Canucks on to the Stanley Cup!

Last night in a double overtime win, we saw the Vancouver Canucks move on to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 17 years, and the third time in Franchise history. After a strange bounce off a glass stanchion, which left everyone in the arena, including Kevin Bieksa, wondering what the heck had just happened, the puck ricocheted straight to Bieksa, who slapped the puck past an unsuspecting Antti Neimi for the series-clinching goal. Check out the reaction from above the city and from the heart of downtown, let us know where you were at when the Canucks won it.

Superfly

Nike has put a new spin on a familiar print, we came across this video about the new Nike Superfly II Safari football boot. The Inspiration for these boots came from the old school pair of safari trainers that Nike made in 1987. Check out what Tinker Hatfield has to say about it,

Dylan Doubt Riding for Livestock @ Cyclo-Cross

Check out this photo of Livestock cycling team member Dylan Doubt representing us on the Cyclo-Cross circuit. If you’ve never heard of Cyclo-Cross, it’s a hybrid roadbike/mtn bike race, and a great way to train in the off season. You can get more info at their website HERE. Big shout out to one of our Cycling Team Sponsors SCION, as they have just opened up a new dealership in Vancouver at 1229 Hornby Street, v6Z 1W4. Photo by Graeme Joseph.

G-Shock : Unbreakable, Finger: Breakable

Over the weekend, while prepping for a race in Portland, Livestock’s GM Garry Bone was changing a tire on his race car, and while on the jack, the car was lowered a little too soon, and the weight of the car was placed directly on his hand. As you can see from the X-ray below the finger is definitely broken, but not the G-Shock. Needless to say the ichat messages have been a little delayed as he’s working on his ambidextrous skills.

Livecup 2010 Re-cap

Big thanks goes out to everyone who made this past weekend’s Livecup 2010 a success; Adidas, Redbull, Guu Izakaya, Know?Show, Color Magazine, Ea Sports, Vancouverisawesome.com, and Fortune Sound Club. Adidas generously supplied everyone taking part in the tournament with home/away Livecup 2010 jerseys, shorts and socks, as well as a box full of extra kicks up for donation to help raise money for the Right to Play organization. If you did not have cash with you and would like to donate please click HERE to help out, all proceeds go to Right to Play. Redbull came through with a ton of product and their sound system for our buds Dj Age and Brendan Butter to play some tunes to keep us moving. Farpostgoals.com was kind enough to loan us our goal posts needed for the day. Our good friends at Guu provided plenty of food for everyone in attendance, including lunch kits as well as a delicious stir fry and freshly grilled fish after the matches all finished.

We lucked out having a blue bird day, with no clouds in sight, it turned out to be a perfect day for competition. Intense action went down as the day unfolded and warmed up. The Double Elimination Tournament allowed for some match ups to go down twice depending on who ended up in the losers bracket. After a fierce first round of action the second games saw the demise and eventual knock out of both VIA and EA sports who were sent packing due to shootouts. Livestock managed to get even with Fortune Sound Club in a rematch, knocking them out of the tournament in yet another shootout. The following round we saw Know?Show knock Color out and LiveStock exit due to a tuff last minute goal from team Redbull. Unfortunately for RedBull, a well rested Know?Show was eagerly awaiting their matchup and ended up cruising relatively quietly passed Redbull and into the finals. GUU was running with an undefeated record, all the way to the heated final match up with team Know?Show. GUU played a hard match, winning the game 3 – nil and the tournament, defending their undefeated record the entire way. Move of the day (attempted) definitely had to go to Know?Shows Perry P ( it was an attempt at a bicycle kick, and he is still hurting because of it!) Best Goal Celebration was awarded to Team Color, Best Bully was awarded to RedBull’s Rhys, Best Dive went to Know?Show’s Amy, Surprise Player of the Day went to Fortune Sound Club’s Rob Rizk, and the MVP of the Tournament was awarded to our very own goalie – John P! All in all a great day was had by everyone involved and we can’t wait to do it all over again next year. Click on any of the thumb nail photo’s to see larger images. Check out the Events page to see all the rest of the Photo’s.

Livestock & Adidas – Livecup 2010 this Sat July17th @Strathcona Park

July 17th Livestock & Adidas brings to you the first annual LIVECUP soccer tournament at Strathcona park, East Field off of prior street next to the skatepark. Teams competing in the tourney will be Livestock, Color Magazine, Guu Izakaya, VancouverisAwesome.com, Red Bull, EA Sports, Know?Show, and Fortune Sound Club.

The event , which will be hosted by Livestock’s very own Cyrus, is a Half Field, Blind Draw, Double Elimination Tournament, which means each team is guaranteed at least 2 games and will advance based on wins. The matches that will be drawn the day of at the pitch are randomly selected.

After each winner’s brackets game the winner moves over to the next blank line and the loser goes to the corresponding letter in the loser’s bracket. After each loser’s bracket game the winner moves over to the next line, but if your team loses while in the Loser’s bracket you will be out of the tournament.

Games will be two 15-minute halves with 5-minute half time and 5 minute lost time. (40 minute total) In the case of a tie, there will be a shootout.

Come out to support your favourite team, enjoy some food catered by Guu, kick back and listen to some music brought to you by our good friend Dj Age on the Red Bull Sound System.

Donations in support of Right to Play will be gladly accepted through out the day, Right to Play is a great cause that helps to improve the lives of children in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world by using the power of sport and play for development, health and peace. Be there bright and early – Kick off is at 11am!