The Kentucky Wildcats have become very familiar to top-end Canadian basketball talent. After adding Mychal Mulder earlier this year, and expected 2015 NBA draftee Trey Lyles last season, they increased their collection Wednesday evening when…
KITCHENER – If you wanted to put a top camp into one of the country’s best basketball markets, this one might not come to mind right away. Imad Qahwash’s unwavering belief in the Kitchener, Waterloo…
Jamal Murray is on an absolute tear of late. The Kitchener product scored a game-high 29 points while recording 10 rebounds, eight assists, and three steals but it wasn’t enough for Team White as its…
The sound of clashing metal and the smell of burning rubber filled the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, last week, as members of Canada’s Wheelchair Basketball Team joined the 2015 Americas wheelchair basketball challenge. David Eng is co-captain of the Canadian team. “It’s the first time that we actually have the top 12 guys of our program together, being able to compete together against the teams that we are going to face in the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games,” Eng said.
MISSISSAUGA – Trayvon Lathan had 24 points and nine rebounds, while Shawn Vanzant scored 12 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter as the Moncton Miracles slipped by the Mississauga Power 112-103 at the…
In an unexpected turn of events, what was once thought to be a lost season soon turned out to be a record setter for the Toronto Raptors.
At halftime, Tevin Bailey and his teammates trailed the opposition by 18 points. He turned to his coach for direction in the dressing room and Kevin Jeffer told his team to rely on their stamina and conditioning to fight back and win. “We run too much,” Bailey said his coach told them. “At the end of the game, we’ll be able to outrun them.” Bailey and his Eastern Commerce Saints senior boys basketball team, came out in the second half of the Toronto City championship, last Thursday, and overcame the deficit. The Saints ended up defeating Oakwood Collegiate Barons 70 to 68 in overtime.
Sledge hockey or wheelchair basketball? It was a choice Corin Metzger was faced with. Her main love was sledge hockey but she knew she had to make a decision as to which sport she was going to focus her time. Metzger, who was four years old when she first picked up a basketball, chose hardwood over ice.
The game may have ended in a disappointing 52-20 loss for the women’s basketball team at the University of Toronto Scarborough but the mood was still positive. This wasn’t just any game, after all. Organized by Give 1NE, the basketball game was co-ordinated to help raise money for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
For years Canada’s best young wheelchair basketball players have been leaving the country to pursue superior opportunities.
2012 Paralympic gold medal winner Tyler Miller has watched as friends and teammates departed in search of high-level training.