Saturday’s game marked the halfway point of the season for the Toronto Raptors. A tight loss to Philadelphia on the second end of a back-to-back leaves the Raptors at an acceptable 22-19 mark. For the benefit of those rusty on their math skills (probably all of you), that’s a 44-38 pace for the season that [...]
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Toronto Raptors Mid-Season Review
Posted: 22nd January 2008 by Blake Murphy in Blake Murphy, NBA Ball8
An Olympic Silver Medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. A 121-13 career amateur record. Professional titles in four different weight classes. A 52-4 career professional record. That sounds like the resume of one of the greatest fighters of all time, doesn’t it? Then why is it Roy Jones Jr. has fallen from the [...]
Here it is, my first shot at writing a blog of any sort in some time. The topic today, obviously, is the recent Blue Jays-Cardinals third basemen swap. The Jays acquired Scott Rolen and $4M for Troy Glaus and $1.8M. I’m going to try and break this down as best I can, but don’t even [...]