Stadium Reviews

The home of the Hartford Wolf Pack has a fresh feel after the building was closed for six months from May to early October for renovation.

The Huskies now have a home field packed with amenities as good as any ballpark in the northeast. Storrs may be off the beaten path, but it’s now a path worth traveling.

College baseball in the northeast isn’t the big deal that it is in other parts of the country. Still, that doesn’t mean that a Stadium Journey to this part of the country wouldn’t be worthwhile. Small parks like CCSU Baseball Field provide intimate settings and great value for local and traveling baseball fans alike.

The Islanders/Sound Tigers were never a huge success during their time in the American Hockey League, either on the ice (in 25 years, they won only five playoff series) or at the gate (they never ranked higher than 21st in the league in attendance). But Total Mortgage Arena is a fine facility, and the south coast of Connecticut is a coveted, growing market. It would not be a surprise to see another team take the ice in Bridgeport someday.

The building was designed by famous Finish-American architect Euro Saarinen, who designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

The renovations to the basketball arena at the Pitt Center took what was formerly a sleepy, plain gym and turned it into a sleek, modern bandbox of an arena, one that should provide the Pioneers with a significant home court advantage for years to come.

Lee Amphitheater has to make the bucket list for all sports fans.

While the Mohegan Sun Arena is a fine facility, it seems like the rapid growth of the WNBA has rendered it obsolete. With its smaller capacity, lack of premium amenities and location far from a major city, the Sun have been put up for sale and have been searching for a new home. It seems the Sun is setting on the Mohegan Sun Arena.

Despite the best efforts of the track’s neighbors, Lime Rock Park is a historic and popular racing facility hidden away in northwestern Connecticut.

The NHL’s Hartford Whalers packed up and moved to North Carolina in 1997. That was almost 30 years ago.

For basketball and volleyball fans, Feldman arena is a good time that will cost you just a fraction of a big-league ticket price.

Trinity Health Stadium has been around a long time but has been completely refreshed in the last few years.

The XL Center serves as the secondary home for UConn hockey, hosting a handful of Husky hockey games every season.

Arute Field boasts a festive game day atmosphere which belies its small size and simple design.

Playing as an independent hasn’t seemed to affect the game day experience at Campus Field.

The game day experience at New Britain Stadium is a shell of what it used to be. Crowds are starting to stay away.

Bush Field stands out from its brethren in the northeast due to its history and aura.

Cook Field is one of those simple, yet picturesque little ballparks that dot the college baseball landscape across the country.

Despite improvements in Pilotti Field over the course of Sacred Heart’s tenure here, this remains at best a nice community ball field.