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There’s still time to get your college bowl game tickets for the upcoming games this weekend and depending on which one you’re looking at will determine the hit on your wallet.

There are still plenty of seats for the Cotton Bowl at Cowboys Stadium, the Rose Bowl at Rose Bowl Stadium and the Orange Bowl at Land Shark Stadium, but the ticket prices are pretty stiff for these games. The starting price for the Cotton Bowl tickets are about $110 each, but for $350 you only get an end zone Rose Bowl ticket.

On the cheaper side you’ll find the Capitol One Bowl at the Citrus Bowl, the Sugar Bowl at Louisiana Stadium, and the Fiesta Bowl at the University of Phoenix to have the cheapest college bowl tickets available. For these games the college bowl ticket prices are starting at a low $35 each and there are plenty of seats available still.

As always though you need to be careful when you buy last minute tickets, especially during the holidays because of delivery issues. Check with the ticket broker you are buying your tickets from and make sure they guarantee delivery in time for the game or you can trust them to leave your tickets at the college bowl will call window. And if you’re looking for the big game, BCS National Championship tickets, those are available as well, but be prepared to shell out over $600 per ticket to enjoy that one.

Ticket deals for Wicked the Musical at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco are available for many weekday performances now. If you haven’t seen Wicked, or you want to see it again, now’s your chance for great seats for both matinee and evening weekday performances.

Check out the Wicked Orpheum Theatre tour schedule for premium Wicked tickets in the front Orchestra and Mezzanine sections at drastically reduced prices over the weekend rates. The Wicked tour has been extended in San Francisco until Sunday March 21st and this has resulted in upcoming Wicked prices to drop, especially for weekday shows, but even last minute Wicked deals have come up on weekends as well.

The Orpheum Theatre, built in 1926 for theatre magnate Alexander Pantages, is a great place to see Wicked the Musical. After years of hosting vaudeville, silent pictures, and musical comedy the Orpheum Theatre was renovated to bring large musicals such as Wicked to its stage. Tickets for Wicked make great gift ideas for the holidays.

Wicked tickets for all other venues including the Gershwin Theatre in New York are on sale also.

Cheap Kiss tickets are available for many of the concerts on the current and maybe final Kiss tour. Tickets for Kiss are selling at great prices at Arco Arena, the Honda Center and Oracle Arena because of slow ticket sales at many of the venues throughout the country.

If you were lucky, you may have received and email with an offer from Ticketmaster to purchase lower level Kiss tickets for just $9.95, but those sold out quickly and $55 is the cheapest seat we’ve seen in the lower level at this time.

This should be the final tour for Kiss, the band can’t sell tickets like they used to, especially at $125 per, and touring is getting more expensive. Time for the guys to take off the makeup and stick to the studio. Find your cheap ticket from the Kiss tour schedule:

Nov 17 2009    Tue    Rose Garden Arena    Portland OR
Nov 19 2009    Thu    Arco Arena    Sacramento CA
Nov 21 2009    Sat    Save Mart Center    Fresno CA
Nov 22 2009    Sun    ORACLE Arena    Oakland CA
Nov 25 2009    Wed    Staples Center    Los Angeles CA
Nov 27 2009    Fri    San Diego Sports Arena    San Diego CA
Nov 28 2009    Sat    Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort    Las Vegas NV
Dec 01 2009    Tue    Jobing.com Arena    Glendale AZ
Dec 02 2009    Wed    Don Haskins Center    El Paso TX
Dec 04 2009    Fri    Erwin Center    Austin TX
Dec 05 2009    Sat    Toyota Center –    TX Houston TX
Dec 06 2009    Sun    American Airlines Center –    TX Dallas TX
Dec 08 2009    Tue    BOK Center    Tulsa OK
Dec 10 2009    Thu    Sprint Center    Kansas City MO
Dec 11 2009    Fri    Mid America Center    Council Bluffs IA
Dec 13 2009    Sun    Mellon Arena    Pittsburgh PA
Dec 15 2009    Tue    Essar Centre    Sault Ste Marie ON

Tickets for the Yankees – Angels playoff game today are selling for way below face value and hundreds of tickets were still available as of noon Thursday.

The Yankees are up 3-1 and will try to win this game to get more time to prepare for the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series.

The Phillies clinched the NLCS last night with a 10-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. A loss tonight could put Los Angeles in a real funk after the chance of one of the cities teams going to the World Series seems to be diminishing.

Tickets for the Yankees – Angels Playoff Game Thursday October 22nd at 4:55pm

Tickets for the World Series at Citizens Bank Park on October 31s, November 1st and 2nd

Ticketmaster has been in a giving mood lately, or maybe the promoters are having big problems selling tickets in this economy. Don’t let the talk of the recessions waning fool you, times are tough when a $80 ticket is being given away by Ticketmaster.

But truth be told nothing is free, even free tickets from Ticketmaster. Because, even the free tickets come with a price, and that is a few small service charges that add up to about $3 – $5 a ticket. Still a bargain compared to the face value of the ticket.

Where do you get these free tickets, you ask? Well you need to be either a season ticket holder, or belong to a VIP program at a venue to receive these offers in your email.

It’s a sort of rewards program to get patrons to spend money on parking, drinks and food, and generally make the place look like they actually sold all of those seats. So for a free ticket from Ticketmaster, the show must not be selling well in the first place, think Rod Stewart, or Jamie Foxx, performing in an arena where the ticket sales show they should be performing in a much smaller venue. Or they should be charging much less for their tickets.

Now, if I’m getting offers for free tickets, the next time I want to go to a show, I may wait and see if the free ones come out first, before I lay down my money. I wonder if the promoters and Ticketmaster thought of how that will impact future ticket sales.