First-ever Super Bowl in Vegas drives ticket prices
Average price on TickPick was $9,815
Tickets on at least one secondary-market site were the most expensive in Super Bowl history on Monday, underscoring the anticipation of the game's Las Vegas debut between the defending champion and what likely is the most popular team in the West.
Oh, and the great possibility Taylor Swift will be on hand when the Kansas City Chiefs play the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 11.
The average purchase price on TickPick was $9,815 on Monday morning. That's nearly double the final average price of $5,795 for last year's game between the Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles in Glendale, Arizona, although current prices could decline.
It's also more than the previous high of $7,046 for the 2021 game in Tampa, Florida, between the Buccaneers and the Chiefs. The stadium was at 33% capacity because of COVID-19 restrictions, increasing the demand for each ticket.
TickPick's highest nonCOVID Super Bowl was in 2020 at Miami Gardens, Florida, when the Chiefs and Niners met for the first time in the championship game. That average price was $6,370.
The cheapest ticket on TickPick for this year's game was $8,188 on Monday, more than the $5,997 low price at this point last year.
Figure skating US SKATERS CELEBRATE GOLD MEDAL FROM BEIJING OLYMPICS >>
The 2022 U.S. figure skating team awoke to learn they were suddenly Olympic champions.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport had ruled a day earlier that Kamilia Valieva of the winning Russian squad would be disqualified
following a failed doping test taken ahead of the 2022 Beijing Games, presumably elevating the second-place Americans to first in the team event. But exactly how to allocate the medals was left in the hands of the IOC and the International Skating Union.
That decision, not without a bit of controversy of its own, was delivered about 24 hours later.
The news that it would be gold touched off a stream of celebratory text messages among the nine members of the team.
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Michael McLeod of the NHL's New Jersey Devils has been charged in connection with an investigation into an alleged sexual assault by several members of Canada's 2018 world junior team, his lawyers said.
McLeod has been charged with sexual assault by police in London, Ontario, attorneys David Humphrey and Seth Weinstein said.
The development comes two days after former NHL
player Alex Formenton turned himself into police to face charges, according to one of his lawyers.
Five players from Canada's 2018 world junior team have taken a leave of absence from their current clubs after a report emerged that five players from that team have been asked to surrender to police on sexual assault charges.
College football
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The slate incorporates new members Arizona, Arizona State and Utah and marks the return of Colorado to the now 16-team league.
Each league team will continue to play nine conference games without being separated by divisions. Some will renew old rivalries lost during prior realignment and other prescheduled matchups will be played as nonconference games.
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Kansas will spend next college football season playing on the road.
With their old stadium being razed, and a new stadium anchoring a massive development project expected to open for the 2025 season, the Jayhawks will split its home games at Children's Mercy Park, the home of MLS club Sporting Kansas City, and its four conference games being played across the state line at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.
Both of the stadiums are less than an hour drive from the Kansas campus in Lawrence.
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World Series MVP Corey Seager had surgery for a left sports hernia repair and the Texas Rangers All-Star shortstop will miss most of spring training.
General manager Chris Young said Seager had the surgery in Arizona, where the team hold spring training, and will remain there for rehabilitation. The Rangers are hopeful Seager will be ready by opening day.
Young said the hernia issue came up during the postseason, when Seager was getting some minor treatment in the training room, but it didn't impact his play as Rangers won their first World Series title.
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Infielder Justin Turner and the Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to a $13 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with the deal told the Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the agreement for the 39-year-old was subject to a successful physical.
Turner hit .276 with 23 homers, 96 RBIs and an .800 OPS last season for the Boston Red Sox. The twotime All-Star spent the previous nine seasons with the Dodgers.