Sprinting to the New Arena

Kansas City's new 18,500 seat arena, the Sprint Center, is opening in 75 days and they just recently announced the first event to be held there is…

…drum roll please…

…an Elton John concert!

Wha?

So right now we have Arena Football and Elton John. Hmm… that's not exactly what we were hoping for. Deals with teams from the NBA and NHL have apparently fallen through. The most stunning news came from the Seattle SuperSonics owner, Clay Bennett, saying that if he relocated his team he would move to Oklahoma City and not KC. Ouch!

Oh, we also get four shows of Disney on Ice. You can't leave that out.

Long term though, we have the CBE Classic and the Big 12 Championship Tournament (three out of the next four years). KU will play a home game against Ohio in the Sprint Center on December 15. The NHL may yet expand to KC and the NBA still has a few teams that may relocate. But if AEG can't deliver either professional hockey or basketball or both, a lot of folks in KC are going to be disappointed.