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FC Barcelona Plans To Install $193K Heating System For Grass At Camp Nou Stadium05 / 17 / 13La Liga Champion Barcelona is planning nearly $2.5M in upgrades to its facilities during the offseason. As it does "every season, the club will replace Camp Nou stadium's grass field, but this year it will also install a heating system that the technicians consider the best solution," accordin... Tags: Europe, Facilities |
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No Camp Nou Decision In Near Future
FC Barcelona VP of Finance Xavier Fraus revealed that any decision on the future of the Camp Nou stadium "will come during the '14-15 season at the earliest," according to AS. Fraus explained that the remodeling of the Camp Nou would cost €300M ($389.7M) and a completely new stadium, around &eu ...
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Sale Sharks Working On Easing Traffic
Aviva Premiership Sale Sharks Rugby Exec Dir Steve Diamond revealed that the club is doing everything it can to "try to ease the traffic congestion," which marred the Sharks’ opening Premiership game at their new Barton ground against Saracens, according to Neil Leigh of the MANCHESTER EVENING ...
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Boca Juniors Gets Wi-Fi Connection
Argentinian football club Boca Juniors' 2-1 victory on Sunday over Independiente "marked the launch of a Wi-Fi Internet connection in the stadium," according to MAQUINADOESPORTE.com. The project was launched through a new partnership with Internet service provider company Fibertel. The stadium is no ...
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Anschutz Puts AEG On The Market
AEG has been “put up for sale, a move that could reshape the face of sports ownership in Southern California,” according to Hamilton & Vincent of the L.A. TIMES. The Anschutz Co. announced that it is “seeking a buyer for its AEG subsidiary,” which “owns and manages ...
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Dispute Over Olympic Stadium's Lights
EPL West Ham United will try to retain London Olympic Stadium’s triangular floodlight structures despite "plans to remove the arena’s most distinctive feature being considered by London Mayor Boris Johnson," according to Paul Kelso of the London TELEGRAPH. The floodlights, a "landmark of ...
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Newbury Housing Deal Boosts Racecourse
Work will begin in a few months on the first houses with "a ringside view" of a British racecourse after Newbury "completed a redevelopment deal," according to Will Hayler of the London GUARDIAN. The deal will see the track paid £42.6M ($55.6M) over 10 years for the sale of three areas of land ...
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Rain Jackets For Football Fans
Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen "ordered 15,000 rain jackets for its fans" because the stadium's roof is "quite holey," according to Kolsberger & Vom Land of BILD. The remodeling of the BayArena "was supposed to be completed more than two weeks ago" ahead of the team's first home game against S ...
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Golf Courses Complete In China, Russia
Design firm Schmidt-Curley has finished a complete remodel of Nanlihu Golf Club on Hainan Island in China, according to GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTURE. Originally designed by Taiwanese architect Wang Zong Qian, Nanlihu is located 45 minutes south of the capital city of Haikou, and sits next to the Nanli L ...
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Murray Plans To Fund Tennis Academy
U.S. Open champion Andy Murray is "prepared to help fund a tennis academy on an earmarked site in Edinburgh, Scotland" according to the HERALD SCOTLAND. The 25-year-old and his mother were involved in talks with First Minister Alex Salmond "after the player’s emotional homecoming to Dunblane o ...
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Roof Makes Kicking Difficult
A Wellington, New Zealand scientist said that Dunedin's "house of horrors," the Forsyth Barr Stadium, "will continue to haunt visiting goalkickers as long as it remains under a roof," according to Mark Geenty of DOMINION POST. Scientist Brian Wilkins, who has written books on how atmospheric conditi ...
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