Ideal Steel, a Hispanic-owned company with manufacturing
facilities in Detroit, has been awarded the contract to
provide steel columns and beams for the new Tiger Stadium
(DETROIT NEWS, 5/8)....Turf troubles at Giants Stadium's are
examined by Bill Pennington on the front-page of the N.Y.
TIMES, who calls the story a tale "of machine malfunctions,
of a stadium trying to satisfy two professional football
teams and a soccer franchise and in the process balance
demands of soccer purists and pro football pragmatists" (N.Y.
TIMES, 5/8)....The NFL Cardinals, looking for investors in a
new stadium, have approached the Fort McDowell-Mohave-Apache
Indian Community to see whether the tribe is interested in
investing in the planned $650M stadium (AZ REPUBLIC, 5/8).
...The Bears have confirmed that if their new stadium is
built in the suburbs, the bill "almost certainly would have
to be footed privately." In a statement yesterday, the team
confirmed that they are in talks with Elk Grove Village,
outside of the city (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 5/8). Jay Leno, on a
new Bears stadium: "They say it's so expensive, they're
looking for ways to cut costs. I say, why install the end
zones? The Bears never use them anyway" (NBC, 5/7).
