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Magness Arena is a multi-purpose collegiate sports
The arena is named after cable television pioneer 
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arena
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in Denver
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, Colorado
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. It was built from 1997 to 1999 as part of the Daniel L. Ritchie Center, the sports complex at the University of Denver
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. It is home to the Denver Pioneers
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ice hockey and basketball teams. It replaces the former DU Arena
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which was razed in 1997 to make way for the Ritchie Center. Magness Arena opened September 1999, one month before the Pepsi Center. The arena was voted, "Best New Sports Venue" by ''Westword
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'' in 2000.
About the arena
The arena is named after cable television pioneer Bob Magness
Bob Magness (June 3, 1924 – November 15, 1996) was an American businessman who founded Tele-Communications, Inc (TCI).
At the time of his death, TCI was the largest cable television provider in the United States, and Forbes Magazine listed ...
, who donated $10 million towards construction costs. It features padded individual seating, two members-only club seating areas, a four-sided video scoreboard, and a concourse with glassed-in views of the adjoining Hamilton Gymnasium and El Pomar Natatorium. The arena can be identified around the city by the attached , gold-spired Williams Tower, which contains a 65-bell carillon
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.
The largest hockey crowd in arena history was a game between Denver and Colorado College in 2012, when 6,207 fans attended. The largest non-hockey event in the arena was a 2008 presidential campaign rally for Barack Obama, where about 10,000 people attended. Magness Arena hosted the first of three 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates
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on October 3, 2012.
Concerts
See also
*List of NCAA Division I basketball arenas
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References
External links
Official Website
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