Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'theraptors'
February 6, 2008
Chris Bosh is at it again. Although his innovative video pitch to fans wasn't enough to push him past Kevin Garnett and Lebron James for a starting spot in the NBA All-Star Game, it has made him a media player. Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix details how the video's popularity has raised Bosh's profile to new heights and how it prompted CB4 to start his own Chris Bosh TV channel on YouTube. To ring in......
Continue Reading "Chris Bosh, Thespian"January 23, 2008
The Raptors have reached the halfway point of the season, and almost every news outlet in town has been engaged in the mid-season ritual of handing out report cards. Jose Calderon gets top marks across the board, and deservedly so. His name is even being mentioned as a potential reserve selection for the All-Star Team. Of course, on his own blog and in interviews, Jose has tried to remain humble about the whole thing. That's......
Continue Reading "Jose Calderon, Statistically Amazing"January 4, 2008
In the best campaign commercial since HuckChuckFacts, Chris Bosh has assumed the identity of a Texas used car salesman in order to try to drum up votes to make it to this year's NBA All-Star Game in New Orleans. Bosh has appeared in the All-Star game for the last two years. Last season he was voted into the starting lineup for the first time, but achieving that feat again became nearly impossible when Kevin Garnett......
Continue Reading "Vote Early, Vote Often, Vote Bosh"November 30, 2007
If you haven't been following the Raptors too closely this season, it's possible that you may have missed one of the greatest stories in professional sports at the moment. Jamario Moon is a 27-year-old rookie who had been kicking around just about every minor league on the continent until he finally got his shot with the Raptors this year. And he's tearing things up. Even though he's years older than a number of Raptor veterans,......
Continue Reading "Super Jamario"April 3, 2007
Now boarding at Platform 1: The Toronto Raptors Bandwagon. Please form a line to the right, and have your tickets ready. Prepare for a bumpy ride, this trip is standing room only. For the first time in five years, the Toronto Raptors are going to the NBA playoffs. And if making the playoffs wasn't enough for Chris Bosh, on Monday he was also named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week. Despite the loss......
Continue Reading "The Most Incredible Moment in Raptors History"March 1, 2007
Opposition parties are crying foul over Harper's use of military jets. After accusing the Liberals of overusing the jets for personal business during their time in government, Harper used one to fly his son to Toronto for a Leafs game. Pot, meet kettle. A lethal bacterial strain common in hospitals has hit Mississauga. According to the article, C. difficile is spread through fecal matter. We don't even want to know what's going on in our......
Continue Reading "Stephen Harper's Jet Hypocrisy, Docks Gets Its Game Back, Stephen Hawking Goes Weightless"February 3, 2007
Raptors fans have had to suffer a lot of humiliation over the last few years: There was the Vince Carter trade debacle, there was the night that Kobe Bryant dropped 81 points, and there was the 1-15 start last season that had ESPN speculating that the Raptors might be one of the worst teams in NBA history. But, the absolute low-point for the franchise came on the afternoon of October 16, 2005 in a pre-season......
Continue Reading "Take the Raptors Off Notice!"November 23, 2006
It appears that most members of the Liberal caucus will support Stephen Harper’s resolution that Quebec be considered a “nation” within Canada. Toronto Police Services Board chairman Dr. Alok Mukherjee now wants to hold a public inquiry into possible cases of corruption, cover-ups and general nasty stuff by members of the Toronto police department. This should come as no surprise: The day after it was announced October was the deadliest month in the history of......
Continue Reading "Is Quebec a Nation? TPSB to hold public inquiry? Raptors win? "November 9, 2006
It was only a few days ago that (now former) Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was given the support of the President. But now, the day after the Republicans were sent packing in the House of Representatives and (it looks like) the Senate, Rummy is packing his bags as well. While the Americans are in a fine mess in Iraq, according to a new CBC survey it now seems more Canadians think we’re in a mess......
Continue Reading "Bush ditches Rummy; Escalators have had enough; Mats is Lost. "October 23, 2006
The Raptors took the Cleveland Cavaliers 91-90 last night in a game that saw fresh faces fill in for injured key starters. Leading candidates in the election thingy debated crime, transit and garbage as usual last night for the co-sponsored benefit of The Toronto Star and CityTV, and maybe for voters, too. Quoth The Star: "The debate got so scrappy on so many issues that at one point Miller and Pitfield even disagreed on what......
Continue Reading "Raptors win, candidates debate, police mull things over. If this is Toronto, it must be Monday."December 5, 2005
The Raptors exploded this weekend, posting back-to-back wins in Atlanta on Friday and New Jersey on Saturday. In doing so, they also moved out of the NBA's basement and improved their season mark to 3-15. And if it couldn't get any better, Big Man Ha-fay-el Ar-RU-joe almost took out Vince Carter. VC left midway through the third with an ankle injury after getting tangled up with the big Brazillian. Although he returned to the game,......
Continue Reading "New Record, New Life, New Injury, New Ho King"November 2, 2005
After a busy offseason, Raptor Basketball is back at the Air Canada Centre tonight. With all the second-guessing and criticism following every personell decision this summer, it will be interesting to see how the team responds in 05/06. There is no question that veteran leadership is at a minimum this year, however, if the preseason is any indication, it looks like Rob Babcock made the right moves on draft day. First round selections, Charlie Villanueva......
Continue Reading "Pape Sow Says Let's Go(w)!! Raps Season Tips Off"February 23, 2005
The Raptors found themselves on the other side of ball Tuesday evening, and it couldn’t have come at a more crucial time. With their fan base losing faith in the rebuilding process, the team’s eighteen-point victory against the Nets was undoubtedly a welcome change. The Raps can credit the road-win to poor shot selection, untimely turnovers and a general inability to compete. Only this time it wasn’t them making the mistakes. It was their opponent,......
Continue Reading "Hate To Say We Told You So, But We Told You So"February 7, 2005
Sundays are generally awful. Combine the threat of having to work on Monday with the black-eye/STD/hangover from Saturday night, and then add the closure of all the major banks...Sundays are just no fun. Except of course for Superbowl Sunday. This is a day to eat, drink, and yell at the television. Here are the highs and lows of the Superbowl that was: - Philadelphia Eagle and Toronto-native Mike Labinjo appeared in yesterday's game, only to......
Continue Reading "Superbowl City, Population: Torontoist"December 1, 2004
The Raptors recorded just their second road win of the young season last night in a tough battle against conference favourite Kazaam and the Miami Heat. With Vinsanity hardly contributing with just five points on 2 for 9 shooting, the win was fueled by the return of Donyell Marshall who added sixteen points to the (almost) full team effort. Marshall’s return adds size inside along with gifted outside shooting. The Raps will to continue their......
Continue Reading "Raptors Win, Vince Carter Loser"November 24, 2004
Apparently, when Vince Carter told reporters he wasn't going to dunk anymore, he was only referring to home games. Last night, VC was stuffing dunks left and right in a spirited effort against a team once known as the Washington Bullets. The Raptors lost, with Carter racking up a respectable 25 points in the game. A dunk late in the third quarter was, in fact, probably Carter's best dunk since winning the Slam Dunk competition......
Continue Reading "Carter Joking, Raps a Joke"