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The Arena Operating Company entered into a five-year, $ 900, 000 per year deal with then Houston-based Compaq Computer Corporation to change the name of the venue from The Summit to Compaq Center, keeping that name even after the acquisition of Compaq by Hewlett-Packard in 2002 ( there was another arena named the Compaq Center in San Jose, California around this time, but has since been renamed the HP Pavilion ).
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The length of the agreement was significant, because in 2003 the lease that Arena Operating Company held on Compaq Center would expire, and the tenants of the building were lobbying vigorously for the construction of a new downtown venue to replace the aging and undersized arena.
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Emerson opened the Led Zeppelin reunion / Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert at the O2 Arena in London on 10 December 2007, along with Chris Squire and Alan White ( Yes ) and Simon Kirke ( Bad Company / Free ).
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In September 2003, Gund announced that his Gund Arena Company would no longer operate the Rockers.
It was operated by the owner of the Arena Gardens, the Toronto Arena Company.
For the first season, 1917 – 18, the team operated without a formal organization separate from the Arena Company.
After the 1918-1919 season, the Arena Company was granted a permanent franchise in the NHL, which evolved into today's Toronto Maple Leafs.
To solve the problem, NHL president Frank Calder assigned the contracts of the Blueshirt players to a ' temporary ' Toronto franchise to be operated by the Toronto Arena Company, who also owned the Montreal Arena.
The Arena Company was given a year to resolve the dispute or lose the franchise.
The Arena Company did agree to compensate Livingstone for the use of the players for the season, although no suitable figure was ever reached, and the league itself disputed any claims that Livingstone had on the players.
In response, instead of returning the players to Livingstone, or even paying Livingstone, the Arena Company returned their temporary franchise to the NHL and immediately formed a new club, the Toronto Arena Hockey Club, popularly known as the Toronto Arenas, with auditor Hubert Vearncombe as president.
In 1935, Leo Dandurand, owner of the Montreal Canadiens sells the team to Canadian Arena Company, ( Ernest Savard, Louis Gelinas and Maurice Forget ) who also owned the Montreal Maroons for $ 165, 000.
This, along with the fact that both teams were owned by the Canadian Arena Company by 1935 ( Ernest Savard and Maurice Forget, who owned the Canadiens, were part of the Canadian Arena Company, as were Maroons owners James Strachan and Donat Raymond ) made it obvious that only one team could represent Montreal.
Arena is the home of Lake Louie Brewing Company, LLC, owned by Tom and Deann Porter.
The Toronto NHL franchise, since the NHL's founding in 1917, had been operated by the Arena Company, operators of the Arena Gardens in Toronto.
The Arena Company had been granted a temporary franchise for the 1917-18 season, and leased the players from the Toronto Blue Shirts from owner Eddie Livingstone while litigation was underway between Livingstone and the NHL.
However, instead of returning the players to Livingstone, the Arena Company formed the Toronto Arena Hockey Club, popularly known as the Toronto Arenas, with Arena Company auditor Hubert Vearncombe as team president.
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In 2012 Arena Motorsport entered 2 Ford Focus Mk3 in the World Touring Car Championship for Tom Chilton and James Nash.
The New Jersey Red Dogs entered the Arena Football League in 1997, along with the Nashville Kats and the New York CityHawks.
During the 2001 – 02 season, Sabres officials and the city of Buffalo entered the building to relocate some items from the main concourse of The Aud to HSBC Arena, including a sign for the " Pour Man's Aud Club " which was re-incarnated by popular demand.
Webster Bank entered into a 10-year $ 3. 5 million agreement with the City of Bridgeport for naming rights of the Arena on January 6, 2011.
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The 1994 PlayStation launch title Battle Arena Toshinden is credited for taking the genre into " true 3-D " due to its introduction of the sidestep maneuver, which IGN described as " one little move " that " changed the fighter forever.
Of the 7 af2 franchises which moved into the reorganized Arena Football League, only Iowa, Milwaukee, and Spokane remain in their original markets as of end of the 2012 AFL season.
The Thrashers take the puck into the offensive zone against the St. Louis Blues at Philips Arena on September 22, 2007.
Tomator then calls upon a robotic guard to send them into the Arena, which unfortunately falls short when a system failure happens.
Prior to the start of the 2007 – 08 season, the Blue Jackets organization brought a hand-made replica 1857 Napoleon cannon into Nationwide Arena.
Their elimination from the 1995 Stanley Cup playoffs in Game 4 of the second round marked the Canucks ' last game played at the Pacific Coliseum, as the team moved into the General Motors Place ( since renamed Rogers Arena ), a new $ 160 million arena situated in Downtown Vancouver, the following season.
The Stars played out of Reunion Arena from their relocation until 2001, when the team moved less than 1. 5 miles into the American Airlines Center.
The Stars would move into Reunion Arena, built in 1980, the downtown arena already occupied by the Dallas Mavericks.
However, the 1995 season also saw the only rainout in the history of the NHL, when the Guadalupe River flooded its banks in March 1995, making it impossible for anyone to get into the San Jose Arena for a game between the Sharks and the Red Wings .< ref >
For example, the video game The Elder Scrolls: Arena was originally intended to be a " medieval style gladiator game ", however due to feature creep the game quickly expanded into a very large open role-playing game, spawning several extremely successful sequels.
The U of L volleyball team used the Manual gym as its primary home from 1977 through 1990, after which the team moved into the newly-built Cardinal Arena on its own campus.
After the championship game, the league announced the expansion into Pittsburgh, a team later to be called the Bulls, who played at the Civic Arena, sporting the traditional Pittsburgh colors of black and gold, like the Steelers.
On April 17, 1994, Bonaduce stepped into the squared circle at the Rosemont Horizon ( Allstate Arena ).
Bruce Arena looked to match or surpass that feat in 2006 ; however, the U. S. team was drawn into a group of death with eventual Winners Italy and two other highly regarded teams in the Czech Republic and Ghana.
The Sting moved into the Bobcats ' new home, Time Warner Cable Arena, for the 2006 season.
Gullit was replaced by Bruce Arena, but he was not able to lead Los Angeles into a play-off spot, for the third-straight season.
During the 2000s, a new state-of-the-art library ( Hedberg Library ) and athletic center ( Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center ) have been opened, the old library was turned into the Clausen Center for World Business, and the former Physical Education Center was rebuilt and renamed the Tarble Arena.
The Coyotes moved into an arena of their own, Jobing. com Arena located in suburban Glendale for the 2003 – 04 NHL season.
Damage is also more realistic than in Quake III Arena, based on dividing the player target into discrete areas.
Originally, Urban Terror ( as a Quake III Arena mod ) used the PunkBuster anti-cheating technology built into Quake III Arena.
LJN, along with the Flying Edge and Arena Entertainment labels ( the latter two labels which published Acclaim's games to Sega's consoles ) were folded into Acclaim in 1994.
Then they moved into Telenor Arena, which had a capacity of 15, 000 people.
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