Raps spoil Nash’s homecoming
The Toronto Raptors spoiled Steve Nash’s homecoming and opened their exhibition season in Vancouver with a 129-78 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night.
The Toronto Raptors spoiled Steve Nash’s homecoming and opened their exhibition season in Vancouver with a 129-78 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night.
Last season, four teams from the Northeast Division made it to the playoffs, leaving only the Maple Leafs on the outside looking in. This year there are two front-runners to make it back (in Boston and Buffalo), and three bubble teams (in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa).
Edwin Encarnacion was three-for-four with four runs batted in, leading the Toronto Blue Jays (84-76) to a 6-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins (93-67) on Friday night at Target Field.
The Buffalo Bills have filled the whole left in their roster, after Trent Edwards was released Monday, and Ryan Fitzpatrick was promoted to the role of starter. The team officially re-signed Levi Brown, Tuesday, one of their final cuts in training camp earlier this month. Meanwhile, it didn’t take Edwards very long to find a new job. The Jacksonville Jaguars claimed the former second-round pick of the Bills off of waivers Tuesday, and signed him to a contract Wednesday.
Cleo Lemon has been downgraded to the role of spectator for precautionary reasons, as he recovers from a concussion he suffered against Edmonton, in Moncton last Sunday. As a result, Toronto’s second-stringer Dalton Bell took the first-team snaps Tuesday, and Barker said if Lemon was not ready to dress by Thursday’s practice, Bell would get the start Saturday against Saskatchewan.
While Nazem Kadri has hogged the majority of the spotlight heading into the 2010 NHL season, another young center is quietly slipping under the radar in Toronto. 24 year-old Tyler Bozak will center the Leaf’s the top line between Phil Kessel and Nikolai Kulemin, and is expect to help produce much of the team’s offence. Bozak looks to have a breakout year, with just 37 games of experience under his belt.
Blue Jays outfielder Fred Lewis will have to miss the remaining 10 games of the season, as he will undergo surgery to remove a bunion on his left foot.
[audio:http://torontoobserver.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/tyler_leafsPP_podcast.mp3|titles=tyler_leafsPP_podcast]It may be too soon to hit the power-play panic button in Leafs Nation. After finishing dead last in power-play percentage last season, and opening the 2010 pre-season going 0-for-eight against the Senators, the Leafs…
Exhibition high school football gets underway this coming week with the highlight a number of games between the heavily stacked tier one south/west region and the Catholic board’s best teams.
It’s been so long since Borden Business and Technical Institute has had a football team no-one there can remember when it was.