| This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from | | | | played back in the day.” For the curious, a new |
| TorontoIAM where you will find the best blogs from | | | | season is just about to begin.” You'll be |
| Toronto, Ontario as well as video uploads, social | | | | hard-pressed to find more fun indoors this |
| networking, rumors, and blog authoring | | | | winter.” |
| Raptors Need Bosh to Keep up His Pace | | | | Menu For Hope Raises Money for World Food |
| The latest on gives us a pre-game post on the | | | | Programme |
| Raptors (14-11) game tonight against the Clippers (9-14). | | | | Sheryl Kirby on Taste T.O. reminds us that there is still |
| After a “tough loss” to the Boston Celtics, | | | | time to bid over at “Menu for Hope,” |
| the Toronto Raptors took off for L.A. “This will | | | | which is an annual fundraiser created by Pim of food |
| be the first game of seven on the road for the | | | | blog Chez Pim. “All monies donated through the |
| Raptors who’ll play again on Wednesday | | | | Menu For Hope raffle go to the UN World Food |
| against the upstart Portland Trailblazers.” | | | | Programme, specifically to school lunch programs in |
| Toronto played horribly against Boston, shooting | | | | the country of Lesotho.” Kirby herself has |
| “a dismal 39% [with] season lows in points (77), | | | | donated a package to the event and has added |
| field goals (28), field goal attempts (78) and assists | | | | another item, “a $25 gift certificate to The Big |
| (16).” The only positive was Chris Bosh, who | | | | Ragu. |
| had “his eleventh double-double of the | | | | Kirby is one of many food bloggers from around the |
| season.” | | | | world who have donated prizes, she states in her post. |
| In the post, our blogger reports that “the Clippers | | | | Anyone can buy a ticket online for $10US. After |
| have struggled so far this season without their | | | | ordering tickets, bidders specify which prizes they |
| franchise player Elton Brand,” whose ruptured | | | | want their tickets applied to.” Kirby’s prize |
| Achilles may keep him out for the entire season. For | | | | is a “culinary tour of Toronto in the form of gift |
| Toronto, “Chris Bosh has been on fire since | | | | certificates to a variety of local shops and |
| returning from injury” with four double-doubles in | | | | restaurants.” All the information and links are |
| the last five games. However, since returning from his | | | | listed in her post. |
| injury, “Andrea Bargnani has only scored 10 | | | | Toronto Says Farewell to Popular Bike Shop |
| points” and TJ Ford is “expected to miss | | | | From Biking Toronto we get a sad farewell to another |
| his fourth straight game with a neck/back | | | | bicycle shop. Our blogger writes that “it seems |
| injury.” The Raptors are on the road for seven | | | | weird that while more and more Torontonians are |
| games, all of them against Western Conference | | | | choosing their bikes for urban commuting, we've now |
| teams. “The Raptors swept the season series | | | | had two stores close in a little over a month.” |
| against the Clippers last year.” | | | | Last month saw the closing of Cavern Cycles and |
| Dodgeball is All Grown Up | | | | now Bicycle Specialties (in the Bermondsey and |
| Blogging for the Torontoist, Stephen Johns gives us | | | | O'Connor area) is “closing their doors for |
| the scoop on Toronto’s “dodgeball” | | | | good” this Saturday, Dec. 22nd. |
| phenomenon. After the release of Ben Stiller’s | | | | According to the post, 69-year-old Mike Barry is |
| movie Dodgeball in 2004, “someone at the | | | | “calling it quits” after 38 years of selling |
| Toronto Central Sport & Social Club had a brilliant | | | | and fixing bikes. “I want to spend more time with |
| idea” and decided to start up their first-ever | | | | my family,” says Barry. “My son is a |
| dodgeball league. “The goal was to get six | | | | professional cyclist and he lives in Spain with his wife |
| teams; they ended up with twenty-four. Three years | | | | and children. My wife and I would love to visit them |
| later they've got 110; that works out to about 1,100 | | | | more often, and do some riding of our own.” |
| participants,” which is quite an impressive | | | | Barry states that he also has an impressive vintage |
| number “for a sport which the TCSSC originally | | | | bike collection and will now spend time restoring them. |
| envisioned as a kind of joke.” | | | | TorontoIAM is part of a groundbreaking network of |
| Johns, a member of the original league, writes in his | | | | city-focused blog aggregation, user generated media |
| post that adult dodgeball is a “full-blooded | | | | and social networking websites currently rolling out |
| sport,” and not the game of childhood memories. | | | | across North America. Each IAM website filters and |
| There have been strained muscles, broken fingers, and | | | | organizes blog content as well as offering video |
| high emotions. “We even witnessed an actual | | | | upload capabilities, social networking, blog authoring, |
| fistfight between competitors.” In the end, he | | | | favourites lists and rumours. The IAM Network is a |
| states, the “original spirit remains.” It might | | | | division of SoMedia Networks Inc which also operates |
| be played quicker and the balls might travel a lot faster, | | | | Inveslogic.com, Greenedia. |
| but “it's refreshingly similar to the game we | | | | |