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City Park (New Orleans)
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City Park, a 1, 300-acre public park in New Orleans, Louisiana, is the 87th largest and 7th-most-visited urban public park in the United States. City Park is approximately 50% larger than Central Park in New York City, City Park is very unusual in that it is a largely self-supporting public park, with most of its annual budget derived from self-generated revenue through user fees and donations. In the wake of the damage inflicted upon the park due to Hurricane Katrina. City Park holds the worlds largest collection of live oak trees. The park was founded in 1854, making it one of the oldest parks in the country, at one point, there was a placard that explained the trees historical significance, but its no longer there. Originally, there were two dueling oaks, but one was lost in a hurricane in 1949. In the 1800s, men would defend their pride and honor by dueling each other under the oaks at what is now City Park but then was a normally quiet spot secluded from the rest of the city. Some of the citys most notable figures who participated in duels in City Park include Bernard de Marigny, many of the disputes between parties were either reconciled before the duel or after one party sustained a minor injury. In 1805, Micajah Green Lewis, Gov. William C. C, claibornes private secretary and brother-in-law, was killed by Robert Sterry, a Claiborne opponent. City Park was established in the century on land fronting Metairie Road, along the remains of Bayou Metairie. The tract of land, formerly the Allard Plantation, became city property in 1850 through John McDonoghs will and was reserved for park purposes. The park originally extended only a short distance back from City Park Avenue and this area, to the north of the original park, was actually platted for streets by city planners, though none was ever realized. In the first two decades of the 20th century, numerous improvements were undertaken by the City Park Improvement Association, notable park landmarks like the Casino, the Peristyle, Popp Bandstand, Lelong Drive and the Issac Delgado Museum of Art were constructed. City Parks governing board also accomplished a number of land acquisitions. Until 1958, all park amenities, including the playground, were restricted to white residents, african American children and families were banned from entering the park. A formal rose garden was developed, the genesis of todays New Orleans Botanical Garden, John, and multiple rounds of expansion and improvement occurred involving various park facilities. By the 1970s, City Park featured four 18-hole golf courses, over 50 tennis courts, numerous other fields and facilities. However, as was the case with many urban parks during this period, City Park began to suffer neglect, towards the end of this period the Friends of City Park were formed to rally support and raise resources for the park
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Seating capacity
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Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that seats two to a stadium that seats hundreds of thousands of people. The International Fire Code, portions of which have adopted by many jurisdictions, is directed more towards the use of a facility than the construction. It specifies, For areas having fixed seating without dividing arms and it also requires that every public venue submit a detailed site plan to the local fire code official, including details of the means of egress, seating capacity, arrangement of the seating. Once safety considerations have been satisfied, determinations of seating capacity turn on the size of the venue. For sports venues, the decision on maximum seating capacity is determined by several factors, chief among these are the primary sports program and the size of the market area. Seating capacity of venues also plays a role in what media they are able to provide, in contracting to permit performers to use a theatre or other performing space, the seating capacity of the performance facility must be disclosed. Seating capacity may influence the kind of contract to be used, the seating capacity must also be disclosed to the copyright owner in seeking a license for the copyrighted work to be performed in that venue. Venues that may be leased for private functions such as ballrooms and auditoriums generally advertise their seating capacity, seating capacity is also an important consideration in the construction and use of sports venues such as stadiums and arenas. The seating capacity for restaurants is reported as covers, a restaurant that can seat 99 is said to have 99 covers, seating capacity differs from total capacity, which describes the total number of people who can fit in a venue or in a vehicle either sitting or standing. Use of the term public capacity indicates that a venue is allowed to more people than it can actually seat. Again, the total number of people can refer to either the physical space available or limitations set by law
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AstroTurf
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AstroTurf is a brand of artificial turf playing surface. The original AstroTurf product was a synthetic turf. The prime reason to incorporate AstroTurf on game fields was to avoid the cost of laying natural turf, the name AstroTurf has evolved into a generic trademark and is sometimes used to refer to all brands of artificial turf. The original AstroTurf brand product was co-invented in 1965 by Donald L. Elbert, James M. Faria and it was patented in 1965 and originally sold under the name ChemGrass. It was re-branded as AstroTurf by an employee named John A. Wortmann after its first well-publicized use at the Houston Astrodome stadium in 1966. Early iterations of the short pile turf swept the major stadia, concerns over directionality and traction led Monsantos R&D department to implement a texturized nylon system. By imparting a crimped texture to the nylon after it was extruded, in 1987, Monsanto consolidated its AstroTurf management, marketing, and technical activities in Dalton, Georgia, as AstroTurf Industries, Inc. In 1988, Balsam AG purchased all the stock of AstroTurf Industries. In 1994, Southwest Recreational Industries, Inc. acquired the AstroTurf brand, in 1996, SRI was acquired by American Sports Products Group Inc. While AstroTurf was the leader throughout the late 20th century. FieldTurf, AstroTurfs chief competitor in the early 2000s and today and this third generation turf, as it became known, changed the landscape of the marketplace. Although SRI successfully marketed AstroPlay, a third generation turf product, increased competition, despite their legal victory, increased competition took its toll. Out of the proceedings, Textile Management Associates, Inc. of Dalton, Georgia, acquired the AstroTurf brand. TMA began marketing the AstroTurf brand under the company AstroTurf, LLC, in 2006, General Sports Venue became TMAs marketing partner for the AstroTurf brand for the American market. AstroTurf, LLC handled the marketing of AstroTurf in the rest of the world, in 2009, TMA acquired GSV in order to enter the marketplace as a direct seller. AstroTurf, LLC focused its efforts on research and development, which has promoted rapid growth, AstroTurf introduced new product features and installation methods, including AstroFlect and field prefabrication. AstroTurf also introduced a product called RootZone consisting of crimped fibers designed to encapsulate infill and this product has been adopted by many professional organizations and colleges in the United States. In 2016, SportGroup Holding announced that it would purchase AstroTurf,1964 The Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, installs ChemGrass
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Louisiana High School Athletic Association
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The Louisiana High School Athletic Association is the agency that regulates and promotes the interscholastic athletic competitions of all high schools in the state of Louisiana. LHSAA was founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on October 1920, the LHSAAs main office was in Hammond from 1953 until 1972, when it moved to Baton Rouge. The LHSAA is governed by an Executive Director and an executive committee, LHSAA member schools include public, private, and parochial schools throughout the state. LHSAA is affiliated with the National Federation of State High School Associations, as of 1996, LHSAA included 410 member schools and an annual certification of approximately 70,000 student athletes each year. LHSAA is divided into seven classes, also known as divisions, based on each schools student enrollment for grades nine through twelve, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A, B. Classes B and C are made up of schools with smaller enrollments that do not play football, classes 2A through 5A may include some schools that do not play football, including schools that have all-girl enrollments. Schools with single-gender enrollments have their enrollment numbers doubled for classification purposes, LHSAA has twenty-three competitive sports programs, twelve for boys and eleven for girls. Starting in 2016, select enrollment schools and non-select enrollment schools will participate in different playoffs in Football, Baseball, Softball, Louisiana became the first state in the nation to include a wheelchair division in its state track and field competition for disabled student athletes in 1990. Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita hit Southern Louisiana at the beginning of the 2005 high school football season, the evacuation of New Orleans and other communities forced dozens of high schools to close for months, and several campuses were damaged or destroyed by flooding and wind damage. The football season was not canceled, but several games were postponed or canceled, some schools in the disaster area were forced to withdraw from competition. Most public schools in Orleans Parish, St. Bernard Parish, other disaster-area schools combined to form joint teams in fall of 2005 and spring of 2006. By the 2006 school year, most of the affected LHSAA schools were able to compete under their own school teams, the Southern Quality Ford Cup is the Louisiana High School Athletic Associations All Sports Award that recognizes the leading overall athletic program in each of the LHSAAs seven classes. The competition is based on a performance in the 23 sports governed by the LHSAA. Any team that finishes in one of the top four places in the state earns points towards a schools quest for the cup, at the end of the academic year, the school that has accumulated the most points in its class is presented with the award
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New Orleans Pelicans (baseball)
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The New Orleans Pelicans or Pels were a minor league professional baseball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 1865 as an amateur social/sporting organization, the Pelicans became a franchise when they joined the Southern League in 1887. That league operated off and on until it folded in 1899. During that time the team captured three pennants,1887,1889, and 1896, the Pelicans then became a founding member of the Southern Association in 1901. From 1887–1900, the played at Sportsmans Park/Crescent City Base Ball Park located at the foot of Canal Street near the New Basin Canal. In 1901, the Pelicans moved to Athletic Park and played there until 1908, after the 1908 season the team moved to Pelican Park, which was located on South Carrollton Avenue, across from present-day Jesuit High School. In 1914, the Pelican Park wooden grandstand was moved by mule teams a quarter-mile down South Carrollton Avenue to the intersection with Tulane Avenue in Mid-City New Orleans. From 1915 through 1936 the facility was known as Heinemann Park after Alexander J. Heinemann, the name was changed in 1936 to Pelican Stadium following the death of Heinemann and team owner Charles Somers. The Pelicans played their final game there in 1957, after this, they played for two years at City Park Stadium, now called Tad Gormley Stadium, in City Park. The franchise was sold to Little Rock at the end of the 1959 season, the Southern Association folded after the 1961 season. Notable Pelicans included Shoeless Joe Jackson, Jimmy Dygert, Henry Cotton Knaupp, Bill Lindsay, Zeke Bonura, Gene Freese, and Hall of Famers Dazzy Vance, Joe Sewell, Bob Lemon, and Earl Weaver. In Jacksons only season with New Orleans, he hit.354 to win the batting title. The following year, he would hit.408 with the American Leagues Cleveland Naps, in the 1950s, the team was associated with the Pittsburgh Pirates and was managed by Danny Murtaugh. Other notable Pelican managers included Larry Gilbert and Abner Powell, with the latter credited with introducing the perforated rain check in 1889, the Pelicans name briefly resurfaced during the 1977 season when oilman A. Ray Smith moved his Triple-A Tulsa Oilers to New Orleans to play in the Superdome, tony La Russa was the starting shortstop for the team. After a single season, the team moved to Springfield, Illinois. One year later, the Hornets name, logo and color scheme were reclaimed by the now Charlotte Hornets, the basketball Hornets originally came from Charlotte, North Carolina, before relocating to New Orleans in 2002
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New Orleans Privateers
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The New Orleans Privateers are the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University of New Orleans, located in the Lake Terrace/Lake Oaks neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The Privateers compete in NCAA intercollegiate athletics as a member of the Southland Conference at the Division I level, UNOs athletic teams participated in NCAA Division II from 1969 to 1975 before moving to Division I and becoming a charter member of the Sun Belt Conference. The school submitted an application in May 2010 and in June 2010, the school originally announced that it intended to add football, along with womens golf and womens soccer as part of the transition to NCAA Division III. UNO left the Sun Belt on June 30,2010 and competed as an NCAA Division I Independent in all sports during the 2010-11 academic year as part of the transition from Division I. Following the findings of the analysis and institutional research, the LSU Board of Supervisors meetings approved the move down from Division I to Division II instead of Division III. UNO was placed on the NCAA Division II Membership Committee spring agenda, the Privateers added womens golf, mens cross country and womens cross country to reach Division II’s minimum requirement of 10 sports. On March 7,2012, however, UNO President Dr. Peter Fos announced that UNO would remain in Division I, on August 21,2012, UNO announced that it would be joining the Southland Conference, effective the 2013-2014 academic year. New Orleans is currently an independent, Head coach - Blake Dean The UNO baseball team plays its home games at Maestri Field at Privateer Park. New Orleanss most notable rivals are LSU and Tulane. Despite being a newcomer to college baseball, the UNO baseball team has a history of fielding competitive teams. Most of the success belongs to Ron Maestri who led the team to the Division II World Series in 1974. After making the jump to Division I, Maestri once again brought success to the Privateers, in 1984, the Privateers became the first University in Louisiana to make the Division I College World Series. During the tenure of Tom Walter, the Privateers made post-season appearances in 2007 &2008, augie Schmidt won the Golden Spikes Award with the Privateers in 1982. UNO qualified for four NCAA tournaments in 10 seasons between 1987 and 1996, and for a fifth in 2017, UNO won the Sun Belt Conference in 1978 and 96. Tim Floyd coached UNO to tournaments in 1991 and 93, and is currently the coach for the University of Texas at El Paso. The Privateers have been ranked four times,1987,91,93 and 96. The highest rank was 16th by the Associated Press in 1987, the schools best winning percentage came when it was an NCAA Division I Independent in 1983. In the 2017 NCAA tournament, UNO earned a bid by winning the Southland Conference tournament
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Tulane Green Wave
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The Tulane Green Wave are the athletic teams representing Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The nickname was adopted during the 1920 season, after a song titled The Rolling Green Wave was published in the Tulane Hullabaloo in 1920, from 1893 to 1919 the athletic teams of Tulane were officially known as The Olive and Blue, for the official school colors. Tulane competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the American Athletic Conference, the university was a charter member of the Southeastern Conference, in which it competed until 1966. Tulane, along with other academically-oriented, private schools had considered forming the Southern Ivy League in the 1950s and it joined the newly formed Conference USA in 1995. In 2012 the university announced it would move to the Big East Conference in all sports in July 2014, there are 17 Green Wave intercollegiate programs. Tulane sponsors teams in seven mens and ten womens NCAA sanctioned sports, * = Beach volleyball is a fully sanctioned NCAA sport which had its first national championship in the spring of 2016. Tulane is a member of the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association, the Tulane football team, established in 1893, compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. Green Wave football teams have won 9 conference championships, including 3 in the SEC and 1 in C-USA and they are coached by Willie Fritz and play home games in Yulman Stadium. The Tulane baseball team, also established in 1893, is managed by head coach Travis Jewett, the program has appeared in the NCAA Tournament 21 times and in the College World Series twice. They play home games on campus at Turchin Stadium, both the mens and womens basketball teams play home games in Devlin Fieldhouse, named after a donation that enabled extensive renovations in 2012–13. It is the 9th-oldest active basketball venue in the nation, the mens basketball team, established in 1905, is coached by Mike Dunleavy Sr. who was hired following the 2015-16 season. The womens team has coached since 1995 by Lisa Stockton. The universitys Renewal Plan called for the suspension of some of its sports, when the news leaked, the outrage by fans, alumni, and boosters forced the Board of Trustees to pivot and claim it actually intended to undertake a comprehensive review of athletics. Scott Cowen began a dialog with other university presidents calling for a change to the system that rewards established powers at the expense of less successful programs. On February 29,2004, the BCS met in Miami, Florida, as a member of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee, Cowen was active in decision-making regarding the future of college football. It is a component of the Tulane Fund, Tulane Universitys annual giving program, in 2007 the fund set a record for membership with 2,210 donors contributing. In 2011 it spearheaded the Home Field Advantage campaign to fund the $73 million construction of Yulman Stadium on the Uptown campus through private donations. Tulane officials commissioned John Chase in 1945 to illustrate the covers of its football game programs and he came up with Greenie, a mischievous boy who would be considered an unofficial mascot by many fans
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Xavier Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets
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The Xavier Gold Rush and Gold nuggets represent Xavier University of Louisiana in intercollegiate athletics. The University is a Division I member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the 97,000 square-foot multipurpose facility replaced The Barn and became the new home of XU mens basketball, womens basketball and womens volleyball. The 3, 937-seat facility is recognized as one of the finest collegiate facilities of its size, the Convocation Center includes a hospitality suite, a student-athlete fitness center, a media/video room, a theatre-style meeting space, and a state-of-the-art athletic training facility. The arena contains state-of-the-art sound, lighting and high-definition Daktronics video boards for spectator comfort, the Convocation Center also plays host to many classes, graduations, sporting and community events. As part of the growth of the Xavier main campus as well as the athletics department, the XU Tennis Center opened October 26,2012, as the new home of XU womens and mens tennis. GPS Driving Location,3619 Pine St, New Orleans LA70125 Facility cost, $2. Tad Gormley Stadium offers great versatility for staging events in New Orleans - from outdoor athletic competitions to concerts and corporate special events. Gormley was the site of the 1992 U. S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, the 1993 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, gormleys address is 5400 Stadium Drive, New Orleans, LA70124. The mostly flat course is three miles from the XU campus and is near the corner of Wisner Boulevard and Harrison Avenue. Xavier competed twice at City Park in 2014, including the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Championships, City Park covers 1,300 acres and was established in 1853. It is approximately 50 percent larger than Central Park in New York City, City Park holds the worlds largest collection of mature live oak trees, some older than 600 years in age. On June 24,2015, the university opened its Fitness Center, the first floor of the two-story facility offers an NCAA/NAIA regulation-sized basketball court, an office, a lounge area and an area with free weights and weight machines. The second floor consists of a three-lane walking/running track, a room, spin studio. Exercise machines will be throughout the facility. The basketball court will be used for intramural events such as basketball and volleyball, large exercise classes, fitness activities, yoga, dance. The court can be divided with a curtain to offer multiple activities simultaneously. This is the fourth XU athletics facility to open in three years, Gulf Coast Athletic Conference National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
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