Reading Time: 4 minutes The hypocrisy in college athletics promotes the amateur myth and tries to suppress the fact that the young athletes have significant market value
Tag: Basketball
Kawhi Leonard just rewrote the script for pro sports
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s a new sports model taking over and it’s all about best on best and relegation for the mediocre
The Raptors elevated basketball to an art form and lifted us all
Reading Time: 3 minutes The most ethnically diverse team ever to win an NBA championship reflected the nation’s diversity
Canada’s great basketball awakening
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Raptors’ win was transformative for the league, the business of sport and for Canada in general
Tanking takes the heart out of statistical analysis in sports
Reading Time: 4 minutes Only the purity of competition assures that the resulting data has relevance and application in a sport
Too many NBA players isolate themselves on the Island of Me
Reading Time: 4 minutes It reveals bad sportsmanship, a lack of professionalism and a complete misunderstanding of the essence of sports
U.S. college basketball title game an example of sport at its best
Reading Time: 4 minutes True competition means the pursuit of excellence in partnership with your opponent
Shoe malfunction puts U.S. College sports under microscope
Reading Time: 4 minutes The untenable college system promotes the amateur myth and tries to suppress the fact that young athletes fill the seats
Hall of shame sports owners led by Ottawa’s Melnyk
Reading Time: 5 minutes Far too many odious owners haunt the world of professional sports, preying on ticket-buying fans
Kawhi Leonard’s slow, painful march out of Toronto
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s a good bet the transcendent NBA star will leave the Raptors after this season. In the meantime, he takes far too many nights off