TicketCity is a ticket broker and online marketplace headquartered in Austin, Texas. They buy and sell tickets to live events including sports, concerts, and theatre. The company was founded by Randy Cohen in 1990. They started out with four employees and one computer in a small office at Dobie Center. Today, TicketCity employs more than forty personnel and occupies an office building in central Austin.
The Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas, formerly known as the Texas Bowl, is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS college football bowl game that was held for the first time in 2006 in Houston, Texas. The bowl replaced the now-defunct Houston Bowl, which was played annually from 2000 to 2005. The first bowl game in Houston was the Bluebonnet Bowl, played from 1959 through 1987. The defending Texas Bowl champions are the Illinois Fighting Illini, who defeated the Baylor Bears on December 29, 2010. In the upcoming matchup, Northwestern will face Texas A&M on December 31, 2011, at 11 a.m. CST.