From Plaxico to ticket prices: sports roundup
Rogue football players, baseball winter meetings and ticket pricing. Major League Baseball season just wrapped up but the league’s Winter Meetings begin Monday in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, the San Fransisco Giants are moving ahead with an unprecedented ticket pricing scheme and the NFL is employing a new tactic to keep players in check. Jeff Beresford-Howe, the Takeaway’s very own one man tailgate party, joins us to talk sports.
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