LeRoi Moore –

It is a sad, sad day in the Music Industry.  LeRoi Moore the Saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band died at age 46.  LeRoi was one of the founders of the Dave Matthews Band.  His unique style of staccato fused jazz and funk overtones was a great addition the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band.  LeRoi has not been with the Band for their summer tour, his replacement for the summer was Jeff Coffin who used to play for Bella Fleck and the Flecktones.  Jeff is an amazing saxophonist however he doesn’t have the same smooth sound that LeRoi had. 





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Time Magazine raves that The Lion King musical is "Awe-inspiring! A gorgeous, gasp-inducing spectacle!" It's time to treat your friends, family and yourself to this stunning theatrical achievement. Come and experience the Circle of Life! Don't miss the awesome Lion King on Broadway and nationwide. Lion King theater tickets are on sale now with special seating for all Indianapolis shows at the Murat Theater. The Lion King makes a great Birthday, Anniversary or even Christmas Gift. It never to early to start thinking about the holidays.

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I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who once said, "The quality of one's soul is directly in proportion to the character of one's favorite sport team."  I agree.  And quite frankly, I am proud to be an Indianapolis Colts fan.  I am a good person and that is why I like the Colts (opposed to my liking the Colts making me a good person).  Likewise, I think that people who like the New England Patriots are necessarily flawed in some way (much in the same way Ohio State fans are flawed).  Keep this in mind the next time you buy and NFL football ticket.  You are not simply "supporting your team."  You are exposing your character with your choices of tickets.  That is a fact.  Go Colts.

I was glancing at the USA Today top 25 poll today and I saw that Notre Dame got 5 votes to be in the top 25.  Norte Dame was 3-9 last year and “had the nation's worst scoring offense, allowed an NCAA-worst 58 sacks and were near the bottom in several other national offensive and defensive categories” (espn.com).  Now I understand that teams do improve in the off season, and I understand that ND has one of the top recruiting classes each year.  But how can someone say that they are one of the top 25 teams in the nation before they set foot on the football field? 

I am from Indiana, I like Notre Dame, and I hope that they are in the top 25 at the end of the season.  I just think that they need to prove themselves.  I think the only reason why they received pre-season top 25 votes was because they are Notre Dame. 

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 The atmosphere at Circle City Tickets has been nothing short of non-stop Olympic coverage... and selling Indianapolis Colts tickets, of course.  But now that Michael Phelps has finally achieved the seemingly impossible, we can all take a nice long breath.  Because let's face it, the few events that are left are not going to keep you up on the edge of your seats until one in the morning.  Well, we still have beach volleyball to look forward to, but no Michael Phelps! =( 
































And what will we miss about this 6'4" Aquatic male?  We will miss the 24/7 Phelps Fanatic coverage by every reporter on every local channel and multiple cable networks that ranged in topics from every detail in his daily "diet" to how many friend requests he receives on facebook.  And let's not forget the 3 minute blurbs covering his life achievements each time before he takes the platform. 

*Sigh*

It was an exciting year for the Summer Olympics and well worth the wait!  But, now that the Olympics are almost through, it's time for Circle City Tickets to switch gears to the new NFL football season and get pumped for our first game in the new Lucas Oil Stadium coming up this Sunday!

39 acres, Lucas Oil Stadium covers 39 acres of land.  When they open the roof the opening covers 4 acres.  That is a massive building.  To put that in perspective, a city block is between 2-5 acres, the football field including both end zones is 1.32 acres.  There are 43,560 square feet in an acre, so Lucas Oil Stadium covers 1,698,840 square feet.  That is an astounding amount of space.  Now if you assume that the average person needs a space that is 24 inches x 14 inches (about the size of a small file cabinet) to stand comfortably, which is 2.33 square feet of room to stand. Now if you take the number of square feet at Lucas Oil Stadium (1,698,840) and divide it by 2.33 square feet, you get 729,115.87 square feet. Therefore we could reasonably assume that it is possible to fit between 729,000 730,000 standing people within the space that Lucas Oil Stadium occupies.  Of course that number depends on the size and tolerance for close proximity to each other the people have.  Now according to consensus data there are 876,804 people living in Marion County.  This means that approximately 83% of the population of Marion County can fit in the area of land that Lucas Oil Stadium sits on.   Those are some amazing stats. 

Lucas Oil Stadium is an amazing building, the size and magnitude of the stadium is unlike anything Indianapolis has ever seen.  My only hope is that on game day it can house the same atmosphere that the RCA dome did. 

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104! The USA Women’s Beach Volleyball team has won 104 straight games in a row.  104 straight games! This is a feat that is unheard of in team sports.  It is a shame that they are not getting the attention that some of the other great teams have gotten.  The names of Misty may-Treanor and Kerri Walsh should be household names by now. However, since the Olympics only happen once every four years and Beach Volleyball isn’t a “high profile sport” this feat has been downplayed.  Let’s compare the USA Beach Team Volleyball’s dominance over their sport to other great teams of our generation. First, the New England Patriots who after winning 18 straight games and were crowned football gods and had the entire world bowing to there greatness. This is just after 18 games. The tadem of Treanor-Walsh has won 104.  Next let’s look at basketball and the 1995-1997 Chicago Bulls who went an impressive 141-23, winning two titles in that period and they have been proclaimed as the best basketball team ever. Even though this is closer and it is over a shorter time period the beach volleyball team havs won 104 in a row. The '08  Patriots and the Bulls of the mid '90's are the considered to be two of the greatest teams of all time.  However, I think that the USA women’s beach volleyball team of the '00's should top that list.  Not only have they won 104 straight games, they are competing against the worlds greatest athletes and dominating.  Their streak would have been 195 straight matches if they had lost in June.  Since the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece they are 195-1.  With such an impressive streak the USA Women’s Beach Volleyball team is one of the greatest teams ever!


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As most of you know this is the final season the New York Yankees will be in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. So the demand for tickets to see a game in the legandary stadium has been quite high. I recenty sold a regular customer tickets to see the Yankees and he caught a foul ball from Derek Jeter. So in other words its a great time to "catch" a piece of history and take in a MLB game at Yankee Stadium. Here at Circle City Tickets we can take care of all of your entertainment needs, be them a MLB game a summer concert or an upcoming NFL game.

With fathers day just around the corner here are some great gift ideas for dad! What dad would not enjoy a day at the ball park! Baseball tickets to your Dads favorite team would do the trick! Is the man of the house a Rock ‘n Roller or just a good old boy who licks his country music. Concert tickets to his favorite artist up close tells him how much you care! This year don’t just say I love you and appreciate you, show him,with a great experience you can all have together! Remember NFL football tickets are now available.

What has happened to Roger Federer?  The once almost unbeatable Swiss tennis star has looked unthinkably average this season.  We tennis fans have seen enough.
 
Some sources report that Federer struggled though a case of Mononucleosis earlier this year which sapped his energy and hampered his play. Other sports writers have mentioned the word "slump."  No Way.  Rog Fed does not have a slump, EVER.  Roger dominates.  Other sources floated notions of injuries, ailments, and some people even had the goofishly stupid notion that Roger had lost his edge. Foolishness.

In an effort to understand this unsolved uber-mystery, scholars not from Harvard and Yale formed a distinquished panel of research specialists drawn from various fields of science (physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, sports science, medicine, phsychology, etc) working together to study the baffling decline in Roger Federer's game in 2008.  After months of research, tests, field work, examinations, etc., the committee formed again and published their conclusions.  The Results are staggering.  The following represents a brief summary of the research and conclusions of the Study, which was recently published in the Journal of Sports Systems and Environmental Affairs.

Roger Federer has struggled in 2008 because of GLOBAL WARMING.

  
  
 The leading physiscist on the team, Auxford University Theoretical Physicist Wilbert Hulbartware expressed excitement and surprise at the conclusion of the study.  "This is the most groundbreaking study I have seen in 20 years.  This is right up there with quantum mechanics and the opposable thumbs."  Stanfort professor Angie Grahams agreed, adding that while it is exciting, "The conclusion is also a little disconcerting.  What else is global warming going affect?  First Roger Federer, what is next?  Petting zoos?  You tell me."

The scientists participating in the study on Roger Federer each concentrated on their particular fields and then meshed the research into a comprensive report that has generated Nobel Prize talk among the experts.  Scientist Weekly magazine says that recognition is due considering the amount of cooperation and coordination between so many brilliant minds.  Cambritch University Organic Chemist Dooley O'toole agrees.  "On a day to day basis these are my competitors but we put aside our scientific grievances and worked together based on a mutual respect for Roger Federer and all that the has done for the world of winners."

The actual research used an understanding of the fact of global warming as its starting point relying heavily on the research of Al Gore.
 
 World respected environmental biologists examined the various factors of global warming and its effects on the environment.




Using the information provided by the Environmental biologists and combining that information with quantum mechanics and other properties of physics, a team of physicists from Auxford and Yell created models showing the effects of global warming on physical properties, specifically regarding heat exchange.  See the following charts:




And in conjunction with Mathematicians from M.I.TE. the scientists worked out mathematically this theorem:



The raw information from these graphic illustrations and mathematical computation was then used with a basic understanding of the properties of heat transfer, shown in this example from NASA:



The next phase of the research had Organic Chemists, Moleclular biologists, and Al Gore working towards an understanding of how these environmenal and physical factors affect the living tissues of the body and how it functions.  Once scientists understood the chemical components of Roger Federer that make him awesome they were able to then look at how the physical changes in global warming chemically alter his biological makeup.  The graphics that follow show the basic elements of molecular chemistry involved in the study.





It was clear that there was a link to changes at the organic level and global warming.  Esteemed Johns Hapkins chemist Latimer Dorseye claims a "clear and irrefutable" link between global warming and the organic and molecular world of tennis exists.  The next phase of the research involved medical experts testing how the changes at the molecular level affect muscle activity, brain functions, etc.   A littany of tests were run at medical research facilities in the U.S. and in London. 

Margaret Wallis, M.D., found the results surprising.  The changes caused at the molecular level by the chemical instability brougth on by global warming significantly alter a persons ability to dominate at any one thing.  Wallis notes, "We are beginning to understand how the human body works in relation to the environment we find ourselves.  Now we know what led to Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Michael Jordan's failed baseball experiement, and Tiger Woods not winning the Masters tournament this year.  Global Warming.  It regulates anyone's ability to dominate for too long."  However, the study did conclusively find that Global Warming had no effect whatsoever on the New England Patriots historic collapse this past NFL season.  That was merely a choke.

There is some good news for those of you not on the ATP tour who enjoy the equally exciting but significantly less lucrative Mario Tennis.  The effects of global warming have not yet translated into a dropoff in talent at Mario Tennis.  You are safe for now.


Researchers will continue to examine the results of this study for years to better understand the relationship of global warming and dominant winning.  While there is a definitive link, researchers have yet to determine the extent and force of the connection.  The positive news is that, according to Neurophysicist James E. Hannigan, "the effects are not thought to be permanent."  That is great news for Rog Fed fans around the world.  He is in no "slump."  He is merely suffering one of the many negative effects of global warming that have been brought to our attention recently.  This is one more reason to clean up the air and care for our environment.  And don't stop buying tennis tickets from your local sports ticket broker.  With a little rest and some clean air, we can soon begin to see the Roger Federer that we are all accustomed to and love.  The dominant Roger Federer.  Winner. 

 

Yeah, that may have been your only shot at seeing Led Zeppelin live, but it isn't your last chance to travel to England for some live entertainment.  England is a great city for concerts, sporting events, theater, etc. as well as being a great place to relax, enjoy a vacation, and see some memorable sites.

If you can afford it (I know it is VERY expensive), get over to London and have a great time!  London has something for everyone.

If you are a fan of theater, there is no better place on the planet for theater than London.  London theater is first rate, and there are many bargains to be found at discount theater booths on the day of the show for those of you who make last minute decisions.  If you want great seats you can always order them in advance from a ticket broker, but great seats are nearly always available.  I personally reccomend The Phantom of the Opera (spectacular!), but the choices are nearly endless.  Theater tickets in London are a great option.

  

You may want to catch some sports action when you are in London.  Obviously what you can see will depend on what time of the year you are in London.  You might be lucky enough to catch an NFL game now that the NFL is sending a game to London every year (The NBA will have a game there in October as well).  Wimbledon is probably the most famous atheletic event in London and tickets are surprisingly easy to acquire for the first rounds.  However, if you are wanting tickets for the later rounds you will probably need a ticket brocker to acquire your Wimbledon tickets.

Another wildly popular sport in London (and indeed of England and Europe) is soccer (as we call it).  The English Premier League has popular teams all over England, and London has a few of the popular teams in Arsenal and Chelsea FC.  The excitement at a Soccer game in London rivals the wildest atmosphere at an American Football game and the experience will be unforgetable even for those who are only marginally fans.  Catching a Premier League game in London would be a great option!

The London concert schedule is loaded with world famous acts at a number of different venues.  The O2 Arena is the hottest new venue in London and plays host to the largest acts to hit the city, including the Led Zeppelin show last December.  It is a very modern interesting design, and the interior and acoustics are outstanding.

 Some of the shows hitting the O2 this year include Celine Dion, Neil Diamond, Michael Buble, James Blunt, Nickelback, etc.  If you want to see a popluar show while you are in London (perhaps that is the sole reason for your visit), the chances are that the show will be at the O2.

   

While the O2 is the most popular concert venue in London, it is by no means the only one.  Earls Court (Rod Stewart recently), Wembly Arena (Def Leppard, Matchbox Twenty, Robert Plant and Allison Krauss, etc.) , and Royal Albert Hall (Feist, John Fogarty, etc.), all host major concert events in London.  London is the scene of many smaller events with intimate exciting settings.  Royal Albert Hall is a particularly fun theater, however due to the small capacity the shows do sell out frequently.

   

Make sure you go to a Pub or traditional English Restaurant and have a pint and get some great English food.  Most of the time the food in the true pubs is less than stellar, but the experience is great.  Get something traditionally English like Fish and Chips or Shepherds Pie, and finish it off with some "pudding" for dessert.  The English are also known for GREAT roast beef...but don't get it at a pub.  Everything comes with peas--accept it.  They English are not known for their food like Italians or French, but it has a character of its own nonetheless.

  

London has a great public transporation system so getting around the city and making to the different sites as well as your big event shouldnt be too much of a challenge.  The underground (subway) system is convenient and reliable and the bus system is also reliable.  The British railway system is also a great way to see sites outside of London.

And if you get the chance, take a some trips to the areas surrounding London.  Easily visited in day are the ruins of Stonehenge and the nearby town of Salisbury, Canterbury, Bath, Cambridge, etc.  Stonehenge and Salisbury is a great trip, and I personally reccomend the town of Oxford which is about 30-45 minutes bus ride from London.

Oxford is a BEAUTIFUL city.  Walk through the city visiting the various colleges, stroll through the beautiful parks (at their best in spring and early summer), and spend some time in beautiful and historic Radcliffe Square.  Make sure you stop and have a drink at the Eagle and Child pub, the favorite stop of JRR Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and their friends when they were were professors at Oxford.

So there you have it.  Want to see Celine Dion in London?  What to watch The Phantom of the Opera on the original London Stage?  Does watching a match in the English Premier League interest you?  Have you always wanted to watch the best tennis players in the world at Wimbledon?  Stop putting it off!  Plan a trip, it will be well worth it and you have memories for a lifetime.  And there is no need to learn a new language!!  Even better!  If you need help acquiring tickets to your big event, Circle City Tickets has experience in providing premium seats to events in Europe.

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The NFL announced the matchup of the first regular season game in new Lucas Oil Stadium.  The Colts will be playing the Chicago Bears in the Sunday night game of the opening weekend, the date of the game being September 7.  I can hardly wait for the beginning of the new season!  Go Colts! 

This is the third entry of a series of posts detailing the top-10 reasons why the Indianapolis Colts will dominate the NFL in 2008.  While it seems exceedingly clear to me that the Colts will dominate, apparently there are those out there who are not as adept at perceiving the obvious. 

Reason # 3 the Colts will dominate 2008:

The Colts offense will still be the Colts offense, and in case you haven’t noticed, they are awesome.  Peyton Manning will be back.  The all-world receivers will be back (and healthy).  Joseph Addai will be back.  The amazing O-line will have its key components back.   D Clark will be back.  I could go on and on.  Everyone will be back—and better.  Last year’s top draft picks Anthony Gonzalez and Tony Ugoh will be more experienced.  

This Colts offense will be so good that not only will Peyton Manning reclaim the season record for Touchdown passes (I’m predicting 70+), Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne will set new records for receiving, and Joseph Addai will shatter the record for rushing touchdowns in a season.  In fact, the Colts offense and defense will dominate so completely that Jim Sorgi will get enough playing time to have a Pro-Bowl season.

As with the defense, the Colts offense will set a record for the amount of players in the Pro Bowl. However, the Colts offense will send a record 12 players—all 11 starters and Jim Sorgi who will beat out Tom Brady for a spot at quarterback.

This offense will set records that will never be touched.  Mark my words.

This is the second entry of a series of posts detailing the top-10 reasons why the Indianapolis Colts will dominate the NFL in 2008.  While it seems exceedingly clear to me that the Colts will dominate, apparently there are those out there who are not as adept at perceiving the obvious. 

Reason # 2 the Colts will dominate 2008:

The Colts defense will be the greatest defensive force in the history of mankind.  In 2007 the Colts defense was very, very good.  They were number 1 in the NFL in fewest points allowed and were near the top in many defensive categories.  2008 will be scary for opposing offenses.  The D will get back Anthony “Booger” McFarland, Dwight Freeney, and Rob Morris who were all lost to injury in 2007.  Young stars Freddy Keiaho, Kelvin Hayden, Marlin Jackson, Ed Johnson and others will have a year of starting experience under their belts and will be disruptive forces.  Gary Bracket will continue being a great leader.  Bob Sanders will still be Bob Sanders.

I predict that the Colts will again lead the NFL with fewest points allowed by allowing fewer than 20 points all year long—total.  The Colts will only give up one touchdown all year long and should lead in every defensive category.  In fact, the Colts will probably set a record for sending all 11 defensive starters to the Pro-Bowl.

This defense will be scary good.  Mark my words.

This is the first of a series of entries detailing the top-10 reasons why the Indianapolis Colts will dominate the NFL in 2008.  While it seems exceedingly clear to me that the Colts will dominate, apparently there are those out there who are not as adept at perceiving the obvious. 

Yes the New England Cheatriots had an undefeated regular season in 2007 and have yet to lose in the playoffs this year.  They have my least sincere and half-hearted Contrats.  However, the year 2008 will see the Colts dominate in such a fashion that it will erase all memory of the Patriots year in 2007 and will make it impossible to use the words “patriots” and “dominate” in the same sentence (except for referring to how the Colts dominate the Patriots.)

Reason # 1 the Colts will dominate 2008:

Super-Coach Tony Dungy is returning to lead the team in 2008.  If you don’t know why this is a good thing you are either:
A) not very bright
B) a criminal (and thus probably a Patriots fan)
C) an outright Patriots fan (thus immoral, slow-witted, and probably a criminal)
D) not knowledgeable about football (hopefully a woman…)
E) even more mentally “dense” than a Patriots fan (limited to rocks or other inanimate objects)

In fact, you are probably all of the above.  Tony Dungy is the man.  Period.

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