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When the tour first started (at La Costa), it was great value. You couldn't pay an ad agency for the kind of publicity it was generating. But over the years, costs kept going up because of purse structures, and eventually you reach a point of diminishing returns.

We are happy to participate in any activity that brings people downtown to see how vibrant it's becoming. We will be offering those on the tour a drink and let them tour the upstairs of Rosie's that is rumored to have been a bit of a brothel many moons ago.

Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Ofcourse, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it.

Wasn't nobody ready for internationalism. I don't think we should have started the tour in America. We should have went straight overseas.

We're not going to beat the big boys in the Tour of California, but at least we can nip at their ankles.

This schedule reflects the continued global expansion of and investment in women's professional tennis. The return of the Tour Championships to Europe in Madrid is particularly exciting for our European fans and players, and will ensure a fantastic finale to the 2006 season.

We are currently talking with (WTA Tour CEO) Larry (Scott) and Etienne as to, A, should we consider a sponsor for official reviews. Our instinct at this point is we're not going to proceed in that direction initially. There are some sponsorship opportunities I think for both tours as well as the Open, from a statistical standpoint, possibly from a video standpoint. At this point, subject to further discussion, at least at this point, we will not be considering a sponsor for the official review call.

We're excited about the opportunity to host the Sally League meetings in Greenville, and look forward to taking the visiting team representatives on a tour of beautiful downtown Greenville and the new West End Stadium site.

We're coming back to some of our favorite cities to make sure the fans get a chance to see how this tour has evolved over the course of the last 50 shows. Bruce just keeps stretching the boundaries of his performance night after night, and the result has been some of the very best concerts of his entire career.

We play together kind of like a round-robin type of thing. As the tour progresses we tend to learn each other's songs and kind of contribute. It kind of becomes a little group eventually, we try and support each other and feed off each other.

The overall thing is we wanted to bring acts that appeal to a college crowd. Dave Attell just got off the 'Insomniac' comedy tour and had a TV special last Sunday, so it's very timely. He's just really funny and a lot of college kids like him.

We are seeing grassroots support at every stop on the Believe in Arkansas Tour this week, and General Beebe is grateful for the financial and personal support he has received from Arkansans all over the state.

We'd like to have a good tour in our backyard but our biggest fish to fry this year are the Commonwealth Games.

We were able to tour the premises, and we were able to speak to Mr. Saddam Hussein in private without any witnesses present.

We were all having so much fun playing off each other. I knew that my next tour in the fall had to have as many dates with David as possible.

We do get a lot of different, strange phone calls from tour operators and travel agents, wanting to know: Is the drinking water safe, do you have E. coli? It's alarming, because it can spread so quickly, the false information.

We want this tour to also be completed smoothly as it was in 2004.

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

There are a lot of people that will look this winter for summer 2007. So they can tour the camps during this summer, when there's not snow on the ground.

Tyria's a big world. We get a grand tour in 'Ghosts of Ascalon.' We're in Divinity's Reach, we're in Lion's Arch, we're in Ebonhawke, we're in the Dragon's Land, we're in Ascalon. We're basically hitting a lot of the major human and charr locations.

We don't believe the women are at the level of the male European Tour player who is taking part in local final qualifying. No woman has made the cut in a men's event, after all. But, if it turns out that women dominate regional qualifying, then we will review the situation.

We have been invited to play two Tests and three one-day internationals in Bangladesh and the tour would take place after the World Cup.

We don't want to be the kind of band that requires a lot of massive, corporate dollars to keep us running and promoted. We're trying to build a fan base and community that listens to us and the best way to do that is to tour - we go out and we play and we play and we play and we meet the people that like us and we try to keep the whole thing organic.

We were reasonably happy with the way we started the tour against Scotland and haven't seen the need to make any changes at this stage.

We rule nothing out and have an open mind on women playing men's tour events, and if sponsors can convince us that it's in the interests of the game by including women, then fine,

This whole tour has been like a family-based thing, ... You can't walk down the hall without saying hi to everybody and talking. It's been our first summer tour, and it's been beautiful.

We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.

We would have never gotten that if we'd had a tour guide.

We wouldn't be discussing the merits of the Tour of California otherwise,

We wouldn't comment on any application for roles at the ECB. Interviews will be taking place shortly and we would hope to be in a position to make an announcement during England's tour in India.

We're truly part of the tour now, not just second-class citizens.

We're not in the tour business. The trip is really an adjunct to the seminar.

We're not on a sightseeing tour here. We have a job to do. We all have something that we want to try to accomplish. That's really what we're going there for. Understanding what the setting is and what the stadium is and all of that, yes, we are all aware of that.

Whenever something bad happens on tour we treat ourselves.

The regulation on the PGA Tour is 72 holes -- that was put in place by the players, ... We make every effort to finish on Sunday by 6Êp.m. Eastern time, but if we don't, we go to Monday.

We're starting to get the tour experience under our belts and some labels are starting to take interest in us. It's exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. This is pretty much becoming a focus of everybody's life. We're all dropping everything to do it. The band is showing a lot more promise as we go.

We want to see small people at the village level act as tour guides and performers, and provide hospitality for tourists thus avoiding the middle men benefits.

We want to tour the country and teach people about the sport and raise awareness.

When we went to them and told them that we want to do a heritage tour of Hong Kong, a lot of them were very skeptical,

We've always wanted to give something back to our fans, and to play the kind of shows we know they want to see, ... And we really think this tour is exactly that.

We've announced the tour program six months ahead of what we normally would and that's just (because of) the sheer demand and public interest that's out there right now.

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

We're going to do three or four new ones. The rest will be older stuff. We're excited about the new disc. Those who know us will realize that we haven't changed much. We're going to be going on tour with U.S. Bombs. That's going to be great for us. We'll get some exposure. In the meantime, we're playing as hard as we can on this tour.

Working in Venice was like a four-month guided tour of the city. It was like shooting a film inside a museum.

Working out isn't new for female golfers. It's just become more specialized, and you can see it through the change in the bodies of the players on tour now.

When we first started, we booked a tour first. So, the pressure was on to deliver. The heavens just opened.

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

We are pretty happy with where we are at so far, especially the fact that the players are backing themselves. Their confidence is coming as much from the pre-season preparation we had, including the tour to Australia, as anything else, but there is still a lot to do. We've won nothing yet.

We are proud to forge this partnership with the PGA TOUR and Las Vegas Founders Club to support a great, entertaining tournament that has a long history of supporting worthwhile charities in the Las Vegas area. The PGA TOUR is one of the great brands in sports. We are particularly excited to be in a position to help the tournament support its traditional charities, as well as one of our favorite non-profit organizations, the American Institute of Mathematics.

We stopped being able to talk to each other. And we found ourselves onstage all playing a different song at the same time. It was pretty pathetic and felt like it was just symbolic of where we were at. We ended up getting into this terrible violent fight and our tour manager had to put us in different corners just to break it up.

We've actually rehearsed more for this tour than we've ever rehearsed in our lives. Matt is singing a lot of the vocal harmonies, and he's just killing it. The benefit of playing in a KISS cover band when you're 12 is that you learn to sing!

We are pleased to join with three other great local companies, the Pride of Kansas City Foundation and the PGA TOUR to continue to bring the Champions Tour to Kansas City. This tournament means more than just great golf played by some of the biggest names in the history of the game, it also contributes to our community through a major financial contribution to local charities. Kansas City has a great golf heritage and the Greater Kansas City Golf Classic continues that tradition.

We are pleased to offer the public this year, some of the most beautiful homes and gardens in Charlotte. The tour gives viewers a glimpse of some of the most exciting trends in home furnishings and gardening.

We are pleased to partner with The Map Network on these innovative online and print maps for Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit. They are essential for attendees, media and staff planning for and navigating the event through the week, but they also offer an entertaining virtual tour for those wanting to see all the exciting activities in the city during the Super Bowl.

With the restaurants and the books he's got going on, it seems like he needs the constant reminder that he's out there. It's all part of the aura, and I think he has to tour to perpetuate that aura.

Through Great American Voices, the NEA is building bridges between the military and arts community, ... This tour gives singers a chance to perform for new audiences and brings great music in live performance to military families.

VeloNews.com hit on all cylinders this July. We upgraded to one of the world's fastest server farms to handle 100mb traffic spikes, sold out the site ad wise, delivered exclusive Tour video highlights on demand and had our largest-ever crew of contributors reporting daily. The result was monster traffic and some very pleased visitors and advertisers.

Ultimately it could mean we end up releasing another record next year and continue to tour well in to 2007.

With the new scheduling ... Tampa Bay is a big winner, absolutely. Was there a happy medium? Yes and no. We would have gotten a fall date (had there not been a move to the spring). There would have been PGA Tour golf here. But not at the level it's going to be now.

'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.

Each candidate is being given a tour of the community. It will probably take until the middle of February to complete the (interview) process.

At the moment unless we hear something or unless we are advised otherwise the tour goes ahead as scheduled.

(Berlin) was the most gratifying tour of the whole thing.

Custom House is excited about working with the PGA TOUR in all our markets internationally. The TOUR is integral to our global marketing strategy.

Cycling continues to be an important part of OLN programming. With Lance Armstrong's retirement, fans are eagerly waiting to see who will emerge as the sport's next star. Through our coverage of the spring classics, we will be able to chronicle the drama leading up to, and including, the Tour de France.

Cracked Rear View' was a phenomenon. You look at the records you consider creative of the '90s and 'Cracked Rear View' sold more than all of them. That's just one of those things. That's just something else. It won't happen again. Now we just want to make the records, have our fan base and go on tour whenever we feel like playing.

Besides recording, we have the Tooth & Nail tour coming up. After that -- and this is all tentative -- we're going to try to go to Australia and Japan with Copeland. There's no definite plans.

We felt Chris has kept well but he hasn't made the runs we had hoped for, ... He's had eight matches on tour without really contributing with the bat.

Everyone wants to beat Michael on the track because it is the same as beating (Lance) Armstrong in the Tour de France,

Everyone wants to have a say about a tour that finished months and months ago,

Every other tour, you've known that you're going to start there and its gonna finish there and it does. But this tour ... we're not finished yet, you know?

Everyone's psyched about the final stop and looking forward to it. I think this tour has gone very well in its first year. We've been pretty well received in most cities and the television coverage has been just amazing.

Every caddy, male or female, on the men's tour or women's tour, always has a different story. There's no set way to go about it. I was in the parking lot asking.

A tour bus, a rock band and the clothes on my back. It's real heart-breaking to see the place that you grew up, the place that you've identified with all your life going through such chaos.

A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.

A tour should act as pre-season preparation and not only be used as a way of making money. We are going to change it next season.

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

I used to be an over-packer! It took me a while to be smart about what I brought with me. I used to tour with a huge bag full of clothes and another one full of shoes because I wanted to have choices. And I ended up wearing the same pair of shoes all the time!

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

I've been playing the European Tour for 12 years now and got to know the guys quite well now, and there's been a few stories about the Ryder Cup.

I've been training with him a couple of times. I've been playing on the tour 10 years, and this is the most pleasure I've gotten out of workouts. You see the results. You're running, and a few days later you're faster. You're lifting, and a few days later you're stronger.

I've been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.

The tour company neglected to check the schedule.

The Tour (de France) is my main objective. I will do the Giro, two weeks after the (Ford) Tour of Georgia. It will be difficult to be in the range to be as good as I was last year, but it's in America, and it means a lot to me. And it was a great race last year (in Georgia), so I intend to well.

The Tour de France is not the only bike race in the world, but it is the biggest, so the possibility could still exist to do a Tour of Italy, a Tour of Spain.

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

The tour ends with a huge dinner at a simple restaurant. They eat green cabbage and sausages, and wash them all down with beer and schnapps.

The tour has been cleared (by the government). Karachi has also been cleared to play a Test, provided certain security conditions are met.

The tour is not to collect frequent flier miles. It's a special gesture from the host nation.

The Tour just doesn't seem to give (doubles) enough respect because tournament directors are trying to save money. But we're just going to keep fighting.

The Tour of Spain is the race which has given me the most, but that doesn't mean I don't want to win abroad as well,

The Tour promotes so many things, most notably good health through exercise, good partnerships with our host cities and Tour sponsors, and great entertainment for our neighbors and visitors to enjoy. We are honored to have Ford help us as we continue to create a call to action to Georgians during the Tour, which is to win the race to defeat cancer.

The Tour should be on a different level than you guys play on Saturday, Sunday mornings.

The tour views the possibilities of promoting the event on a year-round basis rather than just a week or 10 days. As far as our structure, that is not an issue at all. The fact that we are going to such a fabulous golf course, that's a big deal to them and a bigger deal to us.

The tour was just Ray Brown. We were booked, in the course of this tour, at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland to play as a duo.

The tour was such an eye opener for me. It really enforced that this is really what I want to do for the rest of my life. They (fans) were fabulous. They're definitely not as quiet as they are here in Canada. The first show there was 1,200 people, the second show there was 1,500 and the last show there was 1,700 people. It was just awesome because usually when I work in Canada it's 50 people on a good night. It was great just hearing those pops from that many people.

The tour will have a focus on the tests and a focus on development,

Yes. Year after year we're going to change the program. I think that once the day comes when he wins the Tour of Italy, he has the potential to also win the Tour de France.

We send our condolences to the Pakistani people who have been affected by the earthquake. At this stage there is no indication the tour is in any doubt or the tour schedule affected in any way.