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It's Teddy Bear Toss Season
The holiday season is here, which means it’s time for a million videos of minor league hockey fans hurling teddy bears onto the ice. It’s the most wonderful time of the year!...
T-Wolves' "Ladies Night" Again Features Free Season One DVD Of <em>Girls</em>
Are you a woman who is also a fan of the Minnesota Timberwolves? Are you also unable to afford HBO and/or really bad at keeping up with popular culture? Then you need to get yourself to one of the Minnesota Timberwolves' "Ladies Night Out" games this year....
The Arizona Sundogs Enter Day 6 In Their Sky Prison
Yesterday we brought you the story of a minor league hockey ticket promotion that has turned into a test of endurance. The sun has risen, we've hit hour 115, and the prisoners remain aloft until the Sundogs can hit their season ticket quota. But they're oh-so-close....
When Minor League Hockey Promotions Go Wrong
On Sunday, an Arizona minor league hockey team's owner, GM, captain, and marketing director perched themselves atop a scissor lift. They would not come down, they declared, until the team sold 300 season tickets. It has been 94 hours. The team has not sold 300 season tickets. They are still up there...
Ronald McDonald Inspires Hockey Team With Herb Brooks's <em>Miracle</em> Speech
Fresh from your condiment-colored nightmares, here's a corporate mascot firing up a minor league hockey team, and also you. Oh, and clown trigger warning....
This Coco Crisp Bobblehead Does The Bernie, And You Want It
The A's adopted the Bernie Lean as their rally dance last year, and it seems to have been worked. After Coco Crisp introduced the clubhouse to the song (actually, two songs: "Moving Like Berney" by ISA and "Bernie Lean" by ATM & IMD), and adopted the latter as his walk-up music, Oakland went on a la...
ECHL Team Plans "Indoor Winter Classic"
Ah, the Winter Classic, perhaps the NHL's best innovation of the Bettman era. There's something pure about a game played out in the elements—bundled up, plenty of hot cocoa in reserve, the puck occasionally at the mercy of winds, and perhaps, if you're lucky, a light snowfall to add that magical tou...
The Suns Will Give You Your Money Back If You Don't Have "Fun" And The Bobcats Will Give You Tickets For The Next Game If You Stay To The End Of This One
Neither the Bobcats nor the Suns are particularly woebegone NBA teams in strictly basketball terms—the Bobcats are enjoying perhaps their best start ever, sitting pretty at 7-8 having already equaled their win total from last season, while the Suns are a scrappy 7-10 with a rebuilding roster. If you...
Pac-12 Releases A Highfalutin Hype Video That Arizona State Students Won't Be Able To Understand
We've provided here the full transcription of the purplest and most thesaurus-dependent prose to ever grace a promotional video for a college football conference. College football is back, you guys. Let me rephrase that: college football is back with "an avant garde redesign of the competitive bal...
Zubazpalooza > MC Hammer Bobblehead Night
The long-awaited MC Hammer bobblehead night finally arrived in Oakland yesterday, and it was rather exciting for everyone involved....
Chone Figgins's Low Batting Average Helps People Get Drunker, Cheaper
Seattle Mariners third baseman Chone Figgins is currently batting .202 on the season. Hitting a notable .087 this past week, manager Eric Wedge sat Chone on the bench for last night's game against the Yankees. There's chatter of moving him down in the lineup; like No. 9 down....
Kid Plucked From Stands Promptly Breaks His Arm
Angel Stadium: cursed. First Kendry Morales breaks his leg celebrating a walkoff home run. Now an 11-year-old kid breaks his arm during an onfield promotion. But young Beecher Halladay is more of a man about it than we'd ever be....
Mariners Celebrate Lolcats Night
Nothing like a 7-year-old Internet meme to show the kids you're hip, right Seattle? What's next, redirecting the team site to Last Measure? (Note: don't go to Last Measure.)...
Sixers Have Something For Everyone, Except Basketball Fans
Philly hired a VH1 reality show host to give lonely fans dating advice, and next week sees a postgame concert from noted NBA player favorite Matisyahu. The Iverson sideshow's not moving as many tickets as hoped, methinks. [NBA/NBA]...
Nets Try To Trick Fans Into Wearing Nets Gear
Want season tickets to see the Nets? No, of course you don't. Will some Nets jerseys sweeten the deal? Still no, huh. OK, how about jerseys of the best players on other teams. Yes, it's that desperate at the Meadowlands....
I'd Rather Tweet With The Saints
It was only a matter of time before a minor league baseball team whipped up a social networking promotion, and when charged with creating a snappy name for the event, why not go with Twitter-My-Face?...
The Indians Are Once Again Giving Away Free Money
We find ourselves a little bit more a-twitter each day for baseball season; we are already counting the minutes until our return to Dewey's Flatiron for our regular shot of the Cards in NYC (as mentioned in that book thing). To continue to whet your appetite, Home Run Derby has a list of the top bal...