The Coaches Association of Ontario issued its third annual report on youth sports in the province this week, flagging several issues including over-specialization, hazing, and poor communication between coaches and parents globalnews.ca/news/1154616...

As big, if not bigger, than Jay-Z and Linkin Park teaming up

Like most Americans, the Spurs' Lindy Waters III sees Thanksgiving as a time for food, family and fellowship. As a Native American, Waters' views on the holiday are ... complicated. Spoke with Waters about the proud heritage he literally wears on his sleeve: www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Gradey Dick just walked up the tunnel to the Raptors locker room after taking a hard spill on the court

Pacers point guard Andrew Nembhard is making the most of an off-day in his hometown of Toronto, donating a Shoot-A-Way basketball machine to the Malvern Family Resource Centre. We spoke last week about why it's important to him and his family to build community www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

Brandon Ingram dropped a season-high 37 points last night in a gutsy Raptors win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. But even then, it's Toronto's culture that Ingram says he's enjoying the most, particularly Darko Rajakovic's approach to coaching www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...

A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"

The few remaining fans here at Scotiabank Arena are doing the wave as the Toronto Raptors are sitting on a 28-point lead over the Washington Wizards

The Wizards record: 1-13 The Wizards from 3 tonight: 1-13

Some of us loved it!

This might be inside baseball, but... I'm finding a lot of PR folks are asking me what questions I intend to ask their clients in advance. This is generally frowned upon but, also, I genuinely don't know what I'm going to ask until maybe minutes beforehand. I'm just riffing, man

I kinda like these Christmas ornament helmets the Houston Texans are wearing

Not a unique take, but: Sports gambling has broken our brains. It's the least interesting lens through which to analyze sports, putting so much focus on the "what will happen/is happening" over "why will it happen/is it happening." It makes our conversations worse and less curious.

In this edition of Rating Best Pictures, @tylerharper.bsky.social and I watched 1950's All About Eve, a film whose best-known line was a punch line in cartoons I watched on old VHS tapes in the late 80s and early 90s. Once I pointed it out, Tyler was sure that's how he was also introed to it (1/7)

I am definitely not an expert, but I think the likeliest reason we're seeing more injuries now compared to many years ago is we are way better at identifying injuries.

It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

The big five, as they're called

Major Canadian landmarks will be lit up yellow tomorrow for motionball's #NoGoodWay Day, a campaign encouraging more inclusive language when speaking about people with intellectual disabilities. The CN Tower, Niagara Falls, ByWard Market and more will participate www.thestar.com/sports/motio...

Major Canadian landmarks will be lit up yellow tomorrow for motionball's #NoGoodWay Day, a campaign encouraging more inclusive language when speaking about people with intellectual disabilities. The CN Tower, Niagara Falls, ByWard Market and more will participate www.thestar.com/sports/motio...

Just like Dolly Parton, the Toronto Raptors are 9-5

BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.

Two of Canada's wealthiest families want to team up to make an $18 million bid for the royal charter that formed Hudson's Bay and then donate it to a group of museums to keep the historic document in the country and ensure its preservation. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cp-...

A new report says single adults need to make a higher hourly wage to live in Nelson than they would in metro Vancouver. The primary reason is the need for a vehicle.

Saw this at a sports bar in my neighbourhood today. So cool. Everyone watches women’s sports. #wnba

Reading "The Golden Generation" by @orenweisfeld.bsky.social taught me so much about the history of Canada's men's basketball team. It's an incredibly detailed book and I really enjoyed speaking to him about writing it www.timescolonist.com/national-spo...

Mark Wolf, a federal judge appointed by Reagan, is resigning after 40 years on the bench. In an essay published by The Atlantic this week, he wrote, “The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.”

Me, writing an email: I better craft three full paragraphs, with proper grammar and a few concluding bullet points, to make sure that my meaning is entirely clear. Rich people writing emails: "good to be.. well connect on that. ,, none can tell.try to say what and we know."

this dude helping his bro pick up his stick should be highlight of the night but our bloodthirsty sports media only feeds us conflict

Raptors 905 have allowed 94, 92, and 75 points this season, when the league average so far is 116. A ton of small sample noise in 3 G League games but that's a heck of a start.

Hudson's Bay has gifted several war memorials from its former stores to the Royal Canadian Legion and TD Bank Group. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/hud...

Justice for my fellow hyphenate! #FreeBeans

Kendrick Lamar ft. Joyce Carol Oates "Not Like Us REMIX"

An interesting speech was given at Nelson's Remembrance Day ceremony. A veteran of Afghanistan chastised the federal government for forgetting the contributions of CAF during that war, and called for improved mental health supports.

Reading Tyler's tweets made me realize that maybe Sabra is supposed to be typical of a left-leaning white woman who is not actually intersectionalist in her approach to feminism. IF that was the intention, it's actually quite progressive. A big if, though

A wild thing about this movie is that all the posters and such make the hilariously named Yancey Cravat out to be the hero but -- spoiler warning on a 95-year-old movie -- he's not in the second half of the film

Even the late Rob Babcock spent another 13 months with the Raptors after the Vince Carter trade. The Mavs are firing Nico Harrison NINE months after the Luka trade. Probably the 2 worst trades of my lifetime (not including some of the ones that didnt age well: Nets-Celts etc)

Nattie Neidhart is the last member of the Hart family dynasty to be wrestling in WWE. She recently wrote a memoir about how it feels being the last Hart standing, some of the misfortune that's followed her family, and how she remains optimistic www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Nattie Neidhart is the last member of the Hart family dynasty to be wrestling in WWE. She recently wrote a memoir about how it feels being the last Hart standing, some of the misfortune that's followed her family, and how she remains optimistic www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in: - A 46% false fraud rate - Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped - Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A Canadian hero. By @alexboyd.bsky.social www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

One of the surprising casualties of the trade war between Canada and the United States is the trading card hobby. PSA, the world's largest grading company, has officially opened a grading centre in Mississauga, Ont., to help Canadian collectors bypass hefty duties www.tsn.ca/nhl/article/...

According to Muckrack I have surpassed 25,000 bylines in my 16-year career. That can't possibly be right, since I know they count duplicates - my scheduled story that moved this morning counted for 42 bylines, for example - but it does feel momentous! I'm going to celebrate with a coffee and pastry

One of the surprising casualties of the trade war between Canada and the United States is the trading card hobby. PSA, the world's largest grading company, has officially opened a grading centre in Mississauga, Ont., to help Canadian collectors bypass hefty duties www.tsn.ca/nhl/article/...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

I know people are still mourning the Toronto Blue Jays' heartbreaking loss in the World Series but even as the players grieved in their Rogers Centre clubhouse they started to discuss what's next. After all, spring training is just five months away www.cbc.ca/sports/baseb...

The AGO might be a safer place.

Ernie Clement set the record for most hits in a single post-season, getting 30 over three playoff rounds for the Toronto Blue Jays. But he doesn't care. Clement cried in the clubhouse because the season is done and he won't get to see his teammates every day www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/spor...

It's a good thing it's daylight savings in two hours five minutes

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