stadiums
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This Is How You Quickly Plop An Olympic Swimming Pool Into A Basketball Stadium
Video: There are lots of professional sports venues that can be transformed to accommodate basketball and hockey, or baseball and football. But this timelapse video showing a temporary Olympic-sized, above-ground swimming pool being installed in a stadium in Omaha will make you angry at the six-foot inflatable kiddie pool your parents bought you as a…
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How Baseball Players Use Walk-Up Music Like A Performance Enhancing Drug
Angels’ Mike Trout likes Drake. The Nationals’ Bryce Harper opts for Sinatra. Some go with a feel-good ballad from an 80s band called The Outfield. At least a half-dozen players use “Turn Down for What.” This is the world of baseball “walk-up” music, the songs that blare through the stands as the batters of the…
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A Closer Look At The Retractable Roof Of A New Stadium
Remember when the Atlanta Falcons announced they’d be building a new stadium — using a boatload of public money — that would be crowned with a retractable roof? The architects of the $US1.2 billion project recently passed along a new fly-through of the design. And while it’s our best look yet at the structure, it…
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The Wobbling Stairs At This World Cup Stadium Look Ready To Collapse
Given that Brazil has spent around $US14 billion getting ready to host the 2014 World Cup, you’d think they’d have sufficient funds to install staircases that weren’t made of scaffolding. I mean, just look at those steps shake under the load of hundreds of futbol fans.