RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A top Democratic Virginia lawmaker vowed Wednesday to keep language enabling a proposed relocation by the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to Alexandria out of the state budget lawmakers will take up later this week. Sen. L. Louise Lucas, who chairs the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee and is […]
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, and Jakov Milatović, President of Montenegro, have had a meeting on the sidelines of the Ukraine-South-East Europe summit, which was held in Tirana, the capital of Albania, on 28 February. Source: the Office of the President of Ukraine, as reported by European Pravda Details: Zelenskyy thanked Milatović for providing shelter […]
Basketball Ireland has been asked to provide further information about its plans for a €35m redevelopment of the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght amid a number of concerns by South Dublin County Council including that the public were not adequately informed about the project. The local authority has asked the governing body of basketball in […]
Some students from Pittsburgh Public Schools got the opportunity to perform in front of thousands at PPG Paints Arena. Kids from Pittsburgh Faison and Pittsburgh Westinghouse took the stage with Lil Durk on Friday and Saturday. Videos posted by the district showed the kids performing his song “All My Life.” Lil Durk and the kids […]
WASHINGTON — The proposal to move the NHL’s Washington Capitals and the NBA’s Washington Wizards out of Washington has hit a snag in Virginia’s General Assembly. State Sen. Louise Lucas, chair of the state Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee, said Saturday she believed Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposal to move the sports teams out of […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A leading Democratic Virginia legislator said Monday that proposed legislation to help pave the way for the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to relocate to northern Virginia is dead, as far as she’s concerned. Sen. L. Louise Lucas, who holds great sway in the General Assembly as chair of […]
VIRGINIA (DC News Now) — The Virginia Senate Finance Committee was scheduled to vote on a bill that would help create an arena authority for the proposed development in Alexandria. Committee leaders said that they had pulled the bill from Monday’s docket. Senator Louise Lucas, the chair of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee, posted […]
Jan. 17—A bronze leg sculpture that went missing last week outside the Spokane Arena was recovered Wednesday in the area of Riverfront Park. The art piece, called Leap, is part of six bronze figures installed on a stairwell on the east side of the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in 1995 when the venue was constructed. […]
My first assignment (as a teacher) this past summer was at a Title 1 middle school in east Tulsa. Title 1 schools provide free breakfasts and lunches. On the first morning in the cafeteria, I saw kids throwing their disposable breakfast trays of untouched food into the trash, except for their chocolate milk. Apparently, the […]
Bayern Munich are to light up their Allianz Arena home in honour of Franz Beckenbauer. Former West Germany captain and manager Beckenbauer died on Sunday at the age of 78, prompting tributes throughout the world of football for the man known as ‘Der Kaiser’. Beckenbauer led Bayern to three successive European Cup triumphs during his […]
For 50 years, the Dome Arena in Henrietta was the quintessential multipurpose venue, hosting everything from rock concerts and sporting competitions to RV shows and high school graduation ceremonies. Now it has one purpose, and that purpose is pickleball. In November, after months of work, the Dome was rechristened the ROC Dome Pickleball Club, with […]
Plans have been lodged for a €35 million redevelopment of the National Basketball Arena in Dublin. It comes 30 years after the Tallaght venue first opened. Basketball Ireland said the plans would turn the arena into a new multi-sport and multi-use centre, doubling its capacity to 3,300. Pictured is (L-R) Sean Jenkins, Griffith College Éanna, […]