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The Basketball Africa League has announced that five new teams and three new countries are among the 12 teams from 12 countries that will compete in the 2024 season, which will tip off on March 9 at SunBet Arena in Pretoria, South Africa. The fourth BAL season will feature 48 games in Pretoria; Cairo; Dakar; […]
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The FIBA 3×3 World Tour has revealed its 2024 schedule with 15 events around the globe including Edmonton, its lone North American stop, as the final pre-Olympic event. The FIBA 3×3 World Tour will visit four continents starting with the opener from April 27-28 in Utsunomiya, Japan, the third consecutive year the destination has hosted […]
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The USA Basketball men’s Olympic team will play host to Canada at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on July 10, the latest in a series of exhibition games announced to prepare the team before the 2024 Olympic Summer Games that start in July in Paris. The game will tip off at 7:30 p.m. Pacific time. […]
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The USA Basketball men’s national team will play pre-Olympic games in London against South Sudan and Germany at the O2 Arena, its first appearance in England since winning the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Summer Games. Hosted in partnership between USA Basketball and TEG, the Americans will play South Sudan on July 20 and […]
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The Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus has been named as the FIBA Women’s EuroBasket 2025 venue in Greece and will host the championship game on June 28, 2025 at the culmination of the tournament that will be co-hosted by four nations. The 11,847-seat Peace and Friendship Stadium will host one of the four groups […]
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San Juan, Puerto Rico, will be one of the four sites for Olympic Qualifying Tournaments organized by FIBA, the international federation’s executive committee confirmed this week. The other tournaments will be played from July 2–7, 2024, in the cities of Piraeus, Greece; Riga, Latvia, and Valencia, Spain. Puerto Rico will host Mexico, Cote D’Ivoire, Lithuania, […]
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Following the recent 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, FIBA has announced its commissions and working groups for the 2023–2027 term following the first meeting of the new Central Board. For the first time, three out of seven FIBA Commissions are chaired by a woman and in two of the other four Commissions, the deputy chair […]
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The second season of eFIBA, the official NBA 2K24 tournament organized by the international federation for basketball, will have 61 nations participating in a series of events. Beginning October 3, national federations across seven regional areas will battle in the Pro-Am game mode to secure a spot in the inaugural in-person eFIBA World Finals at […]
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Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani has been elected FIBA president along with new members of the central board for the upcoming 2023-2027 cycle during the FIBA Congress in Manila ahead of the 2023 World Cup. Al Thani has been FIBA Vice President for the previous cycle, which began in 2019, and president of FIBA Asia […]
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FIBA 3×3 organizers are looking to strengthen the sport in the Asia and Pacific regions as it held an event organizer workshop over the weekend in Utsunomiya, Japan. The workshop was held in the city that hosted the FIBA 3×3 World Tour opener in April earlier this year. This year’s final of the Women’s Series […]
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The IOC’s Coordination Commission was in Los Angeles this week for a three-day visit to review selected venues and track the progress of the @LA28 Games. The tours included the Rose Bowl, Intuit Dome and several venues in Long Beach.
The @HCHSA has appointed Ryan Walsh as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Janis Burke. Walsh is currently the chief executive officer and executive director of the Harris County Sports & Convention Corporation, a position he has held since 2018.
The USA Lacrosse Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates national championship is returning for the second straight year to @VisitWichita from May 7–10, 2025, at the Scheels Stryker Sports Complex.
NEW PODCAST: Leonard Hoops of @VisitIndy and Patrick Talty of @IndSportsCorp discuss the Big Ten Conference, look back at some of 2024’s biggest events and look ahead to 2025 while also talking about how they work together on events.
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