Hi hello and welcome to a first instalment of EUROHOOP ARE GO!, it is a weekly summary of Euro Basketball. I extend hapiness of Hard-Wood guys to ask me of this! Was a very torrid start so far to ULEB Euroleague, two rounds so far. Biggest new was of cours huge upset of Olympaikos beating […]

My feelings about this year’s Big Eleven — oh, sorry, Big Ten — are complex. As in, inferiority complex. How many years in a row will this conference have to place teams in the Sweet Sixteen, the Elite Eight, and the Final Four before the rest of the country wakes up to the fact that […]

I don’t know if any of you wingdings would ever have the stones to read us over on FOXSports. Probably not. But if you did — and if you could read anything other than the day of the week printed in block letters on the back of your tighty-whities — you’d understand that we don’t […]

G’day! The yobbos here at Hard Wood asked me to scribble out a bit about my first year in the NBA. At first, I told them, “Pull your head in, mate” — but then I figured out that this might be a good way to keep in touch with the Joe Bloggs back home. So […]

Since the last time I wrote one of these, a lot has happened. I had a baby — well, okay, someone else had the baby, but you know what I’m talking about –, I wrote a book about my beloved Red Sox, and I started playing “The Warriors” on PlayStation, even though none of you […]

As I have stated many times, I am the only adult human male in the world who still likes the NBA. I do love this game, every sweaty marijuana-addled bit of it. But time is short these days, with one thing and another — “one thing” being my book tour, “another” being the ol’ ball […]