The largest arena between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the Save Mart Center is a major indoor venue on the campus of Fresno State University in California's Central Valley. Opened in 2003, the arena was built to serve as the home of the university's basketball teams and as a regional destination for the biggest touring concerts and events, filling a long-standing gap for a large-scale venue in the heart of the valley. The arena seats around sixteen thousand for concerts and some fifteen and a.....

Fresno raised the money itself - seven million dollars of community fundraising - and got one of the loudest home-field advantages in western college football. Valley Children's Stadium, known for four decades as Bulldog Stadium, opened on the Fresno State campus on November 15, 1980 with a 21-14 win over Montana State. The move was transformative: the Bulldogs left 13,000-seat Ratcliffe Stadium for a 30,000-seat bowl designed by Stevens and Associates, and coach Jim Sweeney's teams promptly fi.....