Category: News

Big Ten may cancel season as COVID pounds US

Article posted by Coliseum, August 11^th, 2020

In a historic move, the Big Ten is expected to cancel its Fall college football season as the coronavirus pandemic continues to take a heavy toll in the United States. “It’s done,” one high-ranking source in the Big Ten said on Monday afternoon. The Big Ten Conference is the oldest... » Read more

UK Govt’s financial teeth to Ricoh Arena

Article posted by Coliseum, August 11^th, 2020

The Ricoh Arena – a stadium in Coventry, England – has revealed further details of its plans to add to and enhance its conferencing and exhibition facilities ahead of the Commonwealth Games after receiving multi-million-pound Government funding. This is due to be the third time England will... » Read more

Camp Nou Stadium makeover not before 2025

Article posted by Coliseum, August 11^th, 2020

Jordi Moix, Commissioner of the Espai Barça project in Spain, has revealed that the expanded Camp Nou Stadium is not expected to open before 2025, with the disastrous COVID-19 pandemic to attribute partially for the delay. The Espai Barça project is a large-scale infrastructure redevelopment... » Read more

Springfield may get new sports complex

Article posted by Coliseum, August 11^th, 2020

A new sports complex could be coming to Springfield in Illinois, US. Right now, the plan is to potentially put a sports complex next to SCHEELS (the destination sporting goods store) on the south end of the city. The whole project would consume an estimated $65 million. The overview of this plan... » Read more

Indy 500 sans fans as COVID wallop on in US

Article posted by Coliseum, August 11^th, 2020

For the first time in its history, the Indy 500 will be hosted behind closed doors this month as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in US backtracked on plans to admit fans, while Major League Baseball (MLB) has also postponed its inaugural ‘Field of Dreams’ event due to COVID-19 which has... » Read more

It’s Mission Manchester arena for OVG

Article posted by Coliseum, August 10^th, 2020

Oak View Group (OVG) is on a mission mode and is determined to deliver a spiffy 23,500-capacity arena to Manchester (UK) residents. To justify its objective to build an arena in Manchester, OVG has released new research which it claims reaffirms the “latent demand” for a second major arena in... » Read more

Cheeseheads’ stadium roof work almost done!

Article posted by Coliseum, August 10^th, 2020

Work is continuing in full swing on the new roof of AFAS Stadion in Alkmaar, Netherlands. The new roof has been necessitated following the old roof caving in last year in August due to very strong winds. The old canopy collapsed onto the stands. Today, almost the entire old roof is gone, with the... » Read more