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Plaxico Burress Doesn't Return to the Scene of His Crime, But The Moderne Hotel Instead
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 Plaxico Burress begin courting owners and coaches for some placement.
Fortunately, Plaxico had the good sense to avoid the Radisson Lexington 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.
Instead, he met with former Giant Michael Strahan at The Moderne Hotel on W. 55th street to discuss returning to the team, according to the NY Post.
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Manchester United Takes Over the W Hoboken
Football fans are rejoicing now that the NFL lockout has ended but the other kind of football fans are getting boisterous now that the Major League Soccer All-Stars games are on this week. And in Manhattan this week to take on this side of the ponds' biggest footies stars are Manchester United, led by their star player and recent hair transplant recipient, Wayne Rooney.
And so where are they staying? Actually, they've headed across to the river to The W Hoboken. The Hudson Reporter reports:
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’s bar on Tuesday afternoon at noon. Many visiting teams in Major League Soccer that play against the New York Red Bulls (based in Harrison, N.J.) stay at the W Hotel.
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NBA Groupies Will Be Stalking the W Hollywood For the All-Star Game in February
Forget Christmas and New Year's. For NBA groupies, the best time of the year is February when the NBA All-Star Game happens.
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 The W Hollywood Hotel.
The NY Post has an article all about how ladies look to snag athletes from the NFL and NBA and we thought this tip was hilarious:
BallerAlert's "Eleven8," for example, suggests memorizing the layout of the W Hotel in Hollywood, where, she said, the NBA stars will rest their heads during February's All Star Weekend in Los Angeles.
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Quarterback Joe Montana Now Fancies Himself a Hotelier
Go long...down the hallway, past the ice machine!
If you're NFL great Joe Montana 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.
The San Jose Mercury News 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.
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Lebron Embraces Miami Heat By Booking Cabanas at the W South Beach
It's hot right now in Miami but the heat doesn't seem to bother this person.
If you hadn't heard, LeBron James 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 Us Magazine.
The tabloid rag reports that LeBron has booked six cabanas at the W South Beach this weekend to celebrate his decision. The now most important source for sporting news reports:
That adds more fuel to the fire that James, 25, will announce he's joining the Miami Heat Thursday night, as several insiders told ESPN this morning. (He's still confirmed to attend NBA star Carmelo Anthony's Saturday-night wedding to former MTV VJ LaLa Vazquez in NYC.)
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Was There Really a Shooting at the England Team's Hotel?
Drama in the England camp for the World Cup! Not only has their manager threatened to spy on the lads’ behavior, but now the Sun is reporting that the boys had their sleep disturbed by a shooting outside their hotel.
The lions were shacked up at the Royal Marang Hotel at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus in Rustenburg, when the incident happened last week. Apparently there was a car chase that ended in the cops getting trigger happy – and the culprit was none other than a drunken policeman.
Although the cynic in us is thinking, hmm, the lengths some people will go to to invent an excuse for their shoddy performance against the yanks on Saturday. Not sure if we’re buying that one.
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The Pezula Resort is Even Too Flashy For Footballers
If you thought the English team had it bad for the World Cup, what with being spied on by their coach and all, wait till you hear about the French, who’ve just had a roasting from the government over their hotel being “too flashy”.
According to the Guardian, Rama Yade pointed out that the spoilsport Spanish team had shacked up in university accommodation, and said about the French team’s hotel:
Personally I would not have chosen that hotel. I had asked football authorities to show decency. In times of crisis, you need to think about it.
The hotel in question? The Pezula Resort on the Western Cape, which bills itself as “Africa’s most luxurious resort estate”.
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The Peninsula Chicago Gets In the Blackhawks' Stanley Cup Spirit
Heading to Chicago anytime soon and hoping to snag a cheap hotel room? Sorry to say it, but at this time of the year, you'd be lucky to find a 3-star for under $250 per night. June is prime Chicago travel time, and it's been made even worse with the Stanley Cup Finals happening. The Chicago Blackhawks are playing the Philadelphia Flyers to see who's best at hockey, and it's been a tight several games already. They're tied currently, with the next game on June 9.
To welcome Blackhawks fans and get into the spirit, the Peninsula Chicago, considered the best hotel in town, has outfitted their iconic lions with custom jerseys. As you can imagine, we weren't the only ones snapping photos of the stone beasts, and everyone seemed surprised that a hotel as classic as The Peninsula would be this outgoing. Way to be awesome, Peninsula Chicago!
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England's Coach To Spy on His Players Using Hi-Tech Hotel TVs
The 2010 FIFA World Cup is almost here and we plan on giving you the full low-down on where fans should hotel it up during the matches. But first, we have to applaud this most excellent use of hotel technology by the England team's coach--Fabio Capello.
Word is Capello plans to spy on his players at the Bafokeng Camp Royal Marang Hotel by using hi-tech hotel TVs to ensure they are getting proper sleep and are not engaging in amorous behavior with any WAGs (aka wives and girlfriends.)
The Daily Star reports:
The tellies have been installed at the team’s £327 million base camp in Rustenberg. But the news has not gone down well with the stars. A source close to the squad revealed: “It’s going to be like Big Brother. “The hotel rooms used to be the place we all escaped to, now they’re not safe!”
As it turns out, Capello probably had these sneaky spy TVs planned for about a year.
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Where the U.S. is Shacking Up for the World Cup in South Africa
While Jaunted takes you on a tour of the 2010 World Cup Stadiums in South Africa, we're interested in where the football players are spending their nights. And for the U.S. team, it's the Irene Country Lodge, just north of Johannesburg in the village of Irene.
The lodge has only 74 rooms (25 of which are new) and the decor is "English Country Manor." Rates start around $170 USD a night and rooms are equipped with wireless internet (for a fee), minibars, 24-hour room service and DSTV satellite television, although we did spy some chunky box TVs in armoires in one of the room photos.
But perhaps the players won't need to use the TV, not when they've got a lake to look out onto and a herd of cows to observe. (Hmmm...but we hope they brought their iPods and laptops just in case.)
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Emmitt Smith Gets Closer to Opening a Hyatt in Harlem
We know how much celebrities love opening their own hotels but it's quite unusual to see a former football star get into the hospitality biz. Yet that's exactly what former Dallas Cowboys running back and Dancing with the Stars winner, Emmitt Smith, is trying to do in Harlem.
The WSJ reports that Smith and a group of investors are eager to turn an open lot on 125th Street and Lenox Avenue into a 200-room Hyatt Hotel with ground and second-floor retail space which would include a Whole Foods supermarket and a YMCA and cultural center on the third and fourth floors.
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Tiger's Return to The Masters Brings Crowds to The (Budget) Hotels
As soon as it was announced that Tiger Woods would be returning to golf at the Masters Tournament in Augusta Georgia, hotel rooms instantly began filling up (those that weren't already booked, that is.)
So with Tiger officially in town, a practice round and a press conference under his belt, what is the hotel scene looking like now? For starters, The Liveshots Blog is reporting that the few empty hotel rooms that are open are going for four times their usual rate.
Meanwhile, a new hotel in nearby Columbia County has been scrambling to open on time for guests attending The Masters. WJBF news station reports:
The Comfort Inn and Suites off Jimmie Dyess Parkway in Columbia County is up and running. Hotel owners tell us they have been working day and night, preparing for their Masters week guests. The new hotel still has rooms up for grabs but not for long.
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