Bulls & Bears: 'Tis the armchair season for action-packed television traditions

Credit to Author: Gord Kurenoff| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 23:34:51 +0000

OPINION: We’re about to head into what is arguably the greatest fortnight of sports television each year. The bull market for sport TV programmers and advertisers spans football, basketball, hockey and even soccer. The biggest winners, however, might just be the couch potatoes

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Bulls & Bears: Grey Cup leads list of pigskin nirvana while droopy Leafs sack Babcock

Credit to Author: Gord Kurenoff| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 23:30:30 +0000

Bulls of the Week It’s a bull market on football. On a weekend that will include everything from the 107th Grey Cup in Calgary and the 55th Vanier Cup in Quebec City to NFL matchups such as Dallas at New England and Green Bay at San Francisco, to Week 13 in U.S. college football, it’s […]

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Bulls & Bears: Seahawks, Sounders juice up Seattle but Grapes squashed for poppy rant

Credit to Author: Gord Kurenoff| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:48:34 +0000

OPINION: Most current NHL players and younger fans seemed to agree that hockey should be used to “unite, not divide.” Yet many former stars — Bobby Orr and Jeremy Roenick among them — ridiculed Sportsnet for the dismissal of Don Cherry, a Canadian hockey television icon

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Bulls & Bears: Former teammates Brady and Garoppolo at the helm of last two undefeated NFL teams

Credit to Author: Paul Chapman| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:31:40 +0000

Bulls of the Week It’s ironic that the former quarterbacking tandem of Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo are at the helm of the two undefeated teams left standing in the NFL this season. At an annual salary of US$35 million per year, the 42-year-old Brady and his New England Patriots are 7-0 while Garoppolo and […]

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