Image of Leo Rautins Inks Two More Years to Canada Basketball Contract

Leo Rautins Inks Two More Years to Canada Basketball Contract

Leo Rautins the current Head Coach of Canada’s Senior Men's Basketball Team has been awarded a 2-year contract extension despite the team’s inability to earn a win at the recently completed 2010 FIBA ...

Image of Leo Rautins: Is it all his fault?

Leo Rautins: Is it all his fault?

in the one step forward, two steps back habit of basketball in Canada, the first men’s national team to make it to the world championships in eight years is very likely to return home without a win. ...

Image of Leo Rautins Finalizes Team Canada 2010 FIBA World Championship Roster

Leo Rautins Finalizes Team Canada 2010 FIBA World Championship Roster

Leo Rautins Head Coach of Canada's National team decided to send home point guard Tyler Kepkay and forward Kyle Landry. Rautins had tough decisions to make due to various injuries to key players. The ...

Image of Banged up Canada needs to get healthy ahead of 2010 FIBA World Championships

Banged up Canada needs to get healthy ahead of 2010 FIBA World Championships

Coach Leo Rautins just wants his Canadian men’s national basketball team to be in good health when they reach the world championship in Turkey at the end of the month. Topping the list of concerns ...

Image of Greece smacks Canada by 74 points (123-49) in international basketball exhibition

Greece smacks Canada by 74 points (123-49) in international basketball exhibition

Canada’s preparations for the FIBA world basketball championship took a big hit Tuesday after the men’s team lost 123-49 in an exhibition game against Greece. “It was a tough game against a very st...

Image of Andy Rautins sharp as Canada passes early test against China

Andy Rautins sharp as Canada passes early test against China

rior to Tuesday night’s exhibition game against China at Rogers Arena, Canada’s national basketball team had only been playing together for a grand total of six days. But right from the opening tip-of...

Image of Canada cannot wait for 2010 FIBA World Championshis to start

Canada cannot wait for 2010 FIBA World Championshis to start

Canada will return to a FIBA World Championship for the first time in eight years at the end of the month and the players cannot wait to get going. Canada failed to qualify for both the 2004 Olympi...

Image of Andy Rautins is following his father footsteps to glory

Andy Rautins is following his father footsteps to glory

There was a time when Andy Rautins was accused of getting many things from his father. His fashion sense was not one of them. But as Rautins, the point guard for Canada's national basketball team p...

Image of Canada begins preparation for Turkey 2010 world basketball tournament

Canada begins preparation for Turkey 2010 world basketball tournament

There will be few who think Canada will make much noise at the world basketball champions later this month. But it hasn’t stopped the confidence from building within the group that begins its final...

Refocused Denham Brown back in Team Canada spotlight

Two years ago, when the Canadian men's basketball team gathered at the Air Canada Centre to prepare for the Olympic qualifying tournament, Denham Brown was a no-show. Last week, at the senior men's...

Official 2010 Canada Basketball Develpoment Team Rosters

Canada Basketball officially unveiled on Friday the final roster for the Development Men’s National Team (DMNT) that will be competing in several exhibition games in Europe this summer. From July 17–A...

Image of Canada's National Hoops Team to battle China in Vancouver

Canada's National Hoops Team to battle China in Vancouver

Tyler Kepkay was 15 and a multi-sport athlete when he saw Canada play China in a men's basketball international at GM Place in 2002 and decided that maybe hoops should be his career path. "That was...