Incidentally, the vote on where the 2012 Olympics will be is being held here in Singapore on July 6. Woohoo! A chance for a first-hand sporting news report.
I thought the Village Voice had a nice piece on the ridiculousness of the project to build a stadium on the West Side. As a good urban economist, I have to question the wisdom of a $2 billion project. Particularly for a football stadium, which gets crowds once weekly as opposed to the more regular flow of a baseball ballpark.