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An early look at Olympic Qualifying odds
France, Serbia, and Italy lead in the early running but there’s plenty of time for that to change Considering France are already second favourites to win the Olympics outright on some books it’s hardly a surprise to see them performing well in the early going on Olympic Qualifying betting in Manila. At 1/1 Les Bleus […]
Will CSKA Moscow defend their EuroLeague title next season?
In one of the greatest and closest EuroLeague finals of all-time, CSKA Moscow came up trumps against Fenerbahce as the Russian side lifted the trophy for the seventh time. CSKA needed overtime in the showpiece event to pip the Turkish outfit to the title and send their avid supporters wild. On the day, they were […]
For your consideration…BallinEurope
It’s awards season so BiE has put together a special blog post outlining its case to win two trophies at this year’s Blog Awards Ireland Greetings and salutations everybody. Right, where to start. Well this post is really for those new folk coming here wanting to see what we are all about while they judge […]
How Basketball is becoming Popular Game in Australia?
Australia has earned name for its cricketing team and other games that turned into league. Slowly, over the years, American games started showing its influence in the country and people started showing more interest in different games. The same goes for the NBA game which started its airing in Australia decades back. The league has […]
Breaking: BallinEurope is not based in a coffee shop
While this site’s fondness for the odd beverage or 10 is well known, most of our readers associate that with drinks of the alcoholic variety. Today we ended up with something best described as a little out there. Karl, who owns my regular haunt for a caffeine fix Coffee Angel, DMed me with a rather […]
The Major Differences between European and American Basketball
Believe it or not, there are American basketball fans that do not know a European basketball league exists, or any other basketball association outside that of America. The sport of basketball remains one of the more popular international sports of our time. With its genesis taking place in America, the sport has since migrated across […]
Celtics coach taking lead from Europe
There is no denying that basketball in Europe is a thriving sport, but it is equally true that the US still leads the way in terms of fan-base, financial muscle and career prestige. But one man who is keen to remind his fellow Americans that they’re not necessarily having it all their way is one […]
Site news – A whole lot of work
You may have noticed BiE hasn’t been updating as regularly as usual since EuroBasket. Fear not, there is a heap going on behind the scenes The last few weeks have been testing, the next few will be just as much, and when it’s all done it should be worth it. Last night I posted some […]
Latest NBA Trade Rumours
Kevin Durant in the Lakers? Bryant in New York? Pau Gasol in Memphis alongside his brother? These are the latest NBA rumours that just might prove to be true.“> Kevin Durant’s contract with Oklahoma runs out next summer, and there have been rumours that he just might leave the Thunder in order to go elsewhere […]
Top 5 Biggest Basketball Bets Ever Made
Making huge amounts of dollars in TV revenues, sponsorship deals and promoting household names like LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kevin Durant, Basketball is mutli-billion dollar mega sport. Like any mega sport, there are no shortage of Journalists, agents, pundits, bloggers and twits circulating the game at any one time. […]
Reconstructing a basketball scene from Escape from LA
We got sent this by Eugene Panfilov. He and his buddies decided to recreate a scene from a not so good movie shot for shot, in the literal sense given it’s a basketball sequence. For those of you who may not be aware, Escape from LA is the painfully inferior sequel to Escape from New […]
The Canadian Basketball team is on a roll for the Olympics
Canada is breezing with their national basketball team through the FIBA Americas championship. On Wednesday, they met Dominican Republic and it was delightful game to watch. Final scores were tallied for them – at 120-103, but it was an all-contributing performance from the entire team that led them to this huge win. Similar results took […]