In November 2007, Brooks performed nine sold-out shows in Kansas City at the Sprint Center, which had opened a month prior.

Downtown, the center of the city, is currently undergoing major redevelopment with new condos, apartments, offices and The Power & Light District ( shopping / entertainment development ) complete with bars, restaurants, a grocery store with a roof-top pool club called The Jones, a performing arts center, and The Sprint Center.

The four Industrial art works atop the support towers of the Kansas City Convention Center ( Bartle Hall ) were once the subject of ridicule but now define the night skyline near the new Sprint Center along with One Kansas City Place ( the tallest office tower structure in Missouri ), the KCTV-Tower with its hundreds of lit bulbs ( the tallest freestanding structure in Missouri ), and the Liberty Memorial, a WWI memorial and museum, which flaunts simulated flames and smoke billowing into the night skyline.

It is anchored by the Sprint Center, a 19, 000 seat complex that has become a top draw for

Elton John was the first performer to play at the Sprint Center.

Men's basketball has been played at Sprint Center since March 2008, and women's basketball is played at Municipal Auditorium.

The Sting were to play in the Sprint Center, which was due to open in the Fall of 2007.

The Manhattan Institute does not disclose its corporate funding, but the Capital Research Center listed its contributors as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Exxon Mobil, Chase Manhattan, CIGNA, Sprint, Reliant Energy, Lincoln Financial Group Foundation, and Merrill Lynch.

NAIA headquarters near the Power and Light District and Sprint Center in Downtown Kansas City.

Within a few years of the Blades ' departure, plans started for what is now the Sprint Center in downtown Kansas City, which has led city officials to actively pursue a return to the NHL, speaking with several teams about possible relocation.

Its previous most recent tenant was the American Royal livestock show, which held its annual livestock show there until 2010, when it moved to the nearby Sprint Center.

Having been essentially supplanted by Sprint Center, according to a report by the Kansas City Business Journal on October 25, 2011 the arena will be razed and be replaced by an Agricultural Events Center which will include a 5, 000-seat coliseum.

With the opening of Sprint Center in 2007, Kansas moved its Kansas City games there.

In 2007, Sprint Center opened.

In July 2011, the American Royal announced that it was moving its rodeo -- the biggest event of the American Royal -- to Sprint Center, starting with the 2011 fall events.

The announcement noted Sprint Center would be a bigger performers to the event, leaving the Kemper Arena without any major events.

AEG operates The Sprint Center for the city of Kansas City, Missouri, and Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

AEG also manages the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri and the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut.

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In 2007, the Sprint Center opened in downtown Kansas City, with the goal of landing an NHL or NBA team.

Onchan Village Commissioners purchased farmland after World War II to build new homes and a recreation area with a large park containing a stadium with the first ever banked cycle track which was opened by Reg Harris, World Champion Sprint Cyclist and Britain's Sportsman of the Year, on 19 June 1951.

The speedway has hosted the Camping World Truck Series, Nationwide Series, IndyCar Series, and the Firestone Indy Lights Series since the track opened, but the track didn't receive a Sprint Cup Series event until 2011.

The speedway opened in 2001 and currently hosts NASCAR racing including the opening event in the 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Ground was broken for the $ 160 million facility on January 26, 2007, and it officially opened on May 11, 2010, with the inaugural class to be inducted the day following the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXVI.

Sprint Center opened to the public on October 10, 2007, and a concert on October 13, 2007 by Elton John was the first event held at the arena.

Sprint Center opened on time and on budget on October 10 at 10: 10 am.

She is also credited with the Sprint Center arena in Kansas City that opened on October 10, 2007.

She opened her campaign with a blistering win by four lengths in Waikato Sprint at Te Rapa ( defeating Ethereal, who was out-paced in her first run since the Melbourne Cup ).

Juan Pablo Montoya is the only other driver with wins in all 3 series, with an Indy 500 win ( 2000 ), 7 Formula One wins and 2 Sprint Cup wins ( 2007 and 2010 ).

Two-time Australian V8 Supercar Champion Marcos Ambrose has competed the Sprint Cup Series events since 2007.

Villeneuve racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in early 2008. In a subsequent interview with Autosport magazine, Villeneuve's manager Craig Pollock confirmed that Villeneuve's Formula One career was over It was announced on August 24, 2007 that Villeneuve would run the remaining seven races in the Craftsman Truck Series driving a Toyota Tundra for Bill Davis Racing and undertake a full-time Sprint Cup schedule in 2008.

In 2007, the Sprint Cup Series began racing with the Car of Tomorrow, a radically new specification different from the Nationwide Series.

As of 2007, ESPN no longer displays the actual name of the NASCAR Nationwide Series or Sprint Cup Series race during highlights of such ( Example: the " Allstate 400 at the Brickyard " was re-dubbed the " Brickyard 400 pres.

Montoya and his No. 42 crew went on to amass one win, three top-five and six top-10 finishes during the 2007 Sprint Cup season.

Montoya also earned the honor of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 2007 Rookie of the Year and finished 20th in series points.

He also won an owner title in the USAC National Sprint Car Series in 2007 and 2009 with Levi Jones of Olney, IL

The series is currently dominated by older drivers, most with Nationwide Series and Sprint Cup Series experience: in 2007, all ten Top 10 drivers were over 30 years of age, and 7 of the 10 had Cup experience, as did every race winner with the exception of Erik Darnell.

By December 26, 2007, Vonage was ordered to pay $ 80 million to Sprint Nextel and $ 39 million to AT & T.

In Series 10, Episode 07 of Top Gear ( airdate 25 November 2007 ), presenter Richard Hammond bought and drove a green Triumph Dolomite Sprint in the £ 1200 British Leyland cheap car challenge.

In January 2007, SOE announced that it has licensed rights from Midway Home Entertainment to develop and release six classic Midway games for PlayStation 3 Digital Download, including Mortal Kombat II, Gauntlet II, Joust, Rampage World Tour, Rampart, and Championship Sprint, which will be available from the PlayStation Store.

* Maryfield-won the 2007 Breeders ' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, voted 2007 American Champion Female Sprint Horse, inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2009.

As of March 2007, Logo is available on wireless platforms on Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and Helio.

Contrary to popular belief, foreign cars had competed in NASCAR competition in the early days of the sanctioning body ; indeed, a Jaguar won a NASCAR-sanctioned race in the Grand National division ( predecessor to the modern Sprint Cup Series ) at a road course in Linden, New Jersey in 1954, according to commentator Mike Joy, and the last foreign-made car to compete in a NASCAR-sanctioned event was an MG at one Grand National race in 1963 ( before Toyota entered the Nextel Cup Series at the beginning of the 2007 season.

Pegram also enjoyed success by winning the 2 million Breeders ' Cup Sprint at Monmouth Park in 2007 with Midnight Lute, whom trainer Bob Baffert stated was the best horse he'd ever brought to the Breeder's Cup.

On September 8, 2007, it was announced that Martin would share the 8 car with Aric Almirola in the 2008 Sprint Cup Series with sponsorship from the U. S. Army.

* Haydock Sprint Cup-( 2 )-Royal Applause ( 1997 ), Red Clubs ( 2007 )