http://worldbestsports.com News, Articles and Updates.... Tue, 15 May 2012 15:31:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://worldbestsports.com/chinese-association-wont-allow-contracted-nba-players-to-play/3939/ http://worldbestsports.com/chinese-association-wont-allow-contracted-nba-players-to-play/3939/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:02:29 +0000 admin-t http://worldbestsports.com/?p=3939 BEIJING — The Chinese Basketball Association will restrict contracted NBA players from playing for domestic teams in the event the season is cancelled, but will still allow free agents, state media reported Friday. The CBA would bar players under contract such as Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul. They and others had expressed interest in playing in China [...]

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]]> http://worldbestsports.com/chinese-association-wont-allow-contracted-nba-players-to-play/3939/feed/ 0 http://worldbestsports.com/travel-weary-devils-rally-for-basketball-win-in-china/3934/ http://worldbestsports.com/travel-weary-devils-rally-for-basketball-win-in-china/3934/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:43:15 +0000 admin-t http://worldbestsports.com/?p=3934 KUNSHAN, China –The Duke Chronicle, the student newspaper at Duke University, is allowing NBC17.com to share some of its coverage of Duke’s trip to China.  Despite more than 24 hours of travel and a 2 a.m. local time arrival in China, the Blue Devils overcame major jet lag en route to a 77-64 victory over [...]

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]]> http://worldbestsports.com/travel-weary-devils-rally-for-basketball-win-in-china/3934/feed/ 0 http://worldbestsports.com/fight-ends-georgetown-basketball-exhibition-in-china/3930/ http://worldbestsports.com/fight-ends-georgetown-basketball-exhibition-in-china/3930/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:39:35 +0000 admin-t http://worldbestsports.com/?p=3930 BEIJING — What began as a goodwill trip to China for the Georgetown men’s basketball team turned violent Thursday night, when its exhibition game against the Bayi Rockets deteriorated into a melee during which players exchanged blows, chairs were thrown and spectators tossed full water bottles as Hoyas players and coaches headed to the locker [...]

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]]> http://worldbestsports.com/fight-ends-georgetown-basketball-exhibition-in-china/3930/feed/ 0 http://worldbestsports.com/brad-daugherty-former-north-carolina-tar-heel-basketball-star-has-another-passion-auto-racing/3846/ http://worldbestsports.com/brad-daugherty-former-north-carolina-tar-heel-basketball-star-has-another-passion-auto-racing/3846/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:50:54 +0000 admin-t http://worldbestsports.com/?p=3846 Growing up in Black Mountain, N.C., just outside of Asheville, Brad Daugherty learned to love two sports — college basketball and auto racing. “My two passions are racing and college basketball,” Daugherty said Wednesday. “I love college basketball. I’m a huge college basketball fan. And I got my love of auto racing from my dad.” [...]

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]]> http://worldbestsports.com/brad-daugherty-former-north-carolina-tar-heel-basketball-star-has-another-passion-auto-racing/3846/feed/ 0 http://worldbestsports.com/euro-basket-betting-farmar-signs-with-maccabi-tel-aviv/3736/ http://worldbestsports.com/euro-basket-betting-farmar-signs-with-maccabi-tel-aviv/3736/#comments Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:10:09 +0000 admin-t http://worldbestsports.com/?p=3736 Jordan Farmar turned into the latest New Jersey Nets player to go to the European leagues when he signed on Wednesday with Maccabi Tel Aviv, Israeli champions, and this should be great news for many of the Israeli team’s Euro basket betting fans. Euro basket betting services learned that in a statement, the team said [...]

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]]> http://worldbestsports.com/euro-basket-betting-farmar-signs-with-maccabi-tel-aviv/3736/feed/ 0 http://worldbestsports.com/pat-riley-doesnt-think-lebron-james-needs-to-reinvent-himself/3596/ http://worldbestsports.com/pat-riley-doesnt-think-lebron-james-needs-to-reinvent-himself/3596/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:13:31 +0000 admin http://worldbestsports.com/?p=3596 Before the media lets go of the never-ending saga surrounding LeBron James and the Miami Heat for the summer (and maybe longer if the NBA doesn’t get their shit together!), they took the opportunity recently to ask Pat Riley about all the criticism Bron-Bron received after the NBA Finals—specifically about how they feel he needs [...]

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]]> http://worldbestsports.com/pat-riley-doesnt-think-lebron-james-needs-to-reinvent-himself/3596/feed/ 1 http://worldbestsports.com/lebron-james-helps-miami-heat-to-123%e2%80%93107-win-over-the-washington-wizards/3148/ http://worldbestsports.com/lebron-james-helps-miami-heat-to-123%e2%80%93107-win-over-the-washington-wizards/3148/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:47:47 +0000 admin http://worldbestsports.com/?p=3148 Miami’s Big Three combined for 94 points on the night and LeBron James scored a game-high 35 points, as the Miami Heat thrashed the Washington Wizards 123-107 at the Verizon Centre in Washington on Wednesday night. Miami kept their composure to register a hard-fought win despite the ejection of John Wall, Juwan Howard and Zydrunas [...]

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]]> http://worldbestsports.com/lebron-james-helps-miami-heat-to-123%e2%80%93107-win-over-the-washington-wizards/3148/feed/ 0 http://worldbestsports.com/ohio-states-tressel-could-learn-a-lot-from-rutgers-basketball-coach/2922/ http://worldbestsports.com/ohio-states-tressel-could-learn-a-lot-from-rutgers-basketball-coach/2922/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:12:50 +0000 admin http://worldbestsports.com/?p=2922 It has been an extraordinary couple of days in the world of the games we play and watch. Within a matter of hours, two head coaches at different schools found themselves in the national spotlight – one for doing things the wrong way, the other for doing it right. Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel [...]

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]]> http://worldbestsports.com/ohio-states-tressel-could-learn-a-lot-from-rutgers-basketball-coach/2922/feed/ 0 http://worldbestsports.com/kentucky-wildcats-basketball-foul-ball/2449/ http://worldbestsports.com/kentucky-wildcats-basketball-foul-ball/2449/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:08:17 +0000 admin http://worldbestsports.com/?p=2449 I get back from my morning workout this morning and find this blog post by John Clay on top of my Twitter timeline. It contains no less than four links to commentary about John Calipari’s salty invective directed at Terrence Jones the other night during a close loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide. My first [...]

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]]> http://worldbestsports.com/kentucky-wildcats-basketball-foul-ball/2449/feed/ 0 http://worldbestsports.com/89-and-counting-uconn-huskies-womens-basketball-record-win/2233/ http://worldbestsports.com/89-and-counting-uconn-huskies-womens-basketball-record-win/2233/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:52:05 +0000 admin http://worldbestsports.com/?p=2233 The 89th win was just as easy as all the others, spanning across three seasons in women’s college basketball. The top-ranked UConn Huskies surpassed the 88-game winning streak that has held since the early 1970s by the UCLA men’s team lead by John Wooden by beating No. 22 ranked Florida State 93-62 on Tuesday claiming [...]

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