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Tag: NBA
Coming to grips with the gay reality in sports locker rooms
Reading Time: 4 minutes Professional male sports teams are a cross-section of many cultures. But the idea that they agree about much beyond winning is a fabrication. It’s time to open up.
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
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
Pro sports have become a grinding bore
Reading Time: 4 minutes The tanking masses of the NHL, NBA and MLB have turned the regular season into a race to the bottom in search of top drafts
Teamwork: A commitment to the oneness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Selfishness and out-of-control egos destroy more teams with the potential to be great than anything else, including injuries
Is the CFL kicking off a new sports era with live on-field audio?
Reading Time: 4 minutes For as long as the lens has followed sports, broadcasters have denied fans the language, noise and strategy of the game – until now