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A brief YouTube history of Žalgiris Kaunas vs. Lietuvos Rytas
Friday will see the Baltic Basketball League final four tip off, while the Lithuanian Basketball League starts up its own domestic tournament next Wednesday, April 28. At this point, both seem once again inevitably headed to a final confrontation of those superpowers of Lithuanian ‘ball, namely Žalgiris Kaunas and Lietuvos Rytas. In the BBL, the […]
FIBA EuroChallenge capsule previews: Group A
Tomorrow night sees the tipoff of the 2009-10 FIBA EuroChallenge, the third pan-European tournament featuring 32 of The Continent’s up-and-coming and/or smaller-market teams. Over the next two days, Ball in Europe will present a brief primer on each of the groups; first, the basics of Group A.
Basketball fight: Arizona WILDcat strikes in Russia
Ilya Kalyagin, our source from Russia, lives in Rostov. On Tuesday, Spartak St. Petersburg played Lokomotiv Rostov in the Russia Cup quarterfinal. Just to let you know who players are on these teams: Spartak St. Petersburg: head coach Yevgeny Pashutin, former assistant coach of Ettore Messina at CSKA Moscow Zakhar Pashutin, Yevgeny’s brother and former […]