August 31, 2007
The RBC Center (originally the Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena) is an indoor arena located in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is home to the Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL and the North Carolina State University Wolfpack men’s basketball team of NCAA Division I. The arena also hosted the Carolina Cobras of the Arena Football League from 2000 to 2002. The arena neighbors Carter-Finley Stadium, home of Wolfpack Football; the North Carolina State Fairgrounds; and Dorton Arena (on the Fairgrounds).
The arena seats 19,722 for basketball or 18,730 for ice hockey, including 75 luxury suites and 2,000 club seats. The building has three concourses, and includes a 500-seat restaurant.
The idea of a new basketball arena first emerged in the 1980s under the vision of Wolfpack coach Jim Valvano. In 1989, the NCSU Trustees approved plans to build a 23,000 seat arena. The Centennial Authority was created by the NC Legislature in 1995 as the governing entity of the arena, then financed by state appropriation, local contributions, and University fundraising. The Centennial Authority refocused the project into a multi-use arena, leading to the 1997 relocation agreement of the Hurricanes (then the Hartford Whalers). Construction began that year and was completed in 1999 at a cost of $158 million, which was largely publicly financed by a Hotel and Restaurant tax. The Hurricanes agreed to pay $20 million of the cost, and the state of North Carolina paid $18 million.
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August 30, 2007
Estádio Frédis Saldivar, commonly known as Douradão, is a multi-use stadium in Dourados, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 30,000. It was built in 1986.
Douradão is owned by the Mato Grosso do Sul state government and by the Dourados City Hall. The stadium is named after Frédis Saldivar, who donated the groundplot where the stadium was built.
In 1986, the works on Douradão were completed. The inaugural match was played on April 12 of that year, when Ubiratan beat Mixto 4-2. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Ubiratan’s Ademir Patrício.
The stadium’s attendance record currently stands at 18,780, set on July 17, 1988 when Ubiratan and Operário de Dourados drew 1-1.
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Capacity: 45.522
Club: Liverpool FC
Address: Anfield Road, Liverpool, L4 0TH
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Estadio Corregidora is one of the newest Mexican stadiums.
This facility has a capacity of nearly 40,000 seats and is located in the outskirts of the city of Querétaro (90 miles north Mexico City). This sport facility is used mostly for football (soccer) games. It is the home of the team Queretaro_FC, a club that mainly has been in the second soccer division. This stadium hosted the Football World Cup 1986.
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August 28, 2007
Ameriquest Field in Arlington is a baseball stadium located in Arlington, Texas, located between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. It was known until May 2004 as The Ballpark in Arlington when Ameriquest bought the naming rights to the stadium. It was constructed as a replacement for nearby Arlington Stadium.
The stadium is home to the Major League Baseball team, the Texas Rangers, and the Legends of the Game Baseball Museum.
History
Funding was approved for a new home for the Texas Rangers in 1991 by the City of Arlington. Construction began on April 2, 1992 a short distance away from Arlington Stadium, the ballpark it would replace, and the new Ballpark in Arlington was opened on April 1, 1994 in an exhibition contest between the Texas Rangers and the New York Mets. The first official game was on April 11 against the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Tehelné pole is a the (informal) name of a city quarter in Bratislava, Slovakia characterized by the presence of several sports facilities.
Tehelné pole is also the usual name of the football stadium being home ground of Slovan Bratislava and the regular home for the Slovakia national team in this quarter. The stadium has a capacity of 31,605 spectators. In 2005-06, it was also used as the “home” ground for Artmedia Bratislava in that club’s Champions League and UEFA Cup campaigns, as Artmedia’s own ground does not meet minimum standards for UEFA competition.
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The Hungaroring is a Formula One race-track near Budapest, Hungary, location of the Hungarian Grand Prix. It became the location for the first Formula 1 Grand Prix behind the Iron Curtain in 1986.
Hot and dusty: those are the keywords for the Hungaroring. Held in the middle of a central European summer, it is the only established circuit in the Grand Prix calendar never to have seen a wet race. The circuit is generally dusty due to underuse throughout the season, and this dustiness is heightened by the circuit’s location in a valley near Budapest, attracting dust and litter from the city. Its location on sandy soil also means that if a car drops a wheel off the track, it kicks up massive clouds of dust.
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August 26, 2007
Aloha Stadium is a stadium located in Honolulu, (Hawaii). Currently Aloha Stadium is home to the University of Hawai’i Warrior football team (Western Athletic Conference, NCAA Division I-A). Since 1980 it has also been the site of the National Football League’s Pro Bowl. It also hosts numerous high school football games during the season, and serves as a venue for large concerts and events. A swap meet in the stadium’s parking lot every weekend draws large crowds. Aloha Stadium once served as home field for the AAA Hawaii Islanders of the Pacific Coast League from 1975 to 1987 before the team moved to Colorado Springs.
Aloha Stadium can be reconfigured into various configurations for different sport venues and other purposes, and is the first stadium in the United States with this capability. Four movable sections, each 3.5 million tons and with a capacity of 7,000, can move using air cushions into a diamond configuration for baseball (also used for soccer), an oval for football, or a triangle for concerts. However, as of 2006, the Aloha Stadium Authority (the board which manages the stadium) was debating whether or not to permanently lock the stadium in either the football or baseball configuration, citing the high costs of maintaining the equipment used to move the stadium sections.
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Hiroshima Big Arch is located in Hiroshima, Japan. It is used by Sanfrecce Hiroshima. It has a capacity of 45,000. It was built in 1993. It is an all-seater.
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