August 01, 2019
VOL. 34, No. 30
INGLEWOOD FOOTBALL STADIUM 75 PERCENT
THE CLIPPERS’ INGLEWOOD ARENA WILL BE BEAUTIFUL,
C O M F O R TA B L E A N D A B O U T B A S K E T B A L L
COMPLETE
By Francis Taylor, Asst. Publisher
The new Los Angeles football stadium in Inglewood is getting ready to open next year and NFL officials visited Tuesday to make sure it will be ready to host the Super Bowl in 2022. The construction site is a small city full of activity - some 3,000 workers every day building the new stadium. “We’ve been lucky to be in a number of new stadiums lately for the Super Bowl but this will take it to another level,” said Peter O’Reilly, executive vice president of NFL special events. Kevin Demoff, chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Rams, says “It’s been 30 years since Los Angeles last hosted a Super Bowl. This will be the largest tourist event in Southern California since 1984 Olympics.” NFL executives took a tour of this immense project that promises to be one of the premiere stadiums anywhere in the world. After it opens the L.A. stadium is poised to host not only the Super Bowl but Olympic events as well. Los Angeles Chargers chief of staff Fred Maas said: “This is more than just the football stadium 7
By Francis Taylor, Asst. Publisher
One day after introducing Kawhi Leonard and Paul George as his franchise’s two newest superstars, team owner Steve Ballmer excitedly shuffled through five oversized cardboard renderings as he unveiled designs for the LA Clippers’ proposed “billion-dollarplus” state-of-the-art, 18,500 seat arena
he plans to build in Inglewood. Perhaps it was fitting that Ballmer did this while in the “Blue Chips” conference room inside the Clippers’ downtown Los Angeles office. After all, Ballmer’s arena could be quite the recruiting chip for future free agents. The Clippers’ proposed new home would come complete with corporate headquarters, a team training facility de-
signed down to the detail of how many paces it takes a player to walk from the parking lot to the locker room to the home bench, a sports medicine clinic, community courts, and an area with a giant big screen for fans to watch games outside, a la Toronto’s Jurassic Park -- all located on 26 acres in Inglewood, California. 8 It will have to overcome
The incident was reported at 5:41 p.m. local time, with multiple ambulance units also responding, police said. Officers engaged with the shooting suspect within a minute of arriving, shoot-
ing and killing him. A law enforcement official said that authorities believe they’ve identified the dead shooter and are searching for that individuals potential 5
AT LEAST 3 KILLED, INCLUDING 6-YEAR-OLD, IN SHOOTING AT GARLIC FESTIVAL IN CALIFORNIA
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At least three people, plus a suspect, died after a shooting at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. !7 were injured as a result of the attack inflicted by an AK-47 style assault rifle.
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