Northern Michigan University's (NMU...

Northern Michigan University's (NMU) of the present day sports training complex in Marquette is poised to break records. And not, as a certain number of might initially assume, in any of the sports that will be played within the confines of the $21 million facility. Ranking and nothing else behind New Orleans' Superdome, Seattle's King Dome and Houston's Astrodome, the building will be the fourth-largest rigid arena in the United States. When complet this summer it also will be the United States' largest wood-land dome.

The dome's 533-ft span will clinch the record as the largest timber dome in the United States,