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Alzhan Zharmukhamedov returns home to enliven Kazakhstan national program

While Alzhan Zharmukhamedov might not quite be a household name in the post-Soviet era and Kazakhstan is hardly a European nation readily associated with top-flight basketball, this nation is hoping that the former Olympic and EuroBasket champion can change all that. The Kazakh Academy of Sports and Tourism yesterday announced that a revamped national basketball […]

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The Greatest Basketball YouTube Ever (or, YouTube as a force for online democracy)

(Please excuse BallinEurope’s more personal tone today; trust me, i have as healthy a loathing for usage of the first-person in sports blogging as you no doubt do. On the other hand, it is called *You*Tube.) When i was coming of age in the Cold War 1980s, there wasn’t one basketball universe but rather two […]

14 years ago 3 More