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CBC
8 hours ago
- Sport
- CBC
'We're crossing our fingers': Elliot Lake hockey players, skaters prepare for another winter without home ice
While Elliot Lake hopes to re-open its arena this fall, some local clubs that have been waiting nearly two years for the rink to be ready may no longer exist. The only arena in the small northern Ontario city of 11,000 closed suddenly in September 2023, out of fears the roof of the wooden structure could collapse. Since then, the city has been working on repairs and raising millions of dollars to pay for them, including a $3 million donation that saw the Centennial Arena renamed the Rogers Arena. Elliot Lake also won $250,000 for coming first in the 2024 national Hockeyville contest. This week, city council heard that the earliest the arena will re-open is October. "At this point in time, it's evident that a September reopening of the facility really isn't something that's going to happen," said Bill Goulding, Elliot Lake's special projects manager. "However, I'm sitting in front of you not to propose a definite time in which it will [open]. I just tried to lay out what the situation is at the arena, what the next steps moving forward will be." Chantal Robert, the head coach of the Elliot Lake Skating Club, says for the past two winters they've been driving 45 minutes to the arena in Massey for practices, but the long hours on the road saw most of their skaters quit last season. "A lot of the families were tired of traveling, mostly the kids," she said. "It was becoming a struggle getting the kids to Massey, bringing them back. That hour and a half on the highway was really draining on the kids, not enjoying the sport as much as they used to." Robert says during the first winter without an arena, figure skaters used the ice at the Elliot Lake curling club, but she doesn't know if that will be possible this season and many of their former members have now switched to dance, swimming and other sports. "Either we're going to have to work super hard to rebuild the club, or unfortunately, and I don't want to say it, but it might be the end of figure skating in Elliot Lake," she said. "We're crossing our fingers, so we're just holding tight." The Elliot Lake Minor Hockey Association says it has booked ice time at the Massey arena for practices in September, still hoping to have the local arena back sometime this winter. The Elliot Lake Vikings junior hockey team also moved to Massey, as well as using the arenas in Blind River and Espanola, over the past two winters. But the club took a leave of absence from the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League in the middle of last season and has decided to also sit out the entire upcoming 2025-26 season.
CTV News
a day ago
- Sport
- CTV News
Elliot Lake arena may open this winter
While hopes for reopening this summer have been dashed, officials in Elliot Lake say repairs to its arena could be complete sometime in 2025-2026.
Bloomberg
3 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Dallas Mavericks Weigh Two Arena Sites Ahead of Cooper Flagg Era
The Dallas Mavericks are looking at two sites for a new arena and entertainment complex as the team prepares for its first season with Cooper Flagg, the top pick in this year's NBA draft. Both locations are within Dallas city limits and the franchise is aiming to choose one by early 2026, Chief Executive Officer Rick Welts said in an interview. The Mavericks are planning a development of as much as 40 acres (16 hectares) with hotels, restaurants and public space as they plan their future after their lease at the American Airlines Center in Dallas expires in 2031.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Spartacus: House of Ashur' Comic-Con trailer throws first female gladiator to the wolves
See Tenika Davis in action as Achillia, a gladiatrix. Welcome back to the arena. There have been some changes while you were gone. Spartacus: House of Ashur dropped its first trailer during Saturday's Comic-Con panel, showing off Nick E. Tarabay's return as Ashur and the introduction of the first female gladiator. Spartacus creator Steven DeKnight already gave Entertainment Weekly the inside scoop on how he settled on the concept for the show, which is a revisionist history that imagines what would've happened if Ashur didn't die on Mt. Vesuvius and instead took over the gladiator school from Batiatus (John Hannah). The trailer now shows Ashur, a former slave, struggling to be accepted by high society. So he decides to make his mark by introducing "a sight never before witnessed in the arena." Tenika Davis (Wrong Turn) debuts as Achillia, a gladiatrix, i.e. female gladiator. She becomes a spectacle in the gladiatorial matches, but first she, too, must fight for the respect of the male gladiators. The trailer shows her in action, performing acrobatic flips mid-air in the arena. "We wanted to bring in the female gladiators, but historically they didn't appear in ancient Rome until about 100 years later," DeKnight previously told EW. "This time around, Ashur upsets history and introduces the female gladiator 100 years early." On Achillia, the showrunner said, "She's just as driven, just as dangerous as the men. One of the things we wanted to do on this show is, of course, have all those great staples of the original — the sex, the intrigue, the violence, the complicated twists and turns — but also offering something new. One of those main pillars were the gladiatrices." The trailer also confirms Spartacus: House of Ashur will arrive on Starz this winter, though specific timing is still unknown. Tarabay, Davis, Graham McTavish (The Witcher), Jamaica Vaughan (Home and Away), Jordi Webber (Choose Love), and Jaime Slater (Jupiter's Legacy) all joined DeKnight for the Spartacus: House of Ashur Comic-Con panel. And although DeKnight told EW that Spartacus himself is still dead in the timeline of this successor show, Liam McIntyre, who played the role on the previous Vengeance and War of the Damned seasons of the original drama, returned to moderate the conversation. Watch the trailer above. Check out more of . Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
BBC News
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
New Bristol arena 'could have larger capacity of 20,000'
The group behind a massive new music venue planned for Bristol says it is now planning for a maximum capacity of 20, YTL Arena is being created inside a hangar on the old Filton Airfield, with the latest estimates saying it could open in plans suggested it would be able to hold 17,000 fans, with that later increased to 19, a statement YTL Arena Chief Executive Andrew Billingham said increasing the capacity beyond even those numbers is "really important". Plans for the arena in Filton were first announced in 2018, with it set to be the centre point of the Brabazon development, which will also include 6,500 huge scheme has been much delayed, with the developers - Malaysian-owned YTL - initially saying it could be open by expected opening has already been pushed back by six years, and the idea to increase capacity will now require new planning permission from South Gloucestershire Council. Andrew Billingham, Chief Executive of YTL Arena, said: "We want to attract the biggest artists and events to Bristol, so increasing the capacity to 20,000 is really important to us."We'll achieved this by maximising the size of the floor of what will be our standing area, where concertgoers will be stood on the very same concrete where Concorde was built."The Filton arena was promoted as a more affordable alternative to a previously council-backed scheme next to Bristol Temple Meads railway was first proposed in 2003, but building work never started, and while the plan was resurrected in the 2010s, former city mayor Marvin Rees scrapped the construction is yet to begin on the Filton arena, work on a railway station to bring concert-goers to the venue is under brand new station, North Filton, is set open as an unstaffed station in late 2026, though this is set to be enlarged later when the arena nears hundreds of people have already bought and moved into new homes as part of the development, and there are plans for schools, student accommodation and sports facilities.
