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The owners of Boston's Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins recently held a panel to discuss ways to cut ticket prices for the average fan -- and came up with virtually nothing. So DailyFinance asked experts and fans for creative ways to push ticket prices down. Here are the 10 best we heard.
The state Public Integrity Commission fined him more than $62,000 for accepting five free tickets to the 2009 World Series opener at Yankee Stadium. It's the latest chapter in the long and dubious history of politicians getting wooed at sports events.
Phillies Fans Spend Their Way to the World Series
10:00AM 10/16/2010
Philadelphia Phillies fans are outspending the fans of every other team on League Championship Series and World Series tickets. They've also boosted post-season sales of Phillies gear up 40% year over year. Will all the fan ferver help the team to victory?
New Stadiums Strike Out for Investors and Taxpayers
10:45AM 9/20/2010
The developer of the Yankees Stadium parking lots may be headed for default on the $237 million in bonds that were used to finance the construction. And the Yankees are hardly alone. Sports teams around the country are struggling to attract cash-strapped fans.
Steinbrenner's final win -- over estate taxes
1:30PM 7/14/2010
In 2001, Congress announced with great fanfare that the federal estate tax had been repealed. Of course, they failed to focus on the fact that the so-called "repeal" would only last for one year: 2010. At the time, most tax professionals laughed at the idea of a one-year repeal, believing that it...
Actually, yes: The Yankees certainly did buy the World Series
5:10PM 11/16/2009
I grew up in Milwaukee, the smallest city with its own Major League Baseball team. During my summer vacations from high school and college, I worked as a vendor at Milwaukee County Stadium, where the Brewers played before it was torn down and replaced by Miller Park. Not once during that time did...
World Series TV ratings: Fox knocks it out of the park
6:00PM 10/29/2009
Wedneday's spectacular (for Phillies fans) Game 1 of the World Series posted stunning ratings, underscoring the bonanza News Corp.'s (NWS) Fox television network is reaping. Shares of the parent company of The Wall Street Journal and the Fox Business Channel rose 60 cents on Thursday, or 4.43...
If Yankees win World Series, it's bad for all fans' pocketbooks
1:00PM 10/27/2009
Now that the New York Yankees and Jay-Z are going to the World Series (Jay-Z to sing, the Yankees to play baseball), fans can expect to have their pockets picked by Major League Baseball a little more next year.
It may not be the end of civilization, but if the Yankees win the World Series, it...
What's happening to Robert Stanford's victims and their money?
3:00PM 6/25/2009
Sir Robert Allen Stanford, not exactly a name that one would associate with a Ponzi scheme. However, the financier and philanthropist has been charged with fraud for operating a $7 billion Ponzi scheme - which has stretched across continents and social classes. Stanford has spent the past week in...
Want to see a Yankee fan suffer? Buy Bomber Bucks
4:30PM 5/21/2009
The New York Yankees have a creative way to separate their fans from their money. It's called Bomber Bucks -- a cute name for gift certificates that are really hard to use.On the face of it, it appears to be a great gift idea for a fan of the Bronx Bombers. It's not until the person actually wants...
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