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EuroChallenge: Final two qualify for Final Four
The Final Four of the 2013 EuroChallenge are now set as Pinar Karsiyaka defeated Paris Levallois, 85:69, and EWE Baskets stopped Khimik, 100:78 on Tuesday. The clubs will match up with Krasnye Krylia and BCM Gravelines, who won their best of three series last week. The semifinal games will be played on April 26th and will…
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 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…
Read MoreAdriatic League: No. 1 Igokea falls to Partizan
With only three weeks of regular season to play in the Adriatic League and with eight teams still having a shot at making the playoffs prior to the Week 24 games, every point of every game for those eight teams in critical. Igokea and Red Star Beograd have clinched a spot in the playoffs, but…
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