Posts by Bryce
NCAA: Tournament brackets announced
The 2013 NCAA Tournament will get underway on Tuesday with two first round contests, Liberty vs. N.C. A&T and Middle Tennessee State vs. St Mary’s, and then two more on Wednesday, James Madison vs. Long Island and Boise State vs. La Salle. The festivities kick into high gear on Thursday and Friday with 14 games being…
Read MoreItaly SerieA: Sassari evens up with Varese
Week 23 in the Italian SerieA saw the top club, Varese, get defeated by the No. 2 team, Sassari, and five teams that are fighting for playoff spots fall. With seven weeks left in the SerieA regular season and with only eight clubs moving on, there are six teams outside the top eight that have…
Read MoreBilbao to play preseason game against 76ers
A preseason game next autumn between current Eurocup semifinalists Uxue Bilbao Basket of Spain and the
Read MoreAdriatic League: Playoff picture shaken up
As Week 25 of the Adriatic League played out, the playoff picture comes down to three teams for two spots, Radnicki, Partizan, and Buducnost. Igokea will win the regular season regardless of what happens in Week 26 since they win a tie-breaker with Red Star having won both matches the clubs played this season. Things…
Read MoreNCAA: Championship week starts the Madness
The NCAA basketball season is winding down, but this is the time of year all collegiate basketball fans wait for, Championship Week and the official start to March Madness. There are 33 NCAA Division I conferences, with all but the Ivy League holding a year-end tournament. Many finished up on Saturday, the rest will host…
Read MoreEuroleague: Zoric’s 21 lifts Unicaja over Madrid
Unicaja Malaga traveled to Spanish rival Real Madrid on Friday for a Euroleague Top 16 contest and spoiled the celebratory parties for both Madrid and Anadolu Efes with a huge 74:77 upset over the Group E leader on their home court. Unicaja fought back from an earlier deficit, built an 11-point lead in the fourth…
Read MoreEuroleague: Olympiacos snaps Siena’s streak
The defending Euroleague champion Olympiacos Piraeus picked up a huge road win over Montepaschi Siena on Thursday that evens the two squads in Group F with 7-4 records and three weeks remaining. With Maccabi Electra winning a one-point contest over BC Khimki MR, and Caja Laboral Vitoria defeating Fenerbahce Ulker, the No. 4 spot in…
Read MoreEuroCup: Semifinals matchups are now set
The remaining competitors in the 2012-13 EuroCup completed one more round Wednesday on their way to determining an overall champion. The four quarterfinal matchups finished their second games and with the scores compiled, the four clubs that are moving on to the semifinals have been set. In semifinal A, BC Budivelnik Kiev will play Uxue…
Read MoreEuroChallenge: Paris rebounds to beat Pinar
It looked like it was going to be a clean sweep for the home clubs in the first game of the quarterfinals in the EuroChallenge, until the Paris Levallois squad decided that they weren’t going to just let Pinar Karslyaka have the first game of their best of three series and fought back from nine…
Read MoreIsrael: Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv falls at home
It’s not difficult to look around the world of athletic competitions to find teams that have dominated their competitors for a period of time. Real Madrid, the New York Yankees, the Chicago Bulls, Western Province Rugby team, Bombay/Mumbai cricket team, and the Montreal Canadiens, to name a few, have all been long dominating in their…
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