1.   As basketball arenas go, the Frank Erwin Center has always been a great place to stage a boat show.

2.   Basketball arenas do not carry the sentimental weight of, say, baseball parks.

3.   Basketball arenas feature rotating sign boards at the press table, often changing ads every few minutes.

4.   A blueprint for a state-of-the-art basketball arena has been drawn and fund-raising is under way to finance its construction.

5.   A new aquatic center and eight new dormitories will go to Georgia Tech, a basketball arena to Morehouse College and a football stadium to Morris Brown University.

6.   A new basketball arena is being built.

7.   But the competition will take place with a cloud over the new basketball arena and the football program.

8.   But the broader issue is just how much one can get away with in a basketball arena.

9.   But when a new basketball arena was approved for downtown, that left Compaq Center available.

10.   Cleveland built a new basketball arena, although the old one, the Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio, seemed perfectly serviceable.