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Bassil Thayabeh
Bassil is a sports journalist covering the latest in sports news for VAVEL USA, predominantly over seeing the Toronto franchises and other Canadian sports. Bassil has also featured for United Report and FutbolPulse.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs announced Saturday morning that the club have let go of five staff members. The Leafs finished 26th and are expected to e...
Some early runs from both teams resulted in a short day for the starters, but the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Baltimore Orioles 10-7 in a battle of bullpens Sun...
Manchester United finally beat Manchester City in the derby after four consecutive defeats. The home side struggled early but managed to come out 4-2 winners. This result pu...
The Toronto Maple Leafs are expected to waste no time in getting their rebuild in full flight. After another disappointing season, management is set to pull the strings....
After 12 hard fought rounds from both fighters in Brooklyn, New York, the fight was decided by the judges. Both won one scorecard a piece, however, the final judge ruled a 113-113 draw....
Garcia beat Peterson Saturday night in Brooklyn, New York before a record crowd at the Barclays Centre. The fight was close as it narrowly came down to a majority decision i...
The Montreal Canadiens edged the Maple Leafs in a shootout Saturday night 4-3, to clinch the Atlantic Division crown. Montreal now get set to pla...
The Baltimore Orioles rebounded from a 12-5 defeat to win big 7-1 against the Blue Jays Saturday night. Ubaldo Jimenez was great on the mound for...
Mats Hummels has been linked with a move to Manchester United for quite some time, but the latest comments from Jurgen Klopp have added fuel to the rumours of his move....
Ottawa Fury FC were on an Air Canada Jazz plane headed to Atlanta Friday evening when a passenger on board attacked the forward. Local police along with the FBI...
The Toronto Blue Jays' bats flying start to the season continued Friday afternoon as they got to Orioles pitching early to win big at Camden Yards to spoil the O's home opener....
The Toronto Blue Jays got to CC Sabathia early and defeated the New York Yankees to win their opening series of the season. Rookie pitcher Daniel...
United have just won one Manchester derby from the past seven. Although the supporters still think 'Manchester is Red', their 'noisy neighbours a...
The Baltimore Orioles announced that they have released back catcher J.P. Arencibia after signing him to a minor league contract with an invitation to Spring Training in January of this year...
Manchester United midfielder Angel Di Maria has struggled with his form and off field issues this season and has not been in the starting lineup in recent weeks. However, with the Manchester...
The New York Yankees left it late to make a comeback and defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 Wednesday night. Down 3-1 in the eighth, with the help of some bad Blue Jays pitchi...
The Columbus Blue Jackets were big 5-0 winners against the Toronto Maple Leafs Wednesday night. The Blue Jackets scored three goals in the first period and did not look back...
Real Madrid got off to a poor start against Madrid rivals Rayo Vallecano, but managed to come out with the three points. Madrid remain four points back of Barce...
During Tuesday night's CONCACAF Champions League semifinal game against Alajuelense, Dominic Oduro claims he was racially abused while goalkeeper Evan Bush had a coin t...
Toronto FC has announced a friendly with English club Manchester City at the end of the May. Toronto has previously played host to Real Madrid and Liverpool FC....
The young Toronto Blue Jays pitcher suffered a torn ACL in spring training that ruled him out for the entire 2015 season. However, following a re...
League One side Notts County have confirmed the appointment of former Hamburg caretaker Ricardo Moniz as their new manager. Moniz takes over the job from interi...
Bilbao's Iker Muniain is out for 6-7 months with a cruciate ligament. The winger suffered the injury in Saturday's 2-0 loss against La ...
The Real Madrid star picked up a 'bang' in his team's training session on Tuesday and will be a doubt for the trip to Rayo as his side try to close the gap on...
Despite a disappointing season for both the goaltender and the team, Bernier insists he would like to remain with the Leafs beyond this summer and help the team through their 'rebuild&#...
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