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Here’s a list of the tennis tournaments the ATP tour holds during the month of July:

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Swedish Open
Location: Bastad, Sweden
Dates: July 7 - 13
Surface: Clay
International Series

Mercedes Cup
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Dates: July 7 - 13
Surface: Clay
International Series Gold

Campbell’s Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
Location: Newport, Rhode Island. USA
Dates: July 7 - 13
Surface: Grass
International Series

Allianz Suisse Open
Location: Gstaad, Switzerland
Dates: July 7 - 13
Surface: Clay
International Series

Dutch Open
Location: Amersfoort, Netherlands
Dates: July 14 - 20
Surface: Clay
International Series

Indianapolis Tennis Championships
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana. USA
Dates: July 14 - 20
Surface: Hard
International Series

Austrian Open
Location: Kitzbuhel, Austria
Dates: July 14 - 20
Surface: Clay
International Series

Croatian Open
Location: Umag, Croatia
Dates: July 14 - 20
Surface: Clay
International Series

Canada Masters
Location: Toronto, Canada
Dates: July 21 - 27
Surface: Hard
Masters Series

Cincinnati Masters
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio. USA
Dates: July 28 - August 3
Surface: Grass
International Series

Here’s a list of the tennis tournaments the WTA tour holds during the month of July:
 = Tickets available!

Budapest Grand Prix
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Dates: July 7 - 13
Surface: Red clay
Tier III

Internazionali Femminili di Palermo
Location: Palermo, Italy
Dates: July 7 - 13
Surface: Red clay
Tier IV

Bank of the West Classic 
 Location: Stanford, California
Dates: July 14 - 20
Surface: Hard
Tier II

Gastein Ladies
Location: Bad Gastein, Austria,
Dates: July 14 - 20
Surface: Red clay
Tier III

East West Bank Classic
Location: Los Angeles, California
Dates: July 21 - July 27
Surface: Hard
Tier II

Banka Koper Slovenia Open
Location: Portoroz, Slovenia
Dates: July 21 - 27
Surface: Hard
Tier IV

Rogers Cup
Location: Montreal, Canada
Dates: July 28 - August 3
Surface: Hard
Tier I

Nordea Nordic Light Open
Location: Sotckholm, Sweden
Dates: July 28 - August 3
Surface: Hard
Tier IV

The Stone Temple Pilots, the Californian rock band that originated in San Diego, will play three concerts in Florida starting August 19.

The band’s first concert  in the Sunshine State will take place on August 19 in Orlando a the UCF Arena. The following day the group travels to Hollywood to play at Hard Rock Live at The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

The third and final concert  in Florida will be in Tampa at the U.S. Ford Amphiheater on August 22 before moving to Alpharetta, Georgia.

The Stone Temple Pilots began their summer tour in Mid-May and will continue to tour throughout the United States until the fall visiting cities like Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Diego, before a closing performace in Seattle, Washington on August 31.

Also, as part of the 10th annual Vodoo Music Festival, the Stone Temple Pilots will perform at the City Park in New Orleans on October 24.

From 1987 to 2003, The Stone Temple Pilots’ five albums sold over 17.5 million copies in the United States alone and nearly 40 million albums worldwide. The band have had fifteen top ten singles on the Billboard rock charts, including six number ones, and one number one album on the pop charts.

To buy your tickets to the Stone Temple Pilots shows contact tickets of America at 888-383-1515 or click here to purchase them online. To  see the complete tour schedule visit www.stonetemplepilots.com 

The New York Yankees start today a three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds at Yankee Stadium as two teams heading in opposing directions square off in interleague play.

 The struggling Reds (33-41) will try to break a five-game losing streak as they travel to the Bronx to face the surging New York Yankees (40-33), who have won seven in  a row and eight of their last 10 games.

The Reds have won just three of their last 10 games and are coming off a three-game sweep at home at the hands of the Dodgers, who have lost just one of eight against Cincinnati this season.

The game tonight features righties Edinson Volquez (9-2) against Mike Mussina (10-4).  Mussina (3.87 ERA) has won his last five starts and is 9-1 in his last 11 outings, while Volquez (1.64 ERA) leads the league with 105 strikeouts and has a 4-1 record in his last seven road starts.

This will be the first time these two teams teams meet at Yankee Stadium since  the 1976 World Series when the Reds swept the Bronx Bombers.  The last time they met during the regular season was at Cincinnati in June 2003 when the Yankees lost two of three.

The Reds have yet to announce who will pitch against Dan Giese on Saturday, but on Sunday Johny Cueto (5-7) of the Reds will go against Andy Pettitte (7-5), who has won his last two starts.

Tickets of America is the ultimate source for all your Major League Baseball games. To buy tickets to Reds-Yankees games click here. 

Fans snapped-up an impressive 30,000 Coldplay tickets in under 45 minutes for the band’s tour-opening dates. Coldplay will launch their “Viva La Vida” North American tour with two sold-out shows at The Forum in Los Angeles on July 14 and 15. 

If you want to avoid the hassles of standing in line for hours, get your Coldplay tickets using Tickets of America’s secure and fast system. 

 To celebrate the “Viva La Vida” tour and their upcoming album of the same name, the band will play free concerts in London (today at the Brixton Academy) and New York City (June 23 at Madison Square Garden).

Viva La Vida, scheduled for release in North America on June 17 (tomorrow), is now the #1 pre-order in iTunes history. “Violet Hill,” the first single from the upcoming album continues to be a massive multi-format hit in Canada and new single “Viva La Vida” is already following close behind - with many radio stations across the country now playing both tracks.

The first few dates of the North American tour were rescheduled due to production delays. Tickets already purchased for these shows will be honoured on the new dates.

The complete revised tour itinerary is available here. To secure tickets to Coldplay’s next show contact Tickets of America because at Tickets of America we’re never sold out! 

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Coldplay has announced on its Web site that its north American tour has been postponed due to what the band is calling production delays and for that reason the show won’t be ready for its planned June 29 kickoff in Philadelphia.

According to the new revised schedule posted on the band’s site the Philadelphia show will now take place on July 25, while  the tour will now begin on July 14 in Los Angeles. Instead of closing in Chicago on August 4, the tour’s final event will now take place in Boston on the same date. The release also stated that all tickets purchased for postponed concerts will remain valid for the new dates, but refunds will be available if people can’t make it.The band’s fourth album, “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends,” will be released June 16 internationally via Parlophone/EMI and a day later in North America via Capitol. First single “Viva La Vida” last week became the biggest hit of Coldplay’s career by jumping from No. 10 to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Click here to visit Coldplay’s revised schedule.

British singer Boy George is set to hit the road to tour North America and Canada - his first performances in the US in over a decade. The former Culture Club frontman, real name George O’Dowd, will play 25 venues across America, including two shows in Los Angeles.

The tour kicks off on July 10 in Aspen, Colorado and concludes on August 23 in Dallas, Texas.
O’Dowd made headlines in the US in 2006, when he was sentenced to community service and garbage duty after a New York judge charged him with wasting police time for falsely reporting a burglary in his Big Apple apartment.

Boy George rose to international fame in the early 1980s along when his band Culture Club released hit singles such as “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?” and “Karma Chameleon.” The group sold over 100 million singles and 50 million albums all over the world.

The Boston Globe is reporting that people went as far as sleeping in garbage cans as they waited in line to buy tickets for the NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics.

The tickets have become priceless and are selling online for thousands of dollars and the average price for tickets for this year’s series was selling at $262 more than last year’s San Antonio Spurs-Cleveland Cavaliers championship.

 The tickets went on sale on Monday morning and thousands of fans were lining up outside the TD Banknorth Garden to get the coveted tickets.

Shawn Sullivan, the Celtics vice president of ticket sales, told the Boston Globe that while the Garden has capacity for 18,624 people, the vast majority of tickets went to season ticket holders, sponsors, the National Basketball Association, TV networks, and the visiting team.

According to the Boston Herald the box office opened at about 2 p.m. and the nearly 1,000 available seats, which were also being sold at the same time online and by phone, were gone by 3:20 p.m.

Also the system that the Celtics employ to sell their tickets left many fans dejected. The Garden uses a lottery system to determine who among the crowd of people waiting to get tickets will be able to buy them. As people line up they are handed a ticket with a number indicating their place in line.

Security guards closed off the line on Monday at 1 p.m. . Then a Garden employee drew the “271” ticket from a box, so the ticket sale started there. Everyone ahead of that point, even though they had arrived earlier, went home empty handed.

John Wentzell, president of TD Banknorth Garden, told the Boston Herald that the venue has used the lottery for all major events, including sports playoff games, for the past decade.  The system was designed, among other reasons, to put scalpers at a disadvantage and keep them from dominating the line and buying up blocks of tickets - at the expense of everyday fans.

Here’s a list of the tennis tournaments the WTA tour holds during the month of June:

DFS Classic
Location: Birmingham, UK
Dates: June 9 - 15
Surface: Grass
Tier III     

Torneo Barcelona KIA
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: June 9 - 15
Surface: Red clay
Tier IV     

International Women’s Open
 Location: Eastbourne, UK
Dates: June 16 - 22
Surface: Grass
Tier II     

Ordina Open
Location: Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Dates: June 16 - 22
Surface: Grass
Tier III     

2008 Wimbledon Championships
Location: Wimbledon, London, UK
Dates: June 23 - July 6
Surface: Grass
Grand Slam