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2012 Olympics: Is Spanish dominance over? (Plus Official Fearless Predictions™)
BallinEurope may be pulling the trigger a bit early on this one, but has to ask: Was the loss to Russia on Saturday a harbinger of things to come from Team Spain? Not to put too fine a point on it, but is the marathon (by today’s standards) golden age of Spanish basketball in international […]
Comparing European and NBA travel calls
For some reason, many Europeans – especially Spanish players – complained a lot about the referees not calling the U.S. traveling. In some way, I really do understand both sides. Traveling in the NBA and the United States is not called the same way as it is called in the Euroleague and Europe. It looks […]
Olympics: Spain vs Lithuania and USA vs Argentina LIVE
It is down to the final four nations and looks like the best of both worlds: Spain and Lithuania representing Europe – USA and Argentina representing America. Great, isn’t it? BallinEurope will cover the Spain vs. Lithuania starting 2.pm central European time while the following blogs will live blog Team USA vs. Argentina: (still to […]
Olympics: Germany vs. Spain
UPDATED: 10:38am local time Beijing Just got home from dinner and am lucky to follow my fellow Germans against Spain. NBC has a nice LIVE picture on their website which looks great. 1. Quarter notes: Spain was missing nearly every shot, while Germany made most of their shots. This explains why Spain has over 8 […]
Controversy around the Spanish national team
I am not really sure what to do with this. This is why I let you to discuss this one on your own. As one of our readers points out, the Spanish national team took this picture: As The Guardian, one of England’s leading newspaper,s points out, this is nothing special since […]
Live from the Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Kris Santiago, a FIBA.com blogger, is in Athens right now, following every game of the pre-Olympic tournament. Here are his notes from today: Slovenia is getting better from game to game and could be facing Puerto Rico or Croatia (but I would go with Puerto Rico, as they are looking quite good on the perimeter) […]
Bargnani says "NO!" to Italian national team
FIBA Europe reported, that Italian star Andrea Bargnani will not play for his country this season when the Azzurri attempt to qualify for [tag]EuroBasket 2009[/tag] in Poland.
Monday's cigarettes
The playoffs have begun and there are already big surprises in various European leagues.