Bill Manning, who has served as president of Toronto FC of the MLS and the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL, has mutually agreed to part ways with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, the teams’ parent company. Manning — who previously held roles with the Tampa Bay Mutiny, Houston Rockets, Philadelphia Eagles and Real Salt Lake — was named president of …
The Toronto Raptors pushed back Monday night against the New York Knicks in their dispute over accusations of stolen video files, saying that the Knicks wrongly want the case in federal court rather than NBA arbitration to embarrass the rival team. “And they would have sought immediate relief from the Commissioner — who could have ruled before the season even …
By Mike Vorkunov, Eric Koreen and Fred Katz Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the Toronto Raptors, responded loudly Monday to the lawsuit it is facing from the New York Knicks with a strong denial in a federal court filing in the Southern District of New York. “As the Knicks surely expected and presumably intended, the filing …
On Monday, the New York Knicks filed a lawsuit against the Toronto Raptors and their parent organization, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, alleging that one of the Knicks’ former employees took proprietary information to his new job in Toronto under the direction of Raptors head coach Darko Rajaković. The suit alleges the Raptors lured Ikechukwu “Ike” Azotam, the Knicks’ former …
