Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 26: Os Davis of BallinEurope and Dave of heinnews talk to Sasha Kaun of CSKS Moscow about the Euroleague and possibly playing this summer for Russia at EuroBasket 2013. We also talked with Bilbao Basket and Russia national team coach Fotis Katsikaris. For the music [...]
Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 12: Os and Dave talk about Dave’s interviews with CSKA Moscow head coach Ettore Messina and CSKA Moscow and Russian national team forward Viktor Khryapa. For the Movie of the Week segment we watched “Horse Feathers” while Wolfman Os introduces two songs by our [...]
Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 9: A nice chat with Patrick Anderson, a three-time Paralympic wheelchair basketball gold medalist for Canada, about winning and losing Paralympic gold medal games, the differences between wheelchair basketball and able-body basketball, how he could take LeBron James in the chair, the state of [...]
Taking The Charge Podcast Episode 8: Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress.com stops by to chat about – what else? – draft prospects, reclassification in high school hoops and a 2013-14 European rookie out of college to watch . We also met up with Dre Baldwin, the so-called Best Unsigned Basketball Player [...]
heinnews may not be at the London Olympics but that doesn’t mean there can’t be news from the Games on the site. heinnews’s David Hein contacted Elena Rozkova, CEO of the Ukrainian dance group ReD Foxes, which is performing at the men’s and women’s basketball games in London. They talked [...]
Football may be the king of sports in Germany, but basketball is right on its heels in Deutschland when it comes to social media. That is the finding of a study that analyzed the collective social networking of 94 sport organizations. The Macromedia Academy for Media and Communication (MHMK) in [...]
Wetzlar, Germany (heinnews) – Where do you start? The unknown is right around the corner – a moment you never thought would come. But RSV Lahn-Dill face the unenviable task of trying to replace one of the best wheelchair basketball players of all time. Since Canadian Joey Johnson arrived in [...]
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 [...]
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