Super Bowl tickets prices drop $1,000 per seat in 2 days

Super Bowl tickets prices are dropping says Tom Wilson of www.tixx.com tickets are going to be around $2,000 to 2,500 each this weekend predict Wilson who has sold Super Bowl tickets for the last 27 years. http://www.season-tickets.com

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The Police reunite for Grammys

The Police reunite for Grammys

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007; 9:50 AM



NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Police will reunite to open the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 11, The Recording Academy said on Tuesday, fueling speculation that the hit 1980s band is planning a reunion tour.

The five-time Grammy-winning band, led by frontman Sting, with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, split up in 1984 and was last seen playing together in 2003 to commemorate their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The band, known for such hits as "Roxanne," "Message in a Bottle" and "Every Breath You Take," has never performed at the annual telecast for the music industry's most prestigious awards that are given by The Recording Academy.

"The Police join a stellar list of past Grammy Awards opening acts, which includes reunions and once-in-a-lifetime performances," said a statement from the academy.

Members of The Police have so far refused to confirm rumors that the band is planning to reunite in 2007 for dates in Britain and the United States, with this year marking the 30th anniversary of the release of "Roxanne."

Last month the band's label A&M Records, which is owned by Universal Music, said in a statement that they would mark the year somehow.

"It is our intention to mark the anniversary by doing something special with the band's catalog of songs. Needless to say, everyone is hopeful the band will support our plans and while early discussions have taken place, nothing has been decided," said the statement.

Other presenters at the Grammy Awards include Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Christina Aguilera, Melissa Etheridge and Stevie Wonder.

LEGENDARY rockers Led Zeppelin tour 2007 ?

LEGENDARY rockers Led Zeppelin are set to re-group after 22 years
for a money-spinning stadium tour of America.


The three surviving members — singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy
Page and bassist John Paul Jones — plan to hit the road next summer.


The trio hope to pocket £6.4million for the shows.


Robert, 54, Jimmy, 58, and 56-year-old John Paul met two weeks ago
at the offices of their management firm Trinifold.


They buried the hatchet over Page and Plant's 1990s tour, which John
Paul only learned about from a newspaper.


A band insider said last night: "If the right offer comes up they
will do it."


Trinifold added: "Jimmy is itching to do something, but there is
nothing firm yet."


Zeppelin split in 1980 after a booze binge killed drummer John
Bonham.


His son Jason is set to play drums on the tour.


The band, famed for songs like Stairway to Heaven and Whole Lotta
Love, are second only to the Beatles in worldwide album sales.


They still hold records for crowds at their 1970s concerts.


A music industry insider said: "They had so many hits that I am sure
the reunion would be a major success."
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Vince Neil Wants To Tempt You With His Tequila

Vince Neil Wants To Tempt You With His Tequila

Vince Neil, Motley Crue's lead singer, has a new gig. A while back I wrote about his foray into the world of wine. Neil now also has followed in the footsteps of another wild-haired rocker, and launched his own tequila. Neil's tequila is called Tres Rios and he will be appearing at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival on February 25 to show people how to make the perfect margarita.He will also be part of an auction that includes a case of signed bottles of Vince Neil's Tres Rios Tequila, two first class tickets on Delta Airlines to Las Vegas, a suite at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas and an invitation from Vince to have drinks with him in person at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, dinner at the RIO at Café Martorano and a Vince Neil autographed guitar. Other auction items include the chance to attend Auction Napa Valley as the guest of Beringer Vineyards, a whole host of tempting wine lots, and the chance to have a dinner for 10 with another celeb-turned-winemaker, Lorraine Bracco.

VAN HALEN Tour With DAVID LEE ROTH To Launch In Las Vegas? - Jan. 25, 2007

VAN HALEN Tour With DAVID LEE ROTH To Launch In Las Vegas? - Jan. 25, 2007

According to Norm Clarke of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, it's "looking good" that the VAN HALEN reunion tour, with David Lee Roth back in the fold after 22 years, will launch in Las Vegas. A late April date at the Palms' new venue, The Pearl, is "99 percent" likely, a source told Clarke. It would be the latest coup for Palms owner George Maloof, who will open the 2,500-seat venue with a lineup that includes TOOL, EVANESCENCE, GWEN STEFANI along with VAN HALEN, all in the first month. Many critics consider VAN HALEN the greatest party-metal rock band of all time.

Billboard.com reported yesterday (Wednesday, January 24) that a deal was to be signed for a VAN HALEN summer tour that would include 40 amphitheatre shows.

Meanwhile, guitarist Eddie Van Halen told Rolling Stone, "Everything is up in the air. We don't want to say anything prematurely." He added that Roth is not a deal-breaker for the band's summer tour plans, saying, "There's not just one person on this planet that can sing. We're not waiting on nothing." Drummer Alex Van Halen added, "Whoever the singer is, they'll be surrounded by Van Halens."

The band now includes Eddie's son Wolfgang on bass, and Eddie said, "Wait until you hear this kid play. I pick him up from school every day and we jam. We've got a shredding bass player now that's laying down the law for Alex, so I get to weave in and out."

Former bassist Michael Anthony once told Launch that there have been several failed attempts at getting David Lee Roth back in VAN HALEN. "We tried the reunion thing with Roth, I think, three, four — I don't know how many times, you know? — on any kind of level. At the end it was almost like, 'Let's just see if we can go out and play some shows and not even go in the studio,'and we couldn't even work that out with Roth."

VAN HALEN will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in March. The citation lists Roth and Sammy Hagar, but there's been no word if either or both will sing with the group that night.

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The Police to open Grammy awards?

The Police to open Grammy awards?
The Police reunion rumors just won't go away. The latest story making the rounds has the band opening up this year's Grammy Awards telecast, which will be held February 11th in Los Angeles and broadcast on CBS. If it's true, it will be their first public performance since they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10th, 2003, when they did "Roxanne," "Message In A Bottle," and "Every Breath You Take."

The other gossip is that the group has already booked about 80 shows for their reunion tour. However, while there's every belief that a tour will actually happen, sources in the concert promotion business have told us that 80 might be too high a number.

A management source didn't respond to a request for a comment.

Rage Against The Machine confirmed to headline Coachella 2007

Rage Against The Machine confirmed to headline Coachella
Rage Against The Machine will reunite after seven years for a headlining performance at the 2007 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The news, first rumored over the weekend, was confirmed by press representatives for the festival. The political rap-rock act, which was one of the biggest acts of the '90s, played Coachella's main stage during the festival's first edition in 1999. The group broke up in 2000 after three studio albums, one collection of covers and one live set. Guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk went on to form Audioslave with ex-Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, while frontman Zack de la Rocha worked on a still-unreleased solo album.

The Rage performance at this year's Coachella is being promoted as a "one-off," and there is no indication whether the group plans to tour or record again beyond this.

While the split between de la Rocha and his former bandmates was reportedly on bad terms, the vocalist and Morello appeared together at a 2005 rally to save a Los Angeles community garden, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Rage will be joined by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bjork as headliners at the eighth annual Coachella outing, scheduled for April 27th, 28th and 29th at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California. Tickets go on sale this Saturday (January 27th). This is the first year that the event has expanded to three days.

Other acts slated to appear on the bill include the Arcade Fire, Interpol, The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Arctic Monkeys, Sonic Youth, the Satellite Party, Kings Of Leon, Fountains Of Wayne and dozens more. Exact dates and times for each act will be announced in the next few days.

Tom Morello will also perform during the event as his political folk alter ego, the Nightwatchman. Morello will release his first Nightwatchman album, called One Man Revolution, on April 24th. Although he was initially hesitant to record as the Nightwatchman, Morello told us his position has gradually changed: "I've got a catalog of about 50 songs, and it's really been the kind of thing where I've looked at the Nightwatchman stuff as, you know, the black Robin Hood of folk music, where I just show up when needed, for this particular benefit or that particular protest, or this tour to rail against authority. But I think it's important to record those songs, because I believe in them."

Audioslave released its third studio album, Revelations, last fall, but has been on a hiatus while Cornell records a new solo effort.


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When Buying Super Bowl tickets pay by Credit Card

When Buying Super Bowl tickets pay by Credit Card this way you know your protected do not buy tickets from anyone who want a bank wire ...its always fraud when they ask for a bank wire

VP of Advanced Solutions for eBay takes over STUBHUB

Congrats to Chris Tsakalakis!
Chris Tsakalakis, VP of Advanced Solutions for eBay (included eBay Stores, ProStores and the eBay Developer's program), is moving over to help manage the StubHub/tickets integration. It's part of the eBay acquisition 'play book' to parachute in a senior eBay person to help with the integration and also provide back-fill should the acquired exec(s) depart. (e.g. Rajiv at Skype, Kazim in Paypal, etc.).

We've been working with Chris for a couple of years in the eBay dev program part of his responsibilities and he's always been great to deal with so it's exciting to see him moving up the eBay management ladder. Also, with the documented Brain Drain we've been following here in detail, it's refreshing to see a long-time eBay VP staying to do something new vs. leaving eBay.

If you want to learn more about Chris, here's a snazzy bio also here's the post he made to the eBay store forum and the reaction from sellers.

Lori Goler will be taking over for Chris and reporting to Mike Linton (who we previously reported was the CMO of BBUY and will now be running non-core eBay properties).

The eBay Developer program is going to Max Mancini. I met Max at the EEF and he has an interesting background. He has an entrepreneurial background (CEO ConsumerReview.com) and was last involved with Kijiji at eBay.

Super Bowl Tickets Allotted by Lottery

Super Bowl Tickets Allotted by Lottery

Jan 22, 2007 07:17 AM EST

INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis Colts officials say Super Bowl tickets won't go on sale to the general public.

The team says it will receive an allotment of tickets but its team allotment has already been assigned to season ticket holders.

A random drawing, which was weighted by seniority and number of seats, has already been conducted and season ticket holders have been notified.


The Colts face Chicago in Miami on February 4th.


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Sting and his original band, The Police 30 year renuion tour

Sting and his original band, The Police, appear close to reuniting, Foxnews.com reported. On Sunday, former Police members Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland and their families were guests at a Malibu, Calif., birthday party for Sting's wife, Trudie Styler. On Thursday, Sting dedicated a lute version of "Message in a Bottle" to the pair who were in the audience at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The Police's 30th anniversary as a band would be this summer.for more info on tickets go to www.season-tickets.com

Sting plans comeback for The Police

Sting plans comeback for The Police
(Tuesday January 16, 2007 11:36 AM)

It appears that rocker Sting wants 80s band The Police to reform.

The singer is in talks with drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers, according to the Daily Mirror.

It is not known whether they would reform for good or for a one-off gig or album.

"We started 30 years ago, so it would be nice to do something to celebrate. We don't quite know what, but we're talking about it," he is quoted by the paper as saying.

"I'm very proud of the band we were in. I left the band because I felt I wanted to grow as a musician, to mature as a musician and try to do more things than a band is able to do."

Fame and fortune came in 1977 when the star teamed up with American drummer Stewart to form The Police, with guitarist Andy joining shortly after.

Initially labelled "punk", they evolved into a mainstream, chart-topping band releasing hit after hit worldwide. Message In A Bottle began a run of five No 1 singles.

Sting - real name Gordon Sumner - went solo in 1985, combining his jazz-rock roots with a skilful knack of writing commercial songs.

The Police split up in the mid 80s after their final album Synchronicity sold more than 10 million copies.

The group played together in New York in March 2003 when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Super Bowl tickets Face Value is now $600 & $700 per ticket

The tickets, which have a face value of $600 to $700, sell for four times that amount through www.tixx.com -- where most football fans look for tickets to buy.

The NFL says face-value tickets generally go to its corporate sponsors, team owners and season-ticket holders lucky enough to win a chance to buy them through a lottery system.

The NFL also holds back tickets for thier own ticket & hotel packages something that us in the ticket business have been doing for 20 plus years.

Gone are the days of the $175.00 face value ticket that we used to sell for $700 each and fans thought we were ripping them off. now the NFL has raised the face value of the ticket to $700 each! oh how time have changed.

Before the days of the internet We would spend ten thousand on ads in the major newspaper of the teams going to the big game and buy the tickets in the parking lot when fans picked them up.

The internet has made the prices of Super Bowl tickets sky rocket as more fans look to buy the tickets and learn that as long as you have a good credit limit on you visa, mastercard or amex you too can see the biggest event in sports live.

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New Orleans Saints one game away from the Super Bowl

Ticket prices could drop this year for the Super Bowl as the New Orleans Saints, are one game away from the Super Bowl in Miami. Tickets prices to the Super Bowl are based on demand and Miami is the favorite site of the corporate heavweights who love to go to the game each years based more upon the weather and the week long parites than the matchup . For fans, the New Orleans Saint could bring some relief to ticket prices, as they do not have a huge national following, like Dallas Cowboys,Green Bay Packers, or the Steelers. look for prices to drop this week. you can view the current Super Bowl ticket prices at www.tixx.com

Van Halen Reunion 'Inevitable' summer 2007 concert tour

Roth: Van Halen Reunion 'Inevitable'

Billboard says........ after trying to follow Howard Stern on New York radio ....

January 03, 2006,

Barry A. Jeckell & Paul Heine, N.Y.
Reuniting the original Van Halen lineup is just a matter of time, according to David Lee Roth. "I talked to the drummer [Alex Van Halen] about a week ago," the band's former lead singer tells the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. "And I think, eventually, the inevitable will happen."

"It definitely won't be rockers with walkers," he adds, seemingly indicating that a reunion is in the near, as opposed to distant, future. "Getting onstage and singing 'Dance the Night Away' -- let me tell you how difficult that isn't going to be."

The comments came in a Q&A about Roth's new career: morning radio host. Once one of rock's notorious bad boys, the performer debuted today (Jan. 3) in the 6 a.m.-10 a.m. slot on more than a half dozen stations that formerly broadcast Howard Stern, who will soon bow a show on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Along with Alex and Eddie Van Halen (guitar) and Michael Anthony (bass), Roth is a founding member of Van Halen, who recorded and performed with the band from the mid 1970s until his exit in 1985. When his replacement, Sammy Hagar, left Van Halen in 1996, Roth recorded a pair of new songs with his former bandmates for a career retrospective, but tensions kept the reunion from progressing any further.

After Van Halen parted ways with former Extreme frontman Gary Cherone after a single album, Roth once again tested the waters with his old crew early in the 21st Century, but the project's momentum sagged when Eddie Van Halen was diagnosed with cancer.

Roth, whose solo career started off promisingly with hit remakes of "Just a Gigolo" and "California Girls," has seen his star fade substantially from his glory days. In recent years he has recorded and toured sporadically, including a summer 2002 co-headlining jaunt with Hagar; he has also worked as an emergency medical technician in New York, gaining his certification in 2004.

But for now, Roth's concentration is on his radio career, based at "92.3 Free FM" WFNY New York, formerly known as WXRK and "K-Rock."

"Where do you start on a gig like this?" he asked on the air this morning, before answering his own question with a post-New Year's discussion of what to eat when you have a hangover. For Roth, it's "a two-cheeseburger happy meal super-sized with a Coke."

In his first hour, Roth also reminisced about listening to radio for the first time as a child in the early '60s. He briefly sang along to a soul song and made suggestions about what should be done with the space at Ground Zero in New York’s lower Manhattan.

Roth didn't wrangle any rock royalty guests to help him through his first syndicated show, though he did take one jab at an old bandmate. When WFNY had difficulty putting callers on the air, Roth quipped, "Who's manning the phones, Eddie Van Halen?"

But despite that and plenty of public feuding with his old band, some of it aired in his 1997 autobiography, "Crazy From the Heat," Roth holds his career with Van Halen in an honorable place.

"When people bring up Van Halen, I talk about it with pride and with no apprehension at all," he told the Tribune Review. "I play those songs all the time."




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The Police Reunion Tour summer 2007 www.tixx.com

Tour Dates for The Police are rumoured


With the 30th anniversary of "Roxanne" approaching, this would be the perfect time for a little get-together on the road. According to Soul Shine Magazine, there is a post on Sting’s official Web site saying, "Discussions have been underway as to how this will be commemorated." Sounds like one heck of a non-answer. But according to Billboard, drummer Stewart Copeland is "very keen on it." Supposedly, so is guitarist Andy Summers.

While the band is planning to release a DVD collection and another multi-disc album of its top hits, it just somehow doesn’t feel like enough.
stay tuned to www.tixx.com for the latest tour information for The Police reunion tour 2007 will happen



The Police were founded by drummer Stewart Copeland in early 1977. Singer-bassist Sting and guitarist Henry Padovani began rehearsing with Copeland in January 1977, and they recorded their first Police single "Fall Out/Nothing Achieving" the following month.

[edit] Reunion
In early 2007, reports surfaced in England that the trio would reunite for a tour to mark their 30th anniversary based on reports from internet communities[2]. The concerts would coincide with Universal Music (current owners of the A&M label) re-releasing some material from the band's back catalog [3]. The following statement was released on behalf of the band by a spokesperson at Interscope Geffen A&M Records and posted on Sting's official website: "As the 30th anniversary of the first Police single approaches, discussions have been underway as to how this will be commemorated. While we can confirm that there will indeed be something special done to mark the occasion, the depth of the band's involvement still remains undetermined."

A Police reunion has been the concert industry's dream for two decades, as it is believed the band could play stadiums internationally should it choose to reunite. But besides an impromptu set at Sting's 1992 wedding to Trudie Styler, the Police's only other post-breakup performance was in celebration of its 2003 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

And while Sting has repeatedly expressed reluctance at reuniting, drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers have kept the flame alive. This summer, Summers told Billboard he was certain the group could have continued past its 1983 commercial peak with "Synchronicity."



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Wall street comments on Ebay buying Stubhub

Reaction to eBay's StubHub purchase
Posted Jan 12th 2007 12:57PM by Melly Alazraki
Filed under: Analyst reports, Deals, Industry, Competitive strategy, eBay (EBAY), IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI)

It's been a couple of days and it's time to see how the Street reacted to eBay Inc.'s (NASDAQ:EBAY) recent purchase of StubHub Inc.

the rest of the article is here

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/01/12/reaction-to-ebays-stubhub-purchase/


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Google reader trends a very cool app

Official Google Reader Blog: I like big charts and I cannot lie


a great way to see all the blogs you read in on place. sometimes i forget what i have subscribed to !

Rosie Vs. The Donald ...The Musical on Broadway

We could sell alot of tickets to this


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Mary Poppins THE NEXT BIG HIT BROADWAY SHOW FROM DISNEY

Mary Poppins THE NEXT BIG HIT BROADWAY SHOW FROM DISNEY

tickets take the kids we have tickets for $30.00

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Super Bowl XLI, South Florida -- Feb. 4, 2007 (CBS)
Super Bowl XLI will be the record-tying (New Orleans) ninth Super Bowl played in the Miami area. Super Bowl XLI will be the fourth Super Bowl played at Dolphins Stadium. The other five Miami Super Bowls were played at the Orange Bowl.


Super Bowl XLII, Glendale, Ariz. -- Feb. 3, 2008 (FOX)
Super Bowl XLII will be played in brand new Cardinals Stadium that opened for the 2006 season. The site of the 2008 Super Bowl was decided at the owners' meetings in Chicago on Oct. 29-30, 2003.



Super Bowl XLIII, Tampa, Fla. -- Feb. 1, 2009 (NBC)
Super Bowl XLIII will be the fourth Super Bowl in Tampa, and the first one since 2001, when the Baltimore Ravens defeated the New York Giants, 34-7, in Super Bowl XXXV.

Super Bowl XLIV, South Florida -- TBA, 2010 (CBS)
The Super Bowl will return to the Miami area in 2010, when it will surpass New Orleans for the most Super Bowls. It will be the fifth Super Bowl played at Dolphins Stadium.

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Previews Begin for Las Vegas PRODUCERS on January 31

Previews Begin for Las Vegas PRODUCERS on January 31
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by BWW News Desk


The most honored show in Broadway history, the Mel Brooks musical comedy THE PRODUCERS, at Paris Las Vegas announces today that during previews, locals can purchase tickets for $60 (including taxes and service charges) with valid Nevada ID. Previews begin January 31, 2007 and run for one week.

“Previews are essential for fine tuning the show prior to the grand opening,” said Michael Weaver, vice-president of marketing for the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino.

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Rod Stewart Tickets and Tour Schedule for Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart Tickets and Tour Schedule for Rod Stewart

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Call 1-732.280.3434 for Rod Stewart tickets

Rod Stewart will kick off a 56-city North American tour in support of his most recent covers effort, "Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time."
The arena tour will feature Stewart and his nine-piece band performing on a rotating, round stage.

The entertainer will likely draw only a handful of songs from "Still the Same," and leave tracks from his four volumes of the successful "Great American Songbook" series behind.

"We're not going to be doing the Songbook on this tour," he said in September.
"If ['Still the Same'] is half as successful as those were, we'll bring in five or six of these songs straightaway on tour."
He also plans on incorporating hits from his earlier rock albums, like "Blondes Have More Fun" and "Downtown Train."

"Still the Same," released Oct. 10, became the 61-year-old singer's fourth No. 1 album, moving 184,000 copies in its first week.


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Divisional Round Brings Promise for Great Games

Divisional Round Brings Promise for Great Games
January 11, 2007
You know you’re headed for a good weekend of football when the games are tough to predict and everything is on the line. That’s the case with all four NFL divisional playoff games on tap for this weekend, and each game provides at least one interesting and intriguing subplot.

Seattle at Chicago - Can Rex Grossman play well?

Philadelphia at New Orleans - Can the Eagles, the hottest team in the NFC, send America’s darlings home for the winter?

Indianapolis at Baltimore - What’s going to give - Indy’s high-powered offense or Baltimore’s intimidating defense?

New England at San Diego - Will Marty Schottenheimer overcome his playoff reputation?

No one knows the answers to any of these questions, which is why America will be watching. If you’d like to see the games for yourself, log onto StubHub.com and choose from the available NFL playoff tickets.

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Yankees opening day tickets onsale now

www.tixx.com has tickets for the New York Yankees home opener tickets are going for $100.0 each call 1-800-688-4000


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Becks isn't getting big bucks ($250M!) just for soccer

Becks isn't getting big bucks ($250M!) just for soccer
Posted: Thursday January 11, 2007 3:30PM; Updated: Thursday January 11, 2007 6:22PM


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David Beckham earns about $7.7 million a year from Real Madrid.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Soccer star David Beckham will reportedly earn $250 million in a five-year deal to play in the United States -- but at least 80 percent of that money has nothing to do with his kicking a ball for the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Although Beckham, who leaves Real Madrid at the end of the season, will become the highest paid player for Major League Soccer (MLS) in the United States, MLS sources say his annual playing income is only in the "single-figure millions."

With Beckham getting paid up to $50 million over five years for playing soccer, where does the rest of the money come from?

"Most of the value is from David's worldwide endorsement," MLS Deputy Commissioner Ivan Gazidis said on Thursday. "That's a separate deal. That's his deal with CAA (Creative Artists Agency) and 19 Entertainment. That's not something we're involved in.

"Obviously I think the feeling is that coming to the United States boosts the value of (the Beckham) brand and the revenues that can be generated from it, but that's not our business," he said. "It wasn't part of our contract discussions at all."

Beckham's playing contract falls well short of the big deals signed in Major League Baseball, where Alex Rodriguez is being paid $252 million and Derek Jeter $189 million, both over 10 years.

Scott Branvold, a professor in sports management at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, said the Beckham brand -- which includes the soccer player's wife, former Spice Girl pop star Victoria Beckham -- goes well beyond the game of soccer.

But he questioned whether Beckham truly could earn $200 million over five years through sponsorship and other business deals.

"Soccer has struggled so much in the United States that you certainly have to wonder whether there is any realistic possibility. Maybe he will do a reality show," he said.

"The fact that I would recognize who he is, and he hasn't really played in the United States, probably is commentary to the fact that his name is probably somewhat bigger than soccer itself," said Branvold.



Beckham earns about $7.7 million a year from Real Madrid and an estimated $1.00 from www.tixx.com




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BARRY MANILOW. And what can we possibly say about him?

BARRY MANILOW. And what can we possibly say about him? (8 p.m., Madison Square Garden, Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street, Manhattan tickets are just $135.00

How eBay Makes Regulations Disappear

How eBay Makes Regulations Disappear
By KATIE HAFNER
IN quick succession one morning last month, Louisiana state legislators plowed through a long list of bills, including one to relocate the motor vehicle commission, another to regulate potentially abusive lending practices, and yet another that was the handiwork of eBay, the digital shopping mall that bills itself as "the world's online marketplace."

EBay had worked overtime to ensure the passage of Senate Bill 642, which sought to exempt some Internet transactions — like those that occur on its Web site — from Louisiana licensing requirements for businesses conducting auctions. As the State Senate's Commerce Committee convened to consider the bill, Duane Cowart, an eBay lobbyist, testified that forcing eBay "trading assistants" to fork over $300 for a license was unduly burdensome.

"What they do on the Internet is not an auction, and they are not auctioneers," Mr. Cowart told the committee. Trading assistants take items on consignment from other owners and put them up for bid on eBay, but Mr. Cowart said their activities were more akin to placing classified ads. Louisiana's senators seemed to agree with him wholeheartedly. "I think eBay is great," said one, while another regaled the room about his adventures shopping for a Plymouth Prowler on eBay. State Senator Noble E. Ellington, a Democrat who sponsored the bill at Mr. Cowart's behest, beamed as his colleagues gave the legislation their unanimous support.

EBay's lobbying activities are not confined to Louisiana. As the company has spread its innovative and influential wings across the Internet, it has also woven together a muscular and wily lobbying apparatus that spans 25 states. "It is a fast-moving train, and if you get in front of it you'll get flattened," said Sherrie Wilks, an official with Louisiana's licensing agency, who is concerned that eBay flouts regulatory oversight by persuading state legislators to take the company's side.

Regulators in other states also say that when they try to erect guidelines around eBay's activities, they quickly encounter the realities of the company's political power, raising anew the perennial questions about the proper balance among public policy, consumer protection and business interests. EBay's lobbying tactics, meanwhile, illustrate the spoils to be won when a savvy, resourceful company combines local political persuasion and grass-roots rallying to get lucrative regulatory exemptions that allow it to safeguard its profits.

EBay's efforts have been remarkably successful, and the company, which has worked tirelessly to cultivate its image as a friendly neighborhood bazaar even as it engages in hard-nosed lobbying, is not shy about boasting of its victories. Last year, Ohio passed a law that would have regulated eBay sellers, but the company moved quickly — with the help of seasoned lobbyists — to have a pre-emptive and more favorable bill passed.

"We realized what was there, and we worked with local lobbyists and were able to get the law reversed," said Tod Cohen, eBay's vice president for government relations. He oversees the company's efforts to convince state lawmakers of a core eBay belief: that state regulation can impede the flow of e-commerce.

The Federal Trade Commission, which has loosened regulations across a broad range of industries, appears to agree. Late last week, responding to a request from Mr. Ellington for an analysis of the Louisiana bill, the agency advised that the bill promoted competition and increased consumer choice.

Unlike many other Internet companies, eBay has to be especially fleet-footed when it comes to stopping what it perceives as hostile regulation, whether it involves the growing number of eBay drop-off stores — places like UPS stores and small shops where people take their goods to be sold on eBay — or the more general category of trading assistants. Anyone engaged in selling on the site depends on a relatively friction-free environment in order to make a profit. So does eBay, because its overall corporate goal is to keep sales volumes high.

At any given moment, 89 million items are for sale on eBay, and the mother ship — eBay itself — gets a fee for each successful transaction. It also charges its 193 million registered users listing fees for any products they display on the site. EBay's gross transaction fees for the first quarter of 2006 alone were more than $500 million, a 30 percent increase over the same quarter in 2005. Keeping regulators at bay, particularly those whose efforts might slow down sales traffic, is a particularly high priority for the company.

Regulations are threatening to eBay for another reason as well. They set precedents. Once a law regulating eBay sellers takes hold in one state, other states are more likely to follow suit. And not only do licenses and other regulatory requisites increase the cost of selling items on eBay, but regulations may deter entrepreneurs who are thinking of introducing eBay-based businesses. Although regulations can help rein in con artists and other fraudsters masquerading as legitimate vendors on eBay — which is why most regulators say they favor strict licensing requirements — eBay sees its online community as self-regulating.

Analysts say the company has little room to maneuver when it comes to opposing outside oversight.

"EBay doesn't have a choice," said Ina Steiner, editor of Auctionbytes.com, an online newsletter. "This is such a tight-margin, price-sensitive business that if there are excessive regulations on sellers, it will affect eBay dramatically."

Accordingly, eBay fights regulators who try to categorize it as an auction house — despite the fact that for years eBay has used the word "auction" when describing what takes place on its site. In securities filings from 1998, the year eBay went public, it said that it "pioneered online person-to-person trading by developing a Web-based community in which buyers and sellers are brought together in an efficient and entertaining auction format." In the annual report last year, eBay said it provided the "infrastructure to enable online commerce in a variety of formats, including the traditional auction platform."

Yet eBay contends that such references are informal and says that auction laws — many of them written long before the Internet and eBay even existed — should not apply to its sellers.

Chris Donlay, an eBay spokesman, said the timed auctions on eBay were fundamentally different from "someone who holds a live auction in front of an audience until he has achieved the highest price possible for the client." Instead, as the company says on its Web site, eBay merely "offers an online platform where millions of items are traded each day."

THE headquarters of the Louisiana Auctioneers Licensing Board is a modest, three-room office in Baton Rouge with two employees and a dial-up Internet connection. The agency says its mission is to protect the public from "unqualified, irresponsible or unscrupulous individuals."

Late last year, the agency's seven-member board, concerned about possible abuses, decided that eBay trading assistants doing business in Louisiana needed licenses. Last summer, Jim Steele, a retired police officer who is the agency's investigator, started paying visits to eBay sellers around Louisiana who were registered as trading assistants.

Among those visited by Mr. Steele was Cheryl Brown, who runs a small eBay business out of her modest one-story home in Hammond, about an hour's drive east of Baton Rouge. Ms. Brown keeps an eclectic mix of wares — including shoes, belts and Black & Decker laser levels — piled around a bed in a spare back bedroom. Mr. Steele arrived at Ms. Brown's door last February and told her that she needed to get an auction-business license or face a cease-and-desist order.

Ms. Brown said she was "blown away" to find herself singled out. After all, she said, her sales averaged little more than $2,000 a month. Even so, she paid $300 for the license and an additional $250 for a surety bond the licensing board required.

Ms. Brown has yet to make a single sale as a trading assistant ("I don't want to sell people's old clothing," she said) and says she would rather not have to have a license. But, she said, she also enjoys the extra credential that a license gives her. Further, she said, she believes that her transactions on eBay are, in fact, auctions. "My opinion is that eBay is the one doing the auctioning," she said. "They're in control."

Ms. Brown's opinion is shared by Brian Leleux, an eBay seller at the opposite side of the state and the opposite end of the eBay sales revenue stream. Mr. Leleux employs nearly a dozen people and sells some $120,000 each month in recliners, inflatable air beds and other goods on eBay, making him an eBay "Platinum PowerSeller." He pays eBay about $12,000 every month in listing and transaction fees and an additional $2,100 to PayPal, eBay's automated payment subsidiary.

Mr. Leleux operates his business, MassageKing.com, in a large warehouse near Lafayette, and Mr. Steele visited him there earlier this year. Mr. Leleux had signed up with eBay as a trading assistant but done very few consignment sales. Still, he paid the state's fee and applied for the license. Like Ms. Brown, Mr. Leleux said that he did not want a license but that it did give him "one more bit of legitimacy," a notion that appealed to him. And he, too, says he believes that eBay is an auction house.

Still, not every eBay trading assistant was so compliant when Mr. Steele came calling. Barry Simpson has a computer equipment store in Morgan City and sells items on eBay as a sideline. Earlier this year, Mr. Simpson said, Mr. Steele visited him and insisted that he be licensed, even after Mr. Simpson said he would prefer to stop being a trading assistant. Mr. Simpson refused to get a license and complained to eBay, after which the company stepped up its legislative push in Louisiana.

"At that point, we decided we needed to act," said Mr. Donlay, the eBay spokesman.

Mr. Simpson says he believes that complying with certain regulations just does not add up. "If someone comes in and tells me I need a license and I'm selling something for someone else, and I don't do enough of that business, I'll quit," he said.

Unlike most entrepreneurs, Mr. Simpson has a well-heeled and influential corporation — as vigilant about its own interests as it is about his — ready to take on regulators. And eBay appears to be prepared to contest regulators in almost any state where it feels that its prerogatives are threatened.

In California last year, a bill that would have subjected eBay drop-off stores to restrictions now placed on pawnbrokers died quickly after eBay executives — including Meg Whitman, the chief executive — met with leaders of the Republican caucus of the Legislature. "The Republican votes we thought we had withered away," said Leland Y. Yee, the Democratic California assemblyman who sponsored the bill.

Last year, after eBay waged a protracted lobbying effort in Illinois, the state revised its laws to allow Internet auction sites to compete with licensed ticket brokers and sell tickets for more than their face value. New York and Florida have passed similar amendments after eBay lobbied for changes.

Auctioneering laws like those in Louisiana are another focus for eBay. In Maine and Tennessee, after eBay intervened, laws were changed to exempt Internet auctions from licensing requirements.

All of this is just a matter of common sense, according to some people involved in the debate. Ms. Steiner, the newsletter editor, says that many eBay sellers do their trading part time or in addition to another job. "If they are overregulated by licensing fees," she said, "they will abandon their eBay business." For its part, eBay is leaving little to chance.

Over the last eight years, eBay has built a stable of local lobbyists in 25 states. Those lobbyists — who work on retainers that can reach $10,000 a month, according to state lobbying registration documents — have also made contributions to individual politicians who sponsor bills favorable to eBay. For example, Mr. Cowart's political action committee in Louisiana contributed $2,000 to Mr. Ellington in 2005. And eBay lobbyists in Illinois have contributed thousands of dollars to politicians who supported the ticket-scalping bill.

EBay combines its politics-as-usual approach with more creative grass-roots tactics. It keeps its membership informed about regulatory issues as soon as they crop up, using mass e-mail messages and a year-old Web-based initiative called "eBay Main Street," which sends out "legislative alerts" and provides letters that users can send to government officials. Bowing to the traditions of ward politicos adept at turning out the vote, eBay routinely summons its sellers and sends them on personal visits to statehouses around the country to meet with legislators.

"What better way to get a response than to get to the grass roots, which is eBay's members," said Kathy Greer, an eBay seller in New Hampshire, where there has been continuing debate about regulating eBay sellers. "Let them go out and fight your battle."

WHEN eBay sent e-mail messages in April to its Louisiana members to tell them their livelihoods could be threatened by the state's intention to require licenses — and urged them to take action — Ms. Wilks, the licensing agency's sole administrator, was besieged with phone calls and e-mail messages from angry eBay sellers. After she explained that the board intended to require that only about 460 registered eBay trading assistants be licensed, the hubbub died down.

But some sellers who joined in the campaign say they felt that eBay had misled them by making it appear that the proposed regulations were more sweeping. "They approached it in a very underhanded way," said Stephen Dille, a Baton Rouge accountant who sells items intermittently on eBay but received the alert and sent an e-mail message to Ms. Wilks. "I always thought of them as a good company, but now I'm questioning their culture, and their ethics."

Anna Dow, a lawyer for the Louisiana licensing board, put it more forcefully. "They're being deliberately misrepresentational of what's going on," she said.

For their part, eBay officials say that the licensing board has repeatedly refused to give the company a clear answer on whom it plans to regulate, so it has sent e-mail messages to a wide variety of recipients. EBay's anti-regulatory stance extends to storefront drop-off centers, which have been proliferating rapidly around the country. Vendors welcome the company's help.

Debbie Gordon, the owner of Snappy Auctions, a nationwide chain of eBay drop-off stores that is based in Nashville, says she believes that all eBay consignment stores should follow certain practices to make sure that customers are protected. But she was outraged two years ago when Tennessee regulators told her that she would have to get an auctioneer's license and attend a week of auctioneering school.

Ms. Gordon paid $700 for a license and other fees and spent what she called "five days I'll never get back" at a training course for auctioneers. "Ninety-nine percent of the course had nothing to do with our business," she recalled. "It was about traditional auctioneering, cattle and land and firearms."

Soon after a local newspaper publicized Ms. Gordon's experience, eBay stepped in. It convinced lawmakers that not only did outfits like Ms. Gordon's have no relationship to hog calling, but also that because of the timed nature of an eBay auction, the transactions were altogether different and thus not subject to auctioneering laws.

"We fundamentally believe that auctioneering laws are not applicable, are detrimental and are being used to harm competition," said Mr. Cohen of eBay in an interview. "They protect entrenched incumbents rather than enhancing competition, consumer choice and entrepreneurial spirit."

BUT Ms. Wilks of the Louisiana licensing board says that if trading assistants on eBay are not required to have licenses, people like Linda Williams will have nowhere to turn. Earlier this year, Ms. Williams, who lives near Baton Rouge, gave an antique couch to someone to sell on consignment on eBay, she said. The couch was sold, Ms. Williams said, but she did not see a penny of the proceeds.

Ms. Williams called the licensing board, which found that the seller was an auctioneer who was already facing a separate investigation. A bank seized his assets — which included a warehouse filled with items he had taken on consignment from dozens of people, including Ms. Williams — and his license was revoked, according to Ms. Wilks and Ms. Dow. "They were very helpful, and told me to call any time," said Ms. Williams of her experience with the licensing board. "If it wasn't for them, there would be nothing I could do."

EBay executives say that stories like this do not mean that more laws are required. They point out that law enforcement agencies are set up to investigate Internet fraud. "Regulators regulate — that is their job," Mr. Cohen said. "But we have an obligation as a company to protect our community."

Shortly after the first legislative hearing on Senate Bill 642 in Louisiana, eBay sent out another e-mail alert, this time to its biggest sellers in the state. The company asked sellers to attend a meeting late last month to update them on the bill and to brief them on other potential impediments to their businesses. Some 50 sellers from around the state attended the meeting at a Baton Rouge Marriott. Michelle Peacock, eBay's director of state government relations, flew in from California to join Mr. Cowart, the lobbyist. Large colorful billboards outlining "barriers to e-commerce" decorated the room.

Ms. Peacock discussed the proposed revisions to Louisiana's auctioneer statute and talked about a bill supporting the elimination of restrictions on the resale of tickets on the Internet. After the meeting, several attendees piled onto a shuttle bus that eBay provided and drove to the Capitol to talk with their state representatives about Senate Bill 642.

The next day, the Commerce Committee of the Louisiana House of Representatives took up the bill, which the State Senate had already passed. The bill received unanimous support in the committee. Mr. Ellington, the state senator, said in an interview last week that he expected to see the bill pass the full House this week — without a hitch.

Iris Smalbrugge contributed reporting for this article.

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