Word: ticket
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...Ticket sales for home games, which means that stadium size matters: it is no coincidence that Manchester United, which seats 76,000 at its Old Trafford ground, is the richest of the English clubs - Liverpool's Anfield stadium holds only 45,000, by comparison, which at ticket prices averaging around $80 means that United generates as much as $50 million more than Liverpool in annual ticket sales. High rollers like Real Madrid and A.C. Milan, not surprisingly, play in stadiums that hold upwards of 80,000 fans...
...wage bill at about $3 billion and its total revenues a little over $3.8 billion, with only eight of the Premiership's 20 clubs reporting an operating profit. Revenues have increased, thanks to a new TV deal, but so too have wages. If the global economic slowdown eats into ticket and merchandising sales and the credit crunch suddenly trims the money available even to top clubs, the transfer market may see something of a correction - a development that could make middling leagues more competitive. And heaven help clubs boosted by vanity investment if their benefactors were to suddenly walk away...
...version that ran for a weekend last September, the revival is being produced by the city's Public Theater, Joseph Papp's downtown theater lab that first opened its doors in 1967 with Hair. It is returning on the 40th anniversary of the show's Broadway debut. All the tickets, fittingly, are free. Most folks queue up on the Internet now (for seats chosen by lottery) rather than stand in line all day long, but it's the hottest ticket in New York City...
...statewide five times in a state where his last name is something close to hard currency, though that is hardly a guarantee that he could help Obama carry the state. Bayh's also a little short on excitement, but that's the one area where Obama can carry the ticket all by himself...
...small fortune bringing Smith and Carlos to Melbourne for the funeral. He'd phoned them within minutes of his uncle's death, he says, and both were distraught. Carlos would have attended the funeral "no matter what," but Smith played hard ball, Norman recalls, first rejecting an economy-class ticket, then insisting his wife accompany him, also at Norman's expense. "The fact is, I've kept it nice and quiet," Norman says, "because I didn't want to embarrass them...