Joy Drop: It was a great week for mothers and their athletic offspring
Hello! Hello! As the week draws to an end, there are some great movements and stories building this week in the world of sports and beyond.
I love family stories about legacies. So we begin this week's happy online notebook entry at the World Aquatics Championships happening in Budapest.
Canada has done brilliantly and won several medals at the swimming championships.
One such anchor of success is 15-year-old Summer MacIntosh, who hails from Toronto. Her connection to swimming started decades ago with her mother, Jill Horstead, who competed on the world's stage in the same event as her daughter — the 200-meter butterfly.
CBC Sports put together a fantastic clip for fans of the pair.
The NBA draft was on Thursday night and Canada pulled up. Montreal's Bennedict Mathurin was taken sixth by the Indiana Pacers. Mathurin's draft day outfit was inspired by family.
"family is everything for me." <a href="https://twitter.com/BennMathurin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BennMathurin</a> explains the special meaning behind his draft night fit. <a href="https://t.co/tggXB39Tmq">pic.twitter.com/tggXB39Tmq</a>
My dear friend Chris Curtis is a journalist in Montreal. This week he published a great story about how basketball in Québec is thriving even though the province is sometimes pigeonholed as hockey only.
Shaedon Sharpe from London, Ont., was selected seventh by the Portland Trailblazers. And Sharpe was happy to tell TSN's Kayla Grey how Canada is going to be more on the map moving forward.
“We're putting Canada