Name any sport … losing comes naturally to Toronto’s teams

TORONTO — Calamity has become ingrained in Toronto sports over the last two decades. Here is a look at the depths of that despair:

Toronto Argonauts

They are the only major team in the city to win a league championship this century, doing it twice, in 2004 and again in 2012. The problem with the Argos has generally been off the field. They went bankrupt in 2003 when their New York-based owner stopped paying the bills, raising concern the franchise would fold. It has not folded, but neither has it found solid ground.

As of this writing, the Argos were still facing the prospect of homelessness. Their lease at Rogers Centre expires in 2017, and a move into BMO Field, a soccer stadium by the shore of Lake Ontario, is likely their last hope.

Toronto Raptors

They were supposed to be the good team, an island of success in Toronto’s roiling sea of failure. This year, the Raptors won a franchisebest 49 games and, despite faltering in the final few weeks, had home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

They were swept — nearly swept from the face of the earth, losing the fourth and final game by 31 points on Sunday. The Raptors have not won a seven-game playoff series in their 20 years in the NBA.

Toronto FC

This is the team’s ninth season in Major League Soccer, and it has never qualified for the playoffs. Toronto is on its ninth head coach. Jermain Defoe, the English star signed as part of a $100-million rebuild last year, is gone. The cause? He was allegedly homesick.

Toronto FC has won two of its first six games this season.

Toronto Blue Jays

Someone born after the most recent Blue Jays playoff game is old enough to drive, to buy alcohol, to vote and to know Joe Carter only through old television highlights. It has been almost 22 years since the Blue Jays appeared in the playoffs, giving the team not only the longest post-season drought in baseball, but in all of the major North American leagues.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Two years from now, the Leafs will likely reach two major milestones, but they will only celebrate one of them. In 2017, the team will reach its centennial. The year will also mark the 50th birthday of Toronto’s most recent Stanley Cup parade.

The Leafs own the longest Stanley Cup drought in the league. They have missed the post-season in nine of the last 10 seasons, their lone breakthrough coming two years ago, in a lockoutshortened season. They lost in the first round — surrendering a three-goal lead in the third period of Game 7.

No Canadian team has won the NHL title since 1993, but several have at least made an appearance.

The Leafs have already fired two head coaches this year. They have issued one-year bans to at least three angry fans caught throwing jerseys onto the ice during play.