Courtesy of The Advocate: LSU has sold all 25,000 of its allotted tickets for Saturday’s AdvoCare Texas Kickoff game vs. BYU in New Orleans, said Stephen Perry, the president of the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau. Perry joined New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and several other city officials at a Wednesday afternoon news conference. The […]
Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter: The Disney-owned network locks in Bob Arum’s library to fuel its upstart digital service as traditional fighting takes aim at Ari Emanuel’s UFC beyond the big Mayweather-McGregor bout. The week before Thanksgiving 2016, Bob Arum, the founder of Top Rank Boxing who has been in the fight game since 1966 […]
Courtesy of DieHards: And in order to get that in-person experience to see the defending national champions, one would have to pony up some serious cash this season. Clemson the fourth-highest median ticket price in college football, according to a news release from Vivid Seats that was reported by TigerNet.com on Thursday. Ohio State ($200) registered with […]
Courtesy of Billboard: With little leverage besides its huge customer base, the online retail behemoth is finding that disrupting the U.S. ticketing market won’t be as easy as throwing its weight around. Two years ago, Amazon set out to shake up one of the few businesses it had yet to disrupt: the concert-ticket industry. After first […]
Courtesy of ReCode: Unless you went to one of these schools, you may not have much interest. Facebook is bringing live football to its redesigned video tab this fall — just not the NFL games that it had originally hoped for. Facebook announced a deal on Wednesday with Stadium, the 24/7 digital sports broadcaster, to […]
Courtesy of Fox Business: With the start of college football season less than one month away, Coach Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan Wolverines are drawing more fan demand for tickets than any other NCAA team for the fourth straight season, according to data released Friday. The Wolverines, who ranked No. 9 in the most recent preseason Amway […]
Courtesy of Pymnts.com: What’s a good way to deflate some heady stock gains? Have Amazon come gunning to eat your lunch. Seeking Alpha reported that Live Nation shares jumped 12.5 percent Thursday during the day on strong earnings, but then the advance turned into a rout of sorts, as the stock traded up 1 percent on […]
Courtesy of Barron’s: Ticketmaster’s exclusive ticketing arrangement with the NFL ends next year. Might the league start letting you buy tickets on Twitter? The National Football League, like other pro sports leagues, has been looking for new ways to keep young people engaged. The NFL started streaming Thursday Night Football games on Twitter last year, and it will […]
Courtesy of SB Nation – DAWG SPORTS: Want to join your fellow ‘Dawgs invading South Bend on September 9th for the Georgia/Notre Dame game? It’s going to cost you. Relatively few tickets are up for sale on third party vendor StubHub.com. And the cheapest ticket still available (a single located in the lower level behind […]
Courtesy of und.com: Technology upgrades at Notre Dame Stadium mean it’s never been easier to achieve connectivity in the Irish football facility. And the Notre Dame ticket office is providing some new ways to take advantage of those technology improvements/ Changes to football ticketing taking place this fall came from Irish vice president and James […]
