(This story was updated on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at 4:56pm EST to add a comment from StubHub.)

The Boston Red Sox, the last holdout from the secondary ticketing deal Major League Baseball (MLB) signed with StubHub in 2007, has finally agreed to let the ticket exchange giant be its authorized online ticketing partner.  Full Story…

The Minnesota Vikings announced this week that they are raising the price of 2010 season tickets by an average of 3 percent. The price increase comes before any announcement by Brett Favre about whether or not he’ll be rejoining the team next season.

Now Vikings season tickets will cost anywhere between $29 to $128 a game, as opposed to the $25 to $123 per-game cost range that was in effect the past two years.  Full Story…

The past weekend’s men’s Gold Medal final in ice hockey at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games was one for the record books. The tournament’s rematch between Canada and the U.S. (the U.S. won the first game earlier in the week with a score of 5-3) drew 27.6 million viewers on this side of the border. This made it the most watched hockey game here since the “Miracle on Ice” in 1980, in which the U.S. beat the USSR. Over 16 million Canadian viewers tuned for last Sunday’s game, which turns out to be about half the country.  Full Story…

As Frank and Jamie McCourt’s divorce winds its way through the California legal system, new details about the Los Angeles Dodgers’ business plan are emerging — details that could spell trouble for fans and ticketers alike.

According to court documents submitted by Jamie McCourt, the Dodgers organization plans to increase ticket prices steadily until by 2018 they have nearly doubled their 2007 cost, the Los Angeles Time reported.  Full Story…

A Vancouver man who bought two tickets to Sunday’s USA vs. Canada hockey match, but didn’t receive the tickets he wanted, is suing a Vancouver ticket broker for $60,000.

Patrick O’Brien filed the lawsuit against Allstar Tickets last week in a Canadian court before the game, because he claimed the company did not deliver the two center-ice tickets he paid $4,600 for.   Full Story…

The NBA has released their attendance report for games up to the All Star break, and the winners thus far seem to be the Los Angeles Lakers, who’ve managed to fill seats to 99.9 percent of capacity over all games, with an average of 19,178 in attendance per game. The team’s impressive stats hold up in a break down of home and away games as well, with home games pulling in an average of 18,997 fans, or 99.7 percent, and away games at 19,389, or 100.2 percent.  Full Story…

The Chicago Cubs are back in the scalping business. As of Monday, February 15, the team is offering fans single-game tickets for all Cubs games at prices over face value.

The MasterCard First Chance Presale ends Thursday at midnight. The Cubs are offering their tickets at 20 percent over face value; fans paying for their tickets with a MasterCard pay 15 percent over face value.  Full Story…

With the weak economy continuing to take a bite out of NASCAR ticket sales, the Atlanta Motor Speedway is repeating a promotion designed to entice fans to buy tickets.

Earlier today, February 15, the track offered race fans the chance to buy $1 tickets for the upcoming Kobalt Tools 500, a price in honor of Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray’s #1 car.   Full Story…

The Glazer family, owners of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the English Premiere League’s Manchester United Football Club (FC), seem to be losing popularity quickly on both sides of the Atlantic.

Fans of Manchester United, bought by Malcolm Glazer and his sons in 2005, are promoting a boycott of season tickets this summer in hopes that the family will sell the team to avoid further financial hardship.  Full Story…

With last weekend’s Farmers Insurance Open heralding the unofficial start of PGA season, Tiger Wood’s absence from the Tour has been causing anxiety for many in the ticketing industry. The Farmers usually marks Wood’s first appearance on the Tour each season, and it is the first widely broadcast event on the PGA schedule. Woods’ no-show makes his current loss to the sport all too real, and everyone from the Tour to the television networks to the ticketing and hospitality industries are feeling it.  Full Story…