Last chance for Farm Aid, New York Yankees tickets

The end of regular season baseball is just around the corner as eight teams, including the New York Yankees, host their final home games throughout the week ending September 22.

Though playoff positions are not in the cards for any teams closing the home season this weekend, tickets to the Yankees game will be particularly hot items. The September 21 game against the Baltimore Orioles will be the final at-bat for the pinstriped empire in the historic Yankee Stadium.

In other sports news, the 37th Ryder Cup runs September 16-21 at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, KY, making these the final days to score tickets to the competition. The UFC 90 in Rosemont, IL, goes down October 25, for those hoping to catch the latest bouts in the world of mixed martial arts.

Farm Aid 2008 will rock crowds at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA, this weekend. The one-day concert features headlining sets by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and Dave Matthews, among others.

Some big name tour pairings will part ways this week, starting September 18 with the final night of Taylor Swift's tenure with Rascal Flatts. On September 20, Toby Keith and Montgomery Gentry will also take the same stage for the last time before continuing on their separate itineraries.

"Last Chance" information is compiled at the beginning of the week, based on touring acts whose current itineraries are closing over the course of that week. The availability of tickets for Last Chance events depends on primary and secondary seller inventory, and may vary as tickets are sold in the days leading up to each event.

AC/DC tour announces first dates for 18-month 'Black Ice' trek

Legendary rock band AC/DC will get the "rock 'n' roll train" rolling next month with the first leg of the extensive 18-month Black Ice World Tour. The trek opens with a 23-city North American jaunt on October 28 at Wachovia Arena in Wilkes-Barre, PA, and continues through December 18 at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, NC.

The arena tour swings through major markets from coast-to-coast in the U.S., and includes two Canadian shows: November 7 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, ON, and November 28 at General Motors Place in Vancouver, BC. Other highlights include November 12-13 run at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY, and a December 6 show at The Forum in Inglewood, CA.

North American onsales are slated to begin September 20, with specific venue sale dates and prices to be announced. The Black Ice World Tour marks the band's first return to the road since 2001, AC/DC's longest hiatus since its founding in 1973.

The tour supports AC/DC's fifteenth studio album and first release in eight years, "Black Ice," which is set for an October 20 world release date. According to a statement from the band, the album's U.S. release will be sold exclusively in Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, as well as on the band's Web site. The first single from the album, "Rock 'n' Roll Train," is currently No. 5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock charts.

According to Billboard the band will continue their comeback in South America, Europe and Asia. World dates have not been released yet.


October 28 Wilkes-Barre, PA Wachovia Arena
October 30 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
November 3 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse
November 5 Auburn Hills, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
November 7 Toronto, ON Rogers Centre
November 9 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden
November 12 - 13 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
November 15 Washington, DC Verizon Center
November 17 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
November 19 East Rutherford, NJ IZOD Center
November 21 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center
November 23 Minneapolis, MN Xcel Energy Center
November 25 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
November 28 Vancouver, BC General Motors Place
November 29 Seattle, WA KeyArena
November 30 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
December 2 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
December 6 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
December 10 Phoenix, AZ US Airways Center
December 12 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
December 14 Houston, TX Toyota Center
December 16 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
December 18 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena

AC/DC has now announced additional tour dates.

December 20 Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (Bank Atlantic Center)
December 21 Tampa, Fla. (St. Pete Times Forum)
January 5 Cleveland (Quicken Loans Arena)
January 7 Pittsburgh (Mellon Arena)
January 9 Toronto (Rogers Centre)
January 11 Cincinnati (U.S. Bank Arena)
January 13 St. Louis (Scottrade Center)
January 15 Omaha, Neb. (Qwest Center)
January 17 Fargo, N.D. (Fargodome)
January 19 Minneapolis (Xcel Energy Center)
January 21 Kansas City, Mo. (Sprint Center)
January 23 Dallas (American Airlines Center)
January 26 Tulsa, Okla. (BOK Center)
January 28 Little Rock, Ark. (Alltel Arena)
January 30 Memphis (FedEx Forum)
January 31 Nashville (Sommet Center)

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How to Save when Shopping for Tickets Online

Are you fraustrated of seeing ticket scalpers buying tickets to events and reselling them for three or four times what they paid for them? or Were you disappointed that you could not make it to the game of your favorite team when they last played on home soil because soaring ticket prices? We at Tickethab.com are familiar with that feeling and will provide tips on how to get the best deals when shopping online for tickets to events. Consider the following tips when next you shopping for tickets:

1. Coordinate with sports teams
The rising cost of player salaries and the increase in operation expenses have led teams to raise ticket prices. It would therefore be helpful to contact the team's ticket office before the season begins so you could find out what special promotions they are going to be offering to the public. You may do this every once in a while throughout the year or you may also visit the team's website. You might just as well be surprised with what you would find out.

2. People who hold season tickets and don't go to the games at all may just be at arm's length. Some companies are given loads of tickets for free, and more often than not, the tickets go unused. You may want to check if your company is given tickets for upcoming ball games. Another option is for you to head directly to the stadium on the day of the game and take your chances of asking around to see if people have extra tickets that they are willing to sell.

3. Outwit the scalpers
Scalpers are people involved in fraudulent form of market manipulation. Simply put it this way - these are the people who buy large blocks of tickets and sell them to people who weren't able to buy before ticket stores were able to mark them as "sold out". However, you can always find ways to outwit them. If you are willing to wait until everyone is settled within the stadium, or if you would be willing to miss the first few minutes of the game, you can actually buy tickets from scalpers at the lowest price possible. Unsold tickets are money lost. The best time to purchase tickets from scalpers is when they are already panicked about not having to sell all the tickets that they have.

4.Go online.
In case you do not know just yet, there are a lot of auction sites available online. The cheapest sports tickets may be a few clicks away from you.
Going to ticket brokers are among the worst solutions to buying game tickets. However, this can be your only option if you really, badly need to see that upcoming game. When you buy tickets through brokers though, you would have to forget about getting discounts.
Watching live sports events can be both enjoyable and affordable if you would know where to buy the lowest price sports tickets. So start contacting team offices, do some research, browse auction sites and get the tickets for that much awaited ballgame without having to dish out much of your savings.

Bruce Springsteen to Play Super Bowl

Bruce Springsteen, according to the New York Post, has signed on to play half time at Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa Bay, FL, on Feb. 1, 2009.

The Super Bowl half time show has been known to feature the hottest acts of the time. But in recent years drew some controversy from Janet Jacksons wardrobe malfunction. Which is the reason for networks no being required to have an at least 5 second delay for live performances.

To give an idea of the scale of Super Bowl. The Boss and the E-street Band are coming off a 100 performance arena tour where they played for over 2 million fans. Just the Super Bowl alone will be aired to an audience of around 40 million people.

Previous Halftime acts:
2002 Super Bowl XXXVI U2 2003 Super Bowl XXXVII Shania Twain, No Doubt and Sting 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, P. Diddy, Nelly, Kid Rock 2005 Super Bowl XXXIX Paul McCartney 2006 Super Bowl XL The Rolling Stones 2007 Super Bowl XLI Prince 2008 Super Bowl XLII Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Yankees season ticket prices announced for new stadium

In a span of less than two years, four of New York's elite sports franchises will be moving into new luxurious stadiums promising to give fans a more enjoyable experience on game day. But in the months leading up to their respective openings, fans seem to be hearing more and more news about how their favorite teams will be reaching into their pockets.

In the past month, the Giants and Jets announced their personal seat license policies, and now this week the New York Yankees announced season ticket prices at the new Yankee Stadium set to open prior to the 2009 season.

For seats located just beyond the outfield wall, fans that purchase the full season package will be asked to fork over between $75 and $100 per ticket. But for fans that enjoy the experience of sitting in the bleachers of the old Yankee Stadium will be able to seamlessly move to the new stadium as the price for bleacher seats will go unchanged, remaining at $12 apiece.

Back in March, the Yankees announced their huge asking price of $500 to $2,500 for tickets to sit in premium seats that are located behind home plate. Despite the high asking price, the Associated Press reported that the team has sold more than 3,500 of the 4,300 premium seats.

"Other than those 4,300 seats, which are going to subsidize everybody else, the prices are not [being raised significantly]," Yankees COO Lonn Trost told the AP. "And remember, 24,000-plus seats will have no price increase at all."

For fans who are looking to purchase only partial season ticket plans of 41 or 20 games, only certain sections will be available. Those that are available include the least expensive field level seats, two most inexpensive main level sections on the main level and all of the terrace level each at $5 to $10 more than the full season ticket price. The grandstand and bleachers are also available for partial season ticket holders at no increase in price.

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