#cfl tri club | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

laresearchette · 2 years

Text

Friday, October 07, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: HELLO JACK! THE KINDNESS SHOW (Apple TV+) THE PROBLEM WITH JON STEWART (Apple TV+) GHOST BROTHERS: LIGHTS OUT (discovery +) SIGNIFICANT OTHER (Paramount +) S.W.A.T. (Global) 8:00pm FIRE COUNTRY (Global) 9:00pm BLUE BLOODS (CTV) 10:00pm THE LINCOLN PROJECT (Crave) 11:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT IHEARTRADIO MUSIC FESTIVAL (CW Feed) SAVING THE MANOR (Premiering on October 11 on HGTV Canada at 10:00pm) SECRETS AT THE INN (TBD - Lifetime Canada) THE PROOF IS OUT THERE (TBD - History Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY EYIMOFE MEMORY

CBC GEM DEVIL IN THE DARK THE NEXT STEP (Season 2)

CRAVE TV AMERICAN PSYCHO AMERICAN REFUGEE BURIED CAPE FEAR (1991) DRINK, SLAY, LOVE HIGH TENSION LINCOLN PROJECT (Episodes 1-5) MTV’S THE CHALLENGE: UNTOLD HISTORY MTV’S MESSYNESS (Season 2) SHAUN OF THE DEAD WOLF ZERO CONTACT

DISNEY + STAR WEREWOLF BY NIGHT

NETFLIX CANADA CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE JEFFREY DAHMER TAPES THE CORONER (Season 4) DERRY GIRLS (Season 3) DOLL HOUSE GLITCH (Season 1) KEV ADAMS: THE REAL ME LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE MAN ON PAUSE (Season 1) THE MIDNIGHT CLUB (Season 1) THE MOLE (Season 1) ODDBALLS OLD PEOPLE THE REDEEM TEAM TIGER & BUNNY (Part 2)

GRAND SLAM OF CURLING (SN1) 12:00pm: National - Draw #14 (SN360) 4:00pm: National - Draw #15 (SN Now) 8:00pm: National - Draw #16

SPELL (Crave 2) 6:25pm: After surviving a plane crash in rural Appalachia, a man tries to break free from a woman's dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.

PRE-SEASON NHL HOCKEY (SN Now) 2:00pm: Sharks vs. Predators (SN Now) 7:00pm: Sabres vs. Penguins (TSN4) 7:30pm: Leafs vs. Red Wings

PULSE (APTN) 7:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Meet Josée Bourgeois, a dancer from Pikwakanagan who combines traditional and contemporary styles to stay connected to her roots and explore her emotions. Her recent piece, The Sickness denounces the grave injustices faced by Indigenous women.

PRE-SEASON NBA BASKETBALL (SN Now) 7:30pm: Celtics vs. Hornet (TSN2) 8:00pm: Rockets vs. Raptors

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN3) 7:30pm: Roughriders vs. Ti-Cats

MARKETPLACE (CBC) 8:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE)

RODEO NATION (APTN) 8:00pm: With the help of his dad, Dallas Young Pine takes on his first season riding broncs. Meanwhile, PJ Fox says goodbye to her beloved horse. At a local rodeo, Curly hopes to end his buck-off streak and Travis believes he can make the eight.

NIKKI & NORA: SISTER SLEUTHS (W Network) 8:00pm: Fraternal twins Nikki and Nora are forced back into each other's lives when they inherit a detective agency. As they work together to try and solve a murder, they soon realize that their differences may be their greatest advantage.

STORIES FROM THE LAND (APTN) 8:30pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Anishinaabe women share how the birch tree, its bark and the traditional crafts that come from this significant tree have transformed their lives.

THE PASSIONATE EYE (CBC) 9:00pm: The Conservation Game: What happens to the animals that appear on late-night talk shows after their time in the spotlight.

TRANSPLANT (CTV) 9:00pm: Bash treats a woman whose ketamine therapy goes awry; Mags loses confidence in her new boss; June realizes she has too much on her plate; Theo reunites with a young former patient whose life may depend on the death of another patient.

AMERICA REFUGEE (Crave) 9:00pm: With the American economy in collapse and the nation under martial law, a family seeks shelter in their neighbor's bunker, where the danger inside is potentially greater than the danger outside.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #pulse #marketplace #rodeo nation #stories from the land #the passionate eye #transplant #curling #nhl hockey #nba basketball #cfl football

0 notes

hollowtones · 7 years

Text

Overwatch Super Bowl headcanons.

Winston watches the game only for the half-time show. He loves Lady Gaga and he loves Peanut Butter. Constantly reciting Lady Gaga facts during the football parts. Makes a mean spicy peanut butter chicken wings.

Widowmaker is convinced football doesn’t exist.

Tracer loves to watch the big game. She invites Winston, Pharah, Mei and Ana to hang out and have a nice time together, and encourages them to invite all their friends so Winston isn’t as lonely. She insists on calling it “soccer” as some kind of joke only she and her girlfriend think is funny.

Mercy and Symmetra don’t really understand football, but they watch it with Pharah anyways. Pharah insists the CFL is more interesting but always gets very into the game regardless. Mercy just cheers for whatever team is winning. Symmetra drinks most of the booze and passionately talks about physics in sports, while making up rules about her new sport idea, “Football Two”. Ana joins them sometimes, because she likes to bond with her daughter and her girlfriends.

Soldier: 76 played college ball, y’know. Coulda gone pro.

Zenyatta dedicates 83% of his processing power to run prediction algorithms that let him make bets on who will win. The other 17% is dedicated to the Puppy Bowl. Genji helps him decorate his orbs to look like little footballs. They hang out and talk about cool dogs, mostly. One time Genji tried to convince Zenyatta that setting up a computer-solved gambling ring was “probably all sorts of illegal”, to which Zenyatta replied, “My pupil, you still have much to learn. There is no law when you live on the mountain.”

Sombra isn’t real.

D.Va already planned a marathon stream of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest (for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System) for that weekend. Special guest Lucio, president of the Brazillian Donkey Kong Fan Klub, provides guest commentary and live remixes of classic DK jams. Sometimes they look up updates on the big game to inform any viewers who care. They do this every year.

I will not acknowledge Junkrat.

Torbjorn and Reinhardt are both busy men with busy schedules but they make sure to get together once a month, catch up on life, and help relight the flames of passion of their relationship. Tornjorn’s kids are more interested in the game than either of them are. Mostly they just sit in the backyard and enjoy some drinks together. Reinhardt threw a man in battle like they were a football once, though. That counts, right?

Roadhog

Reaper IS the Superb Owl. He likes the Seahawks.

McCree starts off every day with a delicious glass of apple juice. Every day he pours himself a delicious, tall, cool glass of the golden nectar of the gods and enjoys a nice, clean chug. It fills him with the nutrients he needs to get through the beginning of his day with a smile, a spring in his step, and a gun in his gun. A day without McCree’s apple juice is a bad day indeed.

Hanzo has been missing for months. Can you find him?

Mei and Zarya don’t care about football very much. They’re probably having a quiet weekend together. Mei has some important tests to run on the air quality and water levels, and Zarya feels an uncontrollable urge to devour every football she sees. They joined a local book club recently.

Bastion is three guns.

#ok to rb #long post #overwatch

948 notes · View notes

newingtonnow · 6 years

Text

Quarterback Johnny Manziel signs with CFL club

Quarterback Johnny Manziel signs with CFL club as he tries to rebuild his football career. from WFSB - Sports http://www.wfsb.com/story/38229656/quarterback-johnny-manziel-signs-with-cfl-club

#Sports

0 notes

tripeakathlete · 2 days

Text

Week of April 29 - May 5, 2024

View On WordPress

0 notes

laresearchette · 2 years

Text

Saturday, June 18, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: MORIAH’S LIGHTHOUSE (W Network) 8:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? AFTER JACKIE (TBD - History Canada) SUITCASE KILLER: THE MELANIE MCGUIRE STORY (TBD - Lifetime Canada) NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

NETFLIX CANADA ALCHEMY OF SOULS SPRIGGAN

2022 US OPEN GOLF (TSN3/TSN5) 10:00am: Third Round - Part 1 (TSN3/TSN5) 12:00pm: Third Round - Part 2

MLB BASEBALL (SN) 3:00pm: Yankees vs. Jays (SN Now) 4:00pm: Angels vs. Mariners (SN1) 8:00pm: Cardinals vs. Red Sox (SN1) 10:00pm: Angels vs. Mariners

WATERGATE: HIGH CRIMES IN THE WHITE HOUSE (Global) 3:30pm: A look at the crimes and cover-up that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation, including insight from journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, FBI investigator Angelo Lano and former prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste.

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN) 6:30pm: Stampeders vs. Tiger-Cats (TSN) 9:30pm: Roughriders vs. Elks

MLS SOCCER (TSN4) 7:00pm: NY Red Bulls vs. Toronto FC (TSN4) 9:00pm: FC Dallas vs. Whitecaps FC

NHL HOCKEY FINALS (CBC/SN) 8:00pm: Lightning vs. Avalanche - Game #2

NLL LACROSSE FINALS (TSN5) 8:00pm: Colorado Mammoths vs. Buffalo Bandits - Game #3

W5 (CTV) 7:00pm: Investigating the case of a Halifax dentist facing hundreds of complaints and criminal charges; asking if politics muzzled a doctor speaking out about responses to COVID-19.

FATHER OF THE BRIDE (Crave) 7:15pm: A father must come to grips with his daughter's upcoming wedding and handle multiple relationships within his sprawling Cuban American family.

AURORA TEAGARDEN MYSTERIES: HOW TO CON A CON (CTV) 8:00pm: Aurora, her fiance and the Real Murders Club set out to solve the mysterious death of Aida's real estate client.

THE ARTIST’S WIFE (Super Channel Fuse) 8:00pm: The wife of a famous artist tries to contact his estranged family before his dementia worsens.

JUST ADD LOVE (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm: April seems to have a perfect life with her husband, and then she finds herself awakening from a coma.

FASTEST CARS IN THE DIRTY SOUTH (Discovery Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Eric Malone confronts Team 256 about last year's race against the Memphis 10 that divided the team; Malcolm Storey gets the boot.

THE LAST DUEL (Crave) 9:00pm: When a squire assaults a knight's wife, she steps forward to accuse her attacker, an act of bravery and defiance that puts her life in jeopardy. The ensuing trial by combat, a grueling duel to the death, places the fate of all three in God's hands.

HOT ONES (Global) 1:07am: Queen Latifah

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #W5 #hot ones #golf #mlb baseball #cfl football #mls soccer #nhl hockey #nll lacrosse

0 notes

mikemortgage · 5 years

Text

The Real Madrid Way: A Canadian sports exec tries to win over — and sell —an iconic Spanish soccer club

Dave Hopkinson remembers Nov. 1, 1994, quite well: it was his 24th birthday and his first day hawking season tickets for the Toronto Raptors, then a professional basketball expansion franchise in a diehard hockey town.

Hopkinson and 23 commission-hungry recruits sat in a room on the 14th floor of a building overlooking an arena construction site. Each was armed with a phone, desk and chair, and all competed to make a sale and ring the six-inch brass ship bell that their boss, Raptors founder, John Bitove, had mounted on the wall as a motivational tool.

The top four sellers were promised full-time jobs. The rest would be let go.

The wireless guy: How BCE’s George Cope cut the cord at Bell

From pro football player to Bay St. executive, CFL CEO Randy Ambrosie has gone the whole nine yards

The big score: How Canadian NHL teams beat their American counterparts off the ice

“Dave was determined, fearless and fun,” Bitove recently recalled. “And he was just a kid, in his early 20s, but he would never give up, which is one of the things I loved about him. He would cold call anyone. He would work the phone. He would work his personality.”

Hopkinson would keep ringing the bell and look over at Bitove’s desk afterwards with a big, aw-shucks-boss-I-did-it-again grin on his face, which drove everybody else in the room halfway nuts, but earned him a full-time sales position.

The entry level job was a toehold on the sports business ladder that he has kept climbing: from selling the Raptors to selling just about everything for Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. — owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Raptors, FC, Argonauts and more — including a 20-year, $800-million deal with the Bank of Nova Scotia to rename the rink formerly known as the Air Canada Centre.

The deal — the largest of its kind in North American major professional sports history — reverberated internationally. Hopkinson, long sought after by NHL and NBA teams but never sold on a move, became a hot international commodity.

An executive recruiter in Los Angeles called and, this past June, Hopkinson left MLSE to become the global head of partnerships at soccer giant Real Madrid, the third most valuable sports franchise on the planet, behind only the Dallas Cowboys and Manchester United (the Maple Leafs are not among the top 50).

Dave Hopkinson, the former COO of MLSE, has been drafted by soccer juggernaut Real Madrid to market the Spanish team abroad becoming global head of partnerships.

The move to Europe means Hopkinson has to apply the skills he honed at MLSE over two decades to a new continent, while also bringing some of the Old World back home. One of his chief mandates: selling an iconic Spanish club, not just to the true believers, but to the soccer holdouts in North America and China.

“With Real Madrid, Hoppy has stepped up to a whole new level that we simply don’t play at in this country,” said Brian Burke, a friend and former colleague at MLSE. “He is in the penthouse suite in terms of working for a professional sports team. Hoppy is a heavyweight.”

Hopkinson, known as Hoppy since Grade 7, was raised in Toronto, had only ever worked in Toronto and certainly wasn’t expecting a call from Real Madrid. He didn’t even speak a lick of Spanish. But Real Madrid was “Real Madrid,” he said, “ a magical opportunity,” a professional roll of the dice too good to pass up.

The new hire was in the bathroom of his new home in Madrid on a recent November evening, filling the tub after picking up his eldest of two daughters from dance class — a mundane, dad-at-home moment in what has been a whirlwind few months.

“I’ve already bumped into a couple of pointy objects around the office and stepped on some landmines, but I’ve also had some small wins,” Hopkinson said. “I sort of sympathize with what it is going to take to be successful here, and how to be successful around here.”

Real Madrid is valued at more than US$4 billion by Forbes magazine and generated over $1 billion in revenue in 2017, according to Deloitte UK’s annual Football Money League report. Almost 50 per cent of revenues came from merchandising and sponsorship deals. (By comparison, the Leafs, hockey’s second most valuable team next to the New York Rangers, are worth US$1.45 billion and had US$232 million in revenue during the 2017-18 season, according to Forbes.com.)

Money, though, isn’t necessarily the most appealing business aspect of Real Madrid. Part of what sold Hopkinson on the move was the team’s ownership structure. Instead of being lorded over by an egomaniac billionaire or some soulless profit-driven-corporate entity, the 116-year-old club, much like the NFL’s Green Bay Packers, is owned by its fans, about 93,000 community members known as “socios,” who each pay a $185 annual fee.

Many socios have been members for more than 50 years. Collectively, they wield a corporate hammer, electing the team president and board of directors, approving annual budgets and disciplining wayward bosses who stray from the community’s wishes.

Steven Mandis, who spent parts of two years interviewing Real Madrid executives, players past and present and frontline employees for his 2016 book, the Real Madrid Way, believes “community values” and culture, two airy-fairy and hard to define things, are what underpin the franchise’s enviable success, on and off the field.

“It starts with Real Madrid getting the world’s best players that match the community’s values — to play an attacking beautiful style of soccer with class, to win championships and capture the imagination and inspire the current and potential global audience,” the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker tuned business author/academic wrote in his book. “Since Real Madrid’s values are inclusive and universal, appealing to a global audience of all ages, the community grows globally.”

A fan waits the start of a Real Madrid match. The football club has a unique corporate structure that some argue adds to its global appeal.

Mandis’ belief is both elementary and revolutionary. Sports fans are inherently tribal, soccer fans perhaps the most rabidly so, which occasionally results in hooliganism and pitched street battles between rival supporters. But Real Madrid’s tribe isn’t just shelling out for tickets and merchandise, or throwing the odd knuckle or two, it guides the club’s direction.

The results are telling: Real Madrid wins — a lot. It is the three-time defending UEFA Champions League winners and has captured a record 33 Spanish domestic league titles since 1932. Its excellence and fan involvement boosts annual revenues, enabling it to cherry-pick global stars, such as Cristiano Ronaldo (recently decamped for Juventus in Italy), which begets more winning, further accelerating the growth of the international fan base and the crush of sponsors worldwide clamouring to get a piece of the action.

Which is where the guy from Toronto comes in.

Hopkinson understands how flaky talk of “values” sounds, especially to a North American sports audience, and especially around his hometown, where the greed of former Leafs owner Harold Ballard scarred a generation of hockey fans, and a pint at Scotiabank Arena sells for $12 a pop. But after three months in Madrid in a job he parachuted into in part to walk the tightrope between taking a storied franchise in some new business directions and observing its old traditions, he has bought in.

He is taking Spanish lessons, working with a language app and sees Real Madrid’s values reflected in everything from the tenure of its employees — people get hired and they don’t leave — to the tiniest of personal touches. For example, sending out company wide emails to announce an employee celebrating a birth or mourning a family death, regardless of corporate rank.

Dave Hopkinson with his family at the Real Madrid field.

“I don’t see these values articulated anywhere — there is not some plaque in the lobby saying, “This is our way,” he said. “But it is something that is understood around here; it’s palpable.”

Of course, as a sales guy, Hopkinson wakes up every day thinking about the value of money and how he can squeeze more revenue for Real Madrid out of a globalized sports industry.

“Dave has no problem putting a big number on the table and justifying it,” said Brian Cooper, chief executive of MKTG, a Toronto-based marketing/sponsorship company that represented Scotiabank in the MLSE naming rights deal.

A lifetime ago, Cooper was a Raptors executive when Hoppy was a “ticket sales grunt.” In many ways, Cooper said, Hopkinson has grown by bounds, but in others he is the same kid with the easy smile that he was from the start: smart, well-prepared, relentless, quick to remember a name or a fact, keen to network and able to make everybody feel as though they are part of the team.

“Dave’s team at MLSE would do a tremendous amount of work up front on who you are and what your needs are — and who your target audience is,” he said. “And he is going to bring that sophistication to the Real Madrid brand.”

Hopkinson, like almost every executive in every industry everywhere, sees Real Madrid’s greatest potential for growth in China and the United States.

“Despite the fact that football is the world’s most popular game, it is underdeveloped in the two biggest markets,” he said.

Real Madrid already has an office in Beijing, and will open one in the U.S. sometime before U.S.-Canada-Mexico host the 2026 World Cup.

Hopkinson gives a purely imagined example of how Real Madrid might crack into China’s corporate coffers. Take a hypothetical Chinese domestic brand — a toque, an electronic gizmo, a you-name-it — that is manufactured in China and, as with many such brands, nobody in the West has ever heard of.

Enter Real Madrid, sports behemoth, with more than 200 million followers on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), only about three per cent of whom actually reside in Spain, plus a Champions League final television audience of around 165 million viewers annually. (The average Super Bowl draws about 100 million viewers; the Cowboys count around 13 million followers across social media platforms.)

Marry all those eyeballs, tweets and likes to a Chinese toque on an imagined Real Madrid player’s noggin and that brand suddenly goes from having zero international profile to the big leagues. The big leagues, in theory, give a company licence to charge a premium for its goods associated with Real Madrid’s superstars and, naturally, give Real Madrid licence to charge the company a fortune to be associated with its trusted, winning narrative.

“If you look at the statistics of the value of Real Madrid, plus their numbers in terms of fandom and fan behaviours, then you start to realize the magnitude of what they are talking about,” said Cheri Bradish, a sports marketing professor at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Although consumers have never been more adept at ignoring advertising messages — the average human’s capacity to delete or ignore pop-up ads, videos, television commercials and email-marketing blasts is by now well honed — getting attention from existing fans isn’t a problem for Real Madrid.

The team’s fans aren’t looking for less, they always want more, which has led to some inventive new twists in corporate partnering. For example, every Real Madrid player gets presented with a new Audi (other major sponsors include Adidas, Emirates, Hugo Boss and Nivea Men) at the start of the season, an event sparking much fan speculation: What car is player X going to pick? How about player Y? What does the car say about the player who drives it?

The Audi draw becomes a media/social media story, well covered by the club’s website, with the vehicles as props and the players as characters. Players who subsequently elect to drive a vehicle other than an Audi to the team’s training facility must park in a remote lot surrounded by a high hedge. The Audi drivers’ park in high visibility spots close to the front door.

“Does everybody care about what kind of car the players drive? No,” Hopkinson said. “But lots of people care about Luka Modric, Gareth Bale and Real Madrid.”

What he means is: soccer-loving automotive geeks get what they want, while the greater mass of Real Madrid fans get something, too — a glimpse of their heroes doing something other than playing soccer. Audi, of course, gets a bunch of famous athletes driving their cars to work every day.

But getting attention in the U.S. is different. Football — soccer on this continent — has been trying to conquer the U.S. ever since Pelé and the New York Cosmos burst onto the scene in the 1970s. Major League Soccer has 23 teams, including three in Canada, and its fans are enthusiastic, but the sports pecking order list still reads: NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL … MLS.

Dan Mason, a sports professor at the University of Alberta, argues pecking order isn’t what it is important. Real Madrid doesn’t need to convert Joe NFL Fan. It simply has to convince U.S. multinationals interested in boosting their profile overseas to harness the Real Madrid brand power to do it for them.

Real Madrid isn’t exactly a non-entity in the U.S. market. Fox’s English and Spanish broadcasts of Real Madrid’s 4-1 victory over Juventus in the 2017 UEFA title game drew a combined three million viewers, or about a million more than the average MLS championship game.

“Just because Major League Soccer isn’t as successful as the other major sports leagues in North America, it doesn’t mean that Real Madrid isn’t a valuable brand in North America,” Mason said.

Hopkinson declined to disclose any Real Madrid state secrets, but one imagines the likes of General Electric Co., Verizon Wireless, Coca-Cola Co. and more should expect a call from Spain soon.

Hopkinson, meanwhile, turned 48 on Nov. 1, the last in a cascade of family birthdays since the move to Madrid in September. To celebrate, he and his wife, Lawrie, took their girls, Miranda, 15, and Claire, 10, to Paris for the weekend. They got an Airbnb, went up the Eiffel Tower, strolled along the Champs-Elysées, ate great food, drank it all in.

What had started as a job offer had become a family adventure, and a fresh challenge for a veteran sales guy with a knack for ringing the bell the Hopkinson way.

“You know how they say there is some magic about the 90-day mark at a new job?” Hopkinson mused, from his bathroom hideaway. “Well, I feel the magic is happening. I am getting dangerously close to figuring this all out.” Financial Post

• Email: [email protected] | Twitter: oconnorwrites

from Financial Post https://ift.tt/2rjWSTQ via IFTTT Blogger Mortgage Tumblr Mortgage Evernote Mortgage Wordpress Mortgage href="https://www.diigo.com/user/gelsi11">Diigo Mortgage

#IFTTT #Financial Post

0 notes