There isn’t anything that can be said or written about Roy Halladay that would better describe what he meant to Toronto than remembering that when he was traded at his own request from the Blue Jays — after 12 seasons and 287 starts for teams that ranged from dreadful to hopefully mediocre — the fan…

One dream has been put on hold. Another is about to begin. A day after the Florida Panthers returned Owen Tippett to the Ontario Hockey League, the 10th overall pick in this year’s draft was back practising with the Mississauga Steelheads on Tuesday. If he was bitter or disappointed, he didn’t show it. Instead, Tippett…

LOS ANGELES — The tiny sport plane Roy Halladay was flying Tuesday when he fatally crashed into the Gulf of Mexico was made for entry-level pilots like him, although the plane’s chief designer and test pilot died flying one earlier this year. Halladay, the 40-year-old former Blue Jays and Phillies pitcher, had been the proud…

Roy Halladay never threw a pitch in the World Series. He expected this to bother him, someday. For most of his dozen years with the Toronto Blue Jays, Halladay was probably the best pitcher in baseball, and only a trade to the Philadelphia Phillies could bring him to the post-season. He made it twice, in…

TORONTO — When the Rogers Centre has been thrumming and shaking in recent years, when the stadium has been packed with fans reacquainting themselves with the terrors of playoff baseball, and the soaring highs, crashing lows and one majestically flipped bat, the thought would come to mind: man, Roy Halladay would have absolutely loved this.…