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29/01/2009
Rabbit, Run!
[by Gustavo CARDOSO] - NBB Basketball, the new Brazilian league, started yesterday evening. A league ran by clubs with the consent of the local federation is something common everywhere, but a dream
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13/10/2008
Liga Nordeste: A pro/am adventure in Brazil
[by Gustavo CARDOSO] - On the phone it is easy to depict Ives Costa’s slow motion “baiano” accent. Difficult is what he and a few other lovers of the game have been doing over the last couple of
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13/10/2008
Batucadas # 4: The word around the Brazilian campfire
[by Gustavo CARDOSO] - The fourth edition of the Batucadas starts with a prayer to Dona Ivete, Leandro Barbosa’s mother. The Brazilian guard has left the Suns preseason to be with his family members
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03/09/2008
Batucadas # 3: The word around the Brazilian campfire
[by Gustavo CARDOSO] - As I pointed out almost two weeks ago, on this same blog, Franca is indeed going “Brazilian standards” big after new sponsors, and Vivo, as confirmed by sources, is the name of
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20/08/2008
Batucadas # 2: The word around the Brazilian campfire
[by Gustavo CARDOSO] - Tough week as the women’s NT got booted out of Beijing, after disapointing losses to South Korea, and Latvia. Australia, and Russia were expected to be tough match ups, but at
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08/08/2008
Batucadas #1: The word around the Brazilian campfire
[by Gustavo CARDOSO] - Back at home chilling under pollution clouds (nothing as bad as what I have heard about Beijing, though), and heavy rain. Anyway, the Batucadas are up and running, and hopefully
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30/07/2008
The PAOK passion under siege
[by Gustavo CARDOSO] - Walking around Thessaloniki or even riding the bus down the margins of the Aegean sea on the way to Halkidiki (on the west side), and towards the Olympus (on the west), all you
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26/07/2008
Riding up to Thessaloniki
[by Gustavo CARDOSO] - I couldn’t get over the Greek basketball experience yet, so on Sunday, right after the game, I jumped on an all nighter from Athens to Thessaloniki. The Larissa train station
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20/07/2008
Wrapping things up in Athens
[by Gustavo CARDOSO] - It has been a great basketball week, but as with all good things, they seem to go way too fast. 19 games, over 12 and a half hours of hoops, and more than 2.900 points scored.
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19/07/2008
The past and the future in Plaka
[by Gustavo CARDOSO] - Here I am, at OAKA arena, watching Croatia beat the Germans, and qualify to Beijing. The same Croatians Brazil defeated, last week, in the Acropolis tournament. It’s sad to be
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