Category: News

USL goes into venue construction overdrive

Article posted by Coliseum, February 9^th, 2021

A financing plan for the Pawtucket Tidewater Landing development project was recently given the thumbs-up by the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation Board of Directors. A new soccer-specific stadium which will be the future digs of a United Soccer League (USL) Championship club will serve as the main... » Read more

Philips Stadion unused space gets tech leg-up

Article posted by Coliseum, February 9^th, 2021

The sports club from Eindhoven (Netherlands) – PSV Eindhoven – has added more teeth to its audiovisual (AV) technology with the help of Philips professional displays in its residence – Philips Stadion. As a result of it, a luxury match-day suite inside the facility has been... » Read more

MLB 2021 season on time as union stand ground

Article posted by Coliseum, February 9^th, 2021

The 2021 Major League Baseball (MLB) season will start on schedule – on April 1st, 2021, and will go in for the full 162 games. A decision to this effect was taken after the MLB Players’ Association put its foot down as regards the management bid to delay and abbreviate the upcoming... » Read more

It’s ‘music’ to the ears for Kiwis

Article posted by Coliseum, February 8^th, 2021

‘If music be the food of love play on’ – Shakespeare’s famous line from ‘Twelfth Night’ will hold true for Eden Park, New Zealand’s largest sports stadium at capital Auckland, where music will henceforth play on for six concerts in a year, with concomitant surge in revenue, as the... » Read more

Chelsea Creates ode to ‘The Blues’

Article posted by Coliseum, February 8^th, 2021

The English professional football club Chelsea F.C. recently launched Chelsea Creates, the club’s new series celebrating London’s most exciting new talent. Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, London. Founded in 1905, the club competes in the Premier... » Read more

New York numero uno sports City on the trot

Article posted by Coliseum, February 8^th, 2021

A global ranking of event hosts has named New York (US) as the world’s leading sports city on the trot. This is the second consecutive year that New York has attained the numero uno position. In Burson Cohn & Wolfe’s (BCW) annual ‘Ranking of Sports Cities’, the US City pipped London... » Read more

Row over German firm’s vaccination clause

Article posted by Coliseum, February 8^th, 2021

The German company Eventim announcing that it will only sell tickets to people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 has stirred up a hornets’ nest. A heated discussion broke out on the social media platforms. eventim sources stated that German singer-songwriter Nena left a hard-hitting... » Read more