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Want To Avoid The Squeeze On Super Bowl Tickets? Wait And Hope

Balls aren’t the only things being squeezed ahead of this year’s Super Bowl. Ticket prices are, too. Over the past 10 days, ticket prices for Super Bowl XLIX have skyrocketed, from an average of $2,799 the day of the AFC Championship to $4,594 Wednesday — an increase of 64 percent. The culprit? A “short squeeze.” […]

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Want To Avoid The Squeeze On Super Bowl Tickets? Wait And Hope

Balls aren’t the only things being squeezed ahead of this year’s Super Bowl. Ticket prices are, too. Over the past 10 days, ticket prices for Super Bowl XLIX have skyrocketed, from an average of $2,799 the day of the AFC Championship to $4,594 Wednesday — an increase of 64 percent. The culprit? A “short squeeze.” […]

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The Average Cost Of World Series Tickets Has Gone Up

A Kansas firefighter rescued some World Series tickets from a burning house. A man was robbed at gunpoint outside Missouri’s Kauffman Stadium for his tickets. The Feds seized more than a hundred ersatz tickets, along with some “counterfeit panties” (don’t ask me). A Kansas City Royals fan was ready to sell his Mustang to get […]

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The Average Cost Of World Series Tickets Has Gone Up

A Kansas firefighter rescued some World Series tickets from a burning house. A man was robbed at gunpoint outside Missouri’s Kauffman Stadium for his tickets. The Feds seized more than a hundred ersatz tickets, along with some “counterfeit panties” (don’t ask me). A Kansas City Royals fan was ready to sell his Mustang to get […]

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The Price Of Seeing Derek Jeter’s Last MLB Game

Derek Jeter, a regionally popular player for a local New York ball club, announced his retirement in February, presaging the end to 20 seasons in Major League Baseball. I’ll leave it to the sports desk to discuss the actual performance of Jeter, but one effect the announcement had was a meteoric rise in the price […]

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