Gibb the key to Commerce’s back-to-back title attempt
If Eastern Commerce Saints are to repeat as city women’s 4A basketball champs, it likely will be on the shoulders of Tayla Gibb.
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Rookie Ross could provide spark for Raptors
Damon Stoudemire, Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter. In the Toronto Raptors’ first few seasons in the NBA, it seemed as though they couldn’t miss with their first-round selections. Since then Canada’s only NBA team has been…
Canada relishing wheelchair basketball gold
With tension building from an evenly contested game over the weekend early in the fourth quarter, the Canadian men’s wheelchair basketball team put together run that Australia could never match. Canada was golden, again, taking…
York basketball building to a roar
The roar will be loud, but expect it to get louder as the season progresses for the youthful York Lion’s basketball team.
ESPN tags Jays, Leafs unis as classics
Toronto Blue Jays’ revamped jerseys are better than the Toronto Maple Leafs standard? These and more questions were raised in the inaugural ESPN Uni Watch Power Rankings unveiled over the course of five days at the end of August.
Paralympic rookie goes for gold in wheelchair basketball
In 2000, Carol Diefenbacher’s son Brandon Wagner was the only survivor of a car crash that left him paralyzed. “Brandon said after his accident, ‘You know mom, you’ve always taught us that everything in life happens for a reason,’ ” she recalled. “I felt like I had just been punched in the stomach.”
Varsity Blues basketball poised for successful season
Even after losing his team’s starting point guard to graduation, University of Toronto basketball coach Rick Dilena is confident about his team this season.
Bargnani hooks up with Ashley Madison
With his hands tied thanks to the prolonged NBA lockout, Toronto Raptors centre Andrea Bargnani might be taking his talents to Italy with help from an infidelity dating website. Professional sports have changed dramatically over…
NBA lockout keeps Colangelo busy
The National Basketball Association’s season is on hold, but that doesn’t mean the workload lessens for Raptors’ President and general manager Bryan Colangelo.
No ‘Big 3’ at Eastern Commerce
Eastern Commerce’s Bilie Grant, Sami Hill and Vaneil Simpson have guided their senior girls basketball team to a 9-2 start, but don’t call them the Big Three.