Check out these ticket chances!

Ticketamerica.com has football ncaa tickets for the Missouri Tigers tickets Nebraska Cornhuskers tickets as well as Texas Tech Red Raiders tickets and seating charts.

Song of the Day- Turn the Page (Bob Seger)

Anybody interested in the NFL and the Superbowl, check this out!

http://nflupdates247.blogspot.com/

Patriots and Giants are going to the Superbowl

Song of the Day- While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George Harrison)

Song of the Day- Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)

Fielder, Where will he go?

And now all eyes—especially those belonging to Washington Nationals and Texas Rangers fans—turn to free-agent first baseman Prince Fielder.

Even before the Rangers on Wednesday announced that they had signed Japanese righthander Yu Darvish to a six-year, $60 million contract, speculation began about whether they could afford Fielder, too.

Prince Fielder becomes viable for the Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals thanks to local television money.

MLB.com reported that during Wednesday's news conference about the Darvish signing, general manager Jon Daniels—when asked off-camera about Fielder's joining his team, too—said, “I’m intimately aware of our budget and it’s very unlikely.”

Of course, remember that MLB.com also reported earlier Wednesday that optimism over Texas' getting a deal done with Darvish had waned.

There is a lot of information and misinformation when it comes to big-time contracts and impact players.

The common denominator between the Rangers and Nationals, who many say took over the role as favorites to sign Fielder, is local television money.

If the Nationals are going to sign Fielder, it will be in part because of new revenue derived from TV deal still being negotiated, just as whether the Rangers still could fit Fielder onto the payroll is a question only because of their recently negotiated TV deal.

“It’s impossible to overstate just how important it is for a franchise to gets its media deal right,” former Rangers managing partner Chuck Greenberg told The Washington Post. “The difference … affects every element of a franchise operation.”

Likewise, the Nationals, according to experts cited by The Post, can expect enough new revenue from the renegotiated rights fees to pay for Fielder’s potential contract–and then some. Andrew Zimbalist, an economics professor and sports business expert, told the newspaper that signing Fielder could enhance the Nationals’ argument for higher rights fees from MASN.In 2010, the Rangers reached a 20-year deal with Fox Sports worth $3 billion beginning in 2014, according to a report in USA Today that cited two unidentified baseball officials who had seen the contract. The deal, according to The Post, allows the Rangers to operate with a financial assurance unrivaled in baseball outside of New York and Boston.

So, which comes first, the chicken or the nine-figure free-agent contract?

According to The Post, the Nationals have held firm at their price for Fielder as interest hasn’t been nearly what agent Scott Boras and Fielder likely expected.

Now, unless another team wants to come in very late in the process (remember, pitchers and catchers report in less than a month), it would appear that Fielder’s choice is down to this:

Take what the Nationals have been offering, a number that is unclear right now although Boras has been seeking eight or 10 years and close to $200 million for Fielder, 27, or at the least a shorter deal that averages approximately the $25.2 million per year that Albert Pujols’ new contract with the Angels averages. (By the way, the Angels were able to afford that contract because of a new local TV contract.)

Or hope, as one rival executive told SI.com, that the Rangers are “expert at playing possum” and will now go after Fielder.

If Texas is to do so, the Dallas Morning News noted, then it will be because Boras, who met with the Rangers last week, is willing to be creative.

An unidentified source cited by the Morning News said Wednesday that the Rangers would not rule out Fielder, but that any flexibility to negotiate would likely be eliminated by the Darvish signing.

The newspaper went on to say that the Rangers have expressed interest in a shorter-term deal, perhaps along the lines of a six-year contract that would allow Fielder to opt out after three or four years. However, according to the Morning News, if Boras and Fielder are intent on the longer term deal, then talks with the Rangers will likely end abruptly.

Read more: http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2012-01-19/prince-fielder-nationals-rangers-follow-the-tv-money#ixzz1k7SCff00