Monday, July 16, 2007

Top ten College Sports arenas

CNNSI has a photo essay of the top 10 college sports arenas and for the most part I agree with it, however the order I cannot agree with. The list was in order :
  1. The Rose Bowl
  2. Cameron Indoor Arena
  3. The Swamp
  4. The Big House
  5. Rosenblatt Stadium
  6. The Palestra
  7. Michie Stadium
  8. Mariucci Arena
  9. Charles River
  10. Allen Fieldhouse

Now as far as I am concerned seven of the ten belong two are maybes and one just does not belong at all. I am sorrry, but as beautiful as the Charles River is it is not a sports arena, it is a natural event. I refuse to classify anything that is not constructed by man as a sports arena, plain and simple. The Rose Bowl and Rosenblatt, while both impressive and having outstanding histories, just don't cut it, they are for the most part special events arena on the college scene, and I know those in so-cal would say other wise, but UCLA does not fill the stadium up when it plays home games there, with the exception of the USC game. So that leaves the other seven

  1. Cameron Indoor Arena
  2. The Swamp
  3. The Big House
  4. The Palestra
  5. Michie Stadium
  6. Mariucci Arena
  7. Allen Fieldhouse
and what other three places would I put on the list, well I would add LSU's stadium, Assembly Hall at Indiana, and Kyle Field, Memorial Stadium, or Nebraska's stadium, and possibly Reckling Park at Rice University as others.

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