Tickets@Phone(TM) Digital Ticket Delivery Technology From Tickets …
MarketWatch - USA
Earlier this year, Tickets.com signed an exclusive, multi-year ticketing services agreement with the venue, which is owned by the City of Tulsa and managed ..

Ticket Network Direct, TicketsMyWay, blased by BBB
Hartford Courant - United States
Others have complained about Ticket Network Direct’s pricing claims, with one consumer asking rhetorically, “Why would I purchase $89.00 tickets when the …

Tickets available for third gubernatorial debate
Evansville Courier & Press - Evansville,IN,USA
Free tickets to the general public and school groups are available for the third gubernatorial debate, held Oct. 14 in Bloomington, Ind. The three …

Half-Price Tickets: What’s Next? Free?
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
This service threatens the free time of everyone in Kansas City by selling unsold tickets to cultural events at half-price on the day of the program. …

TicketNetwork.com Offers the Web’s Lowest Priced Tickets to MLB …
MarketWatch - USA
Whether it’s a game at Fenway Park, Dodger Stadium or Miller Park, fans can count on us for deeply discounted tickets for 2008 MLB playoffs,” he said.

Cheap Premium Tickets.com
The Serious Sports News Network (satire) - Chicago,IL,USA
CHICAGO — An apparently confused Delmon Young arrived at US Cellular Field convinced that today’s one-game playoff between the White Sox and the Twins will …

White Sox Selling Tickets To Tiebreaker Game At Noon
By The Huffington Post News Editors(webmaster@huffingtonpost.com)
The White Sox are selling a limited number of standing room only tickets to tonight’s playoff tiebreaker game against Minnesota at the Cell. Tickets for the 6:30 game are $45 and only available on the team’s site, though the Sox are …

Editor’s Note: The following is written by Roger at ShowSanctuary. ShowSanctuary is two brothers’ take on the live music scene, providing the lowdown on the concerts to catch and undiscovered artists to follow. The brothers are devoted contributors to the TicketStumbler Blog.

Did you hear? Britney’s making a comeback!! That’s right- she dumped KFed, got on drugs, lost some weight, got off drugs, gained some weight, recorded an album, missed some show appearances, and now she’s back and better than ever! Even more frightening: the New Kids On The Block are making a comeback!!!??

WHAT THE HELL has happened to good music journalism? Do you share a similar sentiment? If so, I have just the band for you.

The John Butler Trio (JBT) is a return to roots, talent, raw power, and dynamic simplicity. Emerging from Fremantle, Australia, they have not been quick to gain acceptance from mainstream American music journalism. Though, this seems somewhat odd, because the band’s frontman, John Butler, was born and raised in California. His family picked up and moved to a small Western Australian town when he was eleven years old. At age sixteen, he picked up the guitar. Since this time, he hasn’t been able to set it down. His perfection on open-tunings and slide-guitar breed an eclectic sound of blues, reggae, funk, Celtic folk and Indian raga. Beyond this, however, it’s the return-to-roots feel that makes this band so remarkable.

The original version of the band released its first album, Three, in 2001. In 2003, they released a second album- Living. Both went platinum in Australia and reached into the top ten of the Australian album charts in those years. Afterwards, band members switched out and JBT found their true identity. Shannon Birchall entered as a new, mean bass player, along with the talented percussionist Michael Barker. Together, they released Sunrise Over Sea in March of 2004. The album soared up to number one in the national album charts and achieved gold record status during its first week of release.

In 2005, while at the music festival known as Bonnaroo, I was strolling around and, just by chance, happened upon JBT . Fresh off the Sunrise Over Sea release, the band was in the midst of an American tour. I heard some melodic guitar picking sounds coming from the tent to my left. I walked towards it like a zombie, as if compelled, and entered the tent to join the audience. The three-piece was on stage, with Birchall playing the upright bass and Butler, who at that time had long dreadlocks, playing slide guitar. At first impression, they seemed different and, very obviously, talented. Next, they began playing a song named ‘Zebra.’ Chills went down my spine. I quickly bought the album upon my return home.

JBT’s next album, Grand National, was released in March of 2007. Everything I had hoped for, the album’s every bit as good, if not better, than the previous. Fittingly, its first single was a catchy tune entitled, Better Than. On this album, however, every track is capable of being a single. Since its release, I’ve seen them live again and they put on another fantastic show.

But, if you can’t see them live, don’t worry. Take my word- what you hear from them in concerts will be exactly what you hear from the studio recordings. You don’t have to be a fan of any particular genre of music. You don’t have to know what talented musicianship sounds like. I said it once and I’ll say it again: Their music is, very simply, powerful.

Cats at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, MO. Ticket presale password: GRIZABELLA

Oasis with Ryan Adams and the Cardinals at the Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. Ticket presale password: OASISNET, SUPERNOVA

Sweeny Todd at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, MO. Ticket presale password: JOHANNA

Trans Siberian Orchestra in the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, TX. Ticket presale password: ELECTRIC

Ice Cube at the House of Blues in New Orleans, LA. Ticket presale password: OBOE

Plain White T’s at the House of Blues in New Orleans, LA. Ticket presale password: OBOE

Rise Against with Thursday and Sage Francis at the Roundup Center in Calgary, AB. Ticket presale password: LABOUR

Girls Night Out at the Newmark theatre in Portland, OR. Ticket presale password: PCPA

Chicago Bulls single game tickets at the United Center in Chicago, IL. Ticket presale password: TMDEAL, NBABULLS

Pacquiao tickets priced like gold
Manila Bulletin - Philippines
Even before tickets for the Dec. 6 bout between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao were sold to the public last Sept. 24, there were already sellers on the …

How to avoid Brewers ticket scams
WKOW-TV.com - Madison,WI,USA
The online market, including ebay and Craig’s List, already offers numerous Brewers ticket auctions. Before you buy, check out these BBB tips in order to …

Tickets.com to Enhance its Consumer-Facing Website by Offering …
MarketWatch - USA
The partnership allows Tickets.com to deliver innovative value-added features to its online consumer base and to enhance their experience while visiting the …

Dreaming of Phils playoff tickets?
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
On eBay, some tickets have been selling today for from $60 (standing room) to $100. Any shot at cancellations or turnbacks? Sorry. During the regular season …

Festival tickets to go on sale
The Press Association
Tickets for the Electric Picnic festival in 2009 will go on sale next week, organisers said. Just weeks after the three-day extravaganza in Stradbally, …

WIN Colts tickets!
Indianapolis Star - United States
Each winner will receive two tickets. The contest ends Oct. 10. Sign up now, one entry per person per day. Complete form and click the “Enter” button at the …

AC/DC Tickets Izod Center East Rutherford, NJ November 19, 2008
By Dale
Get tickets for AC/DC at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, NJ on November 19, 2008 now for the best seats. Tickets for AC/DC in East Rutherford, NJ available are now online. Reserve your floor seats at Izod Center, buy AC/DC tickets …

How to get cheap tickets to all events
By tdomf_914bf
No one has the time to stand in a queue to buy tickets for any event. Times have changed and online bookings have made it easier to get tickets for all types of shows. Now online tickets brokers offer a wealth of information and they …

Eagles tickets still up for grabs
By lindsay.mccombie@cafc.co.uk
Tickets remain on sale to season-ticket holders and Red Card members for Charlton’s trip to Crystal Palace on Tuesday night (8pm).The match has taken on even more importance - if that’s possible - after the Addicks slipped to defeat to …

WNBA Finals Tickets On Sale Now!
The San Antonio Silver Stars have advanced to the WNBA Finals for the first time in franchise history and individual tickets for the first two home games are on sale now.

Editor’s Note: The following is written by KD at HerMixTape. HerMixTape is a combination of love and loathing all aimed towards music. When KD isn’t in search of the perfect playlist, she’s either drinking or over organizing - except in the winter - she’s hibernating. KD is a flip flop disciple and contributor to the TicketStumbler Blog.  Check out her website at hermixtape.blogspot.com.

Robin Thicke, “Something Else”
Album Due Out: 9/30
Unload: Magic
Maybe it was the ridiculous music video that ruined the song for me? Or did the song ruin the song for me?

Oasis, “Dig Out Your Soul:
Album Due Out: 10/7
Unload: The Shock of the Lightning
Download: Falling Down

Bob Dylan, “The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 — Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006″
Album Due Out: 10/7
Download. I fully support anything Dylan.

Ray LaMontage, “Gossip in the Grain”
Album Due Out: 10/14
Download: You Are The Best Thing
I think he’s a solid artist and I can’t wait to hear the rest of his tracks.

The Cure, “4:13 Dream”
Album Due Out: 10/28
Unload: The Perfect Boy
I’ll admit it; I just plain don’t like The Cure.

Kaiser Chiefs, “Off With Their Heads”
Album Due Out: 10/28
Download: Never Miss a Beat
Probably my favorite song from them yet.

Pink, “Funhouse”
Album Due Out: 10/28
Unload: So What
I wouldn’t even put this on my workout mix… it’s that bad.

Snow Patrol, “A Hundred Million Suns”
Album Due Out: 10/28
Download: Take Back the City
They had a lot to live up to after I loved their entire last album. This track is not their usual sound with a heavy emphasis on the guitar, but it works for me on a different level. However, I do really look forward to their typical, piano heavy tracks on the record.

John Legend, “Evolver”
Album Due Out: 10/28
Download: Green Light
The album’s collabs include Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Akon and Andre 3000…. can’t go wrong.

Fall Out Boy, “Folie a Deux”
Album Due Out: 11/4
Download: I Don’t Care.
Obsessed with this song.

Taylor Swift, “Fearless”
Album Due Out: 11/11
Unload: Love Story
I love a lot of country music, but this just sounds like a soundtrack song for a Freddie Prize Jr. or Kate Hudson movie.

The Killers, “Day & Age”
Album Due Out: 11/25
Unload: Spaceman
Disappointing. I’m hoping there is something else on the album that will give me a “Mr. Brightside” euphoria.

Common, “Universal Mind Control”
Album Due Out: Out in November/December
Download: Universal Mind Control ft. Pharrell
Sounds like a guilty pleasure. Will go straight to a “getting ready to go out” playlist.

Britney Spears, “Circus”
Album Due Out: 12/2
Unload: Mannequin, Womanizer and Circus.
Obvious reasons.

50 Cent, “Before I Self-Destruct”
Album Due Out: 12/9
Download: Freeze
Classic 50 sound; could be mistaken for any other 50 song after four drinks. LL and Banks are also on the track and I happen to love Lloyd Banks.

Dolly Parton at the Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Ticket presale password: BARBIE

Bob Dylan at the John Labatt Centre in London. Ticket presale password: BDFU1, BDFU2

Of A Revolution (O.A.R.) at the Mullins Center in Amherst. Ticket presale password: CYBER

Toronto Raptors single game tickets at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Ticket presale password: INSIDERS

Trans-Siberian Orchestra in the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, TX. Ticket presale password: ELECTRIC, FUSION, GUITAR

Kenny G: The Holiday Show at the Centre in Evansville, IL. Ticket presale password: smooth

Phoenix Suns single game tickets at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, AZ (no password required).

New Orleans Hornets single game tickets. Ticket presale password: (unique for season ticket holders)

San Antonio Spurs single game tickets at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, TX. Ticket presale password: ENEWS, NBASPURS

Cosa Nostra’s Hands On VIP Tickets And Youth Talents
Goal.com - Switzerland
According to daily La Repubblica, Mafia Capos and picciottis (soldiers) were regularly allocated at least 100 VIP tickets to sit at the Stadio Renzo Barbera …

Tickets available to see Obama
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Tickets to see presidential hopeful Barack Obama in Denver on Monday become available today at 9 am at his campaign headquarters in Thornton and Golden. …

One-stop shopping for half-price tickets
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Eleven performing arts organizations have joined forces to offer same-day half-price tickets. The program, called TixKC, is modeled in spirit on the famous …

Olympic tickets have transit cost built in
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
Among the highlights is a service fee that will allow ticket holders to access transit to the venue. Along with a processing charge, the fees will range …

Izzone hopefuls camped out for tickets
Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA
… bags and rations to Munn Field today, all in an effort to score those most-coveted lower bowl Izzone tickets for the 2008-09 men’s basketball season. …

No tickets? Guess that’s why they call it the blues
TheChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
One lonely holder of two tickets wanted some arm candy. “Looking for a good-looking girl to escort me to the Elton concert Friday night,” a post on Kijiji …

‘Scalping’ establishes the true market value of a ticket
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
Metalheads are furious that $99 tickets for AC/DC’s November concert sold out at Ticketmaster last Friday in four minutes. They were further incensed when …

Tickets $15 at Zulu, Scratch, Red Cat and highlife records
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
Liam Finn is knocking the socks off of audiences wherever he goes with his energetic performances. Jumping between guitar and drums and singing so hard it …

Olympic tickets set to go on sale
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
Phase 1 of the four-stage ticket-selling process starts in five days, on Oct. 3, and goes until Nov. 7. That’s five weeks to put your dibs on tickets for …

Tickets go on sale for Plain White T’s
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
Tickets go on sale at 10 am today. Tickets are $18, $20 the day of the show. Plain White T’s received two Grammy nominations for the acoustic ballad “Hey …

Contest: Win Tickets to The Canadian Opera Company’s War and Peace
By Corina
We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the October 14th performance of this monumental co-production with the English National Opera, the single largest opera the COC has ever produced. Read on for your chance to experience Tolstoy’s …

Win tickets to see Fall Out Boy in Spain
By The Mighty Mendoza
To enter for a chance to score 1 of 3 pairs of tickets head over and join the group, it’s that easy! Of course this is only for those living in near proximity to Barcelona. Good luck! CLICK HERE to enter the contest. ENDS: 9.29.08.

Editor’s Note: The following is written by Daniel Fabrizio, founder of SportsInsights. Every week SportsInsights speaks directly with the line managers at some of the sports betting industry’s largest sportsbooks about which games the public is chasing and the Sharps are pounding giving sports fans unprecedented insight into the NFL Football point-spread market. Check out SportsInsights at http://SportsInsights.com.

Recapping Last Week

NFL Week 3 was a good day  to be a sportsbook and a bad day to be the Public.  JC, head lineman at Skybook, put it best, “The ball bounced our way on Sunday.”  All sportsbooks reported retaining over 2-4% of their handle. New England losing outright as -13 point favorite  and the NY Giants, also 13 point favorites, needing overtime to defeat winless Cincinnati were big games for the books. But the game that really turned things around for the sportsbooks was Tampa Bay, pulling out a miracle against the Chicago Bears. It would have a huge day for the sportsbook had they not given back a lot of early gains on the Sunday Night game.

SportsInsights.com analysis shows that in games with over 65% of the action on one side, the Public took a bloodbath going 3-7, making the Public 12-16 for the season. SportsInsights.com Games to Watch analysis continued its winning ways, going 3-0, 6-3 = 66.7% for the season.  We’re back on the positive side and look forward to padding the bankroll.

NFL WEEK 4
We anticipate Denver, Buffalo, and San Diego to be the most “lopsided-bet” games of the week. Visit SportsInsights.com to view LIVE wagering statistics from multiple online sportsbooks.

NFL Week 4 Sports MarketWatch – Games to Watch (6-3 = 66.7%)

213 San Diego Chargers at 214 Oakland Raiders

The public is overwhelmingly on San Diego in this match-up.  The constant pounding of bets on San Diego (75% of sides and a huge 90% of teasers and parlays), has pushed the line off of the “key” number of 7.  This is creating a nice value of Oakland +7.5 instead of the opener of +7.

We like cashing in on San Diego’s impressive Monday Night win over the Jets.  Oakland getting +7.5 points at home looks like a great value — especially in a tough divisional match-up.  Let’s “bet against the public” and take the home dog.

Oakland Raiders +7.5  SportsInteraction +7.5

211 Buffalo Bills at 212 St. Louis Rams

Our offshore contacts circled this game due to Smart Money coming in on St. Louis.  Including teaser and parlays, almost 80% of all bets are on Buffalo.  Even so, early, and big Smart Money landed on St. Louis — moving the line from its opener of Buffalo -9.5 to the more generally available -8.  Our readers know that we will follow the Smart Money and especially like the big home underdogs.

St. Louis is 0-3 and has been outscored by almost 30 points per game this season.  They weren’t much better last year, going just 3-13.  On the other hand, Buffalo has been “fast out of the gate,” going 3-0.  We often find value by taking the ugliest-looking games on the board and taking the ugly duckling.  Last week, Miami showed us that on any given Sunday, anything is possible.

St. Louis Rams +8

195 Denver Broncos at 196 Kansas City Chiefs

This is our Pepto Bismol play of the day — so take a shot of Pepto and put your hard-earned cash on KC.  It goes against everything you think — but that’s exactly why these types of plays are profitable in the long run.  Denver has started the season off 3-0, while KC is 0-3.  This game looks ugly and the public is piling on Denver.

Almost 3 out of 4 “regular” side bets are coming in on Denver.  The large point spread might be making some betters go to teasers and parlays — where a huge, almost 90% of the bets are landing on Denver.  In addition to our traditional philosophy of “betting against the public,” we like this play for several other major factors:

*KC is a huge home dog value, receiving 9.5 points.

*Traditionally strong divisional rivalry.

*We are “buying low” with KC and “selling high” with Denver.

*Note also that both teams were mediocre last year.  9.5 points is a huge amount to cover.

Kansas City Chiefs +9.5 Skybook +9.5

So, here’s a wrap-up of SportsInsights.com analysis for this week’s Games to Watch:

Games to Watch (6-3 = 66.7%)

Oakland Raiders +7.5  SportsInteraction +7.5
St. Louis Rams +8
Kansas City Chiefs +9.5  Skybook +9.5

It should be another exciting NFL Weekend. Keep Sports MarketWatch picks handy and your browser pointed to SportsInsights.com for the latest real-time updates, using our exclusive Sports Investing tools.  I’ll be back next Friday with the new edition of the Sports MarketWatch.

Enjoy the games!