Archive for May, 2010
Friendly: Montana Vikings winning run ends
While in South Africa on an outreach tour in connection with Hoops4Hope that lasted just a few days, a Canadian group of players beat Cape Peninsula University by 28 points on monday and came face to face with the best team in the Cape at the moment, Montana Vikings on Wednesday 19 May at the Belhar Sports […]
The NBA travels to Africa
Following on from our story recently that the NBA will open offices in South Africa in 2010, SlamOnline interviewed Amadou Fall, the man who will lead the NBA’s charge into Africa. Fall’s key concepts are relatively simple (a good thing!):
Her Story: Nigerian basketball star gives back
ESPN is running a series called “Her Story”. In one of the episodes, they profile a young Nigerian lady named Mobolaji (“Mobi”) Akiode who is making a difference to the game in Nigeria. Mobi played for the Nigerian national team at one time, and also spent time living with her family in Newark, New Jersey, […]
WCBA league: Vikings trash UWC by a ton
If you had the opportunity to watch UWC play over the last few years they would have given you hope that they were making progress in the right direction. But this year, their team doesn’t look like they have the energy, passion or commitment to compete with the likes of Montana Vikings, who showed that […]
SA U18’s missing out on Afrobasket Zone 6 qualifiers
In terms of worldwide basketball, Southern African countries fall into FIBA’s “Zone 6 classification”. There are 10 countries included in Zone 6, namely South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. On the global stage, this represents SA’s first step into international competition, so we should be using every opportunitiy to […]
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