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Monday’s cigarettes
Monday morning, it’s time for the cigarettes that light up your week, one that will mark the start of the Euroleague quarterfinals. Former UConn Husky and German Bundesliga center Souleyman Wane is now working as French teacher at Haverhill High School and still plays in the faculty basketball team. Taquan Dean hits 10 three pointers. […]
American newcomers: Who’s hot, who’s not
Early in the season, it’s difficult to judge the US newcomers you have choose; anybody wants to give them a final chance becoming acclimated to other ways of life and play, to never-seen or -known teammates, to different expectations on them. But now that winter has come, it’s time to say something about these players. […]
Rod Benson likes French rock
Rod Benson, the famous US blogger who currently plays for SLUC Nancy in France, revealed an interesting thought today. Whereas Rod in fact mostly likes hip-hop, Benson wrote in his Twitter the following words today: BB Brunes “Dis moi.” Sweet. Probably a lot of readers from outside France did not understand this message. Julie probably […]
Short Monday's cigarettes
Not too much to tell you this morning, unfortunately… Evin Demirel writes a detailed report about the beginning of the new Euro-duo (Rudy Fernandez and Nicolas Batum) in Portland. Paul Pierce told journalists of Eleftheros Tipos that he’s thinking about ending his career in Greece (found via The Hoop). Italian TV commentator and coaching legend […]
Euroleague: SLUC Nancy, France
To cover SLUC Nancy, nobody else could have been a better fit than Maxime Weber from eurobasket.com. He covers French basketball for several years now and he is pretty close to Nancy and his favorite basketball team. Overall record prediction: 4-6 SLUC Nancy has built the best roster of their history with all positions being […]
Euroleague F4 Arena destroyed, or The Euro player-blogger roundup
Here we go again with our roundup of what our favorite player-bloggers are telling us. Once again, it was Adam Hess that came up with some shocking news. Before the game in the brand new O2 World in Berlin, which will also host the Euroleague Final Four, the following dramatic scenes happened: [I] was impressed […]
The Euro player-blogger roundup
With the new Euroleague season approaching and the number of player-bloggers in Europe increasing, I will give you a (more or less) regular roundup about interesting stories these writers have to share with us.
Monday's cigarettes
Here we go again for the Monday roundup of the hottest news from around the Internet world.
Rod Benson signs with SLUC Nancy
Rod Benson, a name known by every NBA blogger and blog reader, has signed a contract with SLUC Nancy in France. He will be with one of the two French Euroleague teams and is already a favorite to be the best Euroleague.net blogger of the season.