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WORLD CUP USA ‘94: SEMIFINALS : Spotlight : BARGAIN SHOPPING

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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A surprising number of tickets were available less than half an hour before Rose Bowl game time Wednesday to those willing to shop among the scalpers.

And there were hundreds of empty seats when the game began.

Brothers Kieran, Justin and Dominic Walsh shopped for quite a while before snaring three $90 seats for $50 each.

“We’ve been here about an hour, and (the price) is going down all the time,” said Kieran, the oldest of the three at 27. “We’ve been going around to games since Ireland went out (was eliminated). We’ve always paid less than face value.”

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The brothers are from Ireland but now live in England.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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