Lometa Odom no longer owns those purple shoelaces her Dimmitt High School girls basketball coach John Blaine handed out after a perfect night of shooting from the floor. But Odom’s drive for perfection – the former Bobbie scored 78 points in a state semifinal game and could palm a basketball – has earned her a spot alongside the biggest and [...]
UFC president Dana White believes Shaquille O’Neal could either fight in MMA, or be involved as an ambasador of the sport after retiring from basketball. O’Neal helped the UFC to get the first season of The Ultimate Fighter off the ground. The NBA star has been in MMA training for years. “Shaq loves [MMA], Shaq’s been training for a long time,” White said on ESPN’s FirstTake. “Actually, a week before [...]
As the 2011 NBA Finals come to a close with Game 6 on Sunday and a possible Game 7 on Tuesday, basketball fans everywhere are bemoaning the fact that such a competitive and compelling series must come to an end. Through five games, the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks have battled with the score rarely being even remotely one-sided, [...]
The CTBA will be sending out seven national teams this year for eight international competitions: Men’s: East Asian Basketball Championship, June 10-15, Nanjing, China FIBA Asia Championship, September 15-25, Wuhan, Hubei, China FIBA U19 World Championship, June 30-July 10, Latvia FIBA Asia U16 Championship, October 18-28, Nha Trang, Vietnam Women’s: FIBA Asia Championship, August 21-28, Nagasaki, Japan World University Games, [...]
SBL Finals MVP Yang Ching-min of Taiwan Beer could join former Yulon center Tseng Wen-ting to play for Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese League CBA (Chinese Basketball Association) next season, local media reported. The 190cm shooter is expected to be tested in Shanghai in July and meet with Shanghai owner Yao Ming and its head coach Bob Donewald, United Evening [...]
Former NBA head coach Bob Hill arrived in Taipei Saturday and wasted no time to function as Taiwan NT’s technical consultant by observing the team’s practice on the same day. The veteran coach told reporters that he would have to attend more practices before making the initial assessment though the 62-year-old coach did say the team committed too many turnovers [...]
I have seen Ricky Rubio play in person almost two dozen times while covering the 2007 Eurobasket in Madrid, the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2010 World Championship in Istanbul, and I have never seen him play a quote-unquote great game. I have seen him look very good and very mediocre, but never great. One reason why? He doesn’t [...]
Congratulations this morning go out from BallinEurope to perhaps the underdog of the year, as Bizkaia Bilbao Basket has advanced to the ACB final by defeating Real Madrid in game four of their semifinal matchup, 80-72. The club which had never won a playoff game going into 2010-11 dispatched the Euroleague Final Four squad and no. 2 overall seed in [...]
Wen Jiabao, the Premier of the People’s Republic of China, is known by the Chinese public as a man of the people. Since his rise to number three in the Politburo Standing Committee in 2003, Wen has endeared himself to Chinese by showing a human side not often seen from China’s many emotionless, poker-faced politicians. And now, just in time [...]
Qianxi, Kembangan and Home United. What do these three teams have in common? Well, they are the only three teams left in Division 1 of the Women’s National Basketball League Open category. This leads one to wonder how they got into this situation in the first place. It was actually due to some unfortunate coincidences: Fu Tian Dian who was [...]
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