Just when you thought you'd seen enough new features being added to your favorite event promotion website for 2008, we pulled another magic trick out of the hat. This time, we've unleashed a full featured discussion board for the hard working boys and gals in the event promotion business.

Who doesn't want to know how much money other promoters are making, or which venues guarantee you a sell out crowd or even how to land lucrative sponsorship deals for your event. Well if you're like me, then you want to know all of the above and then some. Check out the event promoter forums at http://forums.eventorb.com.

The forums use the same login and password you used to sign up for the rest of the site, so there's no need to create a new account to join in the discussions. Just login and let your voice be heard. Enjoy!

UFC 91 will be held tomorrow night in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.  The main event will be a five round heavyweight championship fight between  the champion, Randy Couture, and challenger, Brock Lesnar. 

The UFC is billing this fight as the biggest fight ever in mixed martial arts history. While this fight is a big fight, most fans are eagerly anticipating next year's battle between Georges St. Pierre and B.J. Penn more than tomorrow's main event. 

The fight between Couture and Lesnar better live up to its hype because the overall card for UFC 91 is very underwhelming. Fans might be interested in the Kenny Florian vs. Joe Stevenson fight but the rest of the card is filled with fighters that the fans don't care about or have heard of. 

The main event is very intriguing because you have a 45-year-old fighter who has not fought in over a year against a younger and stronger fighter. Couture will be giving up about 40 pounds to Lesnar in this fight. Couture has the experience advantage over Lesnar but Lesnar has the strength advantage.

Couture's game plan will be to try to Lesnar on his back. If he can't, then Couture could be in for a very long night. Couture will also try to implement his dirty boxing if they get in the clinch.

Lesnar is very strong and powerful and it won't be an easy task for Couture  to get Lesnar down to the mat. Couture has to watch out for Lesnar's heavy hands as well.

Lesnar needs to avoid Couture's attempted takedowns and try to get Couture on his back. Once he gets Couture on his back, Lesnar will punish Couture with his ground and pound attack. Once Lesnar gets an opponent on the ground, it is hard to get back up due to Lesnar's strength and size.

Lesnar has never fought more than three rounds before so if the fight goes to the fourth and fifth rounds, Couture might have the advantage.

The winner of the Florian and Stevenson fight will be in line to get a title shot against UFC lightweight champion, B.J. Penn. Florian is the favorite to win the fight but Stevenson is a dangerous opponent.

UFC 91 will be shown live on pay-per-view beginning at 7pm PT on November 15. 

November 11th-Veterans Day is a holiday honoring military veterans.Celebrated on November 11,Veterans day is celebrated as a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states.So today we honor all the veterans who fought for us. Here are some things you can do on this day:

1)If you know of any Veteran,you could call them up and just say "Thank You
2)You could attend the NYC Veterns day parade 3)Send an email or a thank you card to a veteran that you know

History:U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed an Armistice Day for November 12, 1919. The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution seven years later on June 4, 1926, requesting the President issue another proclamation to observe November 11 with appropriate ceremonies. An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday; "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'."(wikipedia) Picture source

A Better Search Experience
To allow you to search our databases for events based on keywords, we've taken away the various filtering options, making them available only on the search results page so that you can start with a broad range of results and narrow them down according to your preference.

Easier Profile Access
Many promoters kept looking for their profile pages after logging in, so we provided you with a drop down menu containing some key links to your profile.
 
More Social Bookmarking Options
We've added a few more options to where you can bookmark your events. We've added a link to MySpace, Facebook and Stumble to allow you to spread the word about your event to an even greater audience.

Profile Dropdown Menus
We've purged your profile pages of the dreaded static menu it previously had, replacing it with a sleek, quick and easy dropdown menu, providing you quicker access to your profile pages and sub-pages.

last but not the least.....(drumroll)

Introducing EventOrb.de - Guten Tag Deutschland!!
Although the majority of promoters who use EventOrb are located in the US. EventOrb has incorporated the neccessarry technology that makes us able to make our site available in just about any language there is, for any country there is. We are excited to welcome Germany as the first country outside the US that this initiative has been carried out for.

Enjoy!

October 31: Happy Halloween!It's that time of the year again. A time for costume parties,haunted houses,ghosts,trick-or-treating and candies! Well,  enjoy this festive day but remember to be safe. Here are a few things not to do on Halloween Day:

1)Do not throw eggs(raw or cooked) at people. Save the eggs for Easter(Easter eggs,that is)

2)Do not throw toilette papers at people's houses(Save the toilette paper for the bathroom)

3)Do not "Trick",it is better to "Treat"

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL!

History:Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samain).The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year." Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.

UFC 90 was a huge disappointment for MMA fans as the show was very boring and dull. The main event ended prematurely after a knee injury was sustained by Patrick Cote in the third round of his fight with UFC middleweight champion, Anderson Silva.

Silva was a huge favorite to keep his title and basically toyed with Cote in the cage. Silva was dancing around in the cage and didn’t seem focused or serious at all. His hands were down often and he didn’t seem to have a care in the world inside the cage.

Silva got the best of the few exchanges he and Cote had in the fight. Silva was not aggressive and basically tried to counter instead of pressing the action. There was not much action in the fight at all but a few comedic spots when Silva was impersonating Bruce Lee with his moves. Another funny moment was when Silva was standing and Cote was on the ground. Silva stuck his hand out and offered to help Cote stand up. Silva would most likely never do that with an opponent he feared and respected.

Cote did not have any offense at all and the referee stopped the fight in the third round after Cote suffered a knee injury without Silva even touching him. The knee apparently just gave out and the fight was over.

The best fight of the night was the fight between Thiago Alves and Josh Koscheck. This was a three round stand-up war. Alves inflicted more damage on Koscheck and won by decision.

In an upset, Junior Dos Santos defeated Fabricio Werdum in a heavyweight fight. No one had heard of Dos Santos before the fight and he was a huge underdog but  Dos Santos hit Werdum with a uppercut in the first round which knocked down Werdum and the fight was quickly over after that.

Sean Sherk defeated Tyson Griffin by split decision and Gray Maynard defeated Rich Clementi by unanimous decision in the other two fights on the main card. These two fights were not very interesting at all. Maynard’s fight with Clementi was just terrible and probably made half of the crowd fall asleep.  

The winners of the prelim fights were Dan Miller, Hermes Franca, Pete Sell, Thales Leites, and Spencer Fisher.

UFC’s next pay-per-view show will be on November 15 in Las Vegas.

UFC 90 will take place this Saturday night in Rosemont, Illinois at the Allstate Arena. The main event will be a  middleweight title fight between current champion, Anderson “The Spider” Silva and Patrick “The Predator” Cote.  The fight is scheduled for five rounds but no one expects it to last more than a few rounds at best.

This is because Silva is considered the best pound for pound fighter in the world, and he is heavily favored to win this fight. Cote is a big underdog who is not in Silva’s class as a fighter.

Cote has a puncher’s chance to defeat Silva but that is about it. Cote is a heavy puncher and a tough guy but  Silva is better than Cote in every single aspect.  The question is not who will win this fight but in what round will Silva beat Cote in.  

Both fighters expect each other to stand and bang the whole fight. Cote has no ground game to speak of and is primarily a stand-up fighter.  Silva is equally comfortable on the ground or on the feet.

This fight should be very entertaining as these two fighters will both go for a knockout win.

The co-main event on the card is a welterweight fight between Josh Koscheck and Thiago “The Pitbull” Alves.  The winner will be in contention for a title shot against UFC welterweight champion, Georges St. Pierre.

Alves was scheduled to fight Diego Sanchez but Sanchez had to pull out due to an injury. Koscheck has stepped in to fight Alves on short notice.

Alves’ last loss was to Koscheck’s training partner, Jon Fitch. Since the loss to Fitch, Alves  has won his last six fights.  Koscheck is on a two fight winning streak.

Another interesting fight on the main card is a fight between Tyson Griffin and Sean Sherk.  This will be Sherk’s first fight since coming off a loss to UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn.

Griffin has been training hard with his training partner Gray Maynard at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. Maynard is a great wrestler and helped Griffin prepare for Sherk’s wrestling ability and takedowns.

Sherk questioned Griffin’s cardio and thinks he will tire Griffin out in the later rounds. Sherk  should not be tired at all since he was fighting in five round title matches for the last two years.

The first prelim fight is scheduled to commence at 6:30pm CT.

Fans can watch the main card live on pay-per-view beginning at 10pm ET.

The World Series begins tonight in St. Petersburg, Florida when the Philadelphia Phillies meet the Tampa Bay Rays in a best of seven series.

The Phillies made it into the World Series by defeating the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoffs. The Rays defeated the Chicago White Sox and the Boston Red Sox to get into the World Series.

The first two games of the series will begin in Tropicana Field before the two teams travel to Citizens Park in Philadelphia for Games 3, 4, and 5. If there is a need for Games 6 and 7, the games will move back to Tropicana Field.

The starting pitchers for Game 1 are lefties Cole Hamels and Scott Kazmir. Hamels has proved that he is a big-game pitcher by pitching great in the playoffs this season. He is the Phillies’ ace and he has the stuff to throw a no-hitter. He gives the pitching edge to his team for Game 1.

Kazmir is another talented lefty but he is not as effective as Hamels. Unlike Hamels, who usually goes at least seven innings or more, Kazmir usually only lasts five plus innings due to his high pitch counts.

The bullpens for both teams will be very important in this series. Both teams have a great bullpen.

The Rays and Phillies also have a strong offense. The Rays are led by Carlos Pena, B.J. Upton, and Evan Longoria and the Phillies’ power is supplied by Ryan Howard, Pat Burrell, and Chase Utley.

This year’s World Series should be very competitive. You can make an argument for each team to win the World Series.

The Rays have the momentum after beating the Red Sox in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series last Sunday night. The Phillies have had a week off and have not played a game since beating the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.

The first pitch tonight should be around 8:35 pm EST and the game will be shown on Fox.

The Denver Broncos visit Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts  on Monday night to face the New England Patriots in a key AFC matchup.

The Broncos are 4-2 and the Patriots are 3-2. Both teams are coming off a loss.

How will the Patriots respond after losing in a blowout to the Chargers last week? In order for the Patriots to win, they must contain Denver quarterback Jay Cutler.

Cutler has one of the strongest arms in the NFL and he can also be very accurate as well. The key for the Patriots defense will be applying pressure and forcing Cutler to make quick throws.

That will be easier said than done as the Broncos offensive line has only given up two sacks this year.

The key Broncos WR is Brandon Marshall. Although Marshall might not be as well known as other wide receivers such as Terrell Owens and Chad Johnson, Marshall is just as productive and talented as those two stars.

The Patriots had a tough time defending the pass last week and this week should be no different. The two starting corners on the team, Deltha O’ Neal and Ellis Hobbs, have given up too many long passes.

The Patriots  have two playmakers on offense and they are WRs Wes Welker and Randy Moss. You can expect Welker to catch at least five balls in each game. Matt Cassel, the Patriots quarterback, loves to pass to Welker,  especially on third downs.

The Broncos defense is weak and they give up a lot of yardage  in passes but can Cassel capitalize? He was effective two weeks ago in San Francisco but suffered a setback in San Diego last week.

It is Monday Night Football and all the players on the two rosters know that America will be watching  so the spotlight is on them. Who will step up and put on a good performance? Will it be Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall or Matt Cassel and Randy Moss?

My prediction is a very high-scoring game with the Broncos winning 36-30. Cutler’s rifle arm will be in full display and he will outperform his counterpart, Cassel.

The game will start at 8:30 pm ET and it will be shown live on ESPN.

The Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Boston Red Sox in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series (ALCS) last night in Tropicana Field. The final score was 3-1 as pitcher Matt Garza led the way with his terrific pitching performance.

Garza pitched seven superb innings and left after throwing 118 pitches. He only gave up two hits in the game and one run. The one run came in the first inning thanks to a home run by Dustin Pedroia. Garza struck out nine batters.

Tampa’s bullpen worked the last two innings as four relievers came in to help get the final six outs of the game. Rookie David Price got the save. Price, the number one draft pick in the 2007 MLB draft, was not even on the Rays’ roster until getting recalled from the minors late this season.

Price struck out J.D. Drew with the bases loaded in the top of the 8^th to help the Rays preserve  a 3-1 lead. That strikeout was the biggest out of the game since a hit by Drew would have probably tied the game.

The Rays got on the board in the fourth inning thanks to a RBI by Evan Longoria that drove Carlos Pena home. The Rays then took the lead for good in the next inning when Rocco Baldelli singled Willy Aybar in. Aybar homered in the seventh inning to give the Rays an insurance run.

All the runs by the Rays were given up by Red Sox starting pitcher, Jon Lester. Lester pitched a lot better than he did in Game 3 but once again, he took the loss.

With the win, the Rays will go on to face the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series which starts this Wednesday night.