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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.