Wolfpack Entertainment (the agent for Quick Change) is proud to announce that Quick Change, also known as David and Dania, will be appearing for the first time on The Oprah Winfrey Show this Thursday, February 1st. Be sure to tune in and see Oprah’s stunned reaction as David and Dania perform their famous costume change routine for the queen of talk shows.
Quick Change is another act featured on Gameops.com Act Listing Yellow Pages. These pages feature act pages paid for by the act to help promote, showcase and market the acts. It’s a great tool for teams looking for new acts and to get more information about the acts, all in one place.
Quick Change has also been named Best Act on Gameops.com.
You can see the Gameops.com Act Yellow Pages here, or see a phone list of over 100 acts on the Gameops.com Act White Pages on this page.
See below for Video of Quick Change from America’s Got Talent (on YouTube).
-Cudo (more…)
IMAGO would like to take this opportunity to inform everybody that we are back on the market! After more than a year on tour with Cirque du Soleil’s “DELIRIUM” doing a new and improved straps number (adopted from our duo silk act), and armed with a newly choreographed, newly constructed, and technically improved hand balancing act, we’ve chosen to leave the tour to jump back into the world awaiting outside.
IMAGO is one of dozens of acts featured on Gameops.com Act Listing Yellow Pages. These pages feature act pages paid for by the act to help promote, showcase and market the acts. It’s a great tool for teams looking for new acts and to get more information about the acts, all in one place.
You can see the Gameops.com Act Yellow Pages here, or see a phone list of over 100 acts on the Gameops.com Act White Pages on this page.
-Cudo
Mascot’s antics nearly cost D-League team a victory
The Austin Toros of the NBA Development League put up with some unneeded Bull-loney when their now-suspended mascot lost his head — figuratively and literally — and nearly cost the team its game against the Colorado 14ers on Wednesday.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2742523
This is one of the most talked about mascot stories in a while. The worst news for all the other mascots out there is it will be mentioned by every team and league official as a reason they can’t go near the court during play….obviously making it harder for mascots who are aware of what’s going on to do their jobs effectively.
You can see the video here.
–Cudo
One of the giants in the mascot world is set to retire at the end of this season. The man who has played Hugo the Hornet since 1990, from Charlotte to New Orleans to Oklahoma City is hanging up his spandex and wings. Now the Hornets are in the difficult position of looking for the next generation bug.
Do you have what it takes to fill his bulbous shoes?
The New Orleans Hornets of the NBA are looking for a creative and talented mascot performer for a full time position. The performer’s responsibility will include performing as all three Hornets characters as well as creative input for video and live skit production.
Raymond Entertainment will be screening all applicants for this position.
Contact Raymond Entertainment for more information.
-Cudo
Thrashers fans flip over hat-trick tradition
(Story from the AJC)
The Atlanta Thrashers have a new hat trick tradition:
Traditionally, the hats are gathered into a bag, brought to the locker room after the game and offered up to the player who scored the three goals. Occasionally, a player will grab one as a memento.
On Tuesday night, with help from the Ice Girls, the 150 or so hats were quickly cleared off the ice into trash bins and brought to Hossa, who could have had his pick. He didn’t grab one. He never has.
“I heard the first time, the guy gets his choice [of hats], but I never noticed,” Hossa said. “I don’t know what they do with the hats and have never asked about it.”
He still has the puck from his first hat trick with the Thrashers, but has no interest in saving somebody’s hat.
Neither does Ilya Kovalchuk. He’s never kept a hat after scoring three goals at home.
“I don’t, I just [have them] throw it in the box,” he said. “There’s a box in Philips Arena for all the hats.”
It’s the hat-trick case, located on the arena’s main concourse. There, fans can see every hat thrown to the ice after a hat trick since the start of the Thrashers’ third season. Decals on the front of the display give details of each home hat trick that helped contribute to the collection.
It was an idea stolen from the Columbus Blue Jackets, after the Thrashers vice president of marketing, Jim Pfeifer, toured their arena. The idea has been a popular one with fans.
We talked about the Blue Jackets Hat Trick Box (and we have a photo) in our Six From Six Game Review with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Six from Six is a series of live game reviews from 2006 where we visited six arenas around the country and discuss six things from each game that the team did well and other can learn from.
–Cudo
PS: Thanks to Glen Gower’s blog for bringing this story to our attention.
Claiming that you created The Wave is a bit like cities that claim they had the first shopping mall. Every city I’ve lived in or near makes that claim. Seattle, Wash. Portland, Ore. Edina, Minn. They all say they had the first mall (Kansas City, Mo., too). OK, fine. You all had the first shopping mall. It must be a real source of civic pride to say you paved the way for Orange Julius, Cinnabon and Foot Locker. (Just for the record, the Grand Bazaar in Isfahan, Iran, has been around since the 10th century and the Oxford Covered Market opened two years before the Declaration of Independence. How old are shopping malls? Marconi wasn’t born until 1874 but I think there was a Radio Shack in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele when it opened in Milan in the 1860s.) Anyway, a Detroit man told me this week that Tigers fans started The Wave back in 1984. I told him that was a bunch of bull. The Tigers did not invent The Wave in 1984. I knew that because I created The Wave in 1981. Well, not me specifically. I was just one of 50,000-some fans who created The Wave at Husky Stadium during the Washington-Stanford game 25 years ago this Halloween.
Or so that’s what I always believed — that UW alumnus Robb Weller and the Husky student section invented The Wave. Oh, I knew there was some professional cheerleader named Krazy George Henderson down in the Bay Area who insisted he invented The Wave at an Oakland Athletics playoff game on Oct. 15, 1981, but we never put much stock in that claim up in Seattle. We feel the same way about people who say there were coffee shops before Starbucks. From Jim Caple’s Page 2 ESPN
So we are back to the Wave Debate…..back in 2001 Gameops.com tackled this head-on amid a wild message board fracas. Funny how the same urban myths will pop up from time to time.
You can read our story A Wave of Controversy here.
25 years later the effects of the wave are still, ah, rippling. (sorry)
-Cudo