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| Sports |
| By far, the sports team that draws the most attention
in Columbus is the Ohio State Buckeyes football team (2002 NCAA
Champions). Games are played from late August through late November
(and usually in early January), with home games at Ohio Stadium
in front of over 100,000 crazed Buckeye fans. Tailgating at
OSU home games has become an event in and of itself, with as
many as 30,000 more people partying during the game in the parking
lots and at controlled events on Lane Avenue such as Hineygate
and the Varsity Club street party. The OSU-Michigan football
game is the final game of the regular season and is played in
November each year (alternating between Columbus and Ann Arbor,
Michigan). It is easily the biggest annual event in the city,
with an estimated 80% to 90% share of television viewers in
the Columbus market, and is one of the greatest rivalries in
all sports. |
| Columbus is also home to many professional sports
teams, including the Columbus Crew (Major League Soccer), Columbus
Clippers (minor league baseball), Columbus Blue Jackets (National
Hockey League), and Columbus Destroyers (Arena Football League).
For its GMP and population growth rate, however, Columbus notably
does not have a major league baseball, basketball, or football
team. This can be explained in part by the city's proximity
to both Cincinnati (100 miles) and Cleveland (125 miles), which
have five major league teams between them, the Cleveland Browns,
Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, and
Cleveland Cavaliers. All five teams have a following in Columbus,
with the baseball and football fans fairly evenly split between
the two cities, although a sizeable Pittsburgh Steelers fanbase
exists as well. |
| Columbus also hosts the annual Arnold Classic
weightlifting and fitness exposition in late February, hosted
by Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as the annual Quarterhorse
Congress. Both of these conventions are very large draws of
tourists to Columbus |
| Much of the growth in entertainment capacity in
Columbus has been recent. The expansion of Ohio Stadium to over
100,000 in capacity, and the construction of the Crew Stadium
(America's first soccer-specific stadium), Nationwide Arena,
the Schottenstein Center, the Greater Columbus Convention Center,
and the PromoWest Pavilion are all projects completed since
1990. |
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