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·PR N°32 - BWB 2008 features first-ever event in India
GENEVA (Basketball Without Borders) - Basketball without Borders 2008 will take place for the first time in New Delhi (India) and will return to Istanbul (Turkey) and Johannesburg (South Africa), the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced today. The NBA and FIBA's global basketball development and ...
·AUS - Chinese Taipei women headed Down Under
SYDNEY (Friendly Games) - Basketball Australia is pleased to announce the twelve athletes selected to represent the Australian Defence Force Opals in a three-game series against the Chinese Taipei women's basketball team in May. After three wins in six games and a bronze medal at the 'Good Luck Beijing' test event in China last month, four changes have ...
·AUS Mackinnon, Smith out of Beijing Olympics for Australia
SYDNEY (Olympics) – Australia’s men have been struck by a couple of thunderbolts with the news that veterans Sam Mackinnon and Jason Smith will be unable to play at the Olympics. Mackinnon, 32, has blood clots on his lungs while Smith, the 33-year-old captain of the Boomers, needs surgery on a shoulder injury that he suffered in last ...
·AUS/CUB Opals hold on for close win over Cuba to finish third
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Australia clinched third place at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event on Saturday but only barely after surviving a furious second-half fight-back by Cuba to win 65-61. Trailing 44-25 at half-time after Alicia Poto’s three-pointer at the buzzer for the Opals, the Cubans emerged from the changing rooms and employed ...
·KOR/NZL Korea fight back to beat Kiwis in fifth-place game
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Korea battled back from a double-digit deficit with 10 minutes remaining and then survived some woeful free throw shooting at the end to beat New Zealand and claim fifth place at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event. Just two days after upsetting world champions Australia, the Tall Ferns looked to be cruising but they ...
·NZL/AUS Tall Ferns achieve first win against Aussies
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - New Zealand made history on Thursday by beating Australia in women’s basketball for the first time. The Tall Ferns prevailed over their arch rivals 63-59, snapping a four-game losing skid at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event. Noni Wharemate’s baseline drive and lay-up in the final minute provedto be ...
·USA/NZL USA women cut down Tall Ferns
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - The United Statesclinched their third straight victory at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event with a 78-60 triumph over New Zealand on Wednesday evening. Leading 19-14 against a Tall Ferns side that has yet to win any of its four games, an 11-0 run that began at the end of the first quarter saw the USA takecontrol for ...
·AUS/KOR Aussies beat Korea in Beijing
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Emma Randall scored 14 of her 16 points in the first half and Natalie Porter led all the Opals with 19 as Australia beat Korea 78-71 on Wednesday in China. After a rest day, the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event resumed at the Olympic gym and the Aussies prevailed to snap a two-game skid. It was their first win since ...
·AUS - Stirling says Beijing venues rock
BEIJING (Olympic Test event) - Australian women's basketball head coach, Jan Stirling, has given Beijing the thumbs up after experiencing the Olympic city first hand during a test event. The 'Australian Defence Force' Opals are currently in China contesting the 'Good Luck Beijing 2008' tournament against teams from the Unites States, Cuba, Korea, New ...
·CHN/NZL Chen, China thrash Kiwis with inside game
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Chen Nan scored 21 of her game-high 26 points in the first half to lead China to a comprehensive win over New Zealand in the final clash of day three at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event. Chen also had eight rebounds in an impressive display, and the Chinese grabbed 40 boards overall to just 23 for the Tall Ferns. ...
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·ARG Regatas Corrientes Win Liga Sudamericana title
CORRIENTES (Liga Sudamericana) Another club in Argentina is celebrating a major honor in international basketball after Regatas Corrientes beat Brazils Flamengo on Wednesday to clinch the Liga Sudamericana. Silvio Santanders team won 73-65 to win the deciding fifth game in the finals.
·AUS - Chinese Taipei women headed Down Under
SYDNEY (Friendly Games) - Basketball Australia is pleased to announce the twelve athletes selected to represent the Australian Defence Force Opals in a three-game series against the Chinese Taipei women's basketball team in May. After three wins in six games and a bronze medal at the 'Good Luck Beijing' test event in China last month, four changes have ...
·AUS Mackinnon, Smith out of Beijing Olympics for Australia
SYDNEY (Olympics) – Australia’s men have been struck by a couple of thunderbolts with the news that veterans Sam Mackinnon and Jason Smith will be unable to play at the Olympics. Mackinnon, 32, has blood clots on his lungs while Smith, the 33-year-old captain of the Boomers, needs surgery on a shoulder injury that he suffered in last ...
·AUS/CUB Opals hold on for close win over Cuba to finish third
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Australia clinched third place at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event on Saturday but only barely after surviving a furious second-half fight-back by Cuba to win 65-61. Trailing 44-25 at half-time after Alicia Poto’s three-pointer at the buzzer for the Opals, the Cubans emerged from the changing rooms and employed ...
·NZL/AUS Tall Ferns achieve first win against Aussies
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - New Zealand made history on Thursday by beating Australia in women’s basketball for the first time. The Tall Ferns prevailed over their arch rivals 63-59, snapping a four-game losing skid at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event. Noni Wharemate’s baseline drive and lay-up in the final minute provedto be ...
·AUS/KOR Aussies beat Korea in Beijing
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Emma Randall scored 14 of her 16 points in the first half and Natalie Porter led all the Opals with 19 as Australia beat Korea 78-71 on Wednesday in China. After a rest day, the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event resumed at the Olympic gym and the Aussies prevailed to snap a two-game skid. It was their first win since ...
·AUS - Stirling says Beijing venues rock
BEIJING (Olympic Test event) - Australian women's basketball head coach, Jan Stirling, has given Beijing the thumbs up after experiencing the Olympic city first hand during a test event. The 'Australian Defence Force' Opals are currently in China contesting the 'Good Luck Beijing 2008' tournament against teams from the Unites States, Cuba, Korea, New ...
·AUS/CUB Opal Batkovic injured as Cuba defeat Australia
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Suzie Batkovic’s return to Australia’s national team for the first time in three years was on Monday cut short when the Olympic center dislocated a thumb in a 60-52 defeat to Cuba. Batkovic, who played on the Opals’ silver-medal winning side at the Athens Olympics, had to sit out ...
·AUS/CHN - Maher takes Chinese to task over woeful rebounding
BEIJING (Olympic Test event) - China upset Australia 67-64 at the end of day two at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event but winning coach Tom Maher was not in a celebratory mood. Having led the Australians at two Olympics and then New Zealand in 2004, Maher is on a crusade to educate not only his players but an entire nation as to what wins basketball games. Australia are the world champions and Maher was asked ab ...
·AUS/USA - Opals ride strong fourth quarter to win over USA
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Australia blew out the United States in the fourth quarter and claimed a 74-60 victory at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event on Saturday. Anne Donovan’s Americans, who will be seeking a fourth straight gold medal at the Olympics this summer in Beijing, led 50-48 at the end of the third quarter butthe Opals ...
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·FIJ Fiji look ahead to big moment in Spain
SUVA (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for women) - Conventional wisdom says Fiji’s women’s national team has two chances of reaching the Beijing Olympics – Slim and None. And Slim just left town. There is no disputing the fact that the Fijians are rank outsiders heading into June’s FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women in ...
·ESP - Spain drawn with Brazil, Cuba with Belarus in Olympic Qualifier
MADRID (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament forwomen) - Spain are hosting the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament this summer in Madrid yet their passage to the Beijing Games will be anything but easy. That was assured on Monday in the Spanish capital at the draw for the event. Five places for China will be up for grabs. Evaristo Perez's Spanish team, ...
·NZL - Mission accomplished
DUNEDIN (FIBA Oceania Championship for Women) - The NZ Tall Ferns took care of the easy part, securing a spot at next year’s Beijing Olympics with a 118-31 win over Fiji at the FIBA Oceania Championships in Dunedin. Now they face a much tougher challenge – convincing the New Zealand selectors they are capable of progressing to the Olympic ...
·AUS/FIJ - Baptism of fire
DUNEDIN (FIBA Oceania Championship for Women) - The scoreboard will show it a mismatch, but gallant Fiji never stopped trying in their showdown against reigning world champions Australia at the FIBA Oceania Championships in Dunedin. Always battling the odds, the South Pacific champions were able to reward a small, but vocal fan club with moments to cheer ...
·FIBA OCEANIA - Bula Dunedin
DUNEDIN (FIBA Oceania Championship for Women) - Fiji have claimed the third spot at this month’s FIBA Oceania Championship for Women in Dunedin with a 70-62 win over American Samoa in the South Pacific Games final. Valerie Nainima led all scorers with 29 points (7/31 FG, 1/11 3pt, 14/18 FT) as the Fijians trailed 32-34 at halftime and only ...
·FIJ - Nainima makes history as first-ever NEC player
SUVA (NCAA) - Long Island University freshman Valerie Nainima (Suva, Fiji) became the first player in Northeast Conference women's basketball history to be named both Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, the conference announced today. The 5-foot-5 guard was selected as the top player in the league in a vote of NEC coaches.
·FIJ - And1 tour hits Fiji
SUVA - The AND1 MIXED TAPE TOUR will hit the shores of Fiji for the first time ever on Wednesday 7th December 2005! This international sporting phenomenon featuring the best professional Streetball players in
·FIBA Oceania - Strong interest to stage 2008 FIBA Oceania Youth Tournament
COAFF HARBOUR (FIBA Oceania Youth Tournament) - Following a recent call from FIBA Oceania four federations have expressed their interest in staging the 2008 FIBA Oceania Youth Tournament. American Samoa
·FIBA - FIBA introduces new sports software in Oceania
GENEVA (FIBA) - The International Basketball Federation FIBA has introduced the 'FIBA Organizer', a software package which is aimed at bettering sports administration on all levels, to basketball managers from across Oceania. During a workshop held at the Millennium Institute of Sport and Health in Auckland on 2nd - 4th October, 15 out of 21 Oceania Federations were present. Two and a half days of intensive trainin ...
·FIBA Oceania - Jon Hoyle reports on how the National teams prepared for the Mini Games
PALAU (South Pacific Mini Games) - It has been interesting to learn of the various ways that the different teams have been able to prepare for the South Pacific Mini Games. Of course, all countries have been preparing over
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·KOR/NZL Korea fight back to beat Kiwis in fifth-place game
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Korea battled back from a double-digit deficit with 10 minutes remaining and then survived some woeful free throw shooting at the end to beat New Zealand and claim fifth place at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event. Just two days after upsetting world champions Australia, the Tall Ferns looked to be cruising but they ...
·NZL/AUS Tall Ferns achieve first win against Aussies
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - New Zealand made history on Thursday by beating Australia in women’s basketball for the first time. The Tall Ferns prevailed over their arch rivals 63-59, snapping a four-game losing skid at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event. Noni Wharemate’s baseline drive and lay-up in the final minute provedto be ...
·USA/NZL USA women cut down Tall Ferns
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - The United Statesclinched their third straight victory at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event with a 78-60 triumph over New Zealand on Wednesday evening. Leading 19-14 against a Tall Ferns side that has yet to win any of its four games, an 11-0 run that began at the end of the first quarter saw the USA takecontrol for ...
·CHN/NZL Chen, China thrash Kiwis with inside game
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Chen Nan scored 21 of her game-high 26 points in the first half to lead China to a comprehensive win over New Zealand in the final clash of day three at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event. Chen also had eight rebounds in an impressive display, and the Chinese grabbed 40 boards overall to just 23 for the Tall Ferns. ...
·NZL/KOR Kim, Korea out-shoot Kiwis
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Jung Eun Kim erupted for a game-high 26 points to lead Korea past New Zealand in a battle of Olympic teams at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test event. Kim was outstanding, drilling four of eight shots from three-point range and making all six of her shots inside the arc. Duk Hwa Jung’s team, beaten by China on ...
·CUB/NZL Cuba claim narrow win over Tall Ferns in Beijing opener
BEIJING (Olympic Test Event) - Cuba edged New Zealand 75-71 in the opening game of the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event. Yayma Boulet Peillon, the captain of the Cubans, had 20 points – 10 in each half – to lead the team from the FIBA Americas to victory. The Tall Ferns have already qualified for the Beijing Games while Cuba will play ...
·NZL Tall Ferns impressive in friendly defeat to China
NINGBO (Olympic Test event) - The New Zealand Tall Ferns are giving the world some insight this week into how their Olympic team will compare to the side that made a surprising run to the quarter-finals of the Athens Games four years ago. A strong performance on Thursday evening in a 71-67 defeat to hosts China in Ningbo has left Kiwis coach Mike McHugh feeling ...
·AUS/NZL - Opals hold off New Zealand for second win
CANBERRA (Friendly Game) - The Australian Defence Force Opals made it two wins from two games against New Zealand at the AIS Training Hall this weekend, downing their trans-Tasman rivals by twenty points, 80-60. Bulleen's Emma Randall paced the Aussies with 17 points and collected an equal game high 8 rebounds while New Zealand captain Aneka Kerr led ...
·AUS/NZL - Opals too good for New Zealand
CANBERRA (Friendly Game) - The Australian Defence Force Opals continued three decades of dominance over their trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand this afternoon, taking victory in the first of two international friendlies this weekend, 84-39. Fifteen unanswered second quarter points set up the ADF Opals victory, with New Zealand unable to overcome ...
·AUS - Stirling challenged by Opals juggling act
CANBERRA (Friendly games) - Australian Defence Force Opals head coach Jan Stirling will carefully manage the physical condition of her squad over the coming days in order to avoid a shock defeat to New Zealand on Saturday. Seven of the 18 athletes attending the ADF Opals’ camp at the AIS in Canberra are unable to train at full strength and may not ...
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·PNG - National Games underway
GOROKA (National Games) - In a country where rugby league and netball seem to dominate the national sporting agenda, basketball is the largest sport being played at the PNG National Games in
·FIBA Oceania - Strong interest to stage 2008 FIBA Oceania Youth Tournament
COAFF HARBOUR (FIBA Oceania Youth Tournament) - Following a recent call from FIBA Oceania four federations have expressed their interest in staging the 2008 FIBA Oceania Youth Tournament. American Samoa
·FIBA - FIBA introduces new sports software in Oceania
GENEVA (FIBA) - The International Basketball Federation FIBA has introduced the 'FIBA Organizer', a software package which is aimed at bettering sports administration on all levels, to basketball managers from across Oceania. During a workshop held at the Millennium Institute of Sport and Health in Auckland on 2nd - 4th October, 15 out of 21 Oceania Federations were present. Two and a half days of intensive trainin ...
·FIBA Oceania - Jon Hoyle reports on how the National teams prepared for the Mini Games
PALAU (South Pacific Mini Games) - It has been interesting to learn of the various ways that the different teams have been able to prepare for the South Pacific Mini Games. Of course, all countries have been preparing over
·PNG - Filipino League commences in PNG
The grand opening of the 5th Filipino Basketball League (FILBA) in Papua New Guinea will be preceded by a fund raising event for the Mini South Pacific Games on the 18th February and at the
·PNG - PNG tournament to raise funds for Mini Games participation
According to an article by The National newspaper, the Basketball Federation of Papua New Guinea (BFPNG) will host an open basketball competition in a bid to raise funds for the 2005 Mini
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·Bogut attacks as basketball bounces back
Australia's number one National Basketball Association (USA) star, Andrew Bogut, has gone on the attack to refute claims by a leading Australian sports coach that basketball is boring.
·FIBA World Championships
The FIBA World Championship (Basketball) 2006 takes place in Japan (Sapporo, Sendai, Hamamatsu, Hiroshima, Saitama) from 19 August - 3 September 2006
·More basketball clinics for Vanuatu
Oceania's zone development officer for basketball, Stuart Manwairing was presently in town manning a basketball clinic.
·One division for new basketball challenge
A breeze has swept through the Port Vila Basketball Association (PVBA) as the 2005 program gets underway, and the new direction puts all players in the same division for the challenge tournament.
·Paying for the pleasure
For many years, sport lovers in Vanuatu have volunteered time and energy to their favourite pastimes, seeking only the adrenaline and the rush of competition. The Eagle general manager and promotions coordinator Reynolds Alatoa has a plan to change the "volunteer system to a beneficial system" as recognition for their commitment.
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