Eagles Tickets Still Available for Reid’s Return

For the previous fourteen years, Andy Reid stalked the Philadelphia sideline, guiding the Eagles to five NFC Championship games and one Super Bowl.  Although he never grasped the Lombardi trophy, Reid’s tenure with the Eagles yielded the highest win total – 120 – in franchise history.  Eagles fans may have soured on him the final few years and it will always burn to come so close to championship glory and yet never achieve it, but wins were certainly aplenty under Andy Reid.

And tomorrow night, he will return, donning the red and yellow of the Kansas City Chiefs.  The game tomorrow night will surely be emotional for Reid, his former players, and Eagles fans.  Fortunately, if you’ve circled this game on the calendar and still haven’t grabbed Philadelphia Eagles tickets to tomorrow night’s game, they remain available.  The average ticket price is currently $170, although it has dropped 20% over the last seven days and will certainly drop a bit as we get closer to kick-off.  If you’re looking for the cheapest tickets, the get-in-the-door price is currently $110 for seats in Section 229.  Lower level seating begins at $163, but the best seats in the house in the lower level between the 40’s will cost a minimum of $312 per ticket.

It’s a new era in Philadelphia and while fans will pay good money to see Reid’s return, they are probably more enticed to see new head coach Chip Kelly’s high-flying offensive act in person.  Michael Vick and company have looked fantastic over the past two weeks, but the defense will have to keep pace if they are looking to make the playoffs this season.  Reid’s Chiefs enter the game 2-0 with home victories against Jacksonville and Dallas, while the Eagles are sitting at 1-1 with a road win against Washington and home loss last week against San Diego. A lot of the personnel for the Eagles has remained the same, but the game plan and tactics have changed and it will be interesting to see who will be victorious: the old or the new.

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Russian Bolshoi acid attack victim to return to Moscow

Sergei Filin, artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, attends a news conference in the university hospital in the western German city of Aachen March 15, 2013.

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MOSCOW | Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:56pm EDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet is returning to Moscow from Germany following eight months and 22 operations on his eyes and face after an acid attack that nearly blinded him, the theatre's spokeswoman said.

Sergei Filin will fly in on Saturday and take part in the troupe's reunion after holidays on Tuesday, the spokeswoman said. She could not say what role he might play in the troupe in the future.

"The troupe hopes very much that Sergei will recover and come back," Katerina Novikova said. "To what extent he will be able to take part in the life of the troupe, that will become clear in the nearest future."

Filin had the power to make or break careers at the Bolshoi, a world-renowned symbol of Russian culture, and the January 17 attack put the ballet's bitter internal rivalries in the spotlight.

Novikova said in June Filin could not see out of one eye at all and vision in the second one was severely damaged. She had no fresh details on his health on Thursday.

One of the Bolshoi's top dancers, Pavel Dmitrichenko, is on trial on charges of ordering the attack. He and his two alleged accomplices face up to 12 years in jail if convicted.

Dmitrichenko, who made his name playing villains in Swan Lake and Ivan the Terrible, told the court he was upset with the management and Filin, but that he only wanted the artistic director beaten up, not attacked with acid.

Russia dismissed the long-serving head of the Bolshoi in the aftermath of the incident, and entrusted another experienced theatre manager with the mission to rebuild the theatre's reputation.

"From the very first day after this horrid event took place, everybody (in the theatre) felt we want to prove to ourselves and Sergei and the whole world that we are worthy and apt. The best thing we can do for Sergei is to do our job well, that is dance," Novikova said.

(Reporting by Catherine Koppel; Writing by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

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