http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-13T07:14:04Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Jock%20Jam%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/7/28/134941/874 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/plaxicoburress_moderne.jpg" class="top"><p>The NFL season is finally back on track and now football fans are anxiously awaiting to see how their teams will shape up over the next few days. And so are the players as free agents like former Giant and ex-con <b>Plaxico Burress</b> begin courting owners and coaches for some placement.<p>Fortunately, Plaxico had the good sense to avoid the <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/12/2/142050/432/travel/The+Club+Where+Plaxico+Burress+Shot+Himself"><b>Radisson Lexington</b></a> hotel which is where he shot himself in the leg with a gun back in 2008 in the hotel's nightclub, the Latin Quarter. And which ultimately sent him to jail.<p> Instead, he met with former Giant <b>Michael Strahan</b> at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Moderne/local/2898"><b>The Moderne Hotel</b></a> on W. 55th street to discuss returning to the team, according to the juliana 2011-07-28T14:18:31-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/7/26/114149/826 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/WHobokenJetSetCD.jpg" class="top"><p> Football fans are rejoicing now that the NFL lockout has ended but the other kind of football fans are getting boisterous now that the <b>Major League Soccer All-Stars</b> games are on this week. And in Manhattan this week to take on this side of the ponds' biggest footies stars are <b>Manchester United</b>, led by their star player and recent <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1394807/Wayne-Rooney-hair-transplant-Twitter-picture-30k-surgery.html">hair transplant recipient</a>, Wayne Rooney. <p> <p>And so where are they staying? Actually, they've headed across to the river to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Hotel+Hoboken/local/753"><b>The W Hoboken</b></a>. <a href="http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/14842617/article---Manchester-United-staying-at-Hoboken%E2%80%99s-W-Hotel--?instance=up_to_the_minute_lead_story_left_column">The Hudson Reporter</a> reports: <blockquote><p>The Manchester United team bus was spotted on Tuesday morning outside of the W Hotel in Hoboken, and reports say some former players will be at Mulligan&#146;s bar juliana 2011-07-26T12:17:50-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/12/27/92611/272 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/whollywoodNbaallstargame.JPG" class="top"><p> Forget Christmas and New Year's. For NBA groupies, the best time of the year is February when the <a href="http://www.nba.com/allstar/2011/"><b>NBA All-Star Game</b></a> happens. <p>This year, the b-ball festivities are happening in Los Angeles which means that LA-area hotels will not only be hosting NBA teams, coaches and fans but groupies as well. And guess what? They are already starting to scope out the team hotels, in particular <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+Hollywood+Hotel+and+Residences/local/1551"><b>The W Hollywood Hotel</b></a>.<p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/Page/Uuid/ee7c6eac-10af-11e0-8e3d-62b7d1c02975">The NY Post</a> has an article all about how ladies look to snag athletes from the NFL and NBA and we thought this tip was hilarious: <blockquote><p>BallerAlert's "Eleven8," for example, suggests <b>memorizing the layout of the W Hotel in Hollywood</b>, where, she said, the NBA juliana 2010-12-27T10:02:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/12/12/212151/44 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/joemontana_49ershotel.jpg" class="top"><p> <i>Go long...down the hallway, past the ice machine!</i><p>If you're NFL great <b>Joe Montana</b> and you want to open up a luxury hotel, where are you gonna do it? Why in Santa Clara, Calif. right across the street from where your old team, the San Francisco 49ers, hope to build a brand-new 68,500-seat stadium. And indeed, that's what Joe Montana is hoping to do. <p><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/southbayfootball/ci_16841394?source=most_emailed&nclick_check=1">The San Jose Mercury News</a> reports Montana and former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. have petitioned the city of Santa Clara to give them an 18-month exclusive negotiating agreement for about seven acres across from the proposed stadium site that would include a luxury hotel, sports bar, upscale restaurant and entertainment venue. juliana 2010-12-13T08:45:52-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/7/8/142234/1084 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/lebronjameswsouthebeach.jpg" class="top"><p> <i>It's hot right now in Miami but <i>the heat</i> doesn't seem to bother this person.</i><p> If you hadn't heard, <b>LeBron James</b> is holding a silly press conference on ESPN tonight about his basketball future but while sports analysts furiously sound off on TV and online about where the NBA star ends up (the Knicks, Heat and Nets are all contenders), they may have been scooped by <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/moviestvmusic/news/lebron-james-plans-weekend-party-in-south-beach-201087">Us Magazine</a>.<p>The tabloid rag reports that LeBron has booked six cabanas at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/W+South+Beach/local/126"><b>W South Beach</b></a> this weekend to celebrate his decision. The now most important source for sporting news reports: <blockquote><p>That adds more fuel to the fire that James, 25, will announce he's joining the Miami Heat Thursday juliana 2010-07-08T16:46:03-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/