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Motorsports facilities attract music festivals05 / 20 / 13Concert promoters are booking more music festivals at racetracks, finding those venues to be the right fit for multiday events. The Electric Daisy Carnival, an electronic music festival, this year added Chicagoland Speedway to its list of sites after its success at Las Vegas Motor Speedway the pa... Tags: Facilities |
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Spurs create club for season-ticket holders
Courtside club provides food and drinks to big spenders at no cost
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Paciolan teams with Facebook specialist for ticket opportunities
Ticketing vendor Paciolan has signed a long-term deal with Facebook management firm Buddy Media to help its pro and college sports clients develop greater exposure for events and sell tickets on the world’s No. 1 social media network. The agreement, called Pac Social Media, provides ...
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Notre Dame may hire concessionaire
Notre Dame officials are talking to national food service providers as they consider hiring a third party to take over general concessions at the school’s seven athletic facilities, a business the university has operated in-house since the 1970s. Representatives from seven firms attended the Oct. 9 ...
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Penguin palace
Walking along Centre Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, the road is as hilly as any other street in town but doesn’t appear much wider. In separating the Penguins’ new Consol Energy Center from much older Mellon Arena, though, it signifies just how far the NHL team has come in 10 years. It also represe ...
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Track offers deals for early birds
Many racetracks offer discount tickets in the weeks before a race, but Michigan International Speedway plans to take the opposite approach next year. The racetrack will offer early ticket buyers the cheapest prices and increase prices gradually for later buyers. The tiered pricing approach is desig ...
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Trading places: From Giants to Jets
It takes 12 hours, 46 people to switch stadium's colors from one team to the other
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Panasonic scoreboard taking center stage at Staples Center
Staples Cente r will introduce Panasonic ’s first center-hung scoreboard in a big league arena. Panasonic is one of 10 founding partners at the Los Angeles arena. The electronics giant signed its deal in 2009 and has its video screens on display at L.A. Live , the retail and entertainment di ...
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TV contract, weather, have USTA once again talking roof
Following the controversial, rain-delayed end of this year’s U.S. Open Tennis Championships, the event’s owner, the U.S. Tennis Association, says it will strongly consider building a roof to avoid in the future the ratings downfall that has hit the tournament. The move marks a shift for the USTA in ...
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Track's video board will be biggest
Charlotte Motor Speedway plans to install the largest LED video board in U.S. sports this spring — a colossal, 80-foot-tall by 200-foot-wide Panasonic LED board. The single-screen board will face the track on the backstretch and is a first of its kind at a speedway. Its screen size is larger than t ...
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Jersey Share
Early in the New York Giants’ regular-season opener at New Meadowlands Stadium, the boo birds re-emerged after a winter of discontent to voice their displeasure with poor special teams performance by the Men in Blue. The next night, the same chorus could be heard over the Jets’ struggling offense. ...
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