ESPN (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
Duke's Mike Krzyzewski said Friday night he's open to any position in USA Basketball but it was too early to discuss his future as national team head coach for the 2010 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics in London.
FIBA (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
SAN DIEGO (Olympics) - The basketball world lost a legend on Monday when former Team USA coach Pete Newell passed away at the age of 93. Tributes have been pouring in for Newell, the gold-medal winning coach of the Americans at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Bill Walton, a former UCLA star and NBA center with Portland and later Boston who is now a ...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
NBA commissioner David Stern said Sunday it was likely that the basketball league would be playing regular-season games in London before the British capital hosts the 2012 Olympics. Stern, however, said ahead of a preseason game between the New Jersey Nets and Miami Heat at the O2 Arena that the possibility of taking meaningful games to Europe was nowhere near a done deal.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
LONDON (AP) -NBA commissioner David Stern is counting on the 2012 London Olympics to give the basketball league a foothold in Britain.
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Remember the tempest over the Spanish basketball team photo at the Beijing Olympics; the one where the players all pulled back back the skin at the corner of their eyes to make them look slanted'...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
A few days after guiding the U.S. men's basketball team to an Olympic gold medal in Beijing, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski hit the ...
Views from Life on a Bench (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Maybe you have to live in England for a few months (weeks') to really appreciate this... or maybe you just need a little bit of a sense of humor, an enjoyment for cheese Brit pop, and some sort of nationalistic pride. I sort of wish someone had done this for the Olympics with the men's basketball team. Instead we got stuck with the totally awesome, but commercial, Marvin Gaye ad. The Marvin ad was...
You Been Blinded (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
On a mission to prove that Eva Longoria isn’t the only thespian in the family, Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs acts in Astérix aux jeux olympiques, or Asterix at the Olympic Games in English. Tony displays his range by putting on a toga and playing basketball against a Hobbit. The film features Gérard Depardieu, [...]
FIBA (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
MORAGA (Olympics/NCAA) - Australia point guard Patrick Mills didn't win a gold medal, but he did grow up on the basketball court in a big way at the Olympics to help the Boomers reached the quarter-finals. Mills averaged 14.2 points per game and showed he would be a leading player for the Aussies on the international stage in the years to come. For ...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
In the 2008 Olympics and Paralympics at Beijing, some athelets exhibited Thank You Banners to thank the host for this fantastic event. It’s not a surprise that they put some extra effort to write them in Chinese. “Hello, Beijing” by Swidish Paralympic basketball team after a game. “Thanks! China!” American sync swimmers.
Steroid Nation (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Although trailing the original Beijing Olympics by a small margin, The Beijing Paralympics sent home doper #2. A German wheelchair basketball player receives the boot according to The Standard:The Paralympics suffered its second doping scandal in as many days, with a German wheelchair basketball player sent home for taking a drug he said was meant to fight hair loss. A statement from the German National...
On The record Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Fresh from his gold medal run as part of the U.S. basketball team in the Beijing Olympics, NBA star LeBron James will visit the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend for the debut of “More Than A Game,” a documentary chronicling his rise to stardom. The film also shows how he and four childhood friends [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Luol Deng, NBA superstar, discusses his hopes for British basketball and the Great Britain team in the London 2012 Olympics
FIBA (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
LONDON (2012 Olympics) – Luol Deng could play for Great Britain’s basketball team at the London 2012 Olympics. Right now, British Basketball is hoping the Chicago Bulls star will just be able to help them reach EuroBasket 2009 in Poland. The Brits, less than a week away from their Division A, Group D opener against Israel in Tel Aviv, are ...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
An insurance row with the NBA over Luol Deng could prevent GB's basketball team from playing at the London Olympics
