It’s not often that you can go to an NFL game for free but National Football Post is giving you that chance. All you have to do is register here and be close to a city with Southwest Airlines. Read the full story

A global ticketing scam has taken advantage of hundreds of people hoping to attend the Summer Olympics in Beijing. The phony tickets were sold via internet on a website with official looking Olympic logos that were attractive enough to sucker people from the US to down under. Read the full story

You probably have a better chance of winning the lottery, a Nobel Peace Prize, and a date with Bobby Knight on the same day than you do of scoring tickets for a sporting event in Boston. Seats are gonna be hard to find when the Patriots and Red Sox have delivered multiple championships this decade, and the Celtics are primed to get their first championship of the 21st century.

So what do you do when you wanna go to the game but seats are hard to come by? If you’re Taylor Roth, a senior inspector at the State Board of Examiners of Plumbers and Gasfitters, looking the other way during inspections is the answer. Read the full story

Tickets to the big game are had to come by.. Especially in a one trick pony town like Tuscaloosa, Alabama. If you can score some tickets to a UA game, you’re the man. If you steal some tickets to an Alabama game, you work for UPS.

Tuscaloosa Police investigators have charged three UPS workers with stealing University of Alabama football tickets and selling them to a ticket broker. The suspects worked in UPS’s warehouse and are accused of using fake address labels to divert the packages from their destinations.

What is the world coming to when you can’t trust some guys working in a warehouse? I’m glad to see the geniuses thought the plan all the way through.. No way they get caught for a stupid reason.

The scheme was uncovered when people who bought the stolen tickets arrived at the UA-Western Carolina season opener on Sept. 1 to find their seats already occupied.

Foolproof. Way to go fellas. Oh well, I’m sure there’s always work in the moonshinin’ biz.

FedEx Ground’s new ad campaign: FedEx Ground, because we won’t steal your college football tickets.

UPS employees accused in stolen football ticket scheme. Courtesy of Tuscaloosa News

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