January 2008 51
The first word (from Turkey) – Euroleague news
Some European news outlets like newspapers do publish their news in English. Thanks to a huge fan base for basketball, they also publish articles about their Euroleague teams and I think this should be published.
Monday's cigarettes
The new method to announce your club management that you leave your team is the SMS. Larry Ayuso did that with his actual Euroleague team Cibona Zagreb. Marcus Brown is investing in the stock market and is a beauty consultant to Michael Bradley James White is finally having some impact in the Euroleague. He is […]
Euroleague Top16: They did not make it
With just one more game day to play in the preliminary round of this years Euroleague, we already know most of the teams that did not make it. With Prokom Trefl Sopot (Poland), Virtus Vidivici Bologna (Italy), Zagreb Cibona (Croatia), Armani Jeans Milano (Italy),Le Mans (France), Partizan Ikogea Belgrade (Serbia), Chorale Roanne (France) and Brose […]
Euroleague Final Four already sold out
It did not take long for the Euroleague to announce the Madrid event to be sold out. 72hrs were enough for finding enough people to pay between 100€ and 500€ for the tickets.
Chris Kaman could be German
If you have read our post about words for Europeans, one guy would perfectly fit to be European: Chris Kaman! Just thinking about words like – hair, growing ..
European basketball in just ONE word
I am very fortunate to be on an email list with the best bloggers in the US. From time to time a person has an issue and it will be discussed within that group. Maybe this email list will one day develop into a basketball blogger summit – who knows. The other day I thought: […]
109-5 or how to resume a horror night in Euroleague
This was the end result in Ranking points of tonight’s Euroleague game between Partizan Belgrade and Brose Baskets Bamberg. Of course, it was a must win for Belgrade to move to the Top 16 and it was a game without interest for the Germans. But this was really a shame. Luckily, I did not see […]
A whole club goes bankrupt (UPDATE)
[SEE END OF POST FOR AN UPDATE] Today, we got the surprising and disastrous news about the insolvency of the German basketball team Cologne 99ers. The ULEB Cup participant and former German Champion from 2006 will stop immediately his basketball operations and all its players and employees will be released.Their ULEB Cup game tonight will […]
Oh no: Spain is getting serious!!!
Despite all the organizational problems that the Spanish federation has faced this summer with the U18 European Championship and the Eurobasket, the FEB is becoming serious in what some fans may have considered as a joke or a threat. Spain wants to organize the Basketball World Championship in 2014.
Build your own team
We have a lot of fans of Manager games like the Euroleague Fantasy Challenge or the ACB Supermanager. But now this all comes to reality. A Bulgarian basketball team tries to copy the concept of myfootballclub that has been realized in England. So if you want to become a manager of a professional basketball team, […]
Monday's cigarettes
The French newspaper l’Equipe reported about a "shoe war" about Nicolas Batum. Nike was apparently furious about the French prospect to have worn Adidas sneakers in the second half of the French All-Star game after having played the first twenty minutes with Nike sneakers We talked already about some big men on the move. Nikola […]