Kareem Abdul Jabaar and Leukemia/Kareem Abdul Jabaar y la Leucemia

Estoy en solidaridad con Kareem Abdul Jabaar en su lucha contra la leucemia.
I am in solidarity with Kareem Abdul Jabaar in his struggle against Leukemia.
Unete en le lucha contra la leucemia.
Unite in the struggle against leukemia.

NBA Helps The World

The primary problem with the NBA has been one of image. The NBA has many basketball players who are talented yet they are misjudged by a few people who have tainted it secondary to their misbehaviour. There is the image of NBA Players being overpaid yet giving little to the community at large. While the [...]

Becky Hammon: A Personal Reflection

The BBC Programme “World Have Your Say” dedicated a segment to athletes who renounced their allegiance to their home countries in order to play their favourite sports in the Beijing Summer Olympics. One of the athletes who did that was the South Dakota Native who played basketball for the WNBA [Women’s National Basketball Association] and [...]

USA Defeats Angola in Basketball

According to Xinhua and CRI English, the USA defeated Angola by 97-76 in Men’s Basketball. I am not surprised taking into account that most of the US Olympic Basketball Team is from the NBA [National Basketball Association] which is a Professional Organization. While the USA deserves to be congratulated, I often wander if it is [...]

How the USA Can Win Gold in Basketball [Beijing 2008]

I have decided to write about basketball since I once played basketball in high school and occasionally play a game or two. I finished reading the BBC Olympic Blog article written by Philip Studd concerning the US Olympic Basketball Team. According to Philip Studd, the US Olympic Basketball Team has just arrived in the former [...]

Becky Hammon

Becky Hammon who is a native of South Dakota and an All American Girl who plays for the WNBA [Women's National Basketball Association] has been called a traitor. The reason is that she is playing for the Russian Women’s Basketball Team during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The accuser is Anne Donovan who is the coach [...]

Harlem Globetrotters

I would like to talk about my experience with the Harlem Globetrotters. It was like it happened yesterday. It was in January of 1977 when I went to see the Harlem Globetrotters play basketball in a stadium in Richfield, Ohio. The way was difficult due to the ice and heavy snow but I was able [...]

Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami

Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami died in a car crash in Northern Iran hours after playing for his team Saba Batri against the Pardis Club of Qazvin. He was 25 years old and had played a major role in obtaining the Gold Medal for Iran during the 2007 Asian Championship in Japan. Our condolences to his family [...]