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PHOENIX - Tiger Woods will tee off his season in front of 200,000 golf fans and an estimated million people will flock to a revived Phoenix downtown for NFL events. Authentic Vince Carter Jersey .A pair of NBA games will be played in the heart of it all. Concerts abound and there will be parties galore.Oh yes, theres a football game, too. Although the Super Bowl is actually being played 30 minutes away in suburban Glendale.Super Bowl week is always a spectacle. With the addition of golfs biggest name in its most raucous tournament, the scene in and around Phoenix this week should be even crazier. For a few days, what once was a desert wasteland is the centre of the sports and entertainment world.It kind of puts us on the map, Arizona Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson said. It kind of gives us that networking that we dont have like other teams — the Dallas Cowboys or the New York teams. Everybody can see what the state is all about.The fun will stretch from Glendale to the west to Scottsdale in the east.The epicenter is downtown Phoenix, where 12 blocks have been cordoned off for a myriad of Super Bowl activities and displays. Thanks to a temporary law change, fans can wander through with open containers of alcohol.A few steps away is the NFL Experience, billed as the leagues interactive theme park, set up in the Phoenix Convention Center.Walk a block or so, and theres US Airways Center, where the ever-entertaining, often-bizarre Media Day was held on Tuesday, with fans able to witness it for $28.50 a pop. The arena swings back into its usual purpose on Wednesday night, when the Washington Wizards play the Suns. Friday night, the Chicago Bulls are in town.Scottsdale has a party scene any weekend. Super Bowl weekend it goes over the top. Streets around the clubs will be blocked off with Maxim and Rolling Stone among those hosting gatherings.In north Scottsdale there will be a giant party that happens to have a golf tournament running through the middle of it.The Waste Management Phoenix Open, played on the spacious TPC Scottsdale course, has by far the biggest crowds on the PGA tour, with Saturday always the party day. Now that Woods is playing in the tournament for the first time in 14 years, it should be even more crowded, as hard as that is to imagine. Tournament officials have said more than 200,000 are expected this Saturday.Among those performing somewhere around town will be Lil Wayne, Kid Rock, Darius Rucker, Imagine Dragons and Kevin Hart. Rihanna has an invitation-only gig in Glendale on Saturday night.And, of course, Katy Perry will perform at halftime on Sunday.The Pro Bowl kicked everything off.Usually played in Hawaii, it was moved for this one season to the site of the Super Bowl. A sellout crowd of 63,225 packed the Sunday night event.This will be the third Super Bowl for the Phoenix area. The first was in 1996 at Sun Devil Stadium on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe. In 2008, the game was played at University of Phoenix Stadium, with the New York Giants stunning previously unbeaten New England.At the time, downtown Phoenix was entangled in scaffolding for one project after another.For the Super Bowl to return, its an upgrade that was essential.Its really been the $44 billion development to the downtown Phoenix area, said Devney Preuss, senior director off the Arizona Super Bowl host committee. That created a downtown area thats primed and ready for an event like this.Hotels and restaurants were built. The convention centre was expanded. A light rail line opened from Mesa to downtown.Now more big games are on the way.Next January, the college football championship game is in Glendale. The following year, its a college football playoff semifinal game. And in spring of 2017, the stadium hosts the Final Four.For the Phoenix area, it seems, the partys just begun. Cheap Raptors Jerseys Free Shipping . -- A.J. Burnett was happy to escape from New York. Cheap Nike Raptors Jerseys . With the win, the Marlies complete a three-game series sweep of the Admirals and move on to the second round of the Calder Cup playoffs. T.J. Brennan added an empty netter with less than 25 seconds remaining for his second of the playoffs. http://www.cheapraptorsjerseysauthentic.com/?tag=authentic-kyle-lowry-jersey . As TSN reported Thursday, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport is under intense pressure from the federal government to focus drug testing on athletes who compete in international events representing Canada. Since funding for the tests has been frozen and the cost of testing can eclipse $1,000 per test, university athletes in a number of sports are being tested less often.Liverpool were allegedly paid £10m less for Luis Suarez than was reported at the time, according to a leaked report. The document, which was published on the Football Leaks website, claims that the fee for the players July 2014 transfer to Barcelona was £64.98m.The club declined to comment on the leaked report which also alleges that Liverpool are still owed a final payment of £12.98m from the Spanish club, which is due on July 31 this year. Heres a reminder of what Liverpool are missing. Authentic Malachi Richardson Jersey. Eight of Luis Suarezs best goals for Barcelona. Under the structure of the deal, Liverpool received four £13m payments, with the most recent being made on January 31.Suarez has been a huge success at Barcelona, scoring 68 goals in 84 appearances and has won the Champions League, La Liga, Copa del Rey, UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA World Club Cup. In three-and-a-half years at Liverpool, Suarez scored 82 goals in 133 appearances.He made his return to international football last week, scoring in a 2-2 draw with Brazil in what was his first game time for Uruguay since completing his nine-match suspension for biting Italys Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup. The 29-year-old recently stated that he is happy in Spain and, if he were to return to the Premier League, would only consider rejoining Liverpool.Suarez is expected to line up for Barcelona when they take on Real Madrid in El Clasico, live on Sky Sports 2HD from 7pm on Saturday. 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