The arrival of basketball in Italy
The arrival of basketball in Italy The first appearance of basketball in Italy. April 27, 1907 was a very important day for the sport of basketball in Italy. Until that time, basketball was not known in Italy. Mrs. Ida Nomi Venerosi Pesciolini, Physical Education teacher at the “Mens Sana in Corpore Sano Society” school and […]
Three Pigs & Basketball
Three Pigs & Basketball Once upon a time there were three little pigs who liked basketball. Growing up, it was time for them to move on, creating their own stadium and their own team. It was summer when they started their journey. The first piglet was a hurried character. He wanted to quickly prepare […]
2021 Basketball Reinstatement Proposal
2021 Basketball Reinstatement Proposal Basketball friends, The “second time Lock down” deprived and continues to deprive within a few months for another period of time, the sports activity in the basketball teams, which belong to the amateur, child-adolescent sports and the academies. The training and competition goals were overturned and now the future of any […]
The Paralyzed World War II Veterans Who Invented Wheelchair Basketball
On an unremarkable Wednesday evening in the spring of 1948, 15,561 spectators flocked to New York’s Madison Square Garden to watch two teams of World War II veterans play an exhibition basketball game. The servicemen who took to the hardwood that night were as extraordinarily ordinary as any group of veterans. They could have been […]
Basketball Hoops
Basketball Hoops In 1891 Naismith hung the sport’s first wooden baskets in a balcony of the indoor gymnasium of the “School of Christian Workers” (later called Springfield College). This basket height has never changed! Despite so many changes in the rules of the sport, the height of the baskets remained the same! In 1892 Lew […]
The last minutes of a basketball game
The last minutes of a basketball game In the last minutes of last night’s A1 match between G.S. Peristeri and A.E.K. , the home team had a lead of 7 points (55 – 48). From that point on, AEK relied on personal baskets by Keith Langford and 3-pointers by Matt Lojeski, so that in the […]
Free Throw King
Α basketball player whose name you might have never heard, but who once held the record for most consecutive free throw shots. In 1993, the 71 year old Tom Amberry broke the world record with 2,750 free throw shots. Tom Amberry was a retired podiatrist who entertained himself by learning to free throw. By […]
Η πορεία των νεαρών καλαθοσφαιριστών της Νέας Ζηλανδίας στα Κολέγια των ΗΠΑ
Ten years ago the idea that over 100 Kiwis would be on basketball scholarships in the United States in any given year, with almost half of them at NCAA Division I schools, would have been unimaginable. In the recently concluded 2019-2020 US collegiate season, no fewer than 101 New Zealand players were at US universities […]
