Can ANY city hosting major sporting events top THIS line-up??!!

[salsadancer7]

I cannot remember if a city has EVER hosted so many INTERNATIONAL sporting events with THE BEST players of their sport in a short period of time! In the next 3 weeks, the city of Miami will be hosting the following:

1) World Baseball Classic at Dolphins Stadium
- Teams ALREADY in: USA and Puerto Rico
- Teams more than likely to be in: Venezuela and Dominican Republic

2) CA Championships at Doral
- Players that will be particpating: Tiger Woods, Y.E. Yang, Davis Love III,
Segio Garcia, Phil Mickelson and Camilio Villegas....let's just say, anybody
who is anybody when it comes to the PGA.

3) 1st Round of the East/South Regional at American Airlines Area
- Teams yet to be determined

4) Sony - Ericsson OPen at Key Biscayne
- Players expected to play: Rafael Nidal, Andy Roddick, Roger Feder just to
to name a few. On the womens side, according to the official site listing,
EVERY SINGLE WOMAN ranked in the top 75 will play.....amazing!

I cannot imagine ANY CITY ever having a two week stretch hosting some many major sporting events at the same time.

 

[Ramy]

That sounds pretty tame to me.

 

[salsadancer7]

That sounds pretty tame to me.

Leave it up to you Ramy....!LMAO!

 

[Ramy]

Leave it up to you Ramy....!LMAO!

I forgot to put the in there.

 

[salsadancer7]

I forgot to put the in there.

No worries Ramy....I KNEW you were being you usual smartass self!

I will be attending ALL the games for the WBC...best birthday gift the wife has EVER given me. She is SO cool, that last night, I was working the picture-in-picture HEAVY between the game between Puerto Rico and the Netherlands and 24! She is a SO-SO fan of baseball and she knew I would be a little disappointed IF Puerto Rico did not win...so she was CHEERING Puerto Rico on FOR ME in the other room....how cool is THAT??!!

I will ALSO be attending FRIDAY'S round of the CA Championships. I was thinking of going on Thursday, but I could not get both days off from work.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

I didn't run in a two week stretch, but Detroit has hosted the MLB all-star game, the Ryder Cup, the Super Bowl and the NCAA BB regional final, and the Final Four (next month), in the last few years. I'd call that impressive also.

 

[HD MM]

I didn't run in a two week stretch, but Detroit has hosted the MLB all-star game, the Ryder Cup, the Super Bowl and the NCAA BB regional final, and the Final Four (next month), in the last few years. I'd call that impressive also.

Makes that Miami Sporting Event list look like chopped liver!

 

[Ramy]

I didn't run in a two week stretch, but Detroit has hosted the MLB all-star game, the Ryder Cup, the Super Bowl and the NCAA BB regional final, and the Final Four (next month), in the last few years. I'd call that impressive also.

I think he was referring to all of them going on at the same time though. Not in history.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

I admitted as much. Would be pretty hard to do all these events in Detroit in the same year. We don't have that many hotel rooms. Just blowing Detroit's horn, it's a little depressing around here lately, in case you haven't noticed.

 

[salsadancer7]

Makes that Miami Sporting Event list look like chopped liver!

It does....if we were talking withing 6 months to a year.

 

[HD MM]

In a 1 month span, Cleveland Ohio will host the following Sporting events. Miami, you've got nothing on us.......

• The 2009 NCAA MAC Basketball Tournament- Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• The 2009 Figure Skating Championship- Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• The 2009 Division III men's and women's cross country championships at Highland Park Golf Course, with Baldwin-Wallace College as the host school.
• The 2009 Division III women's volleyball championship at Cleveland State's Woodling Gym, hosted by John Carroll University.
• The 2010 Division III men's tennis championship at Oberlin College.
• The Eagles- In concert at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• Yani Live- In concert at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

In a 1 month span, Cleveland Ohio will host the following Sporting events. Miami, you've got nothing on us.......

• The 2009 NCAA MAC Basketball Tournament- Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• The 2009 Figure Skating Championship- Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• The 2009 Division III men's and women's cross country championships at Highland Park Golf Course, with Baldwin-Wallace College as the host school.
• The 2009 Division III women's volleyball championship at Cleveland State's Woodling Gym, hosted by John Carroll University.
• The 2010 Division III men's tennis championship at Oberlin College.
• The Eagles- In concert at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• Yani Live- In concert at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.

Which sport are the Eagles and Yani competing in? American Idol?

Who the hell wants to see Yani, anyhow? What is a Yani?

 

[meStevo]

I think those names look good on paper, but Nascar weekend probably brings in more people to some cities than all of those events combined I'd suspect.

 

[HD MM]

Which sport are the Eagles and Yani competing in? American Idol?

Who the hell wants to see Yani, anyhow? What is a Yani?

I have no idea Paul. I was just trying to compete with Salsa's, "Sony Ericsson Open"....

 

[Paul Wozniak]

That cross-country meet will have everybody on the edge of their seats!

 

[cybok0]

That cross-country meet will have everybody on the edge of their seats!

Paul I might be able to get tickets, you want to come, my treat.

 

[boomer69]

In a 1 month span, Cleveland Ohio will host the following Sporting events. Miami, you've got nothing on us.......

• The 2009 NCAA MAC Basketball Tournament- Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• The 2009 Figure Skating Championship- Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• The 2009 Division III men's and women's cross country championships at Highland Park Golf Course, with Baldwin-Wallace College as the host school.
  [*]The 2009 Division III women's volleyball championship at Cleveland State's Woodling Gym, hosted by John Carroll University.
  [*]The 2010 Division III men's tennis championship at Oberlin College.
  [*]The Eagles- In concert at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
  [*]Yani Live- In concert at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.

Yeah, those Division III championships are real powerhouses, thats for sure!!!...What, was Mt. Union all booked up that month???...


And since when are concerts (that are touring the whole country, BTW), considered sporting events???...

Uber-Homer strikes again!!!...

And if your looking for the biggest one day sporting event in the country, look no farther than right here in Indy every Memorial Day...The Indianapolis 500...The Greatest Spectacle in Racing!!!...

 

[salsadancer7]

In a 1 month span, Cleveland Ohio will host the following Sporting events. Miami, you've got nothing on us.......

• The 2009 NCAA MAC Basketball Tournament- Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• The 2009 Figure Skating Championship- Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• The 2009 Division III men's and women's cross country championships at Highland Park Golf Course, with Baldwin-Wallace College as the host school.
• The 2009 Division III women's volleyball championship at Cleveland State's Woodling Gym, hosted by John Carroll University.
• The 2010 Division III men's tennis championship at Oberlin College.
• The Eagles- In concert at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.
• Yani Live- In concert at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Ohio.

MAJOR sports....AND we are talking 2 weeks....

 

[Mr Tony]

The Humpty Dome in Minneapolis had the World Series, The Super Bowl & the NCAA Final 4 in less than 6 months back in 91/92

 

[Claude Greiner]

Detroit has a pretty impressive sports lineup of events... Just in 2006 alone we had 3 Major sporting events...

Superbowl................Febuary 2006
MLB Allstar Game.....July 2007
World Series.......... October 2006
NHL Stanley Cup.....June 2008

Plus you got the Ryder Cup, NCAA BB Regional Finals, and the Final Four