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Basketball – national body or national business?

March 22, 2010 in News

warriorsThe NBA’s Golden State Warriors franchise is reportedly up for sale. The team has youth and potential, but that’s the same as the last time it was sold in 1995 [remember Chris Webber and Latrell Sprewell?].

A handful of the other team sales that have taken place in the last couple of decades:

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Gauteng Women’s tournament – final results 2008

December 7, 2008 in Women in basketball

Information supplied by Nhlanhla Zikalala

Gauteng Women’s tournament Day 2 – 02/12/2008

December 4, 2008 in Women in basketball

Gauteng hosted another Women’s tournament that had some interesting clashes lined up for the few people that made the trip to the Orlando Community Hall in Orlando. After a lengthy interval between the junior and senior games, that saw some of the spectators take to the court; the games were about to resume with an interesting clash between Tuks and the Jewels from Zimbabwe who were the defending champions. In the 2nd game we had Vaal University of Technology against University of Johannesburg with VUT going out there and recruiting to make their team stronger with the acquisition of Emma Ledwaba and Phumla. The way the tournament is set up is that the juniors play in the morning while the senior games are in the afternoon to accommodate the working folks… By the way there was a lot of last minute cancellation in the senior pools so it ended up with 4 teams playing round robin with the winner taking the R30000 on offer. At junior level there were plenty of teams but the defending champions from Tshwane were out to collect the grand prize of R15000.

Tuks vs Zimbabwe Jewels

Zimbabwe Jewels, the defending champions, arrived in Gauteng late and missed out on their first game against VUT ladies so they had some catching up to do if they were going to go home with some extra cash…

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