Unless you haven’t been reading the news, numerous new facilities in Singapore are opening this year for major sporting events such as the World Aquatics Championship. Other transactions-linked facilities, including the Immigration and Checkpoint Authority (ICA) building and the Central Manpower Base (CMPB), are also undergoing an upgrade. New Facility – Construction Site in Singapore […]
Unless you haven’t been reading the news, numerous new facilities in Singapore are opening this year for major sporting events such as the World Aquatics Championship. Other transactions-linked facilities, including the Immigration and Checkpoint Authority (ICA) building and the Central Manpower Base (CMPB), are also undergoing an upgrade.
New Facility – Construction Site in Singapore
Check out our compiled list of the 11 new facilities opening in Singapore in 2025.
1. Temporary World Aquatics Championship Venue
Credit – World Aquatic Championships – Singapore 2025
Singapore will build a new temporary facility for swimming and artistic swimming events when it hosts the World Aquatics Championships from 11 Jul to 3 Aug. The sheltered venue will be built at Carpark G, near the Kallang Tennis and Kallang Football Hub.
The sheltered venue, which will have 4,800 seats, will consist of 2 pools and spectator stands. It will also have a fan zone with merchandise, sponsors’ booths and food stalls.
The championships will see over 2,500 of the world’s best aquatic athletes compete across 6 disciplines: swimming, diving, high diving, open-water swimming, artistic swimming and water polo. The water polo and diving events will be at the OCBC Aquatic Centre. Sentosa will host open-water swimming (Palawan Beach) and high diving (Palawan Green) events.
Near 31 Stadium Crescent, Kallang Football Hub, Singapore 397639 Facebook | Instagram | Website
2. The Bricks: Sport-In-Precinct & Cycle Park
Credit – Choa Chu Kang Town Council
After the completion of the Singapore Cycling Federation (SCF)BMX Academy in Brickland, there will be more cycling training facilities in Singapore to try their hand at.
The academy will have a large racing track and a BMX pump track – a looped course for cycling with banked turns and slopes in an area approximately the size of a football field.
While the BMX track will support high-performance programmes for cyclists of all levels and host activities for the 2029 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, it will also be open to the public.
The academy will be part of The Bricks: Sport-In-Precinct & Cycle Park at Choa Chu Kang Avenue 7. The park will also have a shaded basketball court, fitness corner and play area.
Open field opposite Choa Chu Kang Avenue 7, Block 810, Singapore 680810 Facebook | Instagram | Website
3. PAssion Wave Bayfront Outpost
Credit – People’s Association
Singaporeans will be able to indulge in water activities in Marina Bay when the People’s Association (PA) opens its first PAssion Wave outpost in the Bayfront area in 2025.
Singaporeans can look forward to participating in group activities, such as kayaking, pedal boating and dragon boating, at the new location while taking in gorgeous views of the bay.
The facility, located at Marina Bay Waterfront Promenade in front of the Red Dot Design Museum, is a 4-minute walk from 3 MRT stations – Bayfront, Downtown and Marina Bay.
A new community hub in Bedok North will house facilities including a kitchen for home businesses to test out new recipes and a therapy centre for people to play with rescue cats.
Other facilities include a community garden for residents to grow their own plants, a multi-purpose hall for sports and events, a community podcast recording studio and a co-working space for aspiring start-ups. There will also be a space with a 3D printer, laser cutter and a digital plotter (a printer that interprets commands from a computer to make line drawings).
City Sprouts was selected to be the operator of the facility by the People’s Association and the Singapore Land Authority. It will work with partners such as MENDAKI, Masjid Al-Ansar Mosque, pickleball school Play! Pickle and VIVITA, which organises creative programmes.
11 Bedok North Street 1, Heartbeat@Bedok, #01-11, Singapore 469662 (Former Kampong Chai Chee Community Club) Facebook | Instagram | Website
5. New Central Manpower Base
Credit – Ministry of Defence Singapore
The new Central Manpower Base (CMPB), a one-stop service hub for pre-enlistees and national servicemen, is set to open in phases from 2025. It brings under one roof national service-related administration services from medical screening to personal kit replacement.
Announced in 2019, the new CMPB will be located opposite the Cashew MRT station. This is near the current Ministry of Defence (Mindef) headquarters in Bukit Gombak. Vis-a-vis the current CMPB at Depot Road, the new hub will result in shorter medical screening times for pre-enlistees. They can take their pre-enlistment Individual Physical Proficiency Test there.
The new CMPB will also house the Singapore Armed Forces’ second regional health hub, which consolidates services to provide more responsive care. This means servicemen will be able to complete their health screening and access dental and specialist care at 1 venue.
If you are not a National Serviceman, the new CMPB will also feature a 700-seat foodcourt, a childcare centre, a soccer field and a fitness area that members of the public can access.
1 Science Park Drive occupies a prime location at the entrance of Geneo, the S$1.37 billion life sciences and innovation cluster at the Singapore Science Park by CapitaLand.
With around 58,000 square feet of workspaces, the Grade A building comprises wet lab-ready units from Levels 1 to 5 and business park workspaces from Floors 6 to 15. These units come fitted with a chilled water system, central air-conditioning, and raised floors.
The development is supported by 53,800 square feet of retail, food and beverage and lifestyle amenities. Because of its underground bridge to the Kent Ridge MRT station, inhabitants in the area can enjoy excellent convenience and accessibility to get there.
1 Science Park Drive’s business park workspaces are suitable for industrial activities. Its wet lab-ready units offer the option of converting to lab setups for biomedical research.
Announced in 2019, Serangoon Polyclinic is an upcoming polyclinic situated opposite NEX Shopping Mall. Like other polyclinics, it will treat acute conditions such as the flu. It will also be responsible for chronic disease management, early developmental assessment and immunisation, women’s cancer screening, health education and prevention of disease.
Serangoon Polyclinic will also provide dietetics, psychology and diagnostic services. The facility is among 10 to 12 polyclinics that will open in the coming years. Other locations include Bukit Panjang, Eunos, Kallang, Sembawang, Khatib, Tampines North and Yew Tee.
Once it is completed, Serangoon Polyclinic will be the largest in the country by floor area.
The Marina Bay Cruise Centre Singapore (MBCCS) is undergoing a 9-month upgrade in 2025 that costs S$40 million. This is its most extensive upgrade since it opened in 2012.
The renovation will include a new check-in area, expanded amenities, and a larger Ground Transport Area (GTA) with more bus parking and ride-hailing zones. The upgrade will also increase its capacity from 6,800 to 11,700 passengers, improving commuters’ experience with more lounge spaces. The expanded Ground Transport Area will boost terminal access.
Traffic accessibility will also be enhanced by widening a section of Marina Coastal Drive and expanding the Ground Transport Area (GTA) with more coach bays and ride-hailing lots. This will increase the number of pick-up and drop-off points for buses and passengers. A portion of the GTA will also be converted into a dedicated check-in area for dual ship calls.
A new 9,000-square-metre integrated hub with berths from which the public can view tests and showcases of green ships will open by the end of 2025 on the Southern Waterfront.
Called The Waves, the new hub will be segmented into 3 zones – research, collaboration and public recreation. The research cluster will drive innovation and facilitate partnerships.
The cluster is set to house research institutes and start-ups, and facilitate testbeds and trials of decarbonisation methods. It will also host training programmes to attract talent.
The labs are complemented by intuitively interwoven spaces for collaboration. These include meeting and event facilities to foster a spirit of cooperation. The recreation segment at The Waves will feature a visitor sky terrace with food and beverage options.
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10. Valour House
Credit – National University of Singapore
A new sports-themed hostel, Valour House, at the National University of Singapore (NUS) will open in August for sports enthusiasts to find solace among those with similar interests.
Opening in NUS’ Kent Ridge campus, next to the university’s sports centre, the hostel will be able to take up to 600 residents. Of the spaces, 50 percent will be given to athletes and individuals who show sporting excellence, and the rest to other students. Students staying in the hall will also be given chances to plan sports events for the broader NUS community.
After Valour House opens, the number of on-campus hostel places will increase to 12,500.
From July, you can collect your new identity cards and passports from automated kiosks at the new Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) services centre in Lavender.
The good thing is that you won’t have to make an appointment. The new ICA centre is adjacent to the current ICA building and commenced operations from 7 Apr 2025.
The new centre will make it easier for people to carry out various transactions through a single touch-point. In the past, people had to visit different floors in the ICA building for different services. The new ICA building will also house a number of service centres, a heritage spot, the Registrar of Societies and the Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore.
2 Crawford Street, Singapore 207218 +65 6391 6900 Mon to Fri: 8am – 4.30pm Closed on Sat & Sun Facebook | Instagram | Website
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Chase Burns to make MLB debut for Cincinnati Reds Tuesday
Jun 22, 2025, 01:32 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Chase Burns, the No. 2 pick in the 2024 MLB draft who has excelled at three levels of the minor leagues this season, will be promoted next week so that he can make his major league debut for the Cincinnati Reds. Burns, a right-handed starter who […]
Chase Burns, the No. 2 pick in the 2024 MLB draft who has excelled at three levels of the minor leagues this season, will be promoted next week so that he can make his major league debut for the Cincinnati Reds.
Burns, a right-handed starter who is the No. 12 prospect in ESPN’s Top 50, will take the mound Tuesday at home against the New York Yankees.
Burns, 22, relies on an upper-90s fastball, and his 86 to 90 mph slider is possibly the best breaking ball in the minor leagues. He has made 13 starts in his professional career, the last of which came with Triple-A Louisville.
The Reds have had an up-and-down season, but at 39-38, they are still in the hunt for a National League wild-card berth, and Burns will bring added intrigue to the star-laden series against New York. Cincinnati has lost three in a row heading into Sunday’s series finale with the St. Louis Cardinals before it opens a homestand with the Yankees Monday night.
Burns is 7-3 with a 1.77 ERA and 89 strikeouts in 66 minor-league innings. Prior to his 2024 selection, he pitched in the SEC for Tennessee Volunteers and the ACC for Wake Forest.
“We’re trying to give ourselves every chance to win and be in this, and right now, we feel like Chase gives us the best chance, and it’s time to go,” Reds general manager Brad Meador told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
While the Reds have been inconsistent offensively this season, their pitching has been solid. Through Friday’s loss, the Reds were 16th overall in team ERA at 3.90 and 10th with a 1.23 WHIP. But they placed left-hander Wade Miley on the injured list Friday and had to author a bullpen game Saturday.
“Trying to figure out when the time is right is always the toughest part. You never know for sure when a guy’s ready,” Meador said. “But he’s obviously pitched as well as you could possibly hope in the first year of professional baseball, and he seems to be getting stronger. Even when a guy’s ready, you never know, but he’s passed every test. I don’t think he’s going to be overwhelmed by the situation, for sure.”
Pitching for Double-A Chattanooga this season, Burns went 6-1 with a 1.29 ERA in eight starts before landing in Louisville. On Tuesday at Great American Ball Park, he is likely to oppose New York’s Carlos Rodon, who is 9-5 this season with a 3.10 ERA.
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Why the SEC, Big Ten impasse over CFP format for 2026 matters to everyone
The offseason is definitely not the slow season as yet another week delivered news impacting both the Pac-12 legacy schools and other universities across the region. Here are four developments you might have missed. 1. CFP negotiations stall Nitty gritty: The Big Ten and SEC control the model for the College Football Playoff starting in […]
The offseason is definitely not the slow season as yet another week delivered news impacting both the Pac-12 legacy schools and other universities across the region.
Here are four developments you might have missed.
1. CFP negotiations stall
Nitty gritty: The Big Ten and SEC control the model for the College Football Playoff starting in the 2026 season and have not found common ground. The former wants a 16-team field based on automatic bids for the power conferences (the so-called 4-4-2-2-1 model) while the latter favored the 5+11 format that’s heavy on at-large bids.
During a meeting this week in Asheville, N.C., commissioners Tony Petitti of the Big Ten and Greg Sankey of the SEC decided a restart is in order.
“I wouldn’t say there’s a leading contender right now,” CFP executive director Rich Clark told reporters, “but they’re taking a fresh look at it.”
Why it matters: The CFP impacts everything in college football, and the model for 2026 has been the hottest topic in the sport for months. The impasse at the top of the governance structure creates the possibility, however remote, that the event won’t expand (to 14 or 16 teams) and, instead, will remain at 12. (That’s our preference, by the way.)
The commissioners are facing a Dec. 1 deadline to notify ESPN of any adjustments for 2026, when a new contract cycle begins. That might seem like plenty of time, but Petitti and Sankey, along with Jim Phillips of the ACC and Brett Yormark of the Big 12, have been discussing possible alterations for months and gotten nowhere.
Whatever format the Big Ten and SEC ultimately select will have sweeping implications for every major college conference, from the Big 12 and ACC to the Pac-12 and Sun Belt.
A model based on automatic qualifiers, for example, would free up the SEC and Big Ten to create a regular-season crossover series. That, in turn, would limit their opportunities to schedule non-conference matchups with teams in other leagues, particularly the ACC and Big 12.
There are other ramifications — too many to detail here, in fact.
Just know that distrust of the selection committee is rampant and common ground will continue to be elusive for the Big Ten and SEC. And they have the only votes that matter.
2. Commissioners mull new start date for football
Nitty gritty: Commissioners from the Football Bowl Subdivision conferences discussed moving the official start of the season up one week, to what is commonly referred to as Week 0: the Saturday before Labor Day weekend.
(If the change had been in place for the 2025 season, for example, everyone would start play Aug. 23. Instead, the season begins in full force Aug. 30.)
Why it matters: The Week 0 discussion has received little attention over the years but is one of the most important issues in the sport. In fact, it’s the key to unlocking the jammed postseason calendar.
College Football Playoff expansion to 12 teams created substantial overlap with the final weeks of the NFL season and playoffs. Last year, for instance, two CFP opening-round games (on Dec. 21) were up against a mammoth NFL doubleheader (Chiefs-Texans and Steelers-Ravens).
That’s a fight college football cannot win and should avoid at all costs.
(Another issue: Playing the semifinals on a random Thursday and Friday to get out from under the NFL’s wild card weekend.)
Starting the season earlier would reduce the frequency of CFP conflicts with the NFL’s stretch run. It would create an earlier date for the national championship. (The title game for the 2026 season is scheduled for Jan. 25, 2027.) And it would allow more mid-December flexibility for additional opening-round games if the CFP expands to 14 or 16 teams.
The move to Week 0 needs to happen for the betterment of the postseason — August is the key to December — which means the change will take years to implement, if it happens at all.
3. Washington State downsizes track and field
Nitty gritty: The Cougars announced Monday a competitive shift “to a distance-focused approach,” meaning they will no longer sponsor field events and will reduce the “number of sprint and hurdle opportunities.”
Why it matters: The canary is chirping, except it’s not in a coal mine — it’s trapped in a financial vise brought about by the revenue-sharing era in college sports.
With a maximum of $20.5 million being shared with athletes, schools must make hard choices about sponsoring the dozens of Olympic sports programs that lose money. (Only football and men’s basketball generate a profit.)
Washington State isn’t the first Division I school to announce a reduction in sponsored sports — Utah is cutting beach volleyball; UTEP has eliminated women’s tennis — and assuredly won’t be the last.
In other instances, Olympic sports could have funding reduced to the point they essentially become club teams.
Utah Royals 1st NWSL team to 10 losses this season after falling 4-1 to Seattle
SANDY — Based on the postgame mood, you wouldn’t have guessed the Utah Royals had just lost their 10th game of the season. The NWSL’s last-place squad reached the midpoint of its season with a 4-1 loss to the Seattle Reign in its 13th game of the year Saturday at America First Field. The home […]
SANDY — Based on the postgame mood, you wouldn’t have guessed the Utah Royals had just lost their 10th game of the season.
The NWSL’s last-place squad reached the midpoint of its season with a 4-1 loss to the Seattle Reign in its 13th game of the year Saturday at America First Field.
The home team was outmatched from wire-to-wire against the top-five team from Washington, giving up goals in the sixth, 16th, 66th and 91st minutes.
For a brief moment near the end of the first half, it looked like a comeback could be underway when Bianca St-Georges scored her third goal of the season for Utah, but it wasn’t to be.
The goal, which moved St-Georges into a tie with Brecken Mozingo for the team lead in goals, was the only one in the cards for the Royals on Saturday, despite leading the visiting team 14-10 in total shots.
The Royals enter the midseason break on an eight-game winless streak and a four-game losing streak, with the next league fixture not until Aug. 3. But still, a sense of optimism and belief remained with players and coach during press conference comments.
Perhaps it’s because the break gives the team time to recover from a brutal start to the season that featured two season-ending injuries and take another step in building “from the bottom out,” as head coach Jimmy Coenraets described it.
“Make sure you kind of just detach from the game and you get some time by yourself,” Coenraets said of his advice to players heading into the break. “I just want everyone to come back in the best possible headspace.”
The real reason for the optimism, however, is likely because Utah is approaching this season as one piece of a much larger puzzle. Coenraets said that since the Miller family took over team ownership in April, he has felt supported in building a foundation for what he called “a sustainable future.”
“Ever since the change, there was one clear message, and that’s, ‘Let’s build a foundation, and let’s build upon the foundation that we are building the next six months,'” Coenraets said. “We want to be competitive as much as we can, but we also want to make sure that by being competitive, we’re actually building for the future and not giving up the future to just get results.”
Utah will play a pair of friendlies against the San Diego Wave to break up the month-long break and several Royals will continue playing games with their respective national teams, including Ally Sentnor and Mandy McGlynn with the USWNT and Janni Thomsen joining Denmark for the UEFA Women’s Euro tournament.
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Former Kansas State athletics director Steve Miller dies at age 81
Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman talks about roster limits Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman talks about his frustration with a lack of clarity over roster limits for the 2025 season. Former Kansas State athletics director Steve Miller, who helped sow the seeds for a historic turnaround in Wildcats football, died on June 15 […]
Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman talks about roster limits
Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman talks about his frustration with a lack of clarity over roster limits for the 2025 season.
Former Kansas State athletics director Steve Miller, who helped sow the seeds for a historic turnaround in Wildcats football, died on June 15 at his home in Portland, Oregon at the age of 81, according to a K-State news release.
Miller spent nine years at K-State — five as head track and field coach (1981-86), one as associate AD and director of the Mike Ahearn Scholarship Fund (1987-88) and the last three as athletics director. But he was best known for the Nov. 30, 1988, hiring of Bill Snyder as Wildcats’ football coach, which led to the resurrection of a program once described by Sports Illustrated as “Futility U.”
A celebration of life for Miller has been planned for 3 p.m. PT on July 7 at the Ritz Carlton in Portland.
“We are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Miller, a true K-Stater who led our department during some of the most critical times in our history,” K-State athletics director Gene Taylor said in a statement. “Obviously his hiring of coach Snyder is well documented, but he also was a longtime figure in the track and field world and was a leader in that space for decades.
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“From the first time I met Steve he became a trusted friend and over the last few years provided me great guidance and advice from his vast experience in the sports industry. He will truly be missed, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”
While credited with bringing future hall of famer Snyder to Manhattan as a first-time college head coach, Miller was a decorated coach in his own right. In 2005, he was inducted into the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
His 23-year career in track included 21 as head coach at Bloom Township High School (1965-76), Cal Poly (1976-81) and K-State. After leaving Manhattan, he served as an administrator with Nike, the Professional Bowlers Association and Agassi Graf Holding, and as a faculty member at the University of Oregon.
In addition to Snyder, Miller hired Dana Altman as men’s basketball coach in April of 1990.
Miller was born in Chicago on Sept. 9, 1943, and competed in track and football at Bradley University before a brief stint in the NFL with the Detroit Lions. He is survived by his wife Suzanne, daughter Claudine and son Christopher.
Arne Green is based in Salina and covers Kansas State University sports for the Gannett network. He can be reached at agreen@gannett.com or on X (formerly Twitter) at @arnegreen.
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