Being a New Yorker and a New York Rangers and/or New York Knicks fan comes with antipathy for James Dolan, the CEO of Madison Square Garden Sports and Madison Square Garden Entertainment. Dolan's combination of boorish behavior and years of business, financial, and team mismanagement is a frustrating test of loyalty.
Dolan's personal encounters with Knicks and Rangers fans are often petty and he's known to employ facial recognition software to deny entry to certain fans, including pre-paid season ticket holders, who work for law firms engaged in litigation with his myriad businesses.
This makes the concept and promise of Sphere, Dolan's bold, unique, and precedent-setting entertainment venue in Las Vegas, such a surprise and marvel. Dolan sketched Sphere with a stick figure inside seven years ago and $2.3 billion later it opened last week with a two-month stand of the band U2 reprising Achtung Baby. Early notices for Sphere are very positive. More here.
Dolan plans to export Sphere to London and several other cities around the world.
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