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NBA Set to Tip Off 67th Season
The NBA is set to tip off its 67th season today with the first three contests of the 2012-13 campaign; the Cleveland Cavaliers will host the Washington Wizards, the Los Angeles Lakers will entertain the Dallas Mavericks and the 2011-12 Champion Miami Heat will square off with the Boston Celtics in Miami. The landscape of…
Read MoreSonny Weems named Euroleague MVP for Oct.
Guiding his team, CSKA Moscow, to a perfect 3-0 record and the top spot in Group D, Sonny Weems has been named the Euroleague’s bwin MVP for the month of October. Weems has averaged 20.3 points per game over the first three contests of the season, shooting 65.5% (19 for 29) from inside the arc…
Read MoreFernandez and San Emererio named bwin co-MVPs
Rudy Fernandez of Real Madrid, and Fernando San Emeterio of Caja Laboral Vitoria have been named bwin co-MVPs for Turkish Airlines Euroleague week 3. Both players had performation index ratings (Points + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks + Fouls Drawn) – (Missed Field Goals + Missed Free Throws + Turnovers + Shots Rejected…
Read MoreBrett Brown steps down from Boomers
After four years in the role that culminated in a Quarter Final appearance at the 2012 London Olympic Games, Brett Brown has stepped down as Head Coach of the Australian Boomers. Brown, who is resigning to spend more time with his family in the United States, has played a pivotal role in the improved professionalism…
Read MoreMaccabi Tel-Aviv Stunned at Home by Rishon
The last time Maccabi Tel-Aviv lost a game to an Israel team was on January 30, 2012 when they dropped an Israel Winners League context to Maccabi Ashdod, 78-74. They went 23-2 in the league last year and had a 22 game winning streak against Israel teams as of yesterday. On Sunday, Maccabi Rishon Lezion…
Read MoreHarden turns down $52m – traded to Rockets
The Oklahoma City Thunder, 2011-12 NBA Finals Runner-up, lost hope in working out a contract extension with shooting guard James Harden and sent him and three others to the Houston Rockets in exchange for two players and three high draft picks on Saturday. With the trade deadline quickly approaching, the Thunder did what they had…
Read MoreJohn Wooden statue unveiled at Pauley Pavilion
John Wooden, the legendary coach of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), was immortalized outside the newly renovated Pauley Pavilion, home of the program he turned into an NCAA powerhouse in the 1960s and 1970s, with a 400-lb, 8-foot bronze statue that his family helped fine-tune before final production. His daughter, Nan, asked…
Read MorePat Summitt to enter Lady Vols Hall Early
It normally takes an athlete 10 years after they’ve left the University of Tennessee and Administrators five years to be eligible for the Hall of Fame, but the school has waived that requirement for Pat Summitt who stepped down as the women’s head basketball coach last April, as the winningest Division 1 coach in NCAA…
Read MoreEuroleague: Unicaja takes thriller from Siena
On a day of Euroleague blow out games, those that waited for the last contest on the schedule were treated with a barnburner in Spain when Unicaja Malaga erased an 14-point in the fourth quarter and denied Montepaschi Siena their first win of the 2012-13 Euroleague season in an overtime thriller. In other Friday games,…
Read MoreNBA shelves Uniform Ads Idea until April ’13
After the marquee news stories were reported from the NBA Board of Governors meeting, namely the approval of the Memphis Grizzlies sale and Commissioner David Stern announcing his retirement, another hot topic got pushed aside and went relatively unnoticed, advertisements on uniforms. The topic of the uniform ads has been around for a while in…
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