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Congratulations! Your favorite college football team fought its way to the top of the BCS bowl rankings and now you're bowl-bound this January. Scoring tickets and arranging your hotel and transportation are the hard parts; once that's over, check out our picks in the BCS bowl game towns.

Peanuts, crackerjacks and home runs: baseball stadiums are the stuff summer is made of. Luckily, there are 29 stadiums in the U.S., each ripe for a summer time visit. There are 5 ballparks, however, that stand out as their own kind of Mecca to fans.

Also known as the Run for the Roses and the Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports, the Kentucky Derby 2011 is coming up on May 7th. The longest continuous annual event in sports is held each year at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. This year's Derby is the 137th Run for the Roses, so named for the blanket of roses draped over the winning horse. If this is your first time attending the Kentucky Derby, or you're just going to a Derby party with friends, there are some important traditions you should know before you go.

Every year the Kentucky Derby is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, and it falls on May 7th in 2011. It's a beautiful time of year to visit Louisville, and while the Kentucky Derby is the most exciting two minutes in sports, you'll find way more than two minutes of entertainment when you attend the most popular thoroughbred horse race in the United States.

With the 30 teams evenly split between Florida (the Grapefruit League) and Arizona (the Cactus League), baseball's spring training is a big deal for teams anxious to sell tickets, airlines and hoteliers hoping to fill their facilities, and fans seeking close-up encounters with their heroes.