Who Loses as Online Betting Takes Over Sports?
Gambling on sports used to be tightly controlled. Now the floodgates have been flung open
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Toronto Is Canada’s Basketball Centre, but You Can’t Always See That in Its Courts
Thanks to the Raptors, basketball has never been so popular. But the lack of high-quality facilities tells a troubling story
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Sports under Quarantine
With the closure of arenas, a sports fan laments the loss of community
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Raptors, Race, and Belonging
How the 2019 NBA championship helped create a vision for a new nation
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Fanboy Drake Is the Raptors’ Ultimate Antihero
Why we love (and hate) to watch the rapper cheer his hometown team at the NBA finals
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How Basketball Became Part of First Nations Culture
For decades, BC banned potlatches and other traditions. Some young athletes found another way to bring their communities together
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DeMar DeRozan Doesn’t Care What You Think of Him
How The Raptor’s best player built an all-star career on obsolete skills
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When Toronto Turned Its Back on Vince Carter
A new TIFF documentary reveals the impossible expectations we place on our star athletes
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The Raptors Belong to Toronto, Not Canada
No sports franchise is more wrapped up in the city it represents. So far, it’s a lucrative strategy
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Basketball Blues
Why the Toronto Raptors stink
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