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/ October 19, 2026
Charlotte Coliseum opened on August 11, 1988, as a $52 million, state-of-the-art home for the expansion Charlotte Hornets, and for a stretch it was the largest arena in the country built primarily for NBA basketball. Fans packed in by the tens of thousands, turning the…
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/ October 19, 2026
The Hartford Civic Center opened its doors on January 9, 1975, as the centerpiece of a downtown Hartford revitalization project that also included a mall, convention space, and a hotel. It quickly became home to the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association, who…
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/ October 19, 2026
Jeppesen Stadium began life as Public School Stadium, opening on September 18, 1942, as a 14,500-seat venue built by the Houston Independent School District with help from the Works Progress Administration. In 1958 the district renamed it Jeppesen Stadium in honor of school board member…
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/ October 19, 2026
Pitt Stadium stood on Terrace Street in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood from 1925 until 1999, serving as the home field for University of Pittsburgh football across nearly eight decades of program history. Designed by Pitt graduate W. S. Hindman and built for about $2.1 million, the…
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/ October 19, 2026
Edward Jones Dome was the name carried by downtown St. Louis’s domed stadium from 2002 to 2016, during the heart of the building’s run as home to the NFL’s St. Louis Rams. Opened in 1995 as the Trans World Dome, the venue took on the…
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/ October 19, 2026
Shaw Stadium is a 4,000-seat football venue in East Cleveland, Ohio, serving as the home field for the Shaw High School Cardinals. The original stadium opened in 1923 and stood for nearly a century before being condemned and demolished in March 2021, then rebuilt on…
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/ October 19, 2026
Wisconsin State Fair Park is a fairgrounds and exhibition complex in West Allis, Wisconsin, just west of Milwaukee, that has hosted the Wisconsin State Fair since 1892. Long before it became known chiefly for the Milwaukee Mile speedway and the Pettit National Ice Center, its…
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/ October 19, 2026
City Stadium is a municipally owned athletic venue at 3201 Maplewood Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, built in 1929 just south of the city’s Carytown district. For decades it served as the home field for University of Richmond football before the Spiders moved on in 2009…
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/ October 19, 2026
Bellevue Park was a wooden stadium built in the spring of 1923 in Preble, Wisconsin, a community later absorbed into Green Bay. Constructed in roughly three weeks using lumber salvaged from the recently demolished Hagemeister Park, the field was designed primarily for baseball and sat…
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/ October 19, 2026
Universal Stadium opened in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1928, built with private funding after local bond measures to pay for a stadium repeatedly failed. Its wooden stands and concrete box seats were raised specifically to give the city’s semi-pro football ambitions a proper home, and within…
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/ October 19, 2026
Nippert Stadium sits on the University of Cincinnati campus on a playing field, known as Carson Field, that has hosted football continuously since 1901, making it one of the oldest football sites in the country still in use. The current brick-and-concrete stadium was dedicated in…
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/ October 19, 2026
Normal Park was a modest football and baseball field on Chicago’s South Side that played an outsized role in NFL history. Tucked into a city block bounded by South Racine Avenue, South Throop Street, and West 61st and 62nd Streets, the grounds operated from roughly…
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/ October 19, 2026
Frank Youell Field was a 22,000-seat football stadium built in 1962 at 900 Fallon Street in Oakland, California, right next to the channel connecting Lake Merritt to the Oakland Estuary. The city built it as a stopgap venue, at a cost of about $400,000, while…
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/ October 19, 2026
Pandemonium is a steel spinning roller coaster at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts. It opened on April 16, 2005 as “Mr. Six’s Pandemonium,” a nod to the park chain’s quirky ad-campaign mascot, before being simplified to just Pandemonium once that branding was retired…
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/ October 19, 2026
Gotham City Gauntlet: Escape from Arkham Asylum is a steel wild mouse roller coaster at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts. It opened to guests on April 16, 2011, giving the park its tenth coaster and wrapping riders in a Batman villain storyline as…
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/ October 18, 2026
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular is the long-running holiday stage show starring the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. First staged on December 21, 1933, just a year after the Music Hall itself opened, it has grown into one of the…
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/ October 18, 2026
InfoCision Stadium–Summa Field is the on-campus football stadium at the University of Akron, built to give the Akron Zips a true home-field advantage after decades of playing miles away from campus. The venue opened on September 12, 2009, with a sold-out crowd watching Akron defeat…
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/ October 18, 2026
GEODIS Park opened on May 1, 2022, as the new home of Major League Soccer’s Nashville SC, rising on the grounds of the historic Nashville Fairgrounds just south of downtown. Designed by the sports architecture firm Populous, the venue was built specifically for soccer, giving…
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/ October 18, 2026
Waldo Stadium has been the home of Western Michigan University football since October 7, 1939, when the Broncos opened the venue with a 6-0 win over Miami University. Named for Dwight B. Waldo, the school’s first president, the stadium sits at 1903 West Michigan Avenue…
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/ October 18, 2026
Potawatomi Zoo sits inside Potawatomi Park on the east side of South Bend, Indiana, tucked between the St. Joseph River and the Grand Trunk railroad line. Founded in 1921 after Studebaker Corporation president Albert Russell Erskine donated a single deer to the city park board…
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