Olympiacos 301
Olympiacos “condemns” Greek referees, threatens to quit EΣAKE
After game three of the Greek League championship, in which a number of questionable calls went against Olympiacos against rivals Panathinaikos, Reds management isn’t taking things lying down. In a statement posted on the team’s official website, Olympiacos officials were “compel[led] to condemn those responsible for controlling the course of Greek basketball” for general egregiousness […]
The BallinEurope Sunday playoff quadruple-header (plus Fearless Predictions)
All right, on this last World Cup-free weekend for the foreseeable future, who’s up for a little basketball? No, make that a lot of basketball. A barrage of basketball, if you will. Get ready to clear the schedule, stock up the liquid refreshment and blow off the familial obligations for the hoops marathon we like […]
Watching the Greek finals, Spanish semifinals online
Two of Europe’s finest, most hard-fought leagues are coming to a head with crucial games going down today in both Greece and Spain – and with no NBA playoffs on the schedule, you have no excuse to miss either.
Panathinaikos destroys Olympiacos, 73-54: Going to YouTube for answers
More than a shocker and well into slap-in-the-face territory was game one of the EΣAKE championship series, where hometown Panathinaikos took care of all business in dispatching Olympiacos, 73-54. Though BallinEurope did not see the match and knows empirically that games should never be judged on the stat line, one number still stands out like […]
Invisible to insane: The six types of basketball team owner
They say that no one has ever bought a ticket to a sports event in order to see an executive but with two weeks of American and European basketball club owners hogging sports page headlines, BallinEurope got to thinking about these moneyed celebrity types who run the teams we watch … and the often disturbing […]
Childress' choice: Atlanta Hawks to make qualifying offer
Start worrying, Olympiacos fans. Atlanta Hawks-centric TrueHoop Network blog Hoopinion this morning confirms that the Birds will indeed make a $4.8 million qualifying offer to Josh Childress, which would allow the team to hold the current Red’s NBA rights, should he choose to return to the league but not Atlanta. On Childress’ part, the Yank-made-good-in-Europe […]
Roll the tape! Highlight clips from the 2009-10 Euroleague championship, third-place game
Okay, folks, for those of you who missed the excellent show put on by FC Barcelona in distancing itself from the second-best team in Europe in 2009-10, Olympiacos, here’s the official highlight clip from last night’s Euroleague championship. (A clip of the best moments from the CSKA Moscow-Partizan Belgrade consolation game also included.) Enjoy all […]
Barcelona takes Euroleague title, 86-68
It’s official: FC Barcelona is the no. 1 team in Euroleague 2009-10. Powered by Final Four MVP Juan Carlos Navarro’s 21 points and playing ranking of 23 plus some swell defense again from Pete Mickael (who got BallinEurope’s vote for Final Four MVP), Barcelona controlled the game throughout and Olympiacos was unable to ever close […]
Live chat tonight: Euroleague third-place game, championship
Follow the Euroleague’s final games of 2009-10 here at BallinEurope.com tonight (or today, for those of you in the ‘States; tomorrow for Australians i suppose). Click on the “Continue Reading…” link below to open up the chat box. We’ll start taking comments at about 5.30pm CET (11.30am EST). The consolation game between Partizan Belgrade and […]
Teodosic will play; state of health unknown
Breathe a sigh of relief Olympiacos fans: Word just came down to press row that Euroleague MVP Milos Teodosic will be playing tonight, but no word on well he’s been feeling today after battling a stomach virus. (Darn. We might not be seeing so much of Scoonie Penn after all…)
Euroleague championship trivia
From the Le Sais-Tu Department comes a few interesting news bites on this evening’s Euroleague Championship participants. Read on, triviamongers!
All-Euroleague first team highlights
Who can get enough highlight clips? Certainly not BallinEurope, even if disagreeing with one or two of the selections made by the Euroleague folks this year. Below the break runs three-and-a-half minutes of awesome action from yourrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 2009-10 All-Euroleague team, namely Olympiacos’ Euroleague MVP award-winner Milos Teodosic and Linas Kleiza; FC Barcelona’s Juan Carlos Navarro; […]