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December 31st, 2009
Olympic team is an ode to Canadian junior program
The selection of the 23-man roster for Canada’s Olympic men’s hockey team announced yesterday is a direct tribute to Hockey Canada’s junior national team program.
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December 18th, 2009
Counting down the year’s top-10 sport business stories
With the end of the year and the decade less than two weeks away, The Sport Market on TEAM 1040 and team1040.ca will count down the top 10 sport business stories of the past 12 months in a year-in-review edition tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
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December 2nd, 2009
Website apology a good first step for Tiger Woods
Golf superstar Tiger Woods – arguably the world’s highest-profile sports personality and certainly the richest athlete on the planet – issued a web site apology to his family and fans today at tigerwoods.com in the aftermath of his bizarre late-night car accident Friday, November 27th, and various allegations of infidelity over the past 10 days in the most challenging PR crisis of his remarkable PGA Tour career.
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December 1st, 2009
Record national audience flocks to Grey Cup thriller
The Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup consolidated its status as the biggest single-day sports event in Canada as a record combined national audience saw the Montreal Alouettes win their second title in seven tries this decade, a last-second 28-27 come-from-behind win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
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May 11, 2009
Negotiation key to resolving Phoenix solution, TEAM 1040 analyst says
A more collaborative approach to negotiating acquisition of the Phoenix Coyotes and the terms under which the franchise could be relocated to Southern Ontario will be critical in ultimately resolving the latest economic and legal crisis facing the Arizona National Hockey League franchise.
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April 11, 2009
NDP clarifies position on BC Place retractable roof plans
Veteran BC NDP politician Mike Farnworth, the Opposition House Leader and Member of the Legislative Assembly for Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain, clarified his party’s election platform position on the future of BC Place today on TEAM 1040.
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April 8, 2009
NDP angling to cancel retractable roof plans for BC Place
Based on online caucus statements and party advertising launched in late February, the BC NDP appears to be preparing an election platform that includes scrapping plans for a retractable roof at BC Place stadium.
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March 21, 2009
Timing of hot streak should bring Canucks sellout run to 300
On the ice, it’s been Alex Burrows, Ryan Kestler, Steve Bernier, Roberto Luongo, Willie Mitchell, Kevin Bieksa and the Sedin twins – key figures this month for the Vancouver Canucks as they extended a 16-3-1 National Hockey League run (since February 1st) and set a new franchise record with 11 consecutive home ice victories at General Motors Place.
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March 17, 2009
Addition of Vancouver and Portland will help transform MLS
The addition of Major League Soccer expansion franchises in Vancouver and Portland in 2011 will help create a new – and necessary -- developmental model for the fledgling North American professional circuit, according to TEAM 1040 sport business commentator Tom Mayenknecht.”
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March 15, 2009
Canucks marking 250th consecutive home sellout
The Vancouver Canucks consolidate their position among the top-selling franchises in the National Hockey League – and in all of professional sport – by marking their 250th consecutive home game sellout tonight in a 7 p.m. start at General Motors Place against the visiting Colorado Avalanche.
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February 20, 2009
The Wrestler named Best Sports Movie of 2008
A sports movie that receives Oscar nominations in major categories such as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress can’t help but rate as the top sports movie of the year.
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February 14, 2009
A-Rod can still make positive out of steroid negative
Three-time American League Most Valuable Player Alex Rodriguez, the highest paid player on the New York Yankees and in all of baseball, hit a public relations single – perhaps a long single -- this week by admitting the use of performance enhancing drugs during his years with the Texas Rangers between 2001 and 2003.
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February 13, 2009
“Thousand cuts” will continue until MLB and MLBPA toughen drug stance
According to Tom Mayenknecht, host of The Sport Market on TEAM 1040 and team1040.ca, former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent said it best this week when he described the ongoing steroid scandal in baseball as “death by a thousand cuts.”
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February 12, 2009
Vancouver 2010 celebrating venues and revenues
Although the vast majority of media attention has been focused squarely on the City of Vancouver’s Olympic Village financing crisis, the cost of infrastructure projects such as the Sea-to-Sky Highway upgrades, expansion of the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre and construction of the RAV rail line, today’s one-year countdown to Vancouver 2010 is an opportunity to acknowledge the successes to date for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC).
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February 6, 2009
Political pressure mounts on naming rights deals
The political pressure being directed at Citi Financial Group and Citi Field, the new $850 M USD home of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball that will open April 3rd, could spin off in multiple directions and change the way corporate sponsors approach stadium naming rights deals in professional sports.
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February 2, 2009
Steelers sixth Super Bowl win rewards Rooney ownership
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ dramatic 27-23 victory over the Arizona Cardinals Sunday in Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa Bay inched them closer to their place on the all-time top-10 of the most winning franchises in North American sport.
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January 27, 2009
Ovechkin named Most Marketable Hockey Player
Star Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League is the most marketable hockey player in the world, according to Champions of The Sport Market 2008, an international year-end sport business report released today on TEAM 1040.ca.
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January 18, 2009
Vancouver 2010 top sport merchandiser in 2008
VANOC (the organizing committee for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games) scored well in sport merchandising in particular and sport marketing in general -- both in the Vancouver marketplace and nationally -- according to Champions of The Sport Market 2008, a year-end sport business report released this week on TEAM 1040.ca.
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January 15, 2009
NHL and Canucks dominate local sport business landscape
The Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League – and hockey in general – occupy far and away the dominant position in the local sport industry, according to Champions of The Sport Market 2008, a year-end sport business report released today on TEAM 1040.ca.
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January 14, 2009
Canucks sellout streak among top-10 in North America
The Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League are the most valuable franchise in Vancouver – and the biggest sport business in Western Canada -- according to Champions of The Sport Market 2008, a year-end sport business report previewed this week on the TEAM 1040.
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January 11, 2009
Canadians named Vancouver’s fastest-rising sports property
in 2008
The Vancouver Canadians of the Northwest League, the A-class baseball affiliate of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball, were the city’s fastest-rising sports property in 2008, according to Champions of The Sport Market 2008, a year-end sport business report previewed yesterday on the TEAM 1040.
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January 10, 2009
GILLIS NAMED VANCOUVER’S TOP SPORTS EXECUTIVE IN 2008
Vancouver Canucks General Manager Mike Gillis was the city’s most valuable sports executive in 2008, according to Champions of The Sport Market 2008, a year-end sport business report previewed today on the TEAM 1040.
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January 4, 2009
ECONOMIC DOWNTURN: TOP SPORT BUSINESS STORY OF 2008
It’s little surprise but arguably the biggest global news story of 2008 – the U.S. financial crisis and the resulting global economic slump -- is the year’s biggest business story and the biggest sport business story.
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January 3, 2009
ALL-SPORTS MEDIA AMONG TOP-10 SPORT BUSINESS STORIES OF 2008
Almost 30 years after the debut of ESPN, nearly 25 years after the launch of TSN and less than two decades since the launch of the FAN 590 in Toronto, all-sports television and radio made a mark in 2008 with new licenses, new rights and, most important, strong ratings and profits.
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January 2, 2009
BEIJING OLYMPICS AMONG TOP-10 SPORT BUSINESS STORIES OF 2008
The 2008 Beijing Olympics are now sports history. The Games of the XXIX Olympiad are also solidly placed among the top-10 sport business stories of the past year, according to Vancouver-based sport business commentator Tom Mayenknecht, the host of The Sport Market on TEAM 1040.
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January 1, 2009
A TRIO OF FRANCHISE UPSWINGS LEADS OFF THE TOP-10 SPORT BUSINESS STORIES OF 2008
The pennant-winning Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball, the championship-winning Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association and the revitalized Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League were all great sports stories in 2008. And all three made a list of the year’s top-10 sport business stories compiled by Tom Mayenknecht, the host of The Sport Market on TEAM 1040.
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