Author Archives: randytc

I was born in Poughkeepsie N.Y. in 1965, I attended 3 different High Schools in four years. Spackenkill in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Churchill in San Antonio, TX. and Johnston in Austin, TX. I attended two Universities. The first was Denver University where I majored in Hotel and Restaurant management and played College Tennis and the second was the University of Texas where I majored in Marketing. I started Ticketcity in 1990 and I still love what I do.

Bowl Picks for the 2009 College Football Bowl Season

FedEx BCS National Championship
Projection: Texas vs. OU
Texas has a case, and if Missouri does not pull off a shocker, Texas should still have enough BCS points to stay ahead of Florida.
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
Projection:  Florida vs. Utah
The Fiesta Bowl will pick Florida because they will be the next highest ranked BCS teams.  The big question will [...]

Another amazing day of college football

Wow, Saturday was another amazing day in College football!  Three of the top five teams in the country lost, and that was with the #2 Alabama team sitting idle this weekend.  The big story was #5 Texas beating #1 Oklahoma in the Red River Shootout.  That was the first time in a decade the lower ranked [...]

Wimbledon Wow! Epic tennis and U.S. Open is next

I don’t know about you, but I spent my Sunday in Rockport Texas on vacation glued to the 4th and 5th sets of one of the greatest tennis matches that I have ever seen.  Coming from a lifelong tennis player who played for the University of Denver, Federer showed us the most amazing heart that I have ever [...]

The Ticketcity Golf Invitational

Wow!!  What a day.  The weather was hot, the beer was cold and the massage girls wher doing there thing.  I sat at the 17th hole relaxing, smoking a cigar and enjoying all the Ticketcity clients, friends and family .   I hit an extra ball for every team that played.  We took pictures, talked about amazing [...]

1964 The Tribute

I took my 6 year old daughter to see the Beatles tribute band 1964.  They have been touring for 24 years and have played Carnigee Hall 9 times.  We went to the intimate Paramount Theatre in Austin Texas.  The band dressed in there standard black suits with Skinny black ties, just like they did when they [...]

Olympics Beijing 8/8/08

I just returned from China two weeks ago and wow, what a party they are getting ready to throw. Beijing is spit-shining the city. They are vaccuuming, airfreshening and scrubbing the streets to make sure all threre guest have the most amazing Olympic experience ever. The stadiums near the Olympic village were [...]

Beijing Olympics

I just arrived in Beijing to get ready for the Olympics on 8/8/2008. I am pleasantly surprised so far, the skies are actually blue today and the people have been extremely nice. Today we are going to check out the Olympic venues and toured the city. The city seems to be very [...]

Super Bowl Experience (learning and growing)

I had the most amazing Super Bowl day ever and it wasn’t from just watching the game. I was returning from Arizona at 11:00am Sunday so I could get back to Texas, relax, and watch the game on TV. For some reason I did not check my bag in front of the airport [...]

Turk Pipkin charity fund raiser

I went to a fundraiser last night that was incredible. It was an intimate event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin to help author Turk Pipkin raise money for his Nobelity project and to help fund water and electricity opportunities in third world countries. The event was jammed packed with celebrities. I [...]

Van Halen Conert with the boys

I took my 13 year old twin boys (names are AC and DC, Alec Cohen and Derek Cohen)and two of there friends to the Van Halen concert Saturday night in Dallas Texas. We had an amazing time. We jumped in the truck and road tripped to Dallas on Saturday afternoon. It was Eddie [...]