Basketball
- Delhi
Elite Women’s Pro Basketball League try-out in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata
Delhi: Elite Women’s Pro Basketball League, India’s first-of-its-kind 5×5 Pro Basketball League for women, features six teams filled with rosters of top-level Indian players. The organizers held India’s biggest basketball try-out for…
- World
Kirpan-wielding Sikh says he was denied entry to NBA game in US
New York: A Sikh man has claimed that he was denied entry to a basketball match in the US because he was carrying a ‘kirpan’ — a small dagger, which practising Sikhs…
- Opinions
Safai Karamchari’s daughter, national level basketball player cracks medical school
Chandigarh: Sector 25 is in Chandigarh. And it is not. Tiny lanes, labyrinths, people sitting on charpoys outside their homes….a sharp contrast to the city’s clinical and brutalist architecture. But it is…
- Middle East
Fatima Reyadh, first woman to coach men’s basketball team in Bahrain
Manama: A woman from Bahrain broke gender barriers and became a coach for a men’s basketball team, amid acceptance and understanding between her and the team members after her ability to lead…
- Featured News
Mohammed Rizwan–An Officer and an outstanding hoopster
M Somasekhar In any gathering his tall and lanky frame would stand out. But, what distinguishes Mohammed Rizwan is his ‘humility and commitment’. A man who always kept a low profile, though…
- Sports
Kashmir’s Inshah Bashir is climbing dreams on a wheelchair with basketball
Srinagar: Kashmir’s first wheel-chair basketball player, Inshah Bashir, a native of Budgam district, who represented India in the US in 2019, and participated in the National Championship as the captain of the…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad youth should take up basketball, advises national coach Santosh
Abhijit Sen Gupta Hyderabad: Basketball fans and followers in India may soon witness a jump in the standards of the game, says P S Santosh of Hyderabad who has become the first coach…
- Sports
COVID-19: NBA confirms 48 players have tested positive
New York: The basketball-association”>National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that 48 players have tested positive for coronavirus during the initial ‘return-to-market testing phase’. NBA, in a statement, said that as many as 546…
- News
NBA announces structure and format for 2020-21 season
New York: NBA on Wednesday announced the structure and format for the 2020-21 season, which will include a Play-In Tournament to determine the teams that will fill the seventh and eighth playoff…
- India
Priyanka Gandhi condoles demise of basketball player Kobe Bryant
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday expressed grief over the demise of American basketball player Kobe Bryant and said “the world has lost a legend.” “The world has…
- India
First female Kashmiri specially-abled Int. basketball player
Baramulla: “I never thought I would be able to go this far,” says Ishrat Rasheed, Kashmir’s first female international specially-abled basketball player. Ishrat is all set to play in the International Wheelchair Basketball Tournament to…
- News
Basketball is not as tough as people think, says Ebony Hoffman
Mumbai: Women’s National Basketball Association (NBA) legend Ebony Hoffman on Monday said the game is not as tough as people think and that it only needs practice. “I think they just need…
