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December 10 for a Lightning strike
THE history of the Adelaide Lightning with surprise guests, copies of my new book "A Type of Life" for sale, and news out of Basketball SA ... the Free Throw Foundation's pre-Christmas lunch on December 10 at the Highway Hotel is one not to be missed.
And yes, unfortunately we've stayed offline
APOLOGIES to regular readers and visitors here but as you will have noticed, your author has stayed out of commission for several weeks despite promising the website's imminent return. Sadly it's been the result of a series of back spasms that laid me out for several weeks and kept my chiropractor extremely busy.
Bob's Corner: Happy anniversary baby, Part II
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BASKETBALL On The Internet's US Corresondent BOB CRAVEN has been busy compiling a list of notable anniversaries in the NBA during my prolonged absence from the keyboard, and there have been some doozies during the month of November, as you are about to relive.
Apologies for the temporary delay...
DEAR regulars, apologies for the recent lack of B.O.T.I. coverage but have had a lot on the old plate. One daughter's wedding and marriage, another one's birthday, the imminent release of my memoir. In the meantime, great basketball stuff has been piling up but back on deck now and will start clearing those same decks shortly!
My memoir 'A Type of Life' is six weeks away
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LAST year I dropped a couple of chapters of my forthcoming memoir "A Type of Life" into this website for your early perusal and I am beyond thrilled to report the full book will be released on November 1. It's as much the story of a migrant family, early basketball, life at a lively afternoon newspaper and some of the big crime stories of the day in SA.
Bob's Corner: Our Lauren, the women's G.O.A.T?
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BOB'S CORNER: Our US correspondent and former import forward BOB CRAVEN has anniversaries and milestones for us to savour this week, but also revisits the most recent outstanding acknowledgement of Australian superstar Lauren Jackson, who starred for his WNBA hometown team, Seattle Storm.
B&B: Reliving Bronze with the great Danny Morseu
THE Boomers' Bronze Medal success at the Tokyo Olympics and Patty Mills' performance moved us all, not the least of which his uncle, dual-Olympic basketballer Danny Morseu. Who better for Brad Rosen and I to talk with at our Brad&Boti podcast than the great man himself, his links including our original indigenous Olympian Michael Ahmatt.
B&B: Timmsy on life and the Games
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MICHELE Timms, one of the all-time greats of Australian basketball, a pioneer and a pacesetter synonymous with international success, joins Brad Rosen and me on our Brad&Boti podcast this week to talk about her life and story, plus the latest Olympic developments, including Liz Cambage's departure from the Opals.
Ballin' is their callin': Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: Entertaining, informative and just sufficiently irreverent but not to anyone's detriment, Huw Beynon's "Ballin' in Black: Our Tall Blacks Test Centurions" is a terrific new basketball tome from across the Tasman.
