The Weekly Shakedown
Dec 21st 2007ericjhoroWeekly Shakedown & NBA & Futbol
(Every week there are a number of stories that slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. These are just a few of them.)
–Chris Webber is reportedly considering making a comeback with the Pistons and could return as soon as January. Awesome. If Webber returns he could team with Antonio McDyess to form an unstoppable one-two punch of aging big men with no cartilage left in their knees.
–Tickemaster and the NFL have signed a deal to join forces in creating a website where people can re-sell NFL tickets. The goal is get back ticket revenues the league is losing to other resale website such as StubHub. With so many crappy teams nobody wants to see, that’s a lot of revenue.
–The Penguins and Flyers are considering playing an outdoor game on the campus of Penn State. Flyers G.M. Paul Holmgren thinks the game could draw as many as 100,000 people, at least 80,000 of which should make it to the end of the game without being kicked out for drunken fighting.
–The Orioles are quietly raising ticket prices again. The hike may sound unnecessary, but carefully crafted PR statements that distance the team from steroids don’t grow on trees.
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