Subject: Sprint Center

• A KC Councilman wants $30 million for Kemper Arena. What’s reality got to do with it?

  March 26, 2009

• On Second Life, the Sprint Center Goes Latino

  April 20, 2007

• With Covitz, Don't Believe What You Read

  May 8, 2007

• The New Sprint Rumor

  June 7, 2007

• Elton John to Open Sprint Center

  July 27, 2007

• The City's Sprint Center Partner Is Cheating On Us

  August 22, 2007

• Crankytown: Week in Review

  September 28, 2007

• Kansas City: So Smart

  October 5, 2007

• Van Halen at Sprint Center

  October 29, 2007

• The Star's Optimistic Ways

  December 5, 2007

• Coldplay Very Much Rescheduled

  June 10, 2008

• AEG Misses Yet Another Deadline

  August 15, 2008

• Neil Young at Sprint Center: POSTPONED

  October 8, 2008

• Concert Review: New Kids On the Block at Sprint Center

  November 12, 2008

• Phoenix Coyotes in financial trouble but not KC bound

  I'm not going to get my hopes up that the Phoenix Coyotes' financial troubles will lead the NHL franchise to the Sprint Center. The Coyotes may be looking for new owners or investors, but I'm not inclined to think they're an interstate jaunt away. Here's why: The team is under a 30-year lease with the city of Glendale. So KC sports reporters, save us the Kansas City Coyotes teases. -- Justin Kendall

  December 24, 2008

• How Suite It Is

  May 20, 2004

• Kauffman Center construction looks cool

  When the Sprint Center was going up downtown, it seemed like bloggers and others were keeping everyone updated with rooftop cameras and running commentary. I'm not hearing the same sort of buzz about construction of the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, which will be a much more dramatic building by the time it's done (if it ever actually gets done, but that's another story). Since it's basically across the street from Pitch headquarters, I decided to walk outside and take a few pictu

  February 25, 2009

• Bad news for poaching the New Orleans Hornets

  Hugo the HornetHugo the Hornet won't be riding his scooter to Kansas City. The NBA's New Orleans Hornets exceeded attendance and revenue benchmarks, which means the franchise won't need financial help from the state of Louisiana this year, the Associated Press reported today. That's bad news for AEG and the Sprint Center. The AP says:During last season, the Hornets negotiated changes to their arena lease with the state to include the potential for new "performance-based" subsidies as well as an

  March 12, 2009

• Incoming Concert Updates: Bone Thugs canceled, Crue on the way

  All-singin', all-rappin' Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are all-not-comin' after all to the Granada on April 24, apparently. We have as yet received no explanation for the cancellation. Refunds at point of purchase. But as if to make up for this tragic turn of events, the umlaut-sporting, scandal-rich, withered and wiry and still totally rockin' kings of glam metal Mötley Crüe are coming to the Sprint Center on August 9. Tickets go on sale this Saturday, March 21. VIP tickets hidden between Tommy Lee'

  March 19, 2009

• Rod Stewart Sprint Center Presale

  Infamous pop-rock nannygoat Rod Stewart is coming to Sprint Center on July 28. A special presale begins tomorrow. Here's the info. Presale Begins: Thurs. April 2 at 10:00 AM Presale Ends: Fri. April 3 at 10:00 PM Password: TONIGHT Public On Sale: Sat. April 4 at 10:00 AM Where do you get them?: Ticketmaster, duh. Since today's April Fool's, I'd like to take the opportunity to address a few rumors. 1. "Rod Stewart had a pint of semen pumped from his stomach." False. It passed through naturally

  April 1, 2009

• Photos: Britney Spears at Sprint Center, 4/2/09

  We were unable to get a reviewer into Britney Spears' Circus Tour stop yesterday at Sprint Center, but we did get photos (for the first three songs, at least). Click on the hot pole action below for images from the extravaganza. Nicole Reinertson

  April 3, 2009

• Letters from the week of May 10

  May 10, 2007

• Loyalty Catches On

  August 23, 2007

• Kay Barnes wants an empty arena? Not quite

  This isn't quite as it seems. Yes, The Atlantic did a story called "The Empty Arena" about the tenant-less Sprint Center. And yes, that's former Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes exclaiming, "I very much want one here." But my "Google News Alert" is a dirty liar. Barnes' quote appears out of context. She's actually saying that she still wants a professional basketball or hockey team to move to Kansas City's Sprint Center. Good story that will hopefully keep the pressure on AEG to get a team.

  April 14, 2009

• Tearing Up the Air

  January 8, 2009

• Tina Turner

  October 2, 2008

• Vicarious Fandom

  September 18, 2008

• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Steve Winwood

  July 17, 2008

• Monday Night Football

  March 20, 2008

• Goin' to Where?

  March 13, 2008

• High Times

  The brand-new McFadden's Sports Saloon already shows its wear and tear.

  February 28, 2008

• Surprisingly Good

  February 21, 2008

• Santa's KC Sleigh

  November 29, 2007

• Bracket Fix

  November 8, 2007

• Sprint Souvenirs

  Show your pride in KC's arena withthese T-shirts.

  October 18, 2007

• WWJD?

  September 13, 2007

• A Cold Day In ...

  January 18, 2007

• Mayor Reveals City Could Shell Out for Practice Facility

  January 11, 2007

• We're Pucked

  September 7, 2006

• One Big Dog

  August 31, 2006

• Long Shot

  Backwash, July 27

  August 10, 2006

• KC's NHL 21 watching Phoenix Coyotoes

  I was a little puzzled when I found this fax from NHL 21 on the machine this afternoon."NHL 21 is keenly aware of the Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy situation. We stand ready, willing and able to assist at the appropriate time with the future search for ownership of an NHL club member in Kansas City at Sprint Center, when so deemed appropriate by the NHL Board of Governors. Currently NHL 21 is focused on the LA Kings vs New York Islanders game at Sprint Center September 22 this coming fall," said Pa

  May 21, 2009

• Report: KC's elite hot for some NHL action

  As the Sprint Center gradually loses its new arena smell, the odds of Kansas City landing an NHL or NBA team seem more remote. But one booster is making sure that KC at least looks poised to snatch up the next hockey team willing to relocate.A weekly newspaper in Columbus, Ohio, The Other Paper, ran a story earlier this month suggesting that Kansas City was "the dame at the end of the bar ... making eyes at" the Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL. Delighted with the metaphor, the writer of the sto

  June 16, 2009

• Zoo Bar

  December 18, 2008

• Slide Show: The Jonas Bros. at Sprint Center

  Kevin, Nick and Joe Jonas, stars of the biggest boy band of the moment in America, returned to Sprint Center last night to strut before a sea of adoring fans. We did not send a reviewer, but we got some good, wholesome pics. (And if it's possible to just join someone else's family, I'd really like to be adopted by and/or adopt the family in photo No. 3.) Scott SpychalskiClick on photo for slide show.

  July 30, 2009

• Ice Off

  September 17, 2009

• New York Islanders sign 99-year lease, then threaten to move

  ​AEG president TIm Leiweke was right to downplay the rumors that the New York Islanders might get landlocked in Kansas City's Sprint Center. Not just because the Islanders weren't likely to skate into the Sprint Center. But maybe because Islanders owner Charles Wang is a little too unpredictable for Leiweke's taste (not to mention Wang's franchise sucks). Reuters reported today that the Islanders had inked a new deal with Nassau County to renovate the existing arena and signed a 99-year lease.

  October 2, 2009

• And now Paramore.

  ​ It's getting hard to keep track of all the cancellations/postponements of late. First of all, more on that Passion Pit thing. The Star's Tim Finn offers a thoughtful, firsthand account of yesterday evening's apparently averted fiasco: But it also seems reasonable for the venue to get a chance to remedy the situation, which is what the Beaumont/Back Yard did. The show went on and the stage was safe enough for the three other bands that played: Audiovox and the Roman Numerals, two loc

  October 2, 2009

• Concert Review: Kings of Leon at Sprint Center

  It was a cold, misty night in Kansas City. A mass of people descended on the glowing orb of the Sprint Center to see a Rock Band with a capital "R" play spacious rock epics inside said arena. The Rock Band in question gave a high-quality, by-the-book performance with no surprises that surely satisfied fans but might not have won over many new ones. Scott Spychalski​ Now a short background: Kings of Leon is made up of three evangelical preacher's sons and their cousin. They go by their mid

  October 14, 2009

• Reminder: Miami Heat vs. New Orleans Hornets at Sprint Center tonight

  ​If you read this morning's Kansas City Star, you wouldn't know that the Miami Heat and the New Orleans Hornets are playing tonight at the Sprint Center -- unless you saw the tiny ad on page three of the sports section. Two of the NBA's biggest stars -- Dwayne Wade and Chris Paul -- are in Kansas City and not even a tiny story on B9? Even with all of the local ties -- former KU stars Julian Wright and Mario Chalmers and Kansas State's Michael Beasley. Maybe I missed the story (I didn't). The S

  October 15, 2009