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BiE’s official Irish awards ballot
BallinEurope editor Emmet Ryan is voting in this year’s Irish Premier League awards. Here’s who BiE is voting for and why. Men’s MVP – Michael Bonaparte, Killester This was absolute murder. Bonaparte had 23 ppg, 4th in the league, ranked 10th in rebounds and 9th in blocks for the league champions. Staring him down directly […]
Ireland crawling back to international Basketball
Ireland, still without any adult national teams, took a couple of baby steps back into international basketball this weekend. A pair of emphatic routs gave Irish basketball fans a sweet taste of international ball but after one afternoon normal service resumed. Life without a vanguard returned. Two selections from the Irish Premier League slaughtered Wales […]
Attention job-seeking players: Show your stuff for European coaches, agents at the 2010 Ireland Showcase
If you’re a player that needs to be seen to hook up with a European club for the 2010-11, BallinEurope.com can recommend a unique program that is guaranteed to get you noticed by scouts and coaches from all over The Continent. New York-based talent agency Performance Sports Management is holding its innovative “2010 Ireland Showcase” […]
List of 2009-10 European basketball champions
League play is now accelerating to a close all over The Continent, and BallinEurope’s “List of European Champions” page gets more updates. Most men’s domestic leagues have completely closed up shoppe for 2009-10, but BiE has also listed a few details on where other leagues stand at present; links are provided where possible. If no […]
Globetrotters stuck in Ireland, hang out in inner-city Dublin
Alba Berlin wasn’t the only basketball team in Europe to meet with delays and cancelled plans thanks to the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano: Stuck in Ireland after shooting promotional TV spots in Dublin were two Harlem Globetrotters. The Globetrotters thereby made the best of their enforced downtime by doing what they do best: namely, entertain the young […]
Free trips to Ireland for five European basketball coaches!
Attention, European basketball coaches! How would you like not only an opportunity to exclusively scout some unsigned US division I university and/or European professional ball players but also a free trip to Ireland? No, really: Free. International basketball personalities Tom Newell and David Cullen, via player representative/coordinator Noam Fishman, are organizing an event they like […]