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MIKE & MIKES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS DAY 2 SWEEPSTAKES PRESENTED BY EA SPORTSOFFICIAL RULESNO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PURCHASES DO NOT INCREASE CHANCES OF WINNING. ODDS DEPEND ON NUMBER OF ENTRIES RECEIVED. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.1. PROMOTION AND SPONSOR: Participation in the Mike & Mikes Home for the Holidays Day 2 Sweepstakes (the Promotion) Presented by EA Sports constitutes entrants (each a Participant) full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules. The Sponsor is ESPN Radio, a division of ABC Radio Network Assets, with offices at One ESPN Plaza, Bristol, CT 06010 and the Presenter is Electronic Arts Inc., 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065. The Administrator is Source Marketing LLC. All decisions related to, as well as all interpretation of, these Official Rules by Sponsor shall be final and binding. The Promotion is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. 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To enter, a Participant must become a follower of @MikeAndMike on Twitter (if not one already) and accept related accounts Tweets and follow the instructions within the Sponsors Post. This Promotion consists of a one (1) day (Entry Period). The Entry Period will begin between 6:00AM ET and 10:00AM ET (Eastern Time) on Thursday, December 15, 2016 when the Mike and Mike show is live and will end 24 hours later at the same time on the following day, Friday, December 16, 2016. The Entry Period shall be as follows: To open the Entry Period, Sponsor (via @MikeAndMike on Twitter) will post a tweet with the entry details between 6:00AM ET and 10:00AM ET on December 15, 2016. To enter, a Participant must follow the entry details as outlined by Sponsor in the tweet which will include retweeting a post that contains the required entry hashtag during the Entry Period on Twitter.The response must include the required hashtag and the reply address @MikeAndMike to be eligible for the drawings on Twitter. If Participant is a first time visitor to Twitter, Participant will be prompted to complete the on-screen registration form. A Twitter account registration is a one-time requirement. If Participant is a returning visitor, Participant will be prompted to log-in using Participants Twitter account. Limit one entry per Participant. Participants are expressly prohibited from entering from multiple Twitter accounts. Any Entry or portion thereof that is, in the Sponsors sole discretion, inconsistent with the Entry Guidelines below will not be accepted as an Entry and Sponsor may disqualify the Participant from further participation in the Promotion.4. 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How great will be revealed in the next couple of days at the board of governors meeting in Pebble Beach, Calif.The first week of October is Chinas National Holiday. During this seven-day period, tourist attractions are at full capacity and there are big crowds everywhere.Not everybody likes this so call Golden Week -- you can image what its like when nearly half a billion people are traveling at the same time in the same country.However, the China Open, which has been held in Beijings National Tennis Center for the past seven years, lives up to the weeks name.The tournament was upgraded to Premier status in 2009. It is a combined ATP-WTA event, the biggest tournament on the Asian continent. There was some ambition early on to build a fifth grand slam, and the easiest way was to copy the best. China Open organizers learned as much as they could from the US Open, from sponsorship to court layouts. In 2006, the China Open became the first tournament outside the United States to implement Hawk-Eye replay.The grand slam ambition eventually faded, replaced by a focus on making money during this Golden Week. And it has worked. For the 2015 China Open, the event attracted 244,557 fans. Of course, it still doesnt match the US Open, but the gap isnt as big as it used to be.During the 2014 China Open, I spent a week covering the tournament. By walking around the National Tennis Center, you can sense that China is building its own tennis culture and looking for its own identity.We try to ccreate an atmosphere of family vacation, not only the tennis matches, said Zhang Junhui, director of the China Open.dddddddddddd The average stay time for fans is five hours and 23 percent of them are from outside of Beijing. More and more Chinese families are willing to spend their money and time on these kinds of events, and the China Open is becoming a tourist attraction.All over China, the middle class is growing and prosperity is increasing, making tennis more popular -- 15 million people play regularly. Landing a tennis event is a shortcut to promote a citys image. Its usually called a citys name card.In Wuhan, Li Nas hometown, city officials spearheaded the Wuhan Open. They built a 1.5 billion yuan (approximately $225 million) state-of-the-art tennis facility.In 2016, the WTA has events in Guangzhou, Wuhan, Beijing, Tianjin, Hong Kong, and Zhuhai. The ATP has Chengdu, Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai. Thats a new combined record.Tennis is growing quickly in China, and the market still has room to grow. Sure, many fans are still learning the sports rules, history and culture. And too many events in a short period can create unhelpful competition. But Golden Week is becoming a new tradition -- and a golden opportunity for Chinese tennis. ' ' '