stadiums
Five Years After the Christchurch Earthquake, Lancaster Park Is Still Broken and Covered in Weeds
The city's sporting heart remains unusable amid insurance battles and indecision.
A Way of Life at Atlanta's Turner Field Is About to End
On October 2, the Braves will play their last game at Turner Field. Stadiumville's vendors won't follow the team to its new home 12 miles away.
How the NBA and NCAA's Favorite Folding Chair Gets Made
If you haven't sat in a Spec Seat, you've definitely seen them: they're the chairs celebrities like Beyoncé and athletes like LeBron James sit in courtside at most NBA arenas. We toured the Taiwanese factory where all the chairs are made.
How Moving the Raiders to Vegas Went from Completely Crazy to Crazy Like a Fox Overnight
For Nevada residents, throwing a billion dollars or more at Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis, the 22nd-richest man in the world, would represent a new pinnacle of sports-swindle insanity.
Inside the Bad Business of Baseball Stadiums
The spending of Major League Baseball teams isn't reasonable, at the preseason scale or even for the big league games. But if you're being reasonable about sports, you're doing it wrong.
The Diamondbacks Want Out of Chase Field, and Every Other Team Could Be Next
When every other team seems to have a newer, shinier stadium, owners whose buildings are barely of legal age may cry "state of the art," as the Arizona Diamondbacks did recently, and hope that taxpayers will pick up the bill.
The Creator of Personal Seat Licenses Hates Them As Much As You Do
Sports marketing executive Max Muhleman created the Personal Seat License. But the concept has strayed from the original idea. How did it get to be this way?
VICE Sports Q&A: The Security Expert Who Believes We Are Doing Stadium Security Wrong
International security expert Rafi Sela talks about the Paris attacks and what stadium security should look like going forward.
The New Chargers and Rams Stadium Promo Videos Are More Entertaining Than Watching the Chargers and Rams
Sea lions, mountains, oceans, luxury boxes, brewpubs, but not a lot of football in these videos. Probably a good thing since we're talking about the Chargers and Rams.
Afghanistan Wants to Build $270 Million Stadium, According to Dubious Report
Actually it sounds like a good way to stimulate the local economy and create jobs.
The Public Financing Proposal For The New St. Louis Rams Stadium Is A Scam
A FOIA request by St. Louis Magazine revealed a whole host of scummy dealings and one very bad deal in the campaign to build the Rams a new, tax-funded stadium.
Stadiums Are Still Closed to Women in Iran
In April, Iran announced that it would allow women to enter sports stadiums, reversing a ban in place since 1979. But women are still being barred from games, and there is still work to be done.