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Bulls and Bears - Tom Mayenknecht: The BC Place naming rights file: Astonishing in both substance and style

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Saturday, March 10, 2012. The BC Place naming rights file: Astonishing in both substance and style. The BC Government's decision to cancel the $40 million naming rights deal that would have re-branded the newly-renovated BC Place as TELUS Park is astonishing to me at several levels. This is a train-wreck of a political decision that is shocking both in substance and style. That's substance issue #1; claiming that there exists a strong grassroots attachment to the 29-year-old name. The Sport Market ha...

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Bulls and Bears - Tom Mayenknecht: June 2011

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Friday, June 24, 2011. Rory McIlroy: Transforming the Tours. Rebranding Golf. It's nice that people say that he could be this or he could be that or he could win 20 major championships, but at the end of the day I've won one.". 2011 US Open winner Rory McIlroy. When a 22-year-old wins the US Open the way McIlroy did last weekend, the sports world takes notice. When a 22-year-old does it with the grace, eloquence and class shown by the Irishman, the sports world has every reason to celebrate. If he and th...

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Bulls and Bears - Bob Mackin: Sticking it to Alzheimer's

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Friday, March 30, 2012. Sticking it to Alzheimer's. Ron Toigo (left), Gordie Howe, Terry Wright, Sharon Craver, Orland Kurtenbach at the Scotiabank Pro-Am news conference on March 28. Marty McSorley was back on ice in Vancouver March 28, but not at the scene of the crime. 8220;I went out with my boots on, I went out the same way I came in,” McSorley said. “I do think the situation kinda served a bunch of masters, there were a lot of people upset with the game, upset with the NHL, Canadian...McSorley, who...

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Bulls and Bears - Tom Mayenknecht: December 2014

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Saturday, December 13, 2014. Pat Quinn Way or Pat Quinn Arena: The Case for Both. The legacy of Pat Quinn reaches far and wide, but no community was more impacted by the Big Irishman's hockey acumen and leadership than Vancouver. The fact he lived in West Vancouver and is well-known for his time with the Vancouver Canucks supports the notion of civic recognition in Vancouver. My recent piece in The Vancouver Sun argued that Quinn's contributions were big enough to merit more than one form of recognition:.

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Bulls and Bears - Bob Mackin: May 2011

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Monday, May 30, 2011. Teitur terminated, Tommy tasked. On Monday, May 30, Vancouver Canucks’ head coach Alain Vigneault was preparing for the Stanley Cup. BC Lions head coach and general manager Wally Buono was packing his bags for Kamloops for the Canadian Football League club’s training camp and reminding the media that the black and orange still exist. The Caps are worst in the West with just one win in a dozen games. That victory came opening day on March 19 at Empire Field, 4-2 over Toronto FC.

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Bulls and Bears - Tom Mayenknecht: February 2012

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Sunday, February 5, 2012. The Gold Standard of Television Engagement. There are a converted touchdown's worth of reasons whty the National Football League has become the gold standard of television engagement as measured by ratings. Yet the NFL is TV gold for myriad other reasons as well. It avoids audience burnout by staging a compact, four-month regular season of 16 games with an efficient, five-week playoff tournament leading to the big payoff known as Super Bowl. That approach leads to sports news an...

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Bulls and Bears - Bob Mackin: Does "Brown out" mean lights out for Premier?

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Friday, March 9, 2012. Does "Brown out" mean lights out for Premier? The shocking resignation of Peter Brown. From the board of the B.C. Pavilion Corporation could be the beginning of the end for Premier Christy Clark's nearly year-old reign as Premier of British Columbia. Through his Vancouver investment house, Canaccord, Brown has donated $312,230 to the B.C. Liberals since 2005. Has resigned before from a similar organization because of political interference. Brown resigned in April 1988 after he was...

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Bulls and Bears - Bob Mackin: Professor proffers Olympic predictions

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Monday, March 12, 2012. Professor proffers Olympic predictions. Any Canadians expecting the gold medal dominance of their Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics team to translate into improvement for the London 2012 Summer Olympics team will be disappointed if predictions released March 12 come true. Johnson boasts a remarkable 93 percent success rate in his Olympic predictions over six consecutive Games, and his model does not. Canada won a record 14. And see the ranked prediction table below. Bob Mackin, a reg...