Four years after helping deliver the first championship in franchise history, Nick Nurse is paying the price for a rocky season for the Toronto Raptors. The Raptors announced Friday they had fired the head coach after five seasons. Toronto failed to make the playoffs this season after finishing ninth in the Eastern Conference with a 41-41 record and […]
The Toronto Raptors were the hottest team in the NBA in early March, on a league-best four-game winning streak, coming off a solid west coast road swing and having just clinched a playoff spot. They were gleefully making their pre-season critics eat their words. Then the threat of COVID-19 swept through sports like a prairie […]
The NBA is getting ready to return and when they do, the team with the league’s top record will be the Milwaukee Bucks. One person having a close role with the day-to-day operations of the Bucks is a former member of the University of Regina Cougars women’s basketball team. Sidney Dobner graduated from the Cougars […]
All NHL clubs have been advised not to conduct morning skates, practices or team meetings amid efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19. The NHL says it will have an announcement later today about the future of its season. The move came after the NBA suspended its schedule last night following the revelation a […]
The NBA has suspended play indefinitely after a player, reportedly the Jazz’s Rudy Gobert, tested positive for COVID-19, or coronavirus. The league made the announcement Wednesday night after Jazz’s game vs. the Thunder in Oklahoma City was postponed shortly after scheduled tipoff. It said that a Jazz player had tested positive for COVID-19. “The test […]
Mosaic Stadium was filled with an unusual amount of red Monday night, as Game 5 between the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors was played on the big screen. While the Raptors lost 106-105, fans were in on the action all night long, with an estimated over 13,000 fans in attendance. Raptor fan Salmaan Moola […]
