SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Shabtai von Kalmanovic bankrolled the world's most expensive women's basketball roster. Carl Schreck looks at the mystery a Russian magnate who was gunned down this week.
Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
More on the Kalmanovic murder, this time from Carl Schreck at SI.com: The mysterious murder of a Russian hoops magnate In addition to financing and running Europe's top women's club, Kalmanovic was general manager of Russia's formidable women's national team. He was busying himself with hoops in the final hours of his life and gave no impression of concern for his business affairs or...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Carl Schreck, Special to SI.com Shabtai von Kalmanovic congratulated Sue Bird after the semifinal of the 2009 Euroleague Women's Final Four.Miguel Riopa/Getty Images MOSCOW -- Of all the strange, colorful and often dangerous characters that traversed Russia's turbulent transition to a market economy in the 1990s, few had a more extraordinary biography than Shabtai von Kalmanovic, a...
