Ten of the strangest sports venues
USS Carl Vinson is certainly the most unusual venue for any college basketball game, but it's not the most atypical setting ever for a sporting event. Read on to see where I'd rank the Carrier Classic in my top 10.
TENNIS ON A HELIPAD: The most memorable points Andre Agassi and Roger Federer ever played against one another didn't come at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open or any other Grand Slam. None of that compared to the sight of the two tennis superstars trading ground strokes 700 feet above Dubai's Jumeirah beach in a February 2005 exhibition on the helipad on the roof of the seven-star Burj Al Arab hotel.
Many people don't realize that the Chicago Bears played all of their home games in Wrigley Field from 1921-1970, and until 2003 it held the record for the venue that had hosted the most professional football games. It was surpassed by Giants Stadium only because both the Giants and Jets play there. They didn't have a "one offensive endzone" setup back then, they just dealt with the proximity of the wall. There is a story about Bronco Nagurski, which is most likely apocryphal, that after running through four players and bouncing off of the goalpost, he hit the ivy covered bricks so hard he put a crack in them and when he got back to the bench, he said "That last guy hit me awful hard".
Madonna "very upset" at new song leak
The song, which hit the web on Wednesday and has been listened to by fans around the world, is expected to be the debut track from Madonna's upcoming album, her first studio release since leaving Warner Bros to join Live Nation."Madonna told me this morning 'my true fans wouldn't do this'... whoever is responsible for this leak, we ask that you please stop!" "Im very happy with the positive reaction to the demo, but we are very upset with whoever leaked the song" he added.Addressing questions tweeted by fans, Oseary said the new album should be finished "in the next month or so," and that it did not yet have a title.
He added that the 53 year-old star, whose hits include "Like a Virgin," "Vogue" and "Hung Up," had penned a "beautiful ballad" for her movie "W.E.."
The picture, Madonna's second feature film as director, follows the life of Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee whose relationship with King Edward VIII sparked a constitutional crisis in Britain and led to his abdication.The film, which had its world premiere at the Venice film festival, hits U.S. theaters in December and British cinemas in January.
Madonna's new record will be her first studio album since 2008's "Hard Candy," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States.
In 2007, Madonna dropped her long-time music label Warner Bros and signed a deal with concert promoter Live Nation reported to be for 10 years and worth $120 million.The deal, part of a recent trend in the struggling music industry, involved not only record sales, but also touring and merchandising
