Category: Boston MA (Page 3 of 13)

Win A Private VIP Tour Of Fenway Park!

14 May, 2011 / Kat

The great team at Tickets for Charity has another giveaway for Boston Red Sox fans and baseball history buffs. By entering this contest, you could win a VIP tour of Fenway Park on May 25th. This tour involves features of the park not usually explored during routine tours of the historic venue. After your unique tour of America’s oldest ballpark, the Tickets for Charity crew will treat you to lunch.

To enter the giveaway, please click on this link. This contest runs until Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 6pm. A winner will be selected at random by Tickets For Charity.

Best of luck!

To learn more about my partnership with Tickets For Charity, read this earlier post. The organization sells popular sports and entertainment tickets and uses the profit to support a variety of charitable groups.

Tickets For Charity: Give Back By Getting The Tickets You Want

20 April, 2011 / Kat

I recently met the fabulously passionate staff of Tickets For Charity, an organization that uses the demand for sports and concert tickets to help charities nationwide.

Teams and concert promoters provide Tickets For Charity tickets to high-profile events which the organization turns around and sells at the market value. That premium price you would usually be paying then goes to a charity group as opposed to a profit margin. Tickets For Charity also develops VIP packages that provide fans access to events that they couldn’t get unless they were in the know.

Currently, Tickets For Charity has Boston Red Sox regular season tickets and both Boston Bruins and Celtics playoff tickets. With each purchase, you can designate what group receives the charitable portion of your purchase price, including the official charities of the Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox.

I hung out with the Tickets for Charity crew at Jerry Remy’s (a very neat take-in in itself), and was impressed at how dedicated they are to the cause and how knowledgeable they are about sports. This is code for, “We had a long conversation about the woes of the Buffalo Bills” and “We talked college hockey.” These aren’t folks oblivious to the passion of sports fans – they’re sports fans themselves.

If you’re going to be paying out the nose to get to a must-see sporting event – especially a playoff game – why not help out others in the process?

During the Red Sox season, Tickets for Charity will be giving you the opportunity to win some unique ticket packages, including Green Monster seats for a Yankees-Red Sox game, Fenway Park tours plus lunch, and tickets to the Red Sox Foundation’s Picnic in the Park. Stay tuned – I’ll have more info as we get closer to these giveaways!

If Soccer Comes With A Good Cappuccino, I Might Be Interested

10 April, 2011 / Kat

If you know me, you know I’m addicted to coffee. While I drink coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts or my K-Cup machine on an everyday basis, I do take advantage of the North End’s great Italian cafes for cappuccinos, espressos and after-dinner coffees (coffees with a shot of alcohol) when I am able.

Caffe Dello Sport is a Hanover Street cafe that mixes great Italian coffees with a great European soccer community. The cafe has a busy schedule of soccer viewings live from Europe, including games with Manchester United, Chelsea, and Real Madrid.

While I’m not the biggest fan of watching soccer, I am a big fan of watching soccer fans, who are prime examples of the intense sports fandom I’ve wondered and espoused about for years. Caffe Dello Sport combines good coffee with good people watching, and as this spring weather continues, I’ll be going there to get good and caffeinated.

Through my new partnership with group coupon site DealPop (I am one of their Boston writers – you can read my first piece for their blog here), I’m happy to offer you all an extra 20% off their current deal for Caffe Dello Sport. The deal, which gives you $14 of coffee and desserts (like gelato!) for only $7, expires on April 21st. Use the code SGK_DELLO20 when buying the coupon to get your 20% discount.

I hope to see you joining me for an authentic cappuccino and coconut gelato at Caffe Dello Sport soon!

(Disclaimer: DealPop and I do have a business relationship, but I can pick and choose what deals I offer.)

Aerosmith Partners With Bruins For Contest

31 March, 2011 / Kat

The folks running this contest – where you can win some high ticket Boston Bruins memorabilia – asked me to pass along the word. The contest ends today, March 31st, so be sure to enter right away if interested.

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Aerosmith & Boston Bruins Partner for BLOWOUT Giveaway

Rock legends Aerosmith have joined forces with The Boston Bruins Foundation to give away Aerosmith & Bruins memorabilia! You’ll wanna get your hands on these exclusive prizes. ENTER NOW!

(1) Lucky contestant will win:

(1) AEROSMITH #1 Custom Bruins Jersey
(1) AUTOGRAPHED Bruins Hockey Stick
(1) AUTOGRAPHED Bruins Jersey
(1) Bruins Winter Classic Fenway Framed Piece
(1) AUTOGRAPHED Steven Tyler Photo
(1) AUTOGRAPHED Joey Kramer Drum Head
(1) $50.00 Gift Certificate to the Aerosmith Online Store
(1) Aerosmith Hockey Hoodie
(1) Aerosmith T-shirt
This giveaway ends on March 31st, but you can visit aeroforceone.com daily & re-enter to increase your chances. In addition, make sure to visit the NHL Alumni Association to check out a “One-of-a-Kind” Boston Bruins & Steven Tyler Themed Motorcycle Raffle! Proceeds generated by the raffle will go toward The Boston Bruins Foundation’s athletic, academic, health and community outreach programs that help enrich the lives of children throughout New England.

I Get It. I’m With You. My Favorite Football Team Stinks.

10 March, 2011 / Kat

A sarcastically fun facet to being a Buffalo Bills fan living in Massachusetts? Every time the local TV stations have to find B-roll (the video footage that rolls while a reporter speaks over it) of a New England Patriots player, they use footage from a Bills-Patriots game.

Example: this morning, the local news I watch led off their broadcast with a story on Patriots safety Brandon Meriweather facing serious allegations regarding a fight at a party and a possible shooting. They used footage of Meriweather playing the Bills – which, granted was probably some of the only footage of him actually doing his job on defense. But still.

When Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was breaking out spastic moves that show he has no rhythm in South America this week, a station juxtaposed it with him throwing a touchdown…against the Bills. There are a ton of Brady touchdowns out there. He’s sort of the reigning NFL MVP. But no. They had to use the Bills footage.

I get it. The two AFC East foes play each other twice a year. There is a lot of footage to be had, especially footage in the Patriots favor. But come on. It’s becoming like the never-ending joke on Geico commercials, where the caveman is faced with the stereotype that cavemen are idiots at every turn. Bills fans in Boston have to face the idea that their team pales in comparison to the superior Patriots endlessly and at the most unexpected of moments. I wake up this morning not even thinking about football, sit up in my bed, turn on the morning news and…look! The Bills blew that coverage again. The Patriots intercepted the Bills. Ugh. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Really. All I wanted to see was the weather.