Go Bag a Dealthis week looks at Basketball, Ice Hockey and Boxing
Basketball
Keith Prowse Travel (01-8783500) is offering the chance to see a number of teams in action when the NBA season gets under way, later this month.
Apart from well-placed seats at Madison Square Garden for all of New York Knicks' home games, the company has tickets for matches involving New Jersey Nets (from €67), Orlando Magic (from €61.50), Washington Wizards (from €77) and Denver Nuggets (from €38).
Ice hockey
The same company also has tickets for a variety of teams playing in the National Hockey League, whose season starts in Europe this weekend, with four regular-season games in Prague and Stockholm.
The action returns to the US and Canada thereafter, and the season runs until mid-April. Keith Prowse Travel has tickets for Eastern and Western Conference home
games, including New York Rangers (from €51), New York Islanders (from €65), New Jersey Devils (from €83), Chicago Blackhawks (from €96), Colorado Avalanche (from €64) and Tampa Bay Lightning (from €65.50).
Boxing
American Sky (068-56868, www.americansky.ie) has packages for the fight between Manchester boxer Ricky Hatton (above) and former IBF light-welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi in Las Vegas on November 22nd.
Like Malignaggi, Hatton has lost just one fight in his career, although he was well beaten by Floyd Mayweather jnr in their welterweight bout last year. American Sky's packages start at €1,338 per person, based on two people sharing. Departing on November 20th, the trip includes return flights from Dublin or Shannon, four nights' accommodation at the New York New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and tickets for the fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.