Football

Senior linebacker from Oregon, Boseko Lokombo, continues to tackle some major milestones to reach his end goal.  

The B.C. Lions have signed veteran import offensive tackle Ben Archibald to a contract extension. 

In case you were caught up with all the action of the NHL trade deadline, or lack there of, a Vancouver sports team other than the Canucks was active in trading away one of their all-star players. On Tuesday, the B.C. Lions traded away all-star import defensive tackle Khalif Mitchell to the Toronto Argonauts in exchange for import defensive end Adrian Awasom and the rights to a player on Toronto’s negotiation list.

Three years after hosting and winning the CFL championship, the Grey Cup is expected to be coming back to Vancouver in 2014.

Early last year, the provincial government nixed a $35-million deal with Telus, an agreement that would have renamed the recently renovated BC Place Stadium to “Telus Park” for the next 20 years. Although it was publicly known that the telecommunications giant was upset with the province’s abrupt change of heart, negotiations are now back on the table ten months after the initial standoff.

Like many of my fellow Vancouverites, this current NHL lockout has driven up my interest in other professional sports. The fact that the BC Lions are dominating the CFL is nice to see. Plus, our hometown Vancouver Whitecaps FC are playoff bound. When it comes to sports outside of our fair city, nothing beats the NFL. Well now, the NFL is coming to Vancouver. Sort of.

Roger Goodell, I know you might not EVER read this, but if by any chance you do, please take what I say into consideration.  Enough is enough.  Did you watch that Monday nighter’ with Denver and Atlanta? Did you see how long that 1^st quarter took!? That was flat out ridiculous.

So the BC Lions weren’t as dominating as the previous week against the Alouettes, but give credit to Toronto who came to play and made it a tougher game for the Lions.

Today, Sept. 8th, 2012, TELUS and the CFL will officially unveil the TELUS Penny Press that will be used to create The Fan Cup presented by TELUS, the first ever fan cup trophy honouring the game’s fans.