Tag: 2010
Spain are double World Champions!
Fresh in almost everyone’s memory is 11 July 2010, when Spain’s national soccer (football) team won the FIFA 2010 World Cup, played in South Africa. Perhaps not as easily or quickly remembered is 3 September 2006 when Spain’s national basketball team won the 2006 FIBA Basketball World Championships in Japan.
The NBA and the World Cup, a match made in heaven?
What does the NBA have in common with soccer’s FIFA World Cup taking place this year in South Africa? Your guess is as good as ours, but SLAMOnline has ventured to find the link between the two – “South Africa is certainly gonna be “where amazing happens”“. In their article, “Cup Comparisons”, they compare the […]
NBA Playoffs: The brooms are out
In some very bizarre conference semi-finals series, three of four series have been swept by their respective winners. The only teams holding out, the Celtics and the Cavaliers, are looking to make up for it by setting up a monstrously exciting battle. The Celtics will be looking to take the series heading into game 6 […]
2010 Euroleague Champions – Regal FC Barcelona
Regal FC Barcelona is the 2010 Euroleague champion! Barca downed Olympiacos 86-68 in the final before a packed house at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in the French capital to win its second Euroleague crown. Juan Carlos Navarro, the only remaining player from Barcelona’s 2003 Euroleague-winning squad, was named Final Four MVP after leading the […]
World Championships 2010 – Team Cote d’Ivoire
With the 2010 World Championships of Basketball coming up later this year, we thought some information about the participating teams would be useful. If you have something to share regarding the teams or the tournament, please let us know. The Cote d’Ivoire team, ranked 40th in the FIBA rankings, could possibly make a surprise impact […]
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