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The only good thing about getting a nasty flu? Easy: Lots of time for reading monster tomes like Bill Simmons’ “ The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy ” . Thanks to a sentinel from the legion of The 2009 Killer Viruses, i was able to knock down all 697 pages of this thing ...
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Arvydas Sabonis
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Who wants more Gilbert Arenas? Hey, who doesn’t? But after Agent Zero shut down his Washington Post-hosted “Gilbert’s Blog” last year, internet missives from probably the greatest jock-blogger ever have been non-existent and Arenas himself has kept a low public ...
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Gilbert Arenas
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Burse has Krakow on top
With four games down in the ten-game FIBA Euroleague Women 2009-10 first round, the playoff picture is taking early shape and more than a few surprises – pleasant and otherwise – have graced play thus far. In the “disappointing” column can definitely be entered Mizo ...
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Erin Andrews
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Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Team Great Britain stud and former
teammate of Ricky Rubio with DKV Joventut, is back
with the Toronto Raptors after spending six days on waivers. Mensah-Bonsu was waived by the Houston Rockets on Friday after signing with the ...
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Pops Mensah-Bonsu back with Toronto Euro-Raptors
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ballineurope.com - 4 days ago
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Buy me a drink, baby...? How do you
say, “You have the right to remain silent” in
German…? Now that Dennis Rodman has enlisted with the “Legends of Basketball” organization and its touring team, the Worm is up to his old party-master ...
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Legend of Basketball/serious partier Rodman busted in ...
FIBA officials made it official late yesterday: Jasmin Repesa, citing personal disappointment with his team’s performance in Eurobasket 2009, has resigned as Croatia national basketball team coach.
Though Croatian media had reported Repesa’s imminent dismissal/retirement from the post as ...
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Don’t look now, but the balance of power
in Finland’s top league may have shifted a bit
with the arrival of Corey Belser from Aris Thessolaniki to the excellently named Honka Espoo Playboys of Finland’s Korisliiga . Belser first appeared on ...
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New Playboy Belser makes quick impact in Finland
For your edification and amusement, Ball in Europe presents seven stories, interviews, blog entries and whatnot definitively worth a little of your time on a Sunday. Read on, compliments of us and a bunch of hard-working writers out there.
The Los Angeles Times was intrigued enough by the ...
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Los Angeles Clippers
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Michael Jordan
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Ben Gordon
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The numbers are in and if one thing
can be said about Euroleague 2009-10 this early on,
it’s that this association is hardly free of the specter of economic woes. After Partizan and Alba Berlin set attendance records in 2008-09, this season has ...
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Euroleague attendance figures mostly dismal through four ...
Maccabi: Something to cheer about. (Photo by Yaniv Ben Simon, MaccabiFans.co.il)
In the afterglow of Euroleague week four, BallinEurope’s man in Italy, Francesco Cappelletti , rounds up all that was in the week that was, including the lack of upsets, a dearth of home support in Turkey, and ...
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Early on, Euroleague followers are putting Efes Pilsen in the “disappointing” category for 2009-10; the team has managed a 1-2 record in Euroleague play and, as defending champions, a mark of just 2-1 in Turkey’s Beko Basketball League. Nevertheless, Efes head coach Ergin Ataman still likes his ...
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Josh Childress
The second half of Euroleague play this week is the small half, with just four games happening this evening, and at least one dandy if the bookmakers are accurate – which they tragically so often are. After all, it’s their money out there. That’s how I justify it to myself, anyway. Tonight’s ...
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Hello everybody and welcome back – if you’ve ever read this column before, that is. One way or another, I’m Javier Gancedo , writing not from the Euroleague headquarters but rather from home this time around.
Yes, it will be a very busy Wednesday for all of us with as many as eight ...
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Bo McCalebb
Ali Traore
Romain Sato
Qyntel Woods
Tiago Splitter
Emir Preldzic
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Talk about your critical decisions: I mean, imagine if Allen Iverson had turned down Olympiacos’ mammoth ...
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Allen Iverson
Josh Childress
Brandon Jennings
Linas Kleiza
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The week in Euroleague action is a bit top-heavy this week both figuratively and literally: Eight of the 12 games scheduled will be going down on Wednesday night, and most of these figure to be blowouts of the highest order. The bookmakers over at Euroleague/Ball in Europe sponsor Sporting Bet ...
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With Brandon Jennings ripping things up with the Milwaukee Bucks early in the NBA season, the interweb is alive with proclamations on the relative success of his “European experiment,” i.e. his much ballyhooed year spent playing with Lottomatica Roma in lieu of a year with an NCAA program.
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Brandon Jennings
David Stern
A few good reads for you to catch up with this weekend as the “Best of the (Basketball) Net” column returns. Enjoy the hits from around the ‘net!
Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Tyler ( Remember him? The “the first American to skip his senior year of high school to turn pro”?) is struggling even ...
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Charles Barkley
Taquan Dean
Rick Pitino
Hakeem Olajuwon
Pau Gasol
A tasty appetizer
Obradovic vs. Messina is always a battle to watch, even if we’re only in week three of Euroleague play, even if Felipe Reyes on one side, Mike Batiste and Sarunas Jasikevicius on the other side, are not available.
Yesterday in Madrid, we had two games in one. Early ...
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Germany’s basketball fans got an unofficial boost yesterday, thanks to a column from ESPN’s Marc Stein which had Dirk Nowitzki declaring his career with Team Germany not yet over while speculating on a reunion with Chris Kaman in 2010.
The former twosome met in Saturday’s Los Angeles ...
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Dallas Mavericks
Dirk Nowitzki
Chris Kaman
Los Angeles Clippers
ESPN
Whoa, there’s a nice slate of games scheduled in the big league tonight, including a true piece de resistance in the Real Madrid-Panthinaikos matchup, the first true clash of Euroleague basketball titans in the 2009-10 season thus far. The pointspreads and over/under lines for the half-dozen ...
