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October 25th, 2024 - 10:18 pm § in Misc.

Does Seattle have the worst baseball stadium? (video)

That makes two bad stadiums in a row, and I can already hear the haranguing: Tear it down and soak taxpayers for another billion dollars to build a new one. Shall we try for three? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

September 9th, 2024 - 3:34 am § in Misc.

Worst-ever baseball team plays to empty stadium

Chicago baseball fans must be boycotting the White Sox, because on August 28, 2024, the team played in a nearly empty stadium (video below). As of September 8, 2024, their won-loss record stands at 33-111, .229, which is worse than the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics’ 24-110, .235 season, the prev[...]

February 13th, 2022 - 2:47 am § in Misc.

The Superbowl stadium is a garish sport temple

It’s unlike any other stadium. Because it’s under the Los Angeles Airport flight path, it’s mostly underground, and fans climb down to their seats. The end zones are open to ocean breezes. The roof is a giant TV screen. It has a lake. But more than anything, it proves there’s[...]

May 9th, 2020 - 4:49 pm § in Misc.

How to fill a baseball stadium with fans in the age of coronavirus

The South Koreans nailed it. Read story here.        [...]

July 20th, 2015 - 10:16 am § in Jews, Misc.

Celebrating Jewish Survival in Hitler’s Stadium!

Jewish Olympics’ kick off at the Berlin amphitheater Hitler built Under watchful police guard, thousands of Jewish athletes from around the globe launch first European Maccabi Games in Berlin since World War II The opening ceremony of the European Maccabi Games in Berlin, a first since World War I[...]

September 20th, 2013 - 4:02 am § in Misc.

A Miracle At the New Husky Stadium

According to Bloomberg News:   The University of Washington had been playing football in horseshoe-shaped Husky Stadium since 1920. The vista from the 72,500-seat venue, the largest in the Pacific Northwest, includes Lake Washington, Mount Rainier and downtown Seattle.[...]

April 20th, 2012 - 4:17 am § in Misc.

If Husky Stadium is such a good idea, why not go all the way and create Husky University?

Defenders of the UW’s new 1/4 billion dollar football stadium (added to the 1 billion Seattle spent for Seahawks Stadium) claim that this public money is well spent because it creates construction jobs. I do not see how this can be true. There is a huge difference between spending public dolla[...]

April 13th, 2011 - 6:21 am § in Misc., UW

UW borrows 200 million to build stadium, Berkeley borrows 7 million to set up online classes

(Berkeley)  officials … said on Friday that finding enough outside support had been a challenge. The university has secured the option to borrow $7-million to help pay for the project and may spend $4-million to $7-million of that money over the next several years, he said. Meantime .. the UW[...]

November 24th, 2010 - 12:05 am § in Misc.

UW Faculty Council Chair Defends Stadium

Letter from William Rorabaugh (AAUP Listserv ay UW) Colleagues – A couple of points.  First, revenue bonds have long been used by UW to build facilities.  Parking structures are built with bonds to be paid off with future parking revenues.  The Med School K-Wing’s research space was b[...]

November 17th, 2024 - 2:21 am § in Misc., Politics, Republicans

Stupid governor brings tiger to football game

Who makes a tiger ride all the way from Florida to Louisiana, a trip of 704 miles (I looked it up), to pace in a cage before 100,000 screaming football fans? Louisiana’s stupid Republican governor that’s who. LSU discontinued this sordid practice years ago. The school owns a mascot tiger[...]