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Revealed: The EuroChallenge championship curse
Winning the EuroChallenge title is a good thing, right? After all, it’s typically the first Continental trophy to display on the mantelpiece and the champions label wins the club to right to play in the more prestigious (and more big-bucks) Eurocup competition the following season. Well, Uygar Karaca may convince believers otherwise. In the first […]
BC Khimki Moscow region: In 15th anniversary year, on the verge of lucky three
In the leadup to the 2011-12 Eurocup Final Four tournament beginning on Saturday, Eurosport Turkey basketball commentator Uygar Karaca contributes a series of previews on the remaining quartet entitled “Four Teams, Four Stories” to BallinEurope. Today, the final chapter of the series is devoted to BC Khimki Moscow region. With VTB United League and Russia […]
Wall Street Journal profiles Robin to Prokhorov's Batman
While you may have heard of incoming New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov, what do you know of his basketball deputy, a guy named Sergey Kushchenko? The Wall Street Journal is running a piece on Kushchenko, who even more than his billionaire boss is credited with the success of CSKA Moscow basketball’s success in the […]
What happened with Ural Great? Andrei Agishev explains all. Or almost all. OK, some.
In 2006, PBC Ural Great was crowned FIBA EuroCup Challenge champion and was a perennial contender in the Russian League. Just two post-seasons later, the club had worked its way into such a pile of debt that authorities “seized Ural Great’s office furniture and equipment for unpaid debts.” So what in the name of Gomelsky […]
In Moscow, front-office all-star Vatutin adds to the CV
In what was surely merely a formality, Andrey Vatutin has had the title of “CSKA Moscow club president” added to his existing position of CEO. This career move represents the crowing glory for Vatutin, who has worked his way up from press officer with the Russian Basketball Federation in 1997, to success with Ural Great […]