David Beckham, after providing the American specialty of all hype and no substance, finally proved useful (on the soccer field) by scoring his first goal of the season yesterday. He also added an assist in the victory over the DC United at the LA Galaxy’s Home Depot Center. As much as I enjoy poking fun at Beckham, the goal itself was rather impressive.

Additionally, the usually stone-faced Victoria Beckham was absolutely ecstatic following the goal. Just kidding all she did was golf clap.

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After much anticipation, NCAA College Football stadiums are finally here - easily in time for the upcoming 2007-2008 season which begins on August 30, 2007.

Some notable stadiums include:

Ohio State
Michigan
Texas
Tennessee
Notre Dame
USC
Miami (FL)

Finally, get tickets for the NCAA 2007-2008 season here:

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I know this is a few days old, but it just has to be posted. The fact that he eventually got up and walked away from a 45 foot fall at the Staples Center is borderline unbelievable.

In the aftermath, Brown said he felt like he had been in a car accident and still felt, understandably, groggy.

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X Games 13 begins tonight at 9PM EST. While the two venues, STAPLES Center and The Home Depot Center, will continue to be the venues for X Games 13, there will be some changes to the locations of the events. Big Air, which has been traditionally held outside at both the STAPLES Center and The Home Depot Center, will now return to the STAPLES Center in an unprecedented indoor competition for Skateboard and BMX Freestyle Big Air. The vert ramp will be moved to The Home Depot Center for the Skateboard and BMX competitions. Fourteen hours of live programming on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will be offered as well as X Games 13 coverage on ESPN International, EXPN.com, ESPN Classic, ESPN360.com, SportsCenter and ESPN2’s X Center.

The annual X Games is the premier action sports event in the world and showcases more than 150 of the world’s top athletes competing in BMX Freestyle, Moto X, Skateboard and Surfing. Last year, more than 138,000 fans attended the competition at The Home Depot Center and STAPLES Center, an increase of nearly 13 percent over X Games 11 in 2005 while another 35.6 million fans tuned in on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC.

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Last Friday Whit Watson reported promising news for Orlando Magic fans:

““History will look back on this day in the same light as the day that Walt Disney announced he was building his theme park in Orlando.”

So said Alex Martins, the COO of the Orlando Magic, after Thursday night’s gut-wrenching 5-2 affirmative vote by the Orange County Commission. The plan, as we all know by now, is to tap into the county’s Tourism Development Tax, or TDT, to help fund a new downtown arena, a performing arts center, and a refurbishment of the aging Citrus Bowl. Total value of all three projects will escalate well north of $1 billion dollars, with a sizable chunk of that money coming from the hundreds of thousands of tourists who pass through central Florida each year.”

The move should help improve the Orlando downtown area considerably while increasing attendance and season ticket sales, which the Magic desperately need after handing their god awful Rashard Lewis signing.

Tickets
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Source
http://whitwatson.sunsportstv.com/2007/07/visions-and-venues.html

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The Major League Lacrosse (MLL) database is the newest addition to Stadium Hunt. Founded by Jake Steinfeld (yes, that Jake Steinfeld), Dave Morrow and Tim Robertson in 1999, the league’s first season began in June 2001. The MLL is made up of ten teams divided in to two conferences (Eastern and Western).

Notable fields include:

Harvard Stadium (Boston Cannons)
INVESCO Field (Denver Outlaws)
Harbin Field (Washington Bayhawks)

The MLL plans to add two more teams in 2008 to two of the following cites: Columbus, Cincinnati, Dallas, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis. In recent years, lacrosse has rapidly grown so it will be interesting to see how successful the MLL turns out to be.

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Stadium Hunt’s first international stadiums: International Golf and International Soccer are the most recent additions to the SH database. These additions push our total amount of stadiums/golf courses/racetracks/venues to over 1200.

International Golf includes courses from Ireland, England Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and numerous other countries around the world. Notable courses include:

Royal County Down
Muirfield
Royal Birkdale
Loch Lamond
Catalunya

International Soccer includes fields primarily located in Europe. Soccer fields of note include:

White Hart Lane
City of Manchester Stadium
Amsterdam Arena
De Kuip

Some smaller database additions should be appearing in the near future so stay tuned.

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On Monday, our orange friend, Donald Trump, decided to purchase the Running Horse golf course for $30 million. Originally, Running Horse was supposed to be the site of a stop on this fall’s PGA tour; however, in early June the PGA announced that it was moving that stop to Port St. Lucie, Florida due to the Running Horse developers failing to meet PGA deadlines. Running Horse’s bankruptcy status not only also contributed to the PGA’s decision to take the course over the tour but also led to the course selling at a discount. Luckily, Trump knows a lot about bankruptcy so the course should be hosing over shareholders within a year or two.

To finance the purchase Trump plans on continuing to overstate the value of his real estate (to obtain more loans) while introducing the Trump Peanut Butter, Trump Computer Paper and Trump Prune Juice product lines. Ok, I’m kidding about the last part.

Source: http://www.kmph.com/news/local/8529992.html

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