The Calendar
2027
The events people build a whole trip around, each planned in real depth. The motorsport rows hand off to Racing Passport.
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NFL International Series
Three NFL games in London this October, from a Tottenham double-header to Wembley. The seats and the London days around them are the trip.
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NHL Winter Classic
Outdoor hockey under the Wasatch peaks on New Year's Eve, in a football stadium built for a different sport. Where you sit decides whether you feel the cold or the moment, and it is colder than you think.
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Rose Bowl and Rose Parade
The Granddaddy of Them All and the New Year’s parade before it, in Pasadena. Grandstand or curbside, game or parade, the choice sets your whole day.
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U.S. Figure Skating Championships
National champions crowned and a team set for the world stage, over five days in Salt Lake City. The all-event seat is the one regulars hold.
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CFP National Championship
College football's title game in Las Vegas, where the trip is as big as the game. You book blind before the finalists are known, and the fans who wait to be sure pay for it.
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Australian Open
Tennis first major of the year, played through the Australian summer in Melbourne, where day and night sessions are two different tournaments.
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Super Bowl LXI
Tickets are the easy part. It lands on Presidents' Day weekend in the hardest hotel market in the country, and the people who get it right move months before the matchup is even set.
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Phoenix Open
The loudest week in golf, built around the stadium 16th, where a good day out and a great one come down to which day you go.
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NBA All-Star Game
Three days of the NBA's biggest stars, where the game is only part of the ticket. Phoenix in February fills fast, and the weekend is a run of rooms you have to know how to get into.
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Daytona 500 Racing Passport
Handled by Racing Passport.
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The Players Championship
The deepest field in golf at the hardest closing stretch in the game, where the island green 17th decides Sundays. The round and the day you pick change the tournament you see.
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SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament
Four days of league basketball in downtown Nashville, and you book before you know who is dancing. There is a smart way to play that.
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BNP Paribas Open
The desert event, a combined ATP and WTA field in the California sun. The weekend you choose is the difference between the early rounds and a final.
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WrestleMania 43
For the first time in its history, it leaves North America. A WrestleMania in Riyadh is the kind of bucket-list trip almost no one knows how to actually book.
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Women's Final Four
The fastest-growing ticket in basketball, and Columbus will not have enough beds for it. Buy before the bracket breaks, because by Final Four weekend the good options are gone.
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NCAA Men's Final Four
You have to commit to the trip before you know whether your team is in it. There is a smart way to play that bet, and it is not the one most fans make.
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Kentucky Derby
The 153rd running, where the seat you choose decides your entire day. Most first-timers land in the infield and never once see the horses cross the line.
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Preakness Stakes
The middle jewel, and the race that decides whether a Triple Crown is still alive two weeks after the Derby. When it is, the whole trip changes, and so does what a seat costs.
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PGA Championship
A golf major just north of Dallas at the sport new home in Frisco, where the week you plan decides the golf you actually see.
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Indianapolis 500 Racing Passport
Motorsport is handled by our sister site, Racing Passport, where Robert has been going to the Indianapolis 500 for 27 years.
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Belmont Stakes
The Triple Crown finale at a brand-new Belmont Park, where a mile and a half of track means your seat decides what you actually get to see. History is made here, or it is not, and nobody knows until the gate.
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French Open
The clay-court major in the heart of Paris, where the public ballot beats most people and the right show-court day makes the trip.
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NBA Finals
Basketball championship series in the two finalist cities, decided about a week before Game 1. The fans who are ready to move the instant it is set get the seats.
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Stanley Cup Final
Hockey championship, played in the two finalist cities, so you cannot know where until the conference finals end. There is a way to be ready to move the moment it is set.
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U.S. Open Golf
Golf's toughest test returns to Pebble Beach, along the cliffs of Carmel Bay. The rounds you choose decide whether you walk the famous closing holes or the turn.
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Wimbledon
The most coveted ticket in tennis is handed out by a public ballot most people lose. There is a surer way onto the grass, and a right way to do London around it.
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Men’s College World Series
Eight teams, one bracket, and the road to a national title played out over eleven days in Omaha. Which round you pick is the whole decision.
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MLB All-Star Game
Wrigley hosts its first All-Star Game since 1990, and the neighborhood around it books out before the rosters are even named. The seats worth having go early and quietly.
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US Open Tennis
Summer's last major, and the loudest tennis on earth under the New York lights. Day session or night, Ashe or the grounds pass, the ticket you buy decides the tournament you actually see.
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Ryder Cup
Team golf's fiercest rivalry returns to Ireland, and a lone five-star manor in Limerick has only so many rooms. You plan this one a year out or you do not go.
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World Series
Baseball's championship, and you cannot know the city until the pennants are won in October. There is a way to be ready to go the moment it is decided, and it starts long before the last out.
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Breeders' Cup
Two days, fourteen championship races, and the best horses on earth in one place. It is the deepest racing of the year, and knowing which day and which seats to chase is the whole game.
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National Finals Rodeo
Ten straight nights of the world's best cowboys deciding championships, and Las Vegas turns Western for all of it. The same seats every night are the secret, and regulars lock them up a year out.