Chicago Bears PSL holders subject to amusement tax
The City of Chicago has been one of the hardest hit cities during the current economic recession, and city officials have turned their eyes towards the Chicago Bears and some…
Sports
Sports teams continue to grapple with restricting ticket sales by region
The debate continues about the practice of sports teams restricting ticket sales to certain area codes/zip codes. Most recently, the Washington Capitals tried to keep Pittsburgh Penguins fans away from…
Notre Dame eyes new Yankee Stadium for college football game
If it’s good enough for the Pope, then certainly it should be good enough for the Notre Dame University Fighting Irish football team. The storied college football team is in…
WWE moves Monday Night Raw due to Nuggets post-season
A case of double-booking has displaced an upcoming World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) event from the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO. The WWE’s Monday Night Raw has moved to the Staples…
Denver Nuggets and WWE in scheduling squabble over arena
Vince McMahon, the irascible owner of World Wrestling Entertainment, never backs down from a fight and it appears that he’s immersed in a new one with the Denver Nuggets. In…
Secondary market for sports tickets experiences an overload
StubHub did some number-crunching earlier this week and found that nearly two-thirds of MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL clubs have seen a decline in the average price of tickets sold…
Criticism and controversy continue to surround the new Yankee Stadium
In the time that the new Yankee Stadium was being built across the street from its predecessor, all the talk among fans and throughout Major League Baseball was that the…
NASCAR’s second-biggest player is suffering under the economic pinch
Reflecting the soft economy that nearly all pro sports are feeling, the publicly owned company that owns nearly one-third of the tracks visited each year by NASCAR’s Sprint Cup stock…
U.S. Open at Bethpage Black: Up to 1,500 extra tickets for each day
The United States Golf Association (U.S.G.A.) is planning to make 1,000 to 1,500 additional tickets available to the general public for each day of the week of the U.S. Open…
Pittsburgh Penguins tickets promotion ends in a text message error
As part of a decade-long outreach program to Pittsburgh-area high school and college students dubbed “Student Rush,” yesterday (May 5) the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins inadvertently sent a cell phone text…