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Basketball stars as WWE Superstars

With Dwight Howard trying out for WWE and it being a holiday weekend in Ireland, there’s no better time for BiE to work out what ballers would work out well in the land of synthetic sports Dwight Howard spent a full five hours at the WWE Performance Center on Thursday as part of an open […]

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Euroleague Final Four players as WWE stars

There will be many serious analytical pieces about the Final Four on BiE in the run-up to Istanbul. This is not one of those pieces. Emmet Ryan looks at players across all four teams competing in Istanbul and finds their equivalent in the squared circle Pero Antic – The Big Show Bearded and skinheaded: Check […]

5 years ago More
 

Diamantidis goes down like a champion

The end came for Dimitris Diamantidis last night in the OAKA. Emmet Ryan writes how the way in which his career was a perfect send off for the Panathinaikos legend Going out on top is wildly over-rated. With champions, people who have consistently got the big one over the course of their career, it leaves […]

6 years ago More
 

VIDEO: Nick Calathes wants Spanoulis to stay

With word that Greece’s veterans are retiring from the national team, including Vassilis Spanoulis, Nick Calathes told BallinEurope that he hopes the Olympiacos man and all of his team comes back for the Olympic qualifiers next year. Watch the full interview below. BallinEurope is in the running for two awards at Blog Awards Ireland. Go […]

7 years ago More
 

Third quarter surge sees Greece past Belgium and into quarters

A switch to a smaller line-up proved crucial as Greece overcame Belgium to reach the quarter finals, writes Emmet Ryan Belgium and Greece enterted the cavernous Stade Pierre Mauroy for the second of Saturday’s last 16 games. The new format adds a touch of extra drama to proceedings, with the losers this weekend effectively out […]

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Real Madrid end 20 year famine to win Euroleague title

Real Madrid survived a third quarter charge by Olympiacos and shut down Vassilis Spanoulis to end a 20 year wait and win the Euroleague title for 2014/15. Emmet Ryan reports from the Barclaycard Centre. Whatever amount of Real and Olympiacos fans were in the house on Friday, their numbers had clearly surged for this one. […]

7 years ago More

Spanoulis, Diamantidis, Navarro, more talk about NBA 2K14

Euroleague got some of the biggest names in the game together in Madrid to try out NBA 2K14 which, in case you’ve been away from every form of media, will feature 14 Euroleague teams this season. Os has already got his copy pre-ordered, once herself gives me permission I’ll be getting my own copy, and […]

9 years ago More

From the free-for-all: Last week’s top five Euroleague acquisitions (plus one from the NBA)

Has it really been almost two months since the Euroleague Final Four? And when did the seasons in Spain, Greece, Italy and the NBA finish up? Time gets exceedingly relative and outright bendy once offseason transactioneering begins as memories of the previous year are quickly disposed for a look to the next and the money […]

9 years ago 1 More

“Say it ain’t so, Vassilis!” Report says Spanoulis could sign with CSKA Moscow

No, really. Man-in-the-know Emiliano Carchia of Sportando this morning reports that two-time Euroleague champion Vassilis Spanoulis, with his Olympiacos contract expiring in June, has been receiving overtures from a couple of top European clubs, but most especially from the team he’s helped eliminate from the EL playoffs two years running: CSKA Moscow. To no one’s […]

9 years ago 14 More

Vassilis Spanoulis’ Euroleague interview, photo: What’s the message?

Is Vassilis Spanoulis throwing down a gauntlet? As the Euroleague official website leads its interview with The Captain by describing him as having “taken his place among the all-time greats of basketball by leading Olympiacos Piraeus to just the second Euroleague repeat title in the last two decades,” the below picture appears on the site’s […]

9 years ago 1 More

Instant history: Olympiacos dominates last 30 minutes, tops Real Madrid, 100-88, for back-to-back titles

No matter which way this year’s Euroleague championship played out, history would be made with Olympiacos chasing a repeat championship and Real Madrid its first in 18 years. And as it turns out, fate’s scribe was writing with Red(s) pen: Once again, tournament underdogs Olympiacos ended up EL alpha dogs with a 100-88 win over […]

9 years ago 40 More

Poll: Who’s your Euroleague Most Valuable Player?

The BallinEurope ballot for Euroleague MVP and All-EL first team was laid bare this morning and whoo, there’s some early backlash. So let’s throw out the question then. Here it is. Who do you like? [poll id=”11″]

9 years ago 32 More
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