Ticket Prices

Ravens president Dick Cass announced Thursday that the team will not raise ticket prices for the 2011 season, in part because of the uncertainty surrounding collective bargaining negotiations. "We looked at it this year and decided it was not a good time to raise prices," Cass said during a season-ending news conference with owner Steve Bisciotti, general manager Ozzie Newsome and coach John Harbaugh . The Ravens' protocol has been to raise ticket prices every other year — and 2011 called for an increase.

After attendance declined at men's lacrosse championship weekend for the seventh straight year, the NCAA will drastically lower prices starting next season, according to Inside Lacrosse. The cheapest all-session ticket for the 2015 event in Philadelphia is $50, and the NCAA will also offer a family-friendly $99 package for the semifinals that includes four end-zone tickets, four hot dogs, four sodas and parking. The NCAA has also talked about adding a $12 to $15 one-day end-zone ticket.

As part of their season-long celebration of the 20th anniversary of Camden Yards, the Orioles are dropping ticket prices for selected games to 1992 prices. For six specific games, Eutaw Street bleacher seats will be available for $4 each, the same price as when the stadium opened. The six games featured aren't all unattractive matchups either, with the American League East rival Tampa Bay Rays in town for two of them and the two-time defending AL champion Texas Rangers coming in for one. Here's the lineup of the specially priced games, which must be purchased online at CamdenYards20.com : April 27: vs. Oakland Athletics May 7: vs. Texas Rangers July 24: vs. Tampa Bay Rays Aug. 9: vs. Kansas City Royals Aug. 27: Chicago White Sox Sept.

When the Ravens sent out invoices to season ticket holders several weeks ago, they included no price increases for the 2014 season. This isn't exactly breaking news. In announcing an average ticket increase of 10 percent per ticket last year, team officials vowed to keep those same prices through the 2014 season. The recently mailed out invoices only reaffirmed that plan. Overall, the Ravens have raised ticket prices just once over the past five seasons and just six times since their downtown stadium opened in 1998.  From 2001 to 2009, the Ravens raised ticket prices every other year.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Orioles informed their season ticket holders Thursday by email that they will not be raising plan prices in 2013. An Orioles official confirmed the correspondence was sent, telling holders of 81-game, 29-game and 13-game plans that their prices would remain the same, marking the fifth straight season that prices won't rise. Season ticket prices range from as low as $9 to $48 a game. Individual game ticket prices haven't been announced and usually are not until January.

After attendance declined at men's lacrosse championship weekend for the seventh straight year, the NCAA will drastically lower prices starting next season, according to Inside Lacrosse. The cheapest all-session ticket for the 2015 event in Philadelphia is $50, and the NCAA will also offer a family-friendly $99 package for the semifinals that includes four end-zone tickets, four hot dogs, four sodas and parking. The NCAA has also talked about adding a $12 to $15 one-day end-zone ticket.

The new National Professional Soccer League franchise in Baltimore has set single-game and season-ticket prices for the 1992-93 season.The franchise will play 20 home games at the Baltimore Arena, beginning Nov. 7.The franchise begins operations today in offices on the third floor of the Arena. Information may be obtained by calling (410) 625-2320.There will be five ticket prices: $13 for seats in selected sections of the lower and middle concourses; $12 for all remaining lower and middle concourse seats; $10 for seats on the stage and behind the goal; $8 for upper concourse seats facing the field; and $4 for obstructed-view seats in the upper concourse.

Fresh off their second Super Bowl title, the Ravens will raise ticket prices at M&T Bank Stadium for the 2013-14 season, their first increase in four years and their sixth since their downtown stadium opened in 1998. When season ticket holders get their renewal letters this week, they'll see an average increase of 10 percent per ticket in the seating bowl area, according to Kevin Byrne, the Ravens senior vice president for public and community relations. That does not include club or suite level seats, which will likely see a smaller increase from last season.

The Ravens aren't raising ticket prices for the 2010 season, a team official said Tuesday. The team traditionally increases ticket prices every other season. Last year, seats at M&T Bank Stadium went up anywhere from $5 to $15. The Ravens went 9-7 in the regular season, earning a wild-card playoff berth. They beat the New England Patriots in the wild-card game, then lost to the Indianapolis Colts.

So, you figured maybe the Orioles would not raise ticket prices this once. You figured maybe, after experiencing the real-life fantasy of having taxpayers build them a ballpark and fill it beyond anyone's wildest expectations, the Orioles would have the humility it takes to say thanks in the most meaningful way of all: in the wallet.Well, you were wrong.The Orioles announced a rise in prices for the 1993 season yesterday. They might object to it being characterized as a rise, considering that they also lowered the prices of some seats about which fans had complained.

When Orioles season-ticket holders receive their renewal packages in the mail over the next few days, they will find slightly higher average ticket prices and an expanded version of the variable-pricing plan the club has used for single-game ticket sales over the past seven years. The Orioles are raising season-ticket prices on all plans by an average of approximately 5 percent, the first increase in cost since 2008, an Orioles spokeswoman confirmed Friday. Season-ticket packages start at $168 for a 13-game plan; 29-game and full-season packages are also available.

Justin Timberlake, the "Take Back the Night" singer and recent GQ Man of the Year , will bring his world tour to Baltimore Arena on July 14. Tickets go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. It was announced Tuesday morning that Timberlake, who released two No. 1 albums this year, had added 12 new dates to his "20/20 Experience World Tour. " The Weeknd most recently opened for Timberlake, but no supporting acts have been announced for the new dates yet. Ticket prices will range from $48-$178.

Nearly two months after announcing it would convene a panel to study what it called a "disturbing trend" of declining attendance at NCAA Division I men's lacrosse Championship Weekend, the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association has issued recommendations for solving the problem. The group's white paper, which was submitted to the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Committee on Aug. 3, lists skyrocketing ticket prices (which have nearly doubled in the past seven years, from $60 for an all-session pass in 2006 to $110 in 2013)

For the average consumer, ticket service, processing or "convenience" fees may be among the more annoying aspects of going to a big-time sporting event, concert, play or similar attraction. It's one thing to be "nickel and dimed," but service fees may heap as much as 50 percent more on top of the cost of a single ticket. Does providing a ticket, particularly one that can be transferred instantaneously and electronically in this digital age, really cost $10 or more? Absolutely not. That's why a lot of people were probably happy when the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled earlier this year that Baltimore's 1948 anti-scalping law applied to such fees and restricted them to 50 cents per ticket.

Fresh off their second Super Bowl title, the Ravens will raise ticket prices at M&T Bank Stadium for the 2013-14 season, their first increase in four years and their sixth since their downtown stadium opened in 1998. When season ticket holders get their renewal letters this week, they'll see an average increase of 10 percent per ticket in the seating bowl area, according to Kevin Byrne, the Ravens senior vice president for public and community relations. That does not include club or suite level seats, which will likely see a smaller increase from last season.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Orioles informed their season ticket holders Thursday by email that they will not be raising plan prices in 2013. An Orioles official confirmed the correspondence was sent, telling holders of 81-game, 29-game and 13-game plans that their prices would remain the same, marking the fifth straight season that prices won't rise. Season ticket prices range from as low as $9 to $48 a game. Individual game ticket prices haven't been announced and usually are not until January.

College football Navy to face Arizona State in Kraft Bowl Navy and Arizona State will meet for the first time at the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl on Dec. 29 at AT&T Park in San Francisco, it was announced Sunday. The game will begin at 4 p.m. and be televised on ESPN2. The Sun Devils finished the regular season 7-5 with a 5-4 record in the Pacific-12. "Based on our visit in 2004, we have seen firsthand that the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl is a magnificent overall environment and event," said Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said.

Darlington Run For Your Lives Experience "The Walking Dead" live, at the Run For Your Lives 5K Obstacle Course located at Camp Ramblewood in Darlington. You can watch runners test their ability to survive the zombie apocalypse, while they try and complete 12 man-made and natural obstacles. Afterwards, party with humans and zombies at the Apocalypse Party, which includes live entertainment, food vendors and plenty of drinks. Event takes place Oct. 27 and 28. Spectator ticket prices for Oct. 27 are $32 online and $40 at the event.