Month: March 2020


Ulster Rugby loosen purse strings for venue upgrade

Ulster Rugby - Kingspan Stadium

Following a six-figure investment by Ulster Rugby – one of the four professional provincial rugby teams from the island of Ireland – fans will now enjoy a range of futuristic facilities at Kingspan Stadium. Kingspan Stadium is the home ground of Ulster Rugby and sits at Belfast in Northern... » Read more


Lightning owner launches new business verticals

Tampa Bay Lightning - Vinik Sports Group

Jeff Vinik, the Chairman and Governor of the professional ice hockey team based at Tampa, Florida, in the US – Tampa Bay Lightning – has set in motion a new sports and entertainment firm that will serve as the parent company of the National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey franchise and the... » Read more


Stade de France consortium bite the dust in legal battle

Stade de France

The highest tribunal in France has refused to grant the consortium running Stade de France – the national stadium of France, located just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis – claiming damages of almost €7.5 million due to the hosting of Euro 2016. With this, the Council of State... » Read more


Bolton Wanderers’ roller-coaster ride continues

Bolton Wanderers Macron Stadium

Bolton Wanderers Football Club – a professional football club in Bolton, England – is facing a bleak future. With a very low turnout – under 40 percent of nominal capacity, Bolton Wanderers were considering disabling the upper tiers of their home ground – University of Bolton... » Read more


Trump inaugurates world’s largest cricket facility in India

India Motera Stadium

Motera Stadium in India – the world’s largest cricket stadium – was dedicated to the nation jointly by the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, and the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, on February 24, 2020. The price tag of the state-of-the-art arena is Rs 700... » Read more


Tender floated for new athletics facility in Budapest

Budapest 2nd big new stadium

Construction tender has been floated recently for the new multipurpose athletics stadium at Budapest in Hungary. Entries are welcomed until March 18, 2020. The proposed track and field stadium – The National Athletics Centre – will be built to host the 2023 World Athletics Championships,... » Read more


Jockey Club’s grandiose plans for horse racing extraordinaire

Aintree Racecourse - The Jockey Club

The Jockey Club – the largest commercial horse racing organization in the United Kingdom – has unfolded plans of new and redecorated facilities for the 2020 Randox Health Grand National Festival at Aintree Racecourse in England. The three-day festival begins on April 2, 2020 and will run... » Read more


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