Darwin's big 3x3 win
INSTALLATION of Australia's first semi-permanent FIBA3X3 court began today in Darwin and will be available for 12 months of action from Friday, August 23, likely attracting international teams from Papua-New Guinea, the Philippines and Malaysia.
Brogues and the 'remarkable man'
DESCRIBED by Dean Brogan as a "remarkable man", legendary sports icon Kevin Sheedy will talk exclusively to the Free Throw Foundation lunch on Thursday about "Basketball to Footy."
BA had no option with NZ NBL
BASKETBALL Australia is bearing the brunt of the heat today for its decision to prevent Mount Gambier from joining the NZ NBL in 2020, but in truth it had no option other than to rule against the Pioneers.
Sheeds speaks for FTF
AFL Hall of Fame legend, former Richmond star and four-time Essendon premiership coach Kevin Sheedy is the prize guest for the Free Throw Foundation's next big lunch on Thursday, July 18.
Life without Beatles? - Movie Review
MOVIE REVIEW: IMAGINE there's no Beatles, it's not easy, even if you try. No Come Together, not even Ticket to Ride. ... You get the idea and it's the terrific premise of YESTERDAY, which hits cinemas next week.
Pioneers to sail across Tasman
MULTIPLE SEABL champion Mt Gambier Pioneers - the club left out in the cold when the new NBL1 competition was formed - has followed the lead of Tasmania's Southern Huskies and nominated for the NZ-NBL next year.
R.I.P. Magdi Nenni
MAGDOLNA Nagy passed away peacefully this week, leaving an amazing legacy, guiding her young family through World War II’s wildest days, creating a new and grand life in Australia and welcoming many of basketball’s greatest legends into our lives and home.
Hoops diplomacy, Euro style (Feature)
THE TOUR: Sarunas, Dirk, Giannis, Luka—Europe has supplied some of the NBA’s biggest names for a generation now. But the man who helped make the Euro Invasion possible is all but forgotten: Jim McGregor, the entrepreneurial American coach who brought basketball across the Atlantic 50 years ago.
Taking sports passion to another level
TAKING on the challenge of a documentary making the collecting of sports cards interesting, let alone entertaining, had to knock award-winning filmmaker Lennon Cooper for a coop-de-loop.
Soaring as the Crow flies
SUNDAY was a seriously significant day in Australian sports history – a day on which more than 53,000 people meandered into picturesque Adelaide Oval to exclusively watch women’s sport.