Denver

Sports

Thanks to its pro sports facilities and opportunities for participant sports, Denver was named "Best Sports City" by The Sporting News in 1997. With major league teams in all professional sports, Denver has seen the approval and/or completion of three new major sports venues in the 1990s. Coors Field, the home of baseball's National League Colorado Rockies (which began playing in Denver in 1993 in Mile High Stadium), opened in 1995 and hosted the all-star game in 1998. Acclaimed as one of the nation's top new ball fields, it has also been the

Coors Field, the new home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team, was completed in 1995. ()

centerpiece for the transformation of the LoDo (lower downtown) area.

The 20,000-seat Pepsi Center, which opened in the fall of 1999, is the new home of the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League's Colorado Avalanche, which won the 1996 Stanley Cup. A new $360 million football stadium to be built adjacent to the old Mile High Stadium is slated for completion in 2001 when it will become the home of Denver's 1998 and 1999 Super Bowl champions, the Denver Broncos.