Category: Basketball

Steve Nash wins, and poor Jose Calderon loses – again

So it turns out that all-world point guard Steve Nash isn’t going to be a Toronto Raptor next year. Boo hoo. Wonky back and all, the 38-year-old received a contract offer from the Raptors reportedly worth $36 million over three years, but ultimately signed with the Los...

LeBron deserves to win a title

God help me, but I feel like I’m rooting for the devil himself. I’m hoping that LeBron James and his Miami Heat prevail in this year’s NBA Finals. The reason? I want LeBron to win a championship. He’s the best player in the game, bar none –...

Of wilted wild roses and elbows to the back of the head

Alberta, it turns out, isn’t the out and out redneck haven that some of us easterners might have thought it was. And it looks like Alberta’s Progressive Conservative dynasty will live to fight another day. I was going to write about how Premier Alison Redford and...

Competitive basketball saved our son

I never thought I’d hear myself say this, or see myself write it, but team sports have truly saved my kid’s life. Really. Without team sports, he’d probably be an insecure, angry mess who might have been kicked out of his Jewish day school, a result...

Linsanity and some personal soul-searching on race

The New York Knicks and Asian-American rookie phenom Jeremy Lin were in town last week to play the Toronto Raptors, and it led me to some personal soul-searching on race, particularly when it comes to Asians and Asian-Americans and Canadians. By now, many of you already know Lin’s...