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New Jersey's MetLife Stadium will host the final of the 2026 World Cup, set for stadiums across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The 82,500 capacity MetLife Stadium hosted the Super Bowl in February 2014 and the final of the Copa America Centenario in 2016. The World Cup marks the first edition…

A man in his early 20s drowned Friday night in the lake outside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, authorities said. The incident is the second in two years where someone drowned in the body of water. In July of 2022, an unidentified man died after wading into the lake on a Wednesday. The six-acre…

SoFi Stadium, which opened in Southern California in 2020 as the home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, will host its second Super Bowl in 2027. NFL owners voted to award the venue in Inglewood, about five miles east of LAX, its second championship game in just five years. Multiple…

It wasn’t a long weekend for The Weeknd Saturday night at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. The performer stopped his sold-out show during the third song of his set, abruptly walking off the stage. He came back out and told the audience he had lost his voice, and apologized for having to cancel. Many in the crowd reacted…

A 45-year-old man entered a lake near SoFi Stadium in Inglewood early this morning and apparently drowned. Firefighters and dive teams recovered his body from an artificial lake near SoFi Stadium. They were responding to security reports that the man jumped into the water shortly after 6 AM. Authorities were notified…

FIFA, soccer’s governing body, said Thursday that Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams and Chargers and host of this year’s Super Bowl, is among the 16 venues that will host the 2026 World Cup. The 2026 quadrennial global soccer tournament will feature an expanded 48 teams for the first…

UPDATED, 10:41 AM: The return of the rock is returning for real this time. The long-delayed Stadium Tour featuring Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts has been rescheduled for the summer. The jaunt, which had been slated for 2020 before that Covid thing kicked in, now will begin June 16 in…

UPDATED with more ads Super Bowl LVI is finally upon us, and it feels a lot different than last year’s big game. For starters, SoFi Stadium in LA will be full. A year ago, the game vividly reflected the grueling early phase of Covid, as Tampa Bay’s Raymond James Stadium hosted 24,835 fans, one-third of whom were newly…

Los Angeles County’s public health director and the chair of its Board of Supervisors both insisted Thursday that the Super Bowl will go forward as planned at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood next month. That’s despite concerns about today’s record number of Covid infections in L.A. that have impacted the Grammys, the IDA Awa…

Jimmy Kimmel has hosted the Oscars, the Emmys and the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. He’s hosted his eponymous late night show for 17 years. How does one top that? answer: Get a college bowl game named after you. “Never before has a bowl game been named after a human being (as far as I know, I didn't…

With the COVID-19 pandemic easing — and the state and county set to lift most virus-related restrictions on June 15 — the Rams announced Tuesday they plan to have full-capacity crowds at SoFi Stadium for the upcoming NFL season. In a Twitter post, Rams Chief Operating Officer Kevin Demoff wrote that team owner Stan…

“I’ve never been in a space station before,” said David Letterman onstage last Sunday as he looked around the gleaming cavern of SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. Letterman was there to introduce Foo Fighters who — along with Jennifer Lopez, H.E.R., Eddie Vedder, Selena Gomez, Prince Harry and J Balvin — were a part of Vax…