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Published Jun 28, 2025 • Last updated 7 minutes ago • 3 minute read
South Carolina basketball star Chloe Kitts attended the 2025 NBA Draft.
South Carolina basketball star Chloe Kitts attended the 2025 NBA Draft. Twitter
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Girlfriend of Raptors top pick steals the show at NBA Draft
South Carolina’s Collin Murray-Boyles may have made headlines after appearing to drop an F-bomb when the Toronto Raptors selected him as their ninth-overall pick, but it was his girlfriend who stole the show at the NBA Draft.
Chloe Kitts is a basketball star in her own right at USC, and she helped the Gamecocks win the NCAA championship in 2023.
But when NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced Murray-Boyles’s name for Toronto, it was Kitts who became an instant sensation online for those not yet aware of her, Dan Bilicki reported.
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But there are more than 255,000 who already know her, based on her Instagram following — which is about 10 times more than her boyfriend boasts. For now.
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An empty swimming pool. (iStock/Getty Images) Photo by iStock /GETTY IMAGES
WARMINGTON: Only in Toronto would swimming pools be closed because it’s too hot
For those who don’t want to relive the scorching temperatures Ontario and Quebec experienced last week, we understand.
But for those who did live through it, especially people in Toronto, you can remember just how much you wanted to cool off — but couldn’t.
Because Torontonians who wanted to dive into any of the city’s outdoor pools were not allowed after they were closed due to it being too hot, Joe Warmington reported.
Only in Toronto!
Former Toronto Blue Jays reliever Richard 'Dicky' Lovelady delivers a pitch earlier this year.
Former Toronto Blue Jays reliever Richard ‘Dicky’ Lovelady delivers a pitch earlier this year. (Getty Images) Getty Images
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A former Toronto Blue Jays reliever has just signed with the New York Mets — but as part of the Queens bullpen, he wants to be known as something else, Bilicki reported.
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Richard Lovelady, you are out! And in your place, may we present Dicky Lovelady.
The left-handed pitcher made the request of going by his nickname upon joining the team, and yes, he will be Dicky Lovelady from here on out.
As you may have guessed, the fans went wild.
Toronto Maple Leafs' Mitch Marner speaks to the media in the practice dressing room facility during exit interviews.
Toronto Maple Leafs’ Mitch Marner speaks to the media in the practice dressing room facility during exit interviews. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network) Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network
Mitch Marner’s Maple Leafs breakup: How it got here and where it’s going
After Mitch Marner’s first game as a Maple Leaf, he acknowledged that he needed to work out some jitters and make improvements to be the kind of player he wanted to be — which he eventually did … during the regular season.
But after nine years, his tenure with Toronto could be done next week.
Terry Koshan looked at Marner’s career in blue and white — from his humble beginnings to rad regular seasons to paltry playoff showings.
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Global Affairs Canada spent over $3 million on alcohol since 2019
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Former PM, GAC’s $51K-per-month booze bill tops annual goverment waste awards
Have you got your calculator ready? Okay, start tallying.
Global Affairs Canada’s $51,000-per-month booze bill. A $65,000 phone line to call a river. And a $77,000 provincial government travel junket that resulted in travel ads insisting Saint John was New Brunswick’s capital.
Those are just some of the winners of this year’s Teddy Waste Awards, an annual “celebration” of government waste held by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Bryan Passifiume reported.
And those were just a drop in the bucket of the “winners.” The runners-up were almost as bad.
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