This is will be an occasional segment where I will give my short, first-reaction opinions on many interesting ordeals in the world of sports. And by that I mean I’m too lazy to make a full post on any of these topics so here’s the Sparknotes version of each. NHL trade deadline day. I yet…
Welcome to the very first edition of the Go-Hard Sports Podcast. There is definitely a lot to improve on material-wise and recording/sounds-wise, but we promise to keep improving the more we do this. In this edition of the podcast we talk Olympic hockey, NBA trade deadline, Canadian basketball, Raptors, Indiana vs Miami, and a little…
Raptor fans should definitely be happy with this year’s surprising performance thus far. Sitting third in the east, four games above .500, they have recaptured the attention of the well-known hockey city. But when the Eastern conference gets mentioned, analysts, professionals, and avid fans regard the Heat and Pacers as the only two championship contenders.…
The Toronto Raptors have debatably been the most surprising team of the first half of the 2013-14 NBA season. After a weak start with a 6-12 record, the Raptors’ 2013-2014 season appeared to be another non-playoff year. However thanks reigning Executive of the Year, Masai Ujiri, the Raptors made a trade that propelled them in…
Often we hear the “top six” and “bottom six” in the lexicon of the NHL and its fan. This is the popular ideology that the top two lines of a team should be lines predicated on scoring goals, and the third and fourth lines should be lines filled with grind-it-out, aggressive fore-checking, defensively specialized, energy…
So I’m watching the Raptors game last night, and the Raptors are just straight up getting dominated. Through the first 3 quarters they couldn’t make a shot for their lives. DeMarcus Cousins was being his beastly self and just owning them on the boards at both ends of the court. Also I couldn’t believe how…
We, in Leaf nation, tend to undervalue our own players and overvalue players from other teams. We have this “grass is always greener” state of mind as Leaf fans. We can probably attribute this to continuous underachieving from our team the last 10 years, which included 9 years-2004 to 2013-without playoff hockey in our city.…
Life is great for Canadian basketball fans right now. The Toronto Raptors have the third-most wins in the eastern conference with 26. The number of Canadian players in the NBA has grown again this year with Kelly Olynyk and Anthony Bennett being selected in last year’s draft. In the NCAA Canadians are making huge contributions…
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