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Visit Cooperstown, NY To Celebrate Baseball On Film For Free

September 22, 2009 at 12:38 PM | by cmb | 0 Comments

The National Baseball Hall of Fame is holding their annual Baseball Film Festival on Oct. 2-4 at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. The festival will feature 13 baseball-themed movies including The Lost Son of Havana about Major League Baseball star Luis Tiant's return to Cuba and She's Baseball Mad!, a look at the role women played in building Seattle's family-friendly ballpark.

Tickets for each screening are free, and can be reserved in advance. Members can reserve their tickets now and any remaining seats will made available to the general public on Monday, Sept. 28. For more information call the Membership Department at 607-547-0397 and be sure to check our suggestions below for getting the most out of your weekend in Cooperstown.

Where to stay and eat and what to do while in Cooperstown:

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The 2012 European Soccer Championships Will Get Their Own Airport

Where: Modlin, Poland
September 21, 2009 at 5:08 PM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

If you're already super-psyched about the big UEFA European Soccer Championship in 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine, we highly recommend holding off for a while on getting a jumpstart on your travel plans.

You see, if you plan it all out now, you could end up flying into Warsaw's congested Okecie airport rather than the brand-spanking-new airport they're just beginning now to build outside of Warsaw, in the town of Modlin. The $140 million dollar airport is being built specifically to ease the bottleneck of soccer fans arriving for the UEFA Championships, and will no doubt be fully kitted out in soccer regalia to get you in the spirit.

Related Stories:
· Poland To Build New Airport For 2012 European Soccer Championship [Today In The Sky]
· Sports Travel [Jaunted]

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New York 1953 To Today: Can We Resurrect The $1.95 Steak Dinner?

Where: 102 East 52nd Street [map], New York, NY, United States
September 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

Times Square and Central Park attract tourists to New York City in droves, but what were the most exciting sights back in the 1950s? Thanks to an old tourist brochure from 1953, we're exploring back in the day versus today, for NYC tourists.

If you visiting New York in 1953 and you weren't going out for lobster at some place like the Grand Central Oyster Bar, then you were probably licking your chops for a visit to East 52nd Street. And there, setting itself apart from $1.95 steak dinners advertised all around Times Square, was Al Schacht's Restaurant, owned by the baseball player-turned-comedian.

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Believe It Or Not: American Football Is Twice As Nice Overseas

September 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM | by kjb | 0 Comments

The professional football season kicks off tonight, if you’re looking for a little more excitement than an evening planted on the couch, you might want to consider a fall football getaway. For the third consecutive year American footballers are going to cross the pond to play a game at London’s Wembley Stadium. This year it’s the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New England Patriots battling it out and Virgin Vacations wants to help you get there.

If you’ve got some extra coin hanging around, this package is an excellent way to get rid of it. Packages start at $1899 and include round trip flights on Virgin Atlantic, transfers from the airport, and four nights of hotel fun in London. Of course you’ll also get two tickets to the big game on October 25 as well as access to some NFL fan festival thing. If price isn’t a problem, they’ll gladly upgrade you to the Diamond Package, where you’ll be rubbing elbows with the players’ wives on the 50 yard line.

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Football Rivalry Travel: Venturing Into Gator Country

September 2, 2009 at 4:01 PM | by kjb | 0 Comments

Professional football is right around the corner, but more importantly for some, college football has already arrived. Here’s the scoop on just one of the country’s best rivalries to help your sports travel planning.

· Rivalry Match-Up: Tennessee at Florida on September 19.
The two schools aren’t big fans of each other to say the least, and being paired together in the Southeaster Conference has not improved things. Tennessee’s new coach has been running his mouth a lot, so the Gators are ready to bite back. The series is dead even, but the Gators have been more successful recently.

Stadium Info and tips on where to sleep and party, after the jump.

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NFL Player Ochocinco Needs Your Help Twittering The Season

August 31, 2009 at 9:12 AM | by kjb | 1 Comment

The NFL season is just around the corner, and what better way to enjoy a game than getting the opportunity to check it out in person. If you’re a fan of the Cincinnati Bengals, and we feel for you if you are, you might just get a free trip thanks to Chad Ochocinco—yes that's his name, as he changed it to match his number.

Number 85 is good at running his Twitter account, he’s got like 7,000 updates, but he needs a little help to keep the momentum during the regular season. Too bad the league frowns upon cell phones on the bench. Thus, a contest has bloomed ...

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AirTran Goes For The Touchdown With New NFL Affiliations

August 27, 2009 at 9:09 AM | by Omri | 0 Comments

If Southwest is secretly dreaming of swiping the Atlanta market from AirTran—and they are—they're going to have to do it without the help of the hometown Atlanta Falcons. The NFL franchise just sealed a partnership with AirTran that's expected to go several years and will include joint advertising and promotions.

AirTran already has partnerships with individual Falcon players. Under the new deal, that arrangement expands to the entire organization, with the usual flood of mutual branding to follow. On the airline's side, expect to see a Falcons-themed Boeing 717 and advertising featuring Falcon athletes in full uniform. For their part, the franchise will be erecting "prominent signage at the Georgia Dome."

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It's Never Too Early To Lock In Your Super Bowl Vacation

August 21, 2009 at 2:09 PM | by Omri | 0 Comments

With the football season getting underway, hopeful fans are already starting to think about Super Bowl XLIV. The big game will be played in Miami's Dolphins Stadium on February 7, 2010, and sports nuts are already maneuvering to grab tickets and accommodations for the weekend.

Pittsburgh-based travel company Sports Vacations specializes in taking the headache out of creating Super Bowl packages, offering a variety of options that range from the mildly exorbitant to the mind-blowingly decadent.

During the season, Sports Vacations focuses on what the company was originally founded for: arranging packages for Steelers fans as they follow the black and gold around the country. Those packages start with tickets and hotel rooms which the company provides more or less at cost. Then other perks get thrown in depending on the package and the specific game: tailgate parties, fan rallies with local ex-Steelers, autograph and photo sessions, and a bevy of other extras.

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LA Galaxy Playing FC Barcelona This Weekend at Rose Bowl

July 29, 2009 at 4:49 PM | by Heidi Atwal | 1 Comment

Los Angeles is Dodgertown, meaning that locals have plenty of reason to be enthused about home runs, hot dogs, and post-game drinks at The Short Stop. But sports fans should remember that there are other athletic past times well worth buying tickets for. If you've yet to see David Beckham "bend it" in person, seize the opportunity to do so this weekend, when the LA Galaxy takes on FC Barcelona in what's sure to be an epic match at Pasadena's Rose Bowl. Spaniards take soccer seriously, after all, but Galaxy players are no competitive slumps themselves.

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The Minor League's All-Star Game Takes Portland Tomorrow

July 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM | by kjb | 0 Comments

If you were busy watching last night’s Home Run Derby, the contest to see which big leaguer was able hit the most dingers, then tonight you'll be similarly glued to the tube when the All-Stars try to impress their fellow players and fans. This year, however, we say give some love for the AAA All-Stars. They are trying their best to make the jump to the majors, so their game will be even better because they want it so badly. Also, their team nicknames are far more amusing than those in the majors—Isotopes, anyone?

The 2009 Cricket Wireless AAA All-Star Game will be held in Portland at PGE Park tomorrow night, July 15. Future stars from the International League and Pacific Cost League will face off against one another in a friendly little competition. Many current big leaguers were all-stars during their time in the minors, so make sure you stay after the game to score some autographs to sell on eBay.

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No More Waiting For the Wonder of Wimbledon

Where: Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom
June 23, 2009 at 2:27 PM | by amandak | 0 Comments

In case you didn't notice, the annual tennis extravaganza that is Wimbledon started on Monday, but don't fret as the best is still to come. This year's championships culminate on July 5, so there's still almost two full weeks of Wimbledon action to entertain us.

If you're lucky enough to be in London and are keen to head along to eat strawberries and cream (and watch a match or two), the good news is it is never too late. Wimbledon always keeps some tickets to sell on the morning of the match—at least 500 tickets for the three main courts await the firstcomers at the turnstiles each day, apart from the final days.

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Albuquerque's Top Of The Line Stadium Welcomes Manny Ramirez

June 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM | by kjb | 2 Comments

Baseball fans in Albuquerque are in store for more excitement tonight than the usual t-shirt cannons or wacky mascot antics. Manny Ramirez, of steroid-suspension fame, is making his first rehabilitation appearance tonight for the Isotopes. We’re thinking that a capacity crowd of over 13,000 will be on hand to catch a glimpse of the MLB star, and maybe even cheer him on.

Even if you don’t get to see Manny tonight, the park and its team have a lot to offer. After all, they are the AAA affiliate of the LA Dodgers, so the stadium obviously needs to be pretty close to what one would expect from a big league experience. Isotopes Park was designed by HOK Sport, the go-to guys for stadium construction, so the place does not disappoint.

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