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Rosters of Toronto’s Sports Teams Echo the Diversity of the City
On June - 1 - 2010
It is a difficult point to try and measure how much the multiculturalism of Toronto affects the popularity of their sports teams, but it is an issue worth looking at.
Canada as a whole is known for its diversity, and Toronto is at the forefront of that. Toronto also leads Canada with the amount of professional sports teams that it supports; hockey, baseball, basketball, soccer, football and lacrosse.
So does Toronto's ethnic diversity allow the city to support certain teams that other cities could not? Or are these independent facts about Toronto completely unrelated?
Also, due to the diversity of the fan base ...
General Manager: The Most Desired Job in the World?
On May - 19 - 2010
30 million people all drafting players, making trades, and following sports news to jump on the latest hyped athlete. 30 million is a pretty sizable number, that is just about four million less than the population of Canada.
This is the estimated number of people that Wikipedia suggests played fantasy sports in North America.
That is a whole lot of people wanting to create a sports team in their own image, ones who think that their knowledge will allow them to create a team that will carry them to fantasy glory.
Think for a second about the ridiculous ...