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Minnesota Twins Get New Home Away from the Dome

Posted: 22nd March 2010 by Collin Cooper in MLB
Next season the Minnesota Twins will finally have a place to call their own. After sharing the dreadful indoors at HHH Metrodome with the Vikings since 1982, the people of the Twin Cities finally had enough. Target Field broke ground just in the nick of time—before the US economy plunged. There was a lot of talk this was going to be a retractable roof stadium. In some cases, I am in favor ...

Cleveland Browns Stadium

Posted: 20th October 2009 by Collin Cooper in NFL
Home of the Cleveland Browns Opened in 1999 on the Cleveland Lake Shore Construction cost ran $283 Million Seating capacity is 73,200 Site on the site of the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium á Playing surface is Natural Grass Large enough to host international soccer matches City of Cleveland owns the Stadium (opted not to ink a naming rights deal) 10,644 seat Bleacher section behind the East End-zone is known as the Dog Pound Nearby: Restaurants û Bars û Hotels ...

Revoluntionary Stadiums

Posted: 22nd September 2009 by Collin Cooper in MLB, NFL
Every so often as fans we are treated to a new stadium that promises to changes the way we look at the sporting world. Last night the Cowboys ushered in their state of the art, ultra flashy new digs. But will Cowboys Stadium be the stadium in which all new NFL stadiums built from here on in will be compared against? Did we usher in a new era of stadiums? Harvard ...