MIsc. Sports

I would like to first congratulate the Stampede on winning the USHL, I would also like to say that I am supporting the USHL in Rapid City. Second of all I would like to say that I am upset with hearing that Keloland will not be able to broadcast the SDSU games next year like previously thought, I am hoping that Mid-Con communications will add the American Channel and that the Summit League will allow for free web-cast of all the conference games. Third I would like to challenge Sioux Falls to build a new arena, I was at the Convention center the other day and you can hardly tell that its an arena from outside, when you go to rapid you can tell where the arena is. I am publically supporting an arena, theater, offices and a large meeting room. Sanford and Poet Energy would be two Sioux Falls based companies that would be interested in putting up big bucks for naming rights. The offices could house the Storm and Stampede. I would then ask the Skyforce if they would like to have the Arena to themselves, keep the lease agreement the same and allow the Skyforce to make it more of there own. If the Skyforce accepts it you keep the arena if they would like to be moved the the new arena at a higher rate you can renovate the arena to better suite the convention center.

The arena I would like would sit 10-12,000 would have plenty of floor space for hockey and arena football, would also have skybox suites. The reason for that is with the success that Sioux Falls is having with the Storm I would not be surprised if the AFL showed interest in Sioux Falls if an Arena was built that suited an AFL team.