TOUGHEST TICKET IN TOWN PRICE TAG HIGH FOR USC-UCLA SHOWDOWN.Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer Tickets for the USC-UCLA football game USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. have been sold out for about four weeks. If you want a seat Saturday at the Rose Bowl, you'll have to pay top dollar to brokers or online sellers. With five days before the big game, there were plenty of tickets available on eBay.com, but a starting bid of $650 for four tickets and parking was not unusual. Four seats on the 50-yard line were selling for $250 each. As of Monday afternoon, RazorGator, formerly Murray's Tickets, had 83 tickets available for Saturday's game - none for less than $170 - and sold out of their $1,000 seats. If money is no object, fans still could purchase seats for $525 a pop. Because of BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. bowl implications for the top-ranked Trojans, who are in line to win their second consecutive national title, Marc Dellins, UCLA's associate athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic for sports information, has been fielding calls from alumni, former players and media. ``It's a tough week for everybody, but you want there to be excitement,'' Dellins said. ``You want people to want to come to the game. You look forward to it.'' Dellins, a longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX official, said the last time there was such interest in the game was 1998, when UCLA was ranked third in the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. poll. Across town, USC sports information director Tim Tessalone doesn't have as many concerns about ticket issues. That wasn't the case for last weekend's game against Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame at the Coliseum Coliseum: see Colosseum. , but this week the Trojans are not the hosts. USC doesn't handle ticket requests and has limited access to tickets or field passes. ``Tickets to the game have been sold out, so if people are calling for tickets this week, good luck,'' he said. USC received and sold an allotment of 35,000 tickets for the game, up from its usual allotment of about 25,000. ``We've forever been in a sold-out situation when 'SC plays here,'' said Ken Weiner, UCLA's associate athletic director for operations and a university employee for 25 years. ``There was interest earlier this year, that's for sure.'' Reserved public-seating tickets were $62, and seats in donor areas were priced $66-$70. Students who purchased a single-game ticket paid $31. Football players received four tickets each for family or friends. Jill Painter, (818)713-3615 jill.painter(at)dailynews.com |
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