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Ticketmaster is teaming up with your Walmart for concerts, sporting events!

Submitted by Chris Dyches
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011, 11:21am
Ticketmaster is teaming up with your Walmart for concerts, sporting events!

HICKORY - Want to hit that big concert, but hate going all the way to Ticketmaster?  Good news for you... Ticketmaster is coming to the Walmart on US Highway 70 SE.

The new deal between the two companies will bring Ticketmaster to your neighborhood Walmart, along with 41 others across the state.

Using point of sale touch screens located in the electronics departments, you can now browse available tickets for family shows, concerts and sporting events.  Once you find the event you want, a Walmart employee will help you complete the sale and print the tickets before you even leave the store!

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NFL Commissioner to visit Panthers training camp on Wednesday

Submitted by Chris Dyches
Monday, August 1st, 2011, 12:57pm
NFL Commissioner to visit Panthers training camp on Wednesday

The Carolina Panthers Training Camp at Wofford College will be the site of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s first 2011 Training Camp visit Wednesday, August 3 when he participates in a Fan Forum prior to the team’s 6:00 practice.

The forum will take place on the bank overlooking the lighted practice field at Wofford at approximately 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday and fans are invited to participate.

It will be Goodell’s first visit to Spartanburg since he became Commissioner and comes following the successful negotiation of an unprecedented 10-year Collective Bargaining Agreement for the League and its players.

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Register now for the Carolina Orthopaedic Specialists’ Oktoberfest Road Race

Submitted by Susan H.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011, 3:46pm
Register now for the Carolina Orthopaedic Specialists’ Oktoberfest Road Race

HICKORY - The Seventh Annual Carolina Orthopaedic Specialists’ Oktoberfest Road Race will take place on Saturday, October 8th in downtown Hickory as part of Downtown Hickory’s Oktoberfest.  Proceeds from the Carolina Orthopaedic Specialists’ Oktoberfest Road Race will be split equally between the four Hospices in Alexander, Burke, Caldwell and Catawba Counties. Using a holistic approach, Hospice serves the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their family members. Hospice helps patients live as pain-free and comfortably as possible, so they can enjoy each day with their loved ones. Due in large part to community support, Hospice care is provided to anyone who needs it, regardless of their ability to pay. Carolina Orthopaedic Specialists believes that Hospice is such a worthy cause and one that touches the lives of so many.

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50% off Single Kayak Rentals from Bash Outdoors

Submitted by Donna Lepre on Tuesday, July 19th, 10:10 am
50% off Single Kayak Rentals from Bash Outdoors

Looking for a great adventure that won't break the bank? Being 'up the creek' is actually loads of fun when you have a paddle. Float yourself downstream, absorb the wonders of nature and get aquatic with this fun deal from Bash Outdoors - get 50% off Kayak Rentals! 3 different offers to choose from. Click Here for more info and to take advantage of this great deal.

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes for the Checkers!

Submitted by Chris Dyches
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011, 9:45am
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes for the Checkers!

CHARLOTTE - The Charlotte Checkers are still new to the American Hockey League, but things are about to look really different for the Checkers and their fans.

The Checkers spent their inaugural season in the AHL as a member of the East Division in the Eastern Conference, but a new realignment in the league has them leaving both.

One year after joining the AHL's Eastern Conference, the league has decided to realigned and put the Checkers in the Western Conference. They will be a part of the newly-formed Midwest Division along with Chicago, Milwaukee, Peoria, and Rockford.

The decision was announced by American Hockey League President and CEO David Andrews on Tuesday after the league’s Board of Governors meeting in Hilton Head Island, SC.

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School bus racing: Al Conklin plans to 'school' the competition!

Submitted by Chris Dyches
Monday, June 27th, 2011, 11:24am
School bus racing: Al Conklin plans to 'school' the competition!

Things are about to heat up... get stormy... bring the thunder and every other cliché that you can come up with... as local meteorologists and other media-types take part in a racing event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The biggest smack talker of them all... WBTV's own meteorologist Al Conklin.

So here's the basics - members of the local media will take it four wide on the front-stretch quarter-mile oval at Charlotte Motor Speedway racing each other... in school buses. The popular Media Mayhem school bus race, presented by R&R Bar-B-Que, will take place as part of the Summer Shootout Series on Tuesday night, June 28.

Joining Conklin in the 2011 Media Mayhem are media including Matthew East from News 14 Carolina, Chris Justus from FOX Charlotte, and Brad Panovich from NewsChannel 36.

It's the first Media Mayhem bus race for East, Justus and Panovich, but Conklin has already had track time at Charlotte Motor Speedway in the six-wheeled, 30-foot, 13-ton school buses, finishing third in last year's Media Mayhem event.

"Day in and day out, I beat these guys with my superior weather forecasting skills," Conklin boasted. "I can't wait to beat them on the track Tuesday evening in the Storm Chasin' No. 3 bus!"

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NASCAR Hall of Fame announces 3rd class of inductees!

Submitted by Chris Dyches
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, 4:13pm
NASCAR Hall of Fame announces 3rd class of inductees!

CHARLOTTE - NASCAR announced the 2012 class of inductees into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Tuesday afternoon.

The five-person class, which will be officially inducted in a ceremony during the weekend of Jan. 20, 2012 at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C., consists of: Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Dale Inman, Richie Evans and Glen Wood.

Members of the 55-member NASCAR Hall of Fame Voting Panel met today in a closed session in Charlotte, N.C., to vote on the induction class of 2012. The announcement was made by NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France in the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s “Great Hall.”

The class was determined by votes cast by the Voting Panel, which included a nationwide fan vote conducted through NASCAR.COM. The accounting firm of Ernst & Young presided over the tabulation of the votes.

As was the case for the first two classes of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, the results of this year’s voting were competitive. Yarborough led with 85 percent of the vote, followed by Waltrip (82%), Inman (78%), Evans (50%) and Wood (44%).

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