MRT: Episode 1 – Canadian Basketball

Eugenie Bouchard and ‘Twirlgate’

Tennis has an issue with double standards, and this became quite evident at the Australian Open in what is regrettably being called ‘Twirlgate.’ On-court reporter Ian Cohen asked Eugenie Bouchard to “give us a twirl and tell us about your outfit.” Caught off-guard,...
MRT: Episode 1 – Canadian Basketball

Canadian tennis year in review

Canada has not been known as a hotbed of tennis but after a spate of successes on the men’s and women’s professional tours, that may be changing. On the women’s side, 2014 saw the meteoric rise of singles player Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que. She entered the...

Bar raised this year for Raptors

At the quarter-mark of last season, the Toronto Raptors looked like a team going nowhere. They sat six games under .500 and had just traded away Rudy Gay, their best and highest paid player. The Raptors had every appearance of a team willing to tank the entire season...