SPORTSBIZ -- JOEL HAMMOND
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Blog entry: March 12, 2010, 9:18 am | Author: JOEL HAMMOND
An outfit called Team Marketing Report compiles an annual list of North America's priciest sports tickets, and the latest incarnation is out. A surprise: that any non-NFL team cracked the top 15. I know Los Angeles is another world, but $93, on average, for a Lakers ticket? And there are 41 of those games per season? I know hockey's big in Canada, but $114, on average, for Maple Leafs games? There are 42 of those! Aside from Cavs tickets being off-the-charts expensive these days, isn't this about the time we can all thank our lucky stars that we can go to Progressive Field and watch professional baseball for $15 on a nice summer night?
15. Yankees: ($73)
14. Bucs: ($74)
13. Broncos: ($77)
12. Redskins: ($79)
11. Chiefs: ($81)
10. Chargers: ($81)
9. Colts: ($83)
8. Ravens: ($87)
7. Jets: ($87)
6. Bears: ($88)
5. Giants: ($89)
4. Lakers: ($93)
3. Maple Leafs: ($114)
2. Patriots: ($118)
1. Cowboys: ($160)
Elsewhere:
Football
A pretty good recap of what an uncapped NFL means.
The Steelers are raising ticket prices, in order to “remain competitive in the NFL.”
Baseball
Non-business related, but here's a good story on Cliff Lee — if not telling Clevelanders some of what we know already — now a Seattle Mariner.
More bad news from Goodyear, according to MLB.com's Anthony Castrovince: ”tons of empty seats.” (The Indians ended up drawing 2,271 on Wednesday; Goodyear Ballpark seats 10,311.)
Basketball
Remember that half-off ticket thing the Timberwolves were doing? It's paid off.
Other
As championship week nears a close and the brackets soon will be out, count one more among the many against expanding the men's college basketball tournament.
NASCAR is struggling quite a bit, and here are some details as to why.
The NHL has had to take over a handful of teams over the past decade, and here is a good look at the challenges of that circumstance, for everyone involved.
Notre Dame's athletic director seems to be relenting a bit on conference alignment, no” He's fearful of realignment's effects on the Big East, in which the school competes in other sports.
Another negative for high school players thinking of going overseas and forgoing college: Jeremy Tyler, the fella who passed up his senior year of college to go to Israel, was booted from his team.
Here's an interesting story on the Big East's haves and have-nots; there's a disconnect in revenues between the football-playing schools (Louisville, Pitt, etc.) and non-footballers, i.e. bottom-feeders DePaul, St. John's and others.
In a saga that can only be described as Josh Cribbs-esque, the Major League Soccer Players Union is ready to strike. No, seriously. They'll do it.
Donald Trump is moving forward on his $1.6 billion golf course in Scotland.
Season passes for your neighborhood sports bar? It's happening in Boston.
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