Fun Stuff 6
Grading the facial hair of Ireland’s underage international basketball coaches
Basketball Ireland has announced the head coaches for Ireland’s underage basketball teams for the 2023/24 cycle. Most people would write serious and boring pieces about this. Emmet Ryan is not most people. Here are our grades of the facial hair of all six head Irish basketball underage coaches A quick note The elephant in the […]
The strange case of the Swiss jersey
Switzerland has a unique way of recognising the players who take all the shots and Nicolò Origgi reckons it could be fun if applied elsewhere. Here he looks at the Italian league players who deserve a jersey all of their own Even the most die-hard basketball junkies might not know that in Switzerland each team’s […]
Catching up with Cut Capers before they play the Final Four
It turns out Joel Freeland won’t be the only British person gracing the floor at the Euroleague Final Four in Istanbul. Cut Capers, a band from Bristol and Cardiff, will be performing at half-time of both semi-finals on Friday. BiE’s Emmet Ryan caught up with Tom Taylor of Cut Capers to find out what to […]
Euroleague Final Four players as WWE stars
There will be many serious analytical pieces about the Final Four on BiE in the run-up to Istanbul. This is not one of those pieces. Emmet Ryan looks at players across all four teams competing in Istanbul and finds their equivalent in the squared circle Pero Antic – The Big Show Bearded and skinheaded: Check […]
Euro-ballers as Pokémon
It’s the game that has taken over the lives of so many, exciting as much as it infuriates, but what Pokémon match which Euro ballers? Emmet Ryan investigates The Olympics are just around the corner so we are about to hit some serious basketball coverage. With that in mind, we need something a little lighter […]
That time MacGyver rode a coffin down the Spree
It’s the rest day at the final four and it’s going to be late, if at all, before I write anything basketball related today. Instead I’m dropping a piece of pop culture that was set not too far from the arena. In a first season episode of MacGyver, the eponymous hero was being smuggled from […]