Events
It is home to the Columbus Cottonmouths ice hockey team, Auburn University ice hockey team, and the Columbus Lions indoor football team.
The arena was formerly home to the Columbus Riverdragons basketball team from 2001–2005, the Columbus Wardogs indoor football team from 2001–2004, the Chattahoochee Valley Vipers indoor football team in 2006, and the Columbus Comets indoor soccer team in 1997.
The arena was also the primary concert venue in the Greater Columbus area until Auburn Arena in Auburn, Alabama was completed; it is still used for some concerts despite this.
World Wrestling Entertainment has performed at the Civic Center since it opened.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them.
Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)