The New York Rangers and Knicks opened their regular season schedules this week, giving fans willing to shell out for opening-night tickets — now averaging $72 for the Rangers, and a staggering $123 for the Knicks — the chance to … Continue reading
The National Hockey League season doesn’t start for another three weeks, but already hockey fans in Glendale, Ariz., are counting an unexpected victory. Four years after the Phoenix Coyotes went bankrupt and were taken over by the league, prompting endless … Continue reading
Over the last few years, Seattle has been the saddest place on earth to be a basketball fan. After a long battle over whether the city would lavish more than $200 million on renovations to KeyArena (which had just been … Continue reading
Ever since the Post’s Albany columnist Fred Dicker reported on Monday — based solely on two unnamed sources — that a deal for an MLS stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is “close to being wrapped up” and that construction “could … Continue reading
The indefatigable Norman Oder — at least, we’ve never seen him defatigued — reported yesterday on his Atlantic Yards Report that Brooklyn’s new Nets arena is about to get a “honking big” Barclays logo on its roof. This is normal … Continue reading
The week before last, rumors began cropping up that Major League Soccer’s long-running search for a place to put a new New York City team — a search that had circumnavigated the boroughs from Pier 40 in the West Village … Continue reading
Things have been mostly quiet on the New York Islanders arena front since their public vote for a new home in the 516 crashed and burned spectacularly last summer. That all changed yesterday afternoon, however, with the announcement that the … Continue reading
Now that the Yankees have built a new stadium and three new parking garages at tremendous expense (not all of it theirs), what do they need? Fewer parking garages! With the new ballfields intended to replace those bulldozed five years … Continue reading
My Nation article on why cities keep pursuing sports stadiums and arenas against all economic good sense is now out from under the paywall, so go and read it now! Especially if you’re, say, a member of the Los Angeles … Continue reading
Answer: Or what. So Nassau County held its vote on the $400 million New York Islanders arena plan yesterday, and for team owner Charles Wang things went about as well as … it’s tempting to say “as well as a … Continue reading