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Vancouver Sun
04-05-2025
- Business
- Vancouver Sun
Whitecaps 2, Real Salt Lake 1: Vancouver the league benchmark, RSL the sets the sale price
Article content For sale: one battered and bruised once-proud franchise, has good bones, but has seen better days. A few internal structural issues to work out. Article content Article content For sale: A battered and bruised franchise that's had a major makeover and is now in pristine showroom condition. You won't find a better one in North America. Article content How about a BOGO real? Buy the Vancouver Whitecaps and we'll throw in the Vancouver Canucks? Forget about those pesky market valuations and the fact the Canucks aren't actually for sale. The NHL club could benefit from a change of ownership — either by breathing life into or giving it some, uhh, breathing room — and maybe get back to the league's upper echelon. Article content Article content The Whitecaps, though, are in rare territory. A third of the way through the Major League Soccer season, they're seven points clear atop the Western Conference standings and lead the table overall. Article content Article content The players, coaches and performance staff have done their part in making the Caps an attractive-looking buy, finally bringing some universal attention on the small-market team. Article content The curb appeal on this team sale is off the charts. Article content If one needed an idea of what it would take to purchase the Caps, their opponents Saturday night were just sold for $US600 million to the Larry H. Miller family, former owners of the NBA's Utah Jazz. Article content RSL are pretty close to an apples-for-apples comparison in terms of value. Vancouver sits at $470 million in Sportico's estimation, Forbes at $440 million. The Caps' revenue is the lowest in the league at $40 million, with their operating income at $-10 million. Only Colorado and Montreal are considered to be worth less. Article content Article content Salt Lake sold for $100 million more than their valuation, and have revenue of $50 million and no operating losses. Article content Article content The Whitecaps have been decent in terms of attendance, sitting seventh last season, though they've only cracked the 20,000 mark once in seven league games at B.C. Place this year. That included Saturday night against RSL, with 19,762 coming through the turnstiles. Article content Vancouver is a bandwagon town, but there's plenty of room left among the haybales. How much success do the Whitecaps have to have before they get back above 20K on the average? They were at 26,791 in 2024 — and had none of the buzz that this squad does. Article content Article content They looked as dangerous and entertaining Saturday night as they had in the previous matches of their current 10-game unbeaten streak. Jayden Nelson was giving Justen Glad nightmares on the left wing, blowing by the RSL defender at will with his pace. He opened the scoring 20 minutes in by undressing the entire left side of Real's defence, then slotted it casually into the corner.
Axios
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
"A Minecraft Movie" brings chicken jockey chaos to Utah theaters
"A Minecraft Movie" has brought chicken jockey chaos to Utah, with a moviegoer in Provo sneaking a live chicken into a screening. The big picture: As audiences stampede to the biggest box office hit of the year (so far), one scene is prompting near-riots, per now-viral videos of audiences screaming, throwing food and drinks, removing clothing and chicken-fighting in front of the big screen. Friction point: A Provo theater stopped the projector and hit the lights last week when a patron brought a live chicken and held it aloft as other fans shot confetti guns and threw popcorn around it, footage shows. Video from Heber City shows a similar eruption in the crowd. How it works: Audiences have been chanting and cheering along with their favorite characters throughout the movie, but the biggest reaction is generally reserved for when Jack Black shouts the line, "Chicken jockey!" The latest: Some theaters around the country are playing warnings and requiring adults to accompany kids . Others have set up special screenings for audience participation. Larry H. Miller Megaplex Theatres, for example, have hired extra security and play a message that reads: "We are aware of the TikTok trends associated with A Mincecraft Movie. Please know that those who disrupt our guests and damage our theater will be escorted out of the theater immediately by police. We will press charges for any damage to our property." Director Jared Hess has said he enjoyed the enthusiasm; Black attended a screening and told the audience not to throw popcorn, the publication Hollywood Handle posted on X. Catch up quick: Utah has a number of ties to the movie.
