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My chat with Francesco (or, WTF is up with Montepaschi Siena?)
Whilst watching the Efes Pilsen-Montepaschi Siena game with horror fascination last night – probably somewhere around the Ferdinando Minucci ejection – BiE couldn’t help but wonder what Francesco Cappelletti, this website’s man in Italy, thought of it all. Seriously. Montepaschi came into the game having looked strong in Euroleague competition this season thus far; with […]
Travis Best lands with Martos Napoli
Whoa, 90s flashback! On Friday, Serie A club Martos Napoli announced the signing of 37-year-old Travis Best, perhaps best known for his play with Larry Bird’s Indiana Pacers, the NBA championship-contending team of 1999-2000. Best was a first-round draft choice of the Pacers in 1995. The point guard stuck with Indiana until 2002, when he […]
Help! Reader needs tickets to AJ Milano game!
BallinEurope yesterday received the following email and today we’re appealing to fellow readers for help: Dear Os, I really enjoy your website and read it every day from Israel. I will be in Milan this coming week and I have been trying to get tickets for a League game AJ Milano on Sunday December 6. […]
FIBA EuroChallenge capsule previews: Group C
Here’s round three of BallinEurope’s look at the groupings for the upcoming EuroChallenge 2009-10 season. Group C features a couple of big(gish)-money teams in uncertain times and an 11th place team from 2008-09. Could the relative unknowns from Belarus surprise here…?
The Italian League explained: Part two
Yesterday, BallinEurope.com ran part one of Francesco Cappelletti’s analysis and forecast of Italy’s first six Serie A teams for 2009-10. Below runs part two, covering the remaining 10 hopefuls from the top Italian league. Angelico Biella. Last year’s semifinal is only a memory: Biella must again plunge into the tough reality of its life as […]