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Viggiano arrives in Milano, Euroleague (finally)
U. Mass graduate Jeffrey Viggiano has ascended to the Euroleague after three seasons in lower leagues on The Continent, as Armani Jeans Milano officially announced his signing to a two-year deal today. After his senior season in Massachusetts, Viggiano embarked on a European career which has taken him to teams in Sweden and Hungary before […]
Ndong stays in Spain, moves to Barcelona
Quite a coup for Regal FC Barcelona was reported by Euroleague officials today: Boniface Ndong, formerly of Unicaja, has come to terms with Barcleona on a three-year deal. Ndong is most known for his shot-blocking: typically playing as a reserve last season, Ndong averaged 1.3 blocks per Euroleague game and 1.0 per ACB game.
Caught surfing: Checking out Euroleague Group B websites
BallinEurope.com’s public service task, i.e. cataloguing the major team websites in Europe continues today with a rundown of official websites from teams confirmed for Euroleague Group B, listed in order of English-language coverage.* For those who missed it, the BallinEurope take on Euroleague Group A can be found here. To Partizan Belgrade: Wow. All Euroleague-employed […]
In Moscow, front-office all-star Vatutin adds to the CV
In what was surely merely a formality, Andrey Vatutin has had the title of “CSKA Moscow club president” added to his existing position of CEO. This career move represents the crowing glory for Vatutin, who has worked his way up from press officer with the Russian Basketball Federation in 1997, to success with Ural Great […]
Transaction Tuesday: Milojevic returns, Morris jumps, Nachbar signs, and Childress goes nowhere
More major roster moves by Euroleague teams were reported late yesterday and today: Local hero Dejan Milojevic officially announced his return to Partizan Belgrade, the home of his glory years of 2004-2006, and his imminent retirement from professional basketball; recently well-traveled US player Terence Morris jumped from CSKA Moscow to Regal FC Barcelona; and former […]
Eight (or nine) key dates on the Euroleague schedule
Yes, yes, it’s waaaaaaaaaay too early to be making serious predictions about specific games in the 2009-10 Euroleague regular season, but a leisurely look at the newly-released schedule reveals some clear highlights that’ll have Euroleague fanatics marking their calendars early. BallinEurope will be watching the following, for sure.
The new schedule is here! The new schedule is here!
Euroleague officials have released the schedule for the 2009-10 regular season. The big league will be tipping things off in Tel Aviv with Maccabi hosting Union Olimpija Ljubljana on October 15 – just three months from now…
Caught surfing: Checking out Euroleague Group A official websites
As a public service to our readers (not to mention a good excuse to get in some high-quality surfing time), BallinEurope will hereby begin cataloguing some key European teams’ official websites. We’ll first run through the teams of the Euroleague groups sequentially A through D, followed by a rundown of Euroleague qualifiers, Eurocup contestants, EuroChallenge […]
Catfight at Euroleague.net: Cheerleaders in video battle royale
Say what you want about Euroleague.net, but somebody over there has good ideas about filling a lull in the seasonal schedule. Currently running at the website is the “Euroleague Video Faceoff” tournament featuring video submissions from the teams’ cheerleading squads, and with winners determined by popular vote. The following are one man’s choices for the […]
Quotebook: Euroleague 2009-10 draw
Not only was yesterday’s Euroleague group draw an official tipoff of sorts to actual play in the 2009-10 Euroleague season, it also marked the first opportunity of the year for league chiefs to publicly swell with pride at their teams, show off (mostly) gaudy neckties, talk some diplomatically-worded trash, and provide good quotes for blogs […]
Groupings announced, Euroleague 2009-10 tips off (sorta)
The Euroleague 2009-10 season has begun! This morning, the Euroleague announced the groupings for the ten-game competition this autumn. Naturally, the pools are totally enticing and some great fodder for watercooler discussions for months. (Heck, they’ll have to be.) The groups look like this:
BallinEurope: End of one story and a new beginning
It has now been nearly two years since BallinEurope was launched in September 2007. We were three guys at the time and our goal was to change the landscape of European basketball blogging. Well, changing the landscape may sound huge, but in fact at that time, BallinEurope was the first and only blog about European […]