| Super Bowl parties won't come cheap | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:21:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | Tickets to Super Bowl XLI in Miami will be expensive on the resale market, about $2,700 each for upper end zone seats in Dolphin Stadium, according to a number of online brokers. Tickets to the Super Bowl Playboy party at AmericanAirlines Arena the night before the big game? A cool $2,500 apiece, sold by the same brokers. When a party costs nearly as much to attend as the main event, priorities may appear to be skewed. But the Super Bowl is the biggest game in sports, which means everyone's hosting a party -- celebrities, athletes, sports agents, cheerleaders and a number of companies pitching their brands. ''The Super Bowl used to be a one-day event, but now it's turned out to be a weeklong activity,'' said Todd Rubin, owner of Todd's Tickets, a brokerage with locations in the Aventura Mall, Bal Harbour Shops and Boca Raton Town Center.... | |
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| | | Good, bad and ugly | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 1:18:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Archie Griffin and Steve Spurrier, Heisman Trophy winners and iconic college football figures, share something else in common. The former first-round NFL draft picks failed to produce on the professional level as much as they did for Ohio State and Florida, respectively. However, the Buckeyes and Gators - who meet in Monday's BCS national championship game - have few peers when it comes to producing NFL talent. The numbers are staggering: .... | |
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| | | 49ers seek an end to road woes | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:09:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Years ago, back when the 49ers' trophy case was still empty, Bill Walsh decided that the best way to prepare for the demands of the regular season was to train in a demanding place. He moved the team's training camp from the comforts of the Bay Area to the isolation and searing heat of Rocklin. That was in 1981 and, by the end of the season, the 49ers had the first of their five Super Bowls and would establish a reputation as one of the toughest road teams in the NFL. The 49ers no longer train on the road. And they no longer win on the road, either. Since deciding to keep training camp at team headquarters starting with the 2003 season, the 49ers are 3-24 away from home heading into today's game against the Lions in Detroit. The team has fallen on hard times overall, but the problems grow exponentially on the road where the 49ers have been embarrassed by scores of 41-0, 34-0 and 42-3 in recent seasons.... | |
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| | | Steelers starting to speak out about a season gone wrong | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:32:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | The ring ceremonies and confident talk of winning a second Super Bowl title in as many seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers are long gone, replaced by the harsh reality of a season fast sinking into abject failure. The handshakes and hugging from February are a fading memory as the Steelers haul a 2-6 record into the second half of a season gone wrong. Their 31-20 loss Sunday to Denver was their third in a row and enabled them to match their worst record at this stage of a season in coach Bill Cowher's 15 seasons. It also is the franchise's worst such record -- also achieved in 2003 under Cowher and in 1988 and 1986 under Chuck Noll -- since the 1969 Steelers were 1-7 during a 14-game season. Only nine months since proudly raising their first Super Bowl trophy in 26 years, the Steelers have sunk to these depths: No AFC team has a worse record.... | |
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| | | Kea-Guffin becomes champion of first annual Powderpuff Super Bowl | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 1:47:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sophomore Brittany O'Neal pointed out that it was nice to have people cheering them on; it makes the game more fun and keeps the players motivated. Kea-Guffin, the winner of the Super Bowl, was awarded a trophy that will be passed around for years to come. Kea-Guffin beat NCH-Hainer by a score of 28-14. The league was started at the beginning of this year by O'Neal. For their first season, she said that there has been a lot of excitement and enthusiasm. "It gives people something to care about," she said. The coaches as well as the players share in the excitement. First-year student Kate Illian said, "It's giving you something else to do besides work." "Whenever you start something new, it will be a little messy," O'Neal said concerning the start of the football league.... | |
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| | | Knights Focus On South Tampa Bowl, Not Setbacks | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:44:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | TAMPA - Robinson's football team has endured more in seven days than most squads will experience in four years. The Knights were defeated last Friday by Jesuit in a Class 3A-District 11 game. That loss resulted in a three-way tie for second place with Jesuit and Palmetto, and a tiebreaker was played Monday. Robinson was defeated by Palmetto during the tiebreaker, ending its hopes of making the playoffs. The Robinson family took another hit on Tuesday when prosecutors dropped first-degree murder and attempted murder charges against Rodney Roman, who was arrested days after former Knights and Vanderbilt football star Kwane Doster was shot to death. Doster's younger brother, Jermaine, is a standout senior running back for Robinson, and has verbally committed to play for Vanderbilt next season.... | |
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| | | Running Titans race to 31-14 win over Aspen | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:19:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | Three touchdowns runs by Zane Lundin put a smile on head coach Rod Presslers face and a championship trophy in the collective arms of the New Castle Titans. I had kids at the beginning of the year that didnt know anything about football; we turned them into 27 people working as a machine, the coach said of the Titans 31-14 win over Aspen in Sundays Three Rivers Youth Football Division I Super Bowl. The victory raised New Castles seasonal record to 7-0 the only team in the valleywide youth football program to go undefeated in the 2006 season. Pressler, in his first season as Titans head coach, credited the teams assistant coaches and parents as key factors to the teams success. This season, we couldnt have gotten off to the year we had without the help of our great coaches and parents, he said.... | |
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| | | Steelers Hope to Continue Super Bowl Form in Atlanta | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 7:16:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Pittsburgh Steelers showed last week that they are not ready to relinquish the Lombardi Trophy, and will try to prove that again this Sunday when they visit the Atlanta Falcons. ,The Steelers opened the season with a victory before sliding into a three-game losing streak. The skid ended last Sunday when Pittsburgh rolled all over visiting Kansas City, pounding out a 45-7 victory at Heinz Field. Most importantly for the Steelers was the strong performance of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who had been 0-3 as a starter since returning from an injury that kept him out of action in Week 1. While the Steelers made a statement this past Sunday, the Falcons were handed a tough loss on their home field by the New York Giants. Atlanta held a 14-3 edge early in the third quarter, but the Giants closed the game out with 24 unanswered points.... | |
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| | | TNA Bound For Glory Results (10/22): Sting Wins Title! | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:09:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | Kevin Nash is out for The Kevin Nash, Bound for Glory, X-Division, Open Gauntlet Battle Royal. He has a bowling trophy and is in a suit, headed for commentary. The Kevin Nash, Bound for Glory, X-Division, Open Gauntlet Battle Royal Austin Starr and Sonjay Dutt begin the match. Lock up to begin as Starr has Macho mannerisms down. Shoulder block by Starr, head scissors by Dutt and then boots. Irish whip and a back elbow by Dutt. #3 is Matt Bentley. He attacks Dutt right away. Double team elbows to Dutt. Starr is awesome with the corkscrew elbow. Off the ropes and Dutt with a double clothesline. #4 is Jay Lethal. Cartwheel dropkick to Bentley. He and Dutt with dropkicks to Bentley. Starr with a leaping elbow and PRANCES~! Chops to jay as Bentley works over Dutt with an overhead toss.... | |
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| | | HARMISON GEARS UP FOR AUSTRALIA | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 3:10:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | England will be hoping Steve Harmison can leave further scars on Australia's batsmen in this weekend's ICC Champions Trophy showdown. The 27-year-old has caused considerable damage to the Australians since the opening of the 2005 Ashes summer when he and his fellow England quicks peppered their opponents in the 100-run Twenty20 win. He also famously struck each of Australia's top three on the first morning of the first Test, leaving a gash on Ricky Ponting's right cheek as a legacy. A year ago Harmison combined with compatriot Andrew Flintoff and Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan to decimate the Australian batting in the second innings of the Super Test in Sydney, sharing the rewards equally as the hosts lost their final nine wickets for 47 in 24 overs.... | |
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