Don Muret

GUNS UP: Texas Tech football players kneel in front of the new south end zone expansion at AT&T Jones Stadium, part of a $242 million renovation completed for the 2024 season. Premium seats now account for 12% of the stadium’s total inventory, Texas Tech Deputy AD/COO Jonathan Botros told VenuesNow Conference attendees. (Getty Images)

PHOENIX, Arizona — Corey Mintz was caught off guard when he found out the Seattle Mariners had signed a deal with the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe for naming rights to T-Mobile Park’s diamond club, a high-profile premium space situated behind home plate at the Major League Baseball stadium.

CHURHC IN SESSION: Country artist Eric Church performs at the Concert For Carolina, Saturday’s hurricane relief show that ran well past midnight, due in part to a storm that rolled through prior to the event. (Getty Images)

TRIPLE PLAY: Baseball fans wearing Shohei Ohtani jerseys enter Tempe Diablo Stadium for a 2024 spring training game at the Cactus League home of the Los Angeles Angels. (Getty Images)

HOT BLOODED: Blood Brothers, showcasing the guitar wizardry of Mike Zito, left, and Albert Castiglia, are among the Intrepid Artists acts taking part in the agency’s 30th anniversary celebration this week. (Courtesy Intrepid)

TOO LATE: UFC 295, which took place in November 2023, is among the events listed in an email scam offering two free tickets for Ticketmaster customers who were victims in July’s massive data breach of the ticketing firm. (Getty Images) Life is imitating art in the bizarro world of live entertainment. The massive Ticketmaster data breach that took place in July is now manifesting itself in phishing scams offering two free tickets to sports events and concerts to customers whose personal data was stolen in the breach. An email forwarded to VenuesNow on Wednesday from a Ticketmaster customer showed a message tagged with “Ticketmaster data breach — IMPORTANT UPDATE” in the subject line. VenuesNow forwarded the bogus email to Ticketmaster officials as requested and was waiting for comment. Under a plain blue Ticketmaster header, the message begins with “Important Security Update & What We’re Doing About It.” It mentions the… Continue Reading Scam: free tix tied to Ticketmaster breach

LAKER FAN: Zach Bryan sports a Los Angeles Lakers T-shirt during his concert at Crypto.com Arena on June 3, among Bryan’s three 2024 shows at the downtown Los Angeles venue. (Getty Images)

BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL: The exterior of the Intuit Dome, the Los Angeles Clippers' new arena, glows in the night in Inglewood, California. (All photos Don

ICED OUT: Minute Maid Park, shown here on Opening Day of the 2024 season, will be rebranded to Daikin Park for a Japanese company that makes air conditioners and other HVAC equipment. (Getty Images)

PASADENA, California — The historic Pasadena Civic Auditorium keeps rolling along as a special event venue years after the 3,000-seat building exited the concert market in southern California.