A Day, A Week, Hemant, A Year

Here’s another crazy Toronto Raptors conspiracy theory that I have concocted. On Tuesday, November 28th, the Raps played the New Orleans Hornets and blasted them 94 - 77. It was quite a win. Since I wasn’t able to watch the game I was looking forward to seeing the highlights. While having breakfast the following morning and watching CBC News : Morning, Colleen Jones got into her sports coverage. As usual the hockey scores were at the top of the bill, followed by some NFL highlights. Within a few minutes the sports portion came to an end with no basketball scores. It didn’t really surprise me. Nothing fishy yet.

Later that chilly November night the Raps faced the Mavericks in Dallas. Despite a decent effort, the dinos fell to this western powerhouse. The following morning as I went through my usual routine and watched CBC New : Morning before heading to work, Colleen Jones got into her sports highlights once again. She made her way through hockey scores and to my surprise she got into the Raptor / Mavs highlights from the night before. “Isn’t that odd”, I thought to myself. They didn’t show highlights from the Raps game they won a couple nights ago, but covered the loss from last night.

For those who follow the NBA, you probably know that Toronto got off to a slow start, but really started to heat up as the season progressed. Actually they weren’t that far off of first place in the Atlantic division. The team had a big weekend coming up. Friday and Saturday night the team would face two weak teams in the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks respectively. If they could win both games, they would find themselves in second place. First place would be theirs alone if the New Jersey Nets happened to lose.

The stars were almost completely aligned. The Raps managed to win both games, propelling them to second place. The Nets also happened to win, so they remained in the top-spot. Despite this, no one could take anything away from the turn-around the Raptors had made. Monday morning rolled around and I found myself sitting on the couch, eating breakfast and watching CBC News : Morning once again. Surely Colleen Jones would be highlighting the roll the dinos were on. Hockey highlights. Swimming highlights (yeah, swimming highlights). NFL highlights. Then to the weather. What?

Once again following a Raptors win (actually two) the CBC skipped over the story. Could it be that they only cover the team when they lose? Is their a hidden agenda? Is the CBC trying to make sports fans think that the Raptors are continuing down the horrific path of terribleness that has plagued them the last few years? Is it possible that the CBC, home of Hockey Night in Canada, is hoping to take credibility away from Canada’s only professional basketball team? You decide.