Magness Arena
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Magness Arena is a multi-purpose collegiate sports arena in Denver, Colorado. It was built from 1997 to 1999 as part of the Daniel L. Ritchie Center, the sports complex at the University of Denver. It is home to the Denver Pioneers ice hockey team and secondary home to the basketball teams. It replaces the former University of Denver Arena 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 in 2000.
About the arena
The arena is named after cable television pioneer Bob Magness, 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 215-foot-tall (66 m), gold-spired Williams Tower, which contains a 65-bell carillon.
The largest hockey crowd in arena history was a game between Denver and Colorado College on March 9, 2024, with an attendance of 7,033. 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 on October 3, 2012.
Concerts
| List of ConcertsJethro Tull – September 24, 1999 Garbage – October 20, 1999, with Lit The Moody Blues – October 30, 1999 Counting Crows – December 2, 1999, with The Gigolo Aunts and December 4, 2002 Def Leppard – December 9, 1999, December 17, 2002 and November 1, 2005, with Cheap Trick Tracy Chapman – April 14, 2000 Beck – April 24, 2000, with DJ Swamp Luis Miguel – April 25, 2000, April 9, 2002, October 22, 2003 and October 4, 2005 Brian Wilson – September 16, 2000 Christina Aguilera – October 5, 2000, with Destiny's Child Matchbox 20 – October 16, 2000 The Stone Temple Pilots – November 2, 2000, with Godsmack and Disturbed Sarah Brightman – November 8, 2000 and March 7, 2004 The Roots – November 14, 2000 The Trans-Siberian Orchestra – December 8, 2000, December 5, 2001 and December 2, 2002 Prince & The New Power Generation – April 24, 2001, with Milenia and The Fonky Bald Heads The Irish Tenors – June 13, 2001 Neil Sedaka & Dionne Warwick – June 24, 2001, with The Colorado Symphony Orchestra The Cult – June 26, 2001, with Stabbing Westward and Monster Magnet Aaron Carter – June 27, 2001, with Leslie Carter and A-Teens Jane's Addiction – October 31, 2001 Sting – December 10, 2001, with Howie Day and April 12, 2005, with Phantom Planet Styx – March 22, 2002, with REO Speedwagon Bad Religion – March 23, 2002, with Less Than Jake and Hot Water Music Kid Rock & Twisted Brown Trucker – April 11, 2002, with Lit and Saliva Alanis Morissette – May 11, 2002, with Ryan Adams Maná – September 29, 2002 American Idol Live! – November 12, 2002 Tori Amos – December 5, 2002 Scorpions – February 25, 2003, with Whitesnake and Dokken and October 27, 2004, with Tesla Good Charlotte – November 13, 2003, with Goldfinger and Eve 6 KoЯn – November 15, 2003, with Limp Bizkit and DROID and March 8, 2006, with Mudvayne and 10 Years A Perfect Circle – March 20, 2004, with The Mars Volta The Pixies – September 30, 2004, with The Thrills Duran Duran – March 16, 2005 Snoop Dogg – April 17, 2005, with Game Slipknot – April 20, 2005, with Lamb of God, Shadows Fall and The Dillinger Escape Plan Cake – April 25, 2005, with Gomez Velvet Revolver – April 26, 2005, with Hoobastank Gwen Stefani – October 26, 2005, with The Black Eyed Peas Depeche Mode – November 11, 2005, with The Bravery Fall Out Boy – April 12, 2006, with The All-American Rejects, Hawthorne Heights, From First to Last and The Hush Sound and November 23, 2007, with Gym Class Heroes, The Plain White T's, Cute Is What We Aim For and Doug Avenged Sevenfold – April 21, 2006, with Coheed and Cambria and Head Automatica Flogging Molly – October 3, 2006, with ZOX and Bedouin Soundclash Paul Simon – October 10, 2006, with The Jerry Douglas Band Dashboard Confessional – October 24, 2008, with Brand New James Blunt – October 28, 2006, with Starsailor The Barenaked Ladies – November 21, 2006, with Mike Doughty's Band Panic! at the Disco – November 28, 2006, with Jack's Mannequin, The Bloc Party and The Plain White T's The Taste of Chaos Tour – February 27, 2007, with Thirty Seconds to Mars and The Used My Chemical Romance – March 4, 2007, with Rise Against Evanescence – November 25, 2007, with Julien-K Juanes – April 25, 2008 The Killers – January 17, 2009, with M83 Neil Young – April 27, 2009, with The Neville Brothers and Everest Bob Dylan – October 21, 2009 Rob Thomas – October 27, 2009, with OneRepublic and Carolina Liar KTCL 93.3's Not So Silent Night – December 6, 2009 Slayer – August 25, 2010, with Megadeth and Testament The Winter Jam Tour Spectacular – November 3, 2011 A Hot Summer's Night 2 – August 25 and September 8, 2012 DUPB MusicFest – May 25, 2013 KJHM Jammin' 101.5's Winter Wonder Jam – December 7, 2013 |