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Valentine’s Day is this Sunday and there’s still plenty of last minute gift ideas for this coming weekend if you don’t already have plans. Hopefully the weather has cleared up a bit by then so travel isn’t a problem in your area.

If you haven’t seen Wicked the Musical, or even if you have, you can still find tickets for Wicked at several theaters around the country including the Gerswhin Theatre, Orpheum Theatre – San Francisco, David A Stratz Center – Carol Morsani Hall and the Peace Center in Greenville, SC.

The Winter Games in Vancouver begin on Friday with the Opening Ceremonies followed by Ice Hockey, Freestyle Skiing, Speed Skating, Figure Skating, Alpine Skiing and many more events for Valentines Day weekend. Tickets for the Opening Ceremony and most of the Winter Games Events are available now and are in hand and ready to ship overnight.

More ideas  for this coming weekend include tickets for the NBA All Star game on Valentines Day at Cowboys Stadium, the AMA Supercross at Angel Stadium, The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo and a number of NBA basketball games and NHL hockey games around the country.

Concerts this Valentines Day weekend are very limited in number but include some heavy hitters such as Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber, Billy Joel and Elton John and the Black Eyed Peas. There’s even more theatre going on this weekend that make for a great romantic weekend including the Jersey Boys, Billy Elliot and the Color Purple at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles.

With the Winter Games kicking off on February 12th it looks like 2010 will be an exciting year in sports. Tickets for the Winter Games are available still for all of the events, some cheap and some not so cheap. The Winter Games are just one of the exciting sporting events going on in 2010.

There are all the usual sporting events  in 2010 such as the Super Bowl, NFL Pro Bowl, World Series and NHL Stanley Cup Finals which will be at a different venues this year than last. Then you have the classic events held at the same venues each year including the Daytona 500, 2010 Masters Golf, Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.

It should be a buyers market for some of the major sporting events of 2010 if the economy continues to tank and you can find sports tickets through the usual outlets or for the best sports tickets available you can check with PreferredSeat.com, a reliable sports ticket broker.

2010 NFL Pro Bowl January 31^st Miami, Fl

Super Bowl 2010 February 7^th Miami, Fl

Winter Olympics February 12^th – 28^th Vancouver, BC

Daytona 500 February 14^th Daytona Beach, Fl

2010 NBA All Star Game February 14^th Arlington, TX

Pac 10 Men’s Basketball March 10^th – 13^th Los Angeles, Ca

NCAA Men’s Final Four April 3^rd and 5^th Indianapolis, IN

NCAA Women’s Final Four April 4^th and 6^th San Antonio, TX

2010 Masters Golf April 5^th – 11^th Augusta, GA

NCAA Men’s Frozen Four April 8^th – 10^th Detroit, MI

Kentucky Oaks April 30^th Churchill Downs, NY

Kentucky Derby May 1^st Churchill Downs, NY

Preakness Stakes May 15^th Baltimore, MD

2010 French Open May 23^rd – June 6^th Paris, France

Indy 500 May 30^th Indianapolis, IN

NBA Finals June TBD                     TBD

Stanley Cup Finals June TBD                     TBD

Belmont Stakes June 5^th Belmont, NY

FIFA World Cup Soccer June 11^th – July 11^th South Africa

2010 US Open Golf June 17^th – 20^th Pebble Beach, Ca

College World Series June 19^th –  30^th Omaha, NE

Wimbledon June 21^st – July 4^th London, England

British Open July 11^th – 19^th St. Andrews

MLB All Star Game July 13^th Anaheim, CA

PGA Championship August 8^th – 15^th Kohler, WI

Davis Cup Tickets August TBD                 TBD

US Open Tennis August 29^th – Sept 12   Flushing, NY

MLB World Series October TBD               TBD

Breeders Cup November 5^th – 6^th Churchill Downs, KY

National Finals Rodeo December 2nd – 11^th Las Vegas, NV

This weekend in Phoenix NBA players will converge for the annual NBA All Star Game at the US Airways Center while some players take a mid season break. There’s plenty to do in Phoenix to go with the game including the NBA Rookie Challenge, Celebrity Game and NBA All Star Saturday Night with the Three-Point Shootout and the Slam Dunk contest. The hotels in the area still have rooms available and the weather should be partly cloudy with temperatures in the low 60′s.

You can still get NBA tickets to most events this weekend, take a look at what’s available.
The NBA All Star Rookie Challenge Tickets – US Airways Center – Friday February 13th
The NBA All Star Saturday Night Tickets – US Airways Center – Saturday February 14th
The NBA All Star Game Tickets – US Airways Center – Sunday February 15th
More of the NBA All Star Weekend Festivities
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