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Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, writes an open letter to fans on his website about LeBron James.  First of all, he seems a little angrier than I would have expected.  I wonder if LeBron’s camp lead him to believe that he was going to stay in Cleveland.  Secondly, he used Comic Sans [...]

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Sean Shaw shares a broader perspective of the South Caswell Neighborhood Plan.  He also has a great blow by blow post on the Lake Placid/River Landing debate. Not sure how I feel about this… Saskatoon has a mandatory lead pipe upgrade.  That’s… umm awesome.  I get unsafe drinking water for the foreseeable future and if/when [...]

Michael Jordan: Owner

So Michael Jordan is about to take over the Charlotte Bobcats.  I am not the only one that thinks he will be horrible at it.  This is from Yahoo! Sports. You’re going to have to get it together, though, Mike. You’re going to have to grow up, first and foremost. Nothing starts until your childhood [...]

“This is unprecedented in the history of sports”

Mike Jones has done a good job of covering the Gilbert Arenas debacle. For those of you who are new to this, Gilbert Arenas allegedly pulled a hand gun on a teammate in the Washington Bullets Wizards locker room.  Perhaps this says it best.  "This is unprecedented in the history of sports," Billy Hunter, executive [...]

Isiah vs. Magic

Despite growing up a Piston’s fan, I stopped being an Isiah Thomas fan around the time he failed in a power play to take over the Toronto Raptors.  By the time he ruined the CBA, I wondered if he was all there.  I lost whatever respect I had for him during his time with the [...]

Michael Jordan’s Final Performance

Michael Jordan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame last night as one of the greatest players ever.  During his induction speech, he realized that Micheal Jordan, the man is nowhere nearly as a great as Michael Jordan, the player.  Here is how Yahoo! Sports, Adrian Wojnarowski saw it. This wasn’t a Hall of [...]

Celebrating Hedo Turkoglu wants to be in Toronto

From the Globe and Mail’s Jeff Blair Start with the fact that Hedo Turkoglu wants to be in Toronto and that his wife Banu loves the city, and Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo’s latest signing is a strong move. Go from there and factor in that Turkoglu actually wants the ball late in a game and [...]

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Peggy’s Cove lighthouse needs some repairs and no one wants to foot the bill The Conservative government is now off probation according to Paul Wells.  Of course this is all part of Stephen Harper’s plan to survive the recession No wonder Harper doesn’t like it when his caucus speaks out loud Abortion: The Left has [...]

Bulls vs. Celtics

I don’t know if you have been watching the NBA playoffs but this has been an amazing series.  As Dan Wetzel sees it. Back to Boston for Game 7 – just like the Basketball Gods (Michael Jordan? Larry Bird?) preordained it. You might as well get ready for an overtime or three, because a series [...]

Last Night on Twitter

I missed Barack Obama’s speech last night.  I ended up watching the Raptors embarass the nation of Canada in the first quarter and then redeem themselves later on and win.  Of course a decent high school team could beat the Minnesota Timberwolves this season. I opened up Twitterific and was reading the responses to Obama’s [...]

Bosh

As I unwind tonight, I am watching the Raptors play the New Jersey Nets.  I am just going to come out and say this after watching many Toronto Raptors this season.  I think Chris Bosh is over rated. Yes he is athletic and gets to the free throw line a lot but Raptor fans somehow [...]

Steve Nash to Toronto?

The deal kind of makes sense but I don’t buy it.  The Suns are playing much better lately and Shaq has been playing well (and Twittering less).  Sadly it will be another long season in Toronto with Chris Bosh leaving as soon as he can.

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Upset of the Century!

Team USA beats demoralized Canada is basketball exhibition game.  Sadly it will probably mean the end of the road of team Canada head coach Leo Rautins. Rautins was a controversial choice for the national job from the start, primarily because he’d never been a coach. One of Canada Basketball’s motivations was the hope his profile [...]

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How Hillary is helping Obama win :: One of the most valuable lessons the gritty Hillary can teach the languid Obama — and the timid Democrats — is that the whole point of a presidential race is to win.  It’s not to share power, or force the squabbling couple into an arranged marriage. The winner [...]