{"id":863561,"date":"2026-08-19T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863561\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:12:11","slug":"tempo-unveil-dot-the-arctic-hare-and-dez-the-snapping-turtle-as-mascots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863561\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempo unveil Dot the Arctic Hare and Dez the Snapping Turtle as mascots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An arctic hare and a snapping turtle are the new faces of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/toronto-tempo\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-tempo\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Tempo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lone Canadian WNBA franchise unveiled Dot the Arctic Bear and Dez the Snapping Turtle as the team&#8217;s two official mascots on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The mascots were revealed during halftime of the Tempo&#8217;s game against the Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo are in the midst of their inaugural season and now have two figures that will be forever associated with the team. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the beginning, we wanted our mascots to feel distinctly Tempo \u2013 rooted in who we are as a Canadian team,\u201d Tempo chief marketing officer Whitney Bell wrote in a statement. \u201cDez and Dot have completely different personalities, but\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0better together. One knows when to slow things down, the other knows when to turn the energy all the way up. That balance felt like such a natural expression of Tempo, and we\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0wait for our fans to get to know them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo provided descriptions of their two new mascots:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dez (she\/they)\u00a0is a Borealis Blue Snapping Turtle from Muskoka, Ontario.\u00a0Their\u00a0name is inspired by\u00a0decibel,\u00a0a nod to\u00a0their\u00a0love of music and role as the more measured half of the duo. Dez is calm,\u00a0clever\u00a0and always thinking a few steps\u00a0ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Taurus who spins the 1s and 2s in\u00a0their\u00a0spare time, Dez\u2019s secret talent is snapping \u2013 they also have\u00a0a particular fondness for soft shell tacos.<\/p>\n<p>Dot (she\/her)\u00a0is an Arctic Hare named for Toronto\u2019s longtime nickname, T-Dot. Originally from the Arctic Circle, she brings\u00a0seemingly endless\u00a0energy,\u00a0acrobatics\u00a0and enthusiasm to everything she does \u2013 making her the undisputed hype woman of the pair.<\/p>\n<p>A Gemini whose hobbies can best be described as &#8216;hops and hype,&#8217; Dot loves cotton candy,\u00a0Drive to Survive, and any opportunity to get the crowd on its feet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arctic hare and a snapping turtle are the new faces of the Toronto Tempo. The lone Canadian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-863561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}