Super Bowl Halftime Show

Hey NFL, 1978 just called, they want their Super Bowl halftime act back. The NFL and CBS have chosen The Who to play the halftime SuperBowl show this year.

You don't think CBS' CSI series success has anything to do with the halftime act? Oh yeah it's probably also a coincidence that the Super Bowl is being played in Miami.

Refund for a bad performance?

What a novel concept that the English Premier's Wigan club had after a recent drubbing. Wigan lost 9-1 to Tottenham last weekend. So embarrassed by their road performance that the Wigan players decided to refund the ticket cost of those Wigan fans that decide to travel and watch their club get beaten unmercifully.

It appears the good karma has already paid off; Wigan rebounded with a 1-0 win over Sunderland over the weekend.

UFC giving away tickets

A year ago this time, it would seem unfathomable to think that the UFC would faltering but the evidence from UFC 106, the company's last PPV suggests just that.

UFC 106 event drew 10,529 attendees for a $3,003,250 paid gate at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.However, 3,898 tickets (worth an additional $2,331,250) were issued complimentary. A total of 6,631 tickets were sold that accounted for the $3,003,250 gate. - Source: MMAJunkie.com

So why the need to give away tickets? Clearly the in-ring product has suffered. Injuries have rocked the company. GSP, Anderson Silva, Brock Lesnar, are just some of the company's fighters that have been sidelined. The only reason that Forrest Griffin and Tito Ortiz headlined UFC 106 was due to Lesnar's health problems.

Als-Riders: Most Watched Grey Cup of all-time

Say what you will about the CFL but last night's Grey Cup game was an instant classic. The game pitted the overwhelming favourite Montreal Alouettes against the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the CFL's version of the community-owned Green Bay Packers. It saw the underdog take it to the faves in the 1st half, it saw what looked like a missed field goal attempt, cap the game before the play was called back due to an extra defender being on the field. And ultimately it saw the Als win the Grey Cup with a last second filed goal conversion.

Fittingly the game drew monster record-breaking audiences. The game drew an average of 6.1 million viewers between 5.087 million on TSN and an additional 1+million viewers on French-language RDS. It shattered the previous mark of 5.2 million viewers set in 2002.