Major League Sports Travel

November 2, 2011

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If you’ve ever been to a Texas Tech Football game, you know that it’s the Red Raider way or the highway.  With a stadium atmosphere to rival the best—every game sounds like the Super Bowl—once fans are converted to the red and black, their loyalties never waiver.  As a college student, it’s incredibly easy to make it to every home game (free with your student ID) and there is almost always a caravan of die-hard fans trekking it to the away games.  As an alum, it’s a little more difficult to find the time and the finances to make it to every away game.  Enter Major League Sports Travel.

Started by two die-hard Red Raider alums, Toni Cremeans and Zac Miller, Major League Sports Travel takes all of the stress out of planning an away game road trip, and finds a way to save you some cash in the process.  These guys have been successfully putting together travel packages for alums and students alike all season long; all you have to do is find a way to get to Lubbock or the DFW area—all trips originate from one or both cities.  For the Texas Tech vs. University of Texas football game this weekend, a tentative package includes roundtrip motor coach transportation, a one night stay in an Austin hotel and football tickets should the need arise.   Packages are still available for the following football games:

• November 5: Texas Tech vs. University of Texas
• November 19: Texas Tech vs. University of Missouri
• November 26: Texas Tech vs. Baylor

Major League Sports Travel

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tech,

If you’ve ever been to a Texas Tech Football game, you know that it’s the Red Raider way or the highway.  With a stadium atmosphere to rival the best—every game sounds like the Super Bowl—once fans are converted to the red and black, their loyalties never waiver.  As a college student, it’s incredibly easy to make it to every home game (free with your student ID) and there is almost always a caravan of die-hard fans trekking it to the away games.  As an alum, it’s a little more difficult to find the time and the finances to make it to every away game.  Enter Major League Sports Travel.

Started by two die-hard Red Raider alums, Toni Cremeans and Zac Miller, Major League Sports Travel takes all of the stress out of planning an away game road trip, and finds a way to save you some cash in the process.  These guys have been successfully putting together travel packages for alums and students alike all season long; all you have to do is find a way to get to Lubbock or the DFW area—all trips originate from one or both cities.  For the Texas Tech vs. University of Texas football game this weekend, a tentative package includes roundtrip motor coach transportation, a one night stay in an Austin hotel and football tickets should the need arise.   Packages are still available for the following football games:

• November 5: Texas Tech vs. University of Texas
• November 19: Texas Tech vs. University of Missouri
• November 26: Texas Tech vs. Baylor

New Austin City Limits Live Studio at the W Hotel

September 23, 2011

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This past week in Austin, everybody was abuzz about the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park.  A little known fact about the music monstrosity is that it was originally a live music television series filmed in front of an audience.  To recapture the original, they opened the doors to a new state-of-the-art home at The Moody Theater in the W Hotel.  Cool abounds at the new 2^nd street location, one of our favorite areas for shopping and dining.  Inside Moody Theater (we snagged two tickets to Coldplay last weekend), history lines the walls with memorabilia from past concerts, making for an intimate concert experience; there was not a bad seat in the house.

A visit to The Moody Theater should be at the top of every Austinite’s to-do list.  Not only is it an alternative to 6^th Street, but this establishment is what made Austin known as the “Live Music Capital of the World.”  Check out the ACL Live website for concert listings, or follow ACL Live’s blog for announcements on ticket giveaways to the TV show tapings—usually a week before the show.  Here are a few shows already on the calendar:

 

Sunday, October 9—B.B. King

Thursday, November 10—Bob Schneider

Tuesday, November 15—Aretha Franklin

Saturday, November 19—Ghostland Observatory

Thursday, December 1—Wilco

Saturday, December 17—Robert Earl Keen

 

Insider Tip: To increase your chances of winning, don’t just enter your own name.  They give away tickets in pairs, so enter the name of a friend as well.  Or anybody else who you know would definitely bring you if they won!