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Teamwork makes dream work - our first Golden Girls
YOU might not know it but if you love basketball, you should. This is the 30-year anniversary of our very first FIBA World Championship Gold Medal, won in 1993 in Seoul, South Korea at the Under-19 Women's Worlds, by a team full of players who have continued on to greatness in sport and in life.
Great Aussie Basketball Quiz Answers
HERE we go, your moment of truth if you yesterday had a crack at our first annual "Great Australian Basketball Quiz" WITHOUT consulting any search engines or other sources beyond your own knowledge and memory. It wasn't an easy quiz, although some of the questions should have been relatively manageable. One of them was a stumper though.
The Great Aussie Basketball Quiz
SO, you think you know all there is about Australian basketball. You know our connections to the NBA and WNBA, the histories of the Boomers and Opals, and, naturally, anything worth knowing of the NBL and WNBL, right? OK then, here it is! The first annual "Great Aussie Basketball Quiz" for fans of the game who think they know it all.
Paris a monumental quest for Boomers
FANS of the Boomers need to have no illusions about the difficulty of the task ahead at the Paris Olympic Games. Of the eight teams to already qualify, namely host nation France, World Champion Germany, runner-up Serbia, Canada, USA, Australia, Japan and South Sudan, right now most would only pencil in those last two national teams as likely Aussie wins.
Boomers World Cup a small F fail
NOW the dust has settled on the FIBA World Cup, it’s fair to say Australia delivered a small ‘F’ fail in Okinawa and Manila. You cannot fly out spouting “gold vibes only,” then not make it to the quarter-final round after promising a podium finish. Sorry. That’s a fail. It just isn’t a crisis.
FIBA WC23: Long way yet to the Finnish
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THERE are major scores to settle when Slovenia takes on Australia tomorrow night in Manila to open the second group stage of the FIBA Men’s World Cup, the Boomers needing two wins to go through to the quarter-finals, having successfully qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
FIBA WC23: Boomers shot at destiny
FINGERS, toes and any other multiple body appendages remain crossed that our Boomers can from tomorrow night at the 2023 FIBA World Cup return to the medal podium they first stepped upon at the recent Tokyo Olympics.
Vale Les Hody, international superstar
HUNGARIAN-born Australian international basketball trail-blazer Laszlo "Les" Hody died in Melbourne today after a short illness. The first man to represent two different countries at Olympic Games and the inspiration for a generation of players in South Australia and Victoria, Les was 88.
Whitcomb talks motherhood and basketball
WEEKEND FEATURE: Reprinted from the Seattle Times. Storm’s Sami Whitcomb finds balance between motherhood and basketball: ‘It’s all worth it’
Boomers get it right again
HOW reassuring is it these days to see an Australian men's squad announced, look at it and think only positive thoughts? Brian Goorjian's 18-man Boomers squad for the FIBA World Cup in August has three obvious omissions but is so rich in talent that medal salivations are warranted.
