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MY (e)mail is the Australia-New Zealand Oceania series next month will be on free-to-air television with both games out of Canberra on August 18 to be televised live.

The opening matches in Auckland on August 14 will be on slight delay but also on TV for your viewing pleasure.

We’ll all know for sure later this week but I’m already buying Doritos and putting beer-on-ice in anticipation.

COLLEGE games against our elite men’s teams are not far away so here’s a quick refresher of what we know so far:

On August 6, the University of New Mexico takes on Sydney Kings at Bankstown, the same night Butler University takes on North Bears in Sydney.

On August 8, the Sydney Kings are at Newington College hosting Butler while Uni of New Mexico is flexing its muscles against the SEABL’s Kilsyth Cobras in Melbourne.

On August 10, the Australian team has a clash with Butler in Sydney, Butler heading up to Cairns to play the Taipans on August 11.

On August 12, Wollongong Hawks host St Mary’s College at Shoalhaven.

On August 14, St Mary’s takes on Dandenong’s SEABL team.

On August 15, St Mary’s runs into Melbourne Tigers at Kilsyth.

On August 20, St Mary’s takes on Cairns at The Southport School.

See if you can spot Dave Claxton in the crowd.

BRISBANE’s WSU star Brock Motum has signed a two-year deal with Virtus Bologna in Italy.

Virtus Bologna has won 15 league titles and eight Italian Cups and was one of David Andersen’s early European locations.

Motum saw limited minutes with Philadelphia 76ers at the NBA Summer League in Orlando.

ALL Star Games are pretty much a misnomer, let’s be honest.

They’re not really “games” so much as showcases of players’ talents, with no-one wanting to go so hard that they might incur or be responsible for an injury.

In the WNBA, they don’t even always hold one because retaining Gold at the Olympics takes priority.

So is it even a game?

“Laugh, talk, spend time together and joke around,'' Candace Parker of Los Angeles Sparks and the Western Conference team said when asked what the game was all about.

Parker scored 23 points with 11 rebounds as the West beat the East 102-98 at the sold-out Mohegan Sun Arena today to win the MVP award.

It will sit nicely with her WNBA Rookie of the Year and MVP trophies.

Parker's Sparks' teammate Kristi Toliver had 21 points and former UConn All-American Maya Moore of Minnesota Lynx had 14.

The East was led by Epiphanny Prince of the Chicago Sky and Ivory Latta of the Washington Mystics who both scored 15 points.

Just don’t call it a game.

KRISTINA Keneally took a beating today on Offsiders, an ABC-TV sports chat show where Barrie Cassidy was joined by Gerard Whateley, John Harms, Kelli Underwood and Ange Postecoglou.

The BACEOKK’s “Twittergate” exchanges earlier this week with journalists prompted Cassidy to read from the NewsLtd story where she questioned the ingenuity of the pertinent media and their need to be “spoon fed”.

Cassidy said all sports spoon feed journalists because they WANT the publicity.

Not a bad point really.

THIS will be a big week for basketball announcements with only three NBL teams boasting finalised rosters but a fourth to join them.

And Baron Davis has joined the Flat Earth Society.