heinnews’s David Hein hit the road again and took in a handball match with two-time EHF Champions League champions THW Kiel from Germany. Afterwards, Hein caught up with Kiel’s superstar goalkeeper and 2008 world handball player of the year Thierry Omeyer and talked about trying to get back to the [...]
The series of injuries Arvydas Sabonis suffered in the mid- to late-1980s actually benefited the Lithuanian big man, according to his compatriot Šarūnas Marčiulionis, who believes they helped Sabonis refine his game. Sabonis suffered his first Achilles tendon injury in 1986 and then had Achilles surgery in 1988 but was [...]
The field for the 2012 men’s basketball Olympic basketball tournament is 75 percent as nine of the 12 teams have been determined through this summer’s various continental tournaments. The 12 nations who will be vying for the final three Olympic berths from the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament have been also [...]
Vilnius (heinnews) – The 47-year-old is anything but flashy, wearing a simple white t-shirt and light blue jeans. But his hands are like those of a monster, giving a very firm handshake. And his light brown hair is only slightly graying around his ears. Sitting at a booth in his [...]
By Dirk Fries Germany’s Marco Huck retained his WBO cruiserweight title after beating his Argentinean opponent Hugo Hernan Garay Saturday night in Munich. The world cruiserweight WBO champion Huck can now relax after knocking out the Argentinean after one minute and 10 seconds in the tenth round. Huck’s win was not [...]
Tennis enjoyed a boom in Germany from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s when Boris Becker and Steffi Graf were winning one title after the next. With women stars Andrea Petkovic and Julia Goerges both moving into the Top 20 and German men Philipp Kohlschreiber and Philipp Petzschner making a historic [...]
It’s been a long time since German basketball fans have seen Joe Herber play like this. The German international wingman has blossomed in his new role with Tübingen this season as he hopes to bring Walter Tigers to the playoffs for the first time in their club history – and [...]
heinnews’s David Hein used the chance of the Bayern Munich-Würzburg ProA basketball highlight to have another chat with Bayern Munich and German national team head coach Dirk Bauermann. They looked back at his thoughts since the beginning of the Bayern Munich project; his up-coming decision about Bayern and the German [...]
The Munich 2018 bid committee submitted their bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics on January, 11, 2011, at IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. In light of the German city’s candidacy for the 2018 Games, heinnews’s David Hein talked with bid ambassador and two-time Olympic figure skating gold medalist Katarina [...]
After years of kniving past guards throughout Europe and the world, CSKA Moscow and Russian international playmaker JR Holden has grabbed the pen and will soon be publishing his memoirs in a book called “Blessed Footsteps”. The American-born Holden, once a regular contributor to heinnews.com, takes a look through his [...]
