Buying online sports tickets is your best bet. It is simple and easy to do, and there are plenty of online brokers and affiliates at your fingertips. If you want to save some money and alot of money buying sports tickets online you can always try Ebay.

A better idea though is to go into newsgroups and forums of the topic you want, such as Boston red Sox sites and forums. There you have a fanbase of friends who may have extra tickets and sell them at face value with no mark up like ticket brokers do.

I have done this for years and always get great face value tickets for hard to get and sold out shows! So if you need to go to the hot sports event, give it a shot before you try a ticket broker.