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WNBA names Top 15 of All-Time; so how about the greatest Euroleague Women's list…?

In advance of last weekend’s all-star game, the WNBA released its list of the 15 greatest players to ever play in the league. The official list runs as follows:

11 years ago 5 More

Letter to WADA from Fenerbahçe fans: Free Taurasi!

Diana Taurasi may be facing a two-year ban from competition outside the United States and has already been released from Fenerbahçe, but some of her fans in Turkey aren’t giving up the fight to get allegations of doping overturned. The following letter was recently sent to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) by an unnamed group […]

12 years ago 1 More

Diana Taurasi flunks drug test, suspended in Turkey

Perhaps a worrisome Christmas it’ll be for women’s basketball great Diana Taurasi and backers of her Fenerbahçe side. In the wee hours of the morning, ESPN reported that a drug test on Taurasi had come back positive for an unspecified illegal stimulant. Said Taurasi’s lawyer Howard Jacobs, “We’re taking it one step at a time,” […]

12 years ago 1 More

FIBA Women’s Worlds: USA takes title, Czechs’ run “a dream”

Congratulations this morning from BallinEurope to both the USA’s and the Czech Republic’s women’s teams after last night’s FIBA World Championship final. The Stars and Stripes overcame the homers, 89-69, but the Czechs can certainly take pride in a fine tournament performance. Hana Horokova was named tournament MVP. Official FIBA writeup follows.

12 years ago 2 More

FIBA Women’s World Championship: Giants cruise, pool play ends today

Another full slate of games is going on today in the Czech Republic with the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women entering game three of pool play. Team Canada and Team Japan managed to turn in the first surprises of the tournament yesterday in overcoming China and Argentina, respectively, but otherwise it seems like business […]

12 years ago 3 More

The case for Diana Taurasi to win the ESPY

“They give out awards for everything these days. ‘Greatest Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler’…” – Woody Allen, Annie Hall What? You hadn’t heard that the annual ESPN ESPY Awards for Excellence in American Sport is running tonight? Well, now you know. And while shows such as these offer little in the way of relevance – quick: […]

12 years ago More

Istanbul not Constantinople: Ratgeber wants to rock Fenerbahce

BallinEurope so rarely gets to write about basketball issues from home base Hungary, so it was quite cheering to see a little coverage of László Ratgeber, new coach of Fenerbahçe Istanbul’s Euroleague Women’s team, on FIBA.com. “Just ‘YouTube’ Laszlo Ratgeber and see what comes up,” encourages writer Jeff Taylor. Readers of this website know BiE […]

13 years ago More

Weekend video wrap: El Classico, Nike Hoop Summit, EL Women final, BBL Cup

For The Continent, quite a bit of important basketball action went down this weekend. In the ‘States, the best of Team USA faced off against the world in the Nike Hoop Summit game; in Spain, arguably the two best women’s teams on the planet meet for the FIBA Euroleague Women final; the German domestic league […]

13 years ago 4 More

Euroleague Women’s semifinals: Four teams, four stories

The 2009-10 Euroleague Women final four games go down tonight, with Spartak Moscow region facing off against UMMC Ekaterinburg and Ros Casares meeting Wisla Can-Pack. BallinEurope offers a few tidbits and links to prep you for some ladies’ b-ball. For Wisla Can-Pack, the story is the team itself. To describe this team’s 2009-10 Euroleague campaign […]

13 years ago More

Good Angel Dupree falls from Sky, lands in Phoenix

Representatives of the WNBA and the Phoenix Mercury have announced a trade in that league, with a three-team deal seeing Candice Dupree, most recently of Good Angels Kosice, go to Phoenix. As press material summarizes, Dupree “ranked first in all of Euroleague competition in rebounding [at 11.0 per game] and third in scoring [at 18.9 […]

13 years ago More

FIBA Euroleague Women closes week four tonight with Szeviép Szeged v. Fenerbahce

With four games down in the ten-game FIBA Euroleague Women 2009-10 first round, the playoff picture is taking early shape and more than a few surprises – pleasant and otherwise – have graced play thus far. In the “disappointing” column can definitely be entered Mizo Pécs 2010, early considered one of the favorites to be […]

13 years ago More

Euroleague Blowouts and better than Jordan

Phew! Hopefully people were betting big point spreads in the Euroleague’s first game day as Montepaschi Siena, Barcelona, Olympiacos and Zalgiris notched easy victories by an average of more than 27 points. More on Euroleague as well as bigger than Jordan; a new basketball film; new players soon coming to Europe; a German star talent; […]

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