Holidays in the USA - A Sports Extravaganza

They say that they do everything bigger over in thehalftime shows. The halftime shows are like an arena
good old United States of America; buildings,concert unto themselves, with past performers such
technology and even food (leading to bigger waistlinesas Prince, Paul McCartney and the infamous Janet
too). This fact can be attributed to their sports too.Jackson and Justin Timberlake incident! This year
American sports are popular all over the world not justSuperbowl XLII is going to be taking place in Phoenix,
for the average Joe American.Arizona and is in March.
Major sports such as American Football, Baseball andThe NBA basketball goes above and beyond
Basketball games are syndicated all round the worldSuperbowl with not only an All-Star game but an entire
for fans to watch on TV. But nothing quite beats beingweekend devoted to the festivities. Apart form the
there in person, cheering with the crowd, taking in thegame itself showcasing the cream of it's NBA
electric atmosphere. Many British holidaymakers arebasketball players there are other events such as a
timing their holidays with sporting events in the Statescelebrity game (last year including names like The
so that they can add a bit of variety to their holidays.Green Mile's Michael Clarke-Duncan and Oscar winner
There's plenty of regular season games for all the bigJamie Foxx) and the high-flying Slam Dunk contest.
four (Basketball, Baseball, Football and Hockey) andBasketball is a growing sport over here in the UK and
tickets are rather easy to get hold of, with manywhat better way to see the pros than getting to New
arenas and clubs using online booking systems such asOrleans for February the 17th.
Ticketmaster so you can get your tickets sorted early.These are just two stand out spectacles on offer,
In other cases most hotels' concierge services havepeople that have gone on holidays to America and
connections to the stadiums and may be able to pull aseen sporting events like these have had a great time,
few strings for visitors looking to make the most ofespecially families. One activity I have done myself is
their holidays.visit the historic Madison Square Garden arena in New
One point to be careful of is ticket touts, yes theseYork which was due to host a boxing match between
vultures exist stateside too, and prey uponLennox Lewis and Michael Grant in 2000, and whilst
impressionable tourists, my advice is to stay clear, itwe were unlucky in trying to get tickets we were still
isn't uncommon for tickets to be fakes or getting aable to get a great guided tour of the arena including
child's ticket instead of an adult's one. After all youtrophy rooms, locker rooms and the Theatre upstairs
didn't come thousands of miles to get swindled.that has hosted awards shows and events such as
The main attraction of American sports is how muchVH1's Divas Live. Many arenas in the United States
effort and style goes into their big events, the Footballoffer these tours normally during the day even whilst
has Superbowl, a national treasure in itself. Americanthey're setting up for events like the boxing match
football is as popular (possibly even more) than football,previously mentioned.
sorry, I mean soccer, is in the UK.In general if you can get tickets good and early then
This is the ultimate in sporting entertainment withyou could easily add some interest and value to your
fireworks a plenty, pulse pounding action and theholidays this year!