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Under the lease, the university has year-round day-to-day management and operation responsibility for both the Coliseum and BMO Stadium properties. [21] USC's Vice President of Auxiliary Services is the Chief Operating Officer of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Coliseum employees are employees of the university. [13] [22]
The Veterans Memorial Coliseum (originally known as the Memorial Coliseum) is an indoor arena located in the oldest part of the Rose Quarter area in Portland, Oregon.The arena is the home of the Portland Winterhawks, a major junior ice hockey team, and was the original home of the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association.
The early 1920s saw four major collegiate venues open in the State of California: Stanford Stadium, the Rose Bowl, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and California Memorial Stadium. With the success of the California football program and the openings of the new football venues for Stanford and USC, the campus community was nearly unanimous in ...
Highlights of some of the major events held during 100 years of the Los Angeles Coliseum, from sporting to political, cultural and specialty events.
A crowd stands during a memorial service at the Coliseum for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 7, 1968, following his assassination in Memphis three days earlier. (Los Angeles Times)
Construction crews transform the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from a football stadium to host the Bush Light a quarter-mile short track NASCAR exhibition race. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
The Coliseum most recently hosted Sam Smith on his In The Lonely Hour Tour in the summer of 2015. The Phoenix Suns would also return to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum for a pre-season scrimmage on October 3, 2015, as a part of their "We Are PHX" movement, as well as unveiled signs commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Coliseum's existence ...
Memorial Stadium is a stadium on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, United States.The stadium, used primarily for football, is a memorial to the university's students who died in World War I; their names are engraved on the nearly 200 pillars surrounding the stadium's façade. [5]