Paralympic World Cup: Aussies claim Bronze
It was a double celebration overnight in Manchester as the Rollers and Gliders won Bronze at the Paralympic World Cup.
It was a double celebration overnight in Manchester as the Rollers and Gliders won Bronze at the Paralympic World Cup.
The Australian Gliders and Rollers will face Great Britain and Italy respectively in the Bronze medal playoffs at the Paralympic World Cup tomorrow after both Australian teams notched their first wins of the tournament in Manchester.
Rollers and Gliders fell to 0-2 records overnight in Manchester.
Australia’s Women’s Wheelchair Basketball team, the Gliders, will host wheelchair basketball powerhouse Germany in a ‘Gliders World Challenge’ in June as they prepare for the world titles in July.
Australians Abby Bishop and Alison Lacey scored their first points in America's WNBA today as the Seattle Storm suffered their first loss of the season.
It was not an ideal start to the Paralympic World Cup for the Gliders and Rollers as both teams dropped their opening games in Manchester overnight.
Basketball Australia has released the schedule for the 2010/11 National Basketball League season, with the Sydney Kings scheduled to make their highly-anticipated return to the NBL when the competition begins play on Friday 15 October.
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Basketball Australia's US correspondent Phil Moskowitz wraps another week of Aussie Boomers in action in Europe and the United States.
Jayco Opal Lauren Jackson has been named the Western Conference Player of the Week in America's WNBA, the league announced overnight.
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Australia's wheelchair basketball teams depart Australia today, headed for the 2010 Paralympic World Cup in Manchester.
It was a clash of Australian basketball titans when Jayco Opals stars Lauren Jackson and Penny Taylor faced off in the WNBA yesterday.
A slimmed down three-a-side version of basketball could be on the Olympic program as early as the 2020 Summer Games, the secretary general of the sport's governing body told Reuters on Wednesday.
During the Aussie Hoops Workshops conducted last week at Echuca and Waverley, Aussie Hoops Associations were formally recognised by Basketball Australia for their support of the program.
Basketball Australia is pleased to announce the 12 athletes selected to represent Australia at the inaugural FIBA U17 World Championship for Men in Hamburg, Germany from July 2-11.
Australian basketball legends Andrew Gaze and Michele Timms alongside Brazil’s Oscar Schmidt and Yugoslavia’s Aleksandar ‘Sasha’ Djordjevic have been named as Athlete Role Models (ARM) for this summer’s inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) set to take place in the city-state of Singapore between the 14th and 26th August, FIBA announced on Thursday.
Australian centre AJ Ogilvy is one small step closer to knowing his future after the National Basketball Association held its 2010 Draft Lottery in Secaucus, New Jersey Tuesday night.
