Fan denies sex-for-tickets gambit

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A US woman charged with offering sex for baseball World Series tickets has denied she did anything wrong.

"I'm not embarrassed about my actions. I'm embarrassed about how I was arrested," Susan Finkelstein, from Philadelphia, told AP news agency.

The 43-year-old was speaking a day after meeting an undercover policeman responding to her ad on Craigslist.

In the ad, the Philadelphia Phillies team fan said: "I'm the creative type! Maybe we can help each other!"

She also described herself as a "gorgeous, tall, buxom blonde diehard Phillies fan".

'Nice lady'

Mrs Finkelstein said she had wanted to get tickets to take her husband to Wednesday night's game between her team and the New York Yankees.

Her lawyer said his client never explicitly offered sex, adding that she was merely "a nice lady overcome with Phillies fever".

She was arrested on Tuesday at a Philadelphia bar after discussing her ad with the undercover policeman.

Mrs Finkelstein faces a preliminary hearing on 3 December.

But her lawyer expressed hope the misdemeanour charge of soliciting prostitution would be dismissed.

Mrs Finkelstein was eventually given a pair of tickets for another game this weekend, through a radio station.