s Got It?
Where’s Steve Bartman when you need a foul ball grabbed cleanly? Or why can’t these guys be as sweet as this guy? Seriously, look at the faces of these two athletes. The one on the left looks like a crying baby and the one on the right just looks like he completely whiffed on snagging [...]
