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Sweet Seventeen For Hungary

Sweet Seventeen For Hungary
New Hungary head coach Stefan Svitek has named a 17-strong roster as his team begins preparation at a training camp in the Slovak Republic ahead of next month's crunch EuroBasket Women Qualification Round. The former Good Angels Kosice play-caller, who was dismissed after his club's EuroLeague Women season ... Read More...

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Rivas Get Honti; Fort Departs Gdynia

Rivas Get Honti; Fort Departs Gdynia
Rivas Ecopolis have lured Hungary international Katalin Honti to the Madrid region club from EuroLeague Women champions Ros Casares. The 24-year-old, who left long-time club UNIQA Euroleasing Sopron in Hungary for Valencia last summer, appeared in 16 European games for Ros. The 1.78m Hungary international should ... Read More...

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I want to play in a big league before retiring: Geethu Anna Jose

I want to play in a big league before retiring: Geethu Anna Jose
Heartbreaks are a part of every sport, but when the dreams of being the first Indian to play at the Women's National Basketball Association in the United States are shattered it’s not easy to get back the confidence and dream all over again. But, the face of Indian women's basketball, Geethu Anna Jose refuses to give up and is determined to try again ... Read More...

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RUS - Lack of playing time costs Abrosimova NT place

RUS - Lack of playing time costs Abrosimova NT place
MOSCOW (Olympics) - Russia have a pool of 20 players they will choose from to compete at the London Olympics. One of the familiar faces in recent times, Svetlana Abrosimova, is not among them. National team coach Boris Sokolovsky paid tribute to the 31-year-old and explained that her exclusion was down to the lack of time on the court she has received ... ... Read More...

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Fierce Competition For Ukraine Spots

Fierce Competition For Ukraine Spots
Anna Pokoiova has admitted she will have to sweat it out for a place on the final Ukraine roster this summer after new head-coach Vadim Czeczuro named a lengthy 24-strong preliminary group of players. The small forward who had enjoyed a productive youth career finally got her chance at senior national team level last summer when she was catapulted ... Read More...

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BRA - Adrianinha and Co hard at work

BRA - Adrianinha and Co hard at work
JUNDIAI (Olympics) - Brazil's women are gearing up for another run at an Olympic medal. The preliminary squad is now in training for the London Games with new coach Luis Claudio Tarallo. Despite the team's title at last year's FIBA Americas Championship in Colombia, Brazil's struggles at the Beijing Games are still fresh in the mind. In 2008, ... ... Read More...

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Milovanovic Back To Sopron

Milovanovic Back To Sopron
UNIQA Euroleasing Sopron already know the team they will have for the 2012-13 season and one of the players is Jelena Milovanovic, a EuroLeague Women All-Star in her previous spell at the club. Milovanovic, a 23-year-old power forward, has returned to Sopron to play for coach Norbert Székely after a two-year stint at Sparta&K M.R. Vidnoje in Russia ... Read More...

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Abrosimova – Life “Tough” after Olympic Rejection

Abrosimova – Life “Tough” after Olympic Rejection
Russian WNBA championship winner Svetlana Abrosimova has had a “tough” two days since finding out she was not been included in Russia’s plans for the Olympics in London, she said Monday. The small forward, 31, captained Russia to the European title last year, and helped the team to the Olympic bronze medal in 2008, but ... Read More...