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The Friday Eurovision
The Friday Eurovision is presented by Jeff Taylor, founder and owner of Basketball World News Ltd. Log onto FIBA.com each week and read his columns about the players, clubs and countries that are making headlines. Jeff hails from Charlotte, North Carolina, and graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 1987. A journalist in Charlotte and later New England, he moved to Europe in 1996 and worked for the Press Association for 11 years. Jeff has covered international basketball events for FIBA since 1996 and served as a television commentator at numerous tournaments, including working for the BBC at the Olympic tournaments in Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004). |
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14/09/2009
Spain look to steady the ship
LODZ (EuroBasket 2009) - Spain have had a lot of highs over the years, with their fans accustomed to seeing the national team reach the podium at major tournaments.
Right now at the EuroBasket in
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03/07/2009
Hackett can recover from draft day misery
LONDON [The Friday Eurovision] - The life of a sportsman is filled with highs and lows. There’s no better way to describe the last couple of weeks for Daniel Hackett, a promising Italy international
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26/06/2009
NBA dips into European talent pool
LONDON [The Friday Eurovision] - The NBA Draft at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night gave all of us at FIBA.com some interesting food for thought.
Over the past several months, we've seen
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17/04/2009
Roma’s Jennings shows he has a big heart
LONDON (The Friday Eurovision) - Never has it been more gratifying to be involved in the sport of basketball than now.
It has emerged that teenager Brandon Jennings, the highly-touted American who
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13/03/2009
School of hard knocks in session for Rudy
LONDON (Friday Eurovision) - Spain's Rudy Fernandez is getting a chance to play with the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers this season.
In addition to gaining experience and plenty of adulation, however,
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16/01/2009
Humble Gentile learns the ropes
LONDON (Friday EuroVision) - There were two big basketball fans in Rome on Sunday that come from England.
One was football star David Beckham, who is often sitting courtside at Los Angeles Lakers
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12/12/2008
DKV expect titles before Rubio's departure to NBA
LONDON (Friday EuroVision) - I was surrounded by greatness on Thursday night in Badalona, Spain.
It was a great feeling to finally arrive at the Palacio Municipal De Deportes De Badalona after
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07/11/2008
Basketball and Obama
LONDON (The Friday Eurovision Show) - It's not often that I interview a basketball player and he signs off by delivering a political statement.
That's what Brandon Jennings did on Tuesday, though,
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31/10/2008
Thanks to international games, Marc Gasol is NBA ready
LONDON (The Friday Eurovision) – I watched a replay of this year’s gold medal game at the Olympics on Thursday and enjoyed the clash just as much as I had in Beijing.
Nothing changed. The USA still
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