Vale Tanya, Peter
IT IS entirely appropriate this is National Volunteer Week and Basketball Australia has jumped aboard, honoring the thousands who offer their time, skills and passion to help our great game prosper.
Pero's new Rocket
STUCK for something to do in Adelaide tomorrow night, then head down to Port Adelaide Stadium and watch Anthony Petrie make his SBL debut with North.
Name the venue!
LOOKS like "The Powerhouse" is the winner of my less-than-scientific poll of potential new names for the Scouts SA-SA Church Basketball Association's home of the 36ers and Lightning.
Be prepared! Great news
IT IS a great day for basketball in South Australia and, by extension, for the NBL and WNBL.
Cole's group ready to buy 36ers
BRETT Maher will be the next coach of the Adelaide 36ers and Phil Smyth its new chief executive officer if a bid by Ken Cole to buy the NBL club from its current SOS ownership succeeds.
Bond-aid
FOR the many interstate and overseas folk who have asked, donations to assist Josh Bond and his family can be directed to
A community rallies
FINGERS are crossed - except for those hands clasped in prayer - Josh Bond will follow in the footsteps of Shauni Bow and Claire Kerr and make it back to fulfill his dreams.
Wisdom of the Ancients 1
WHAT an extraordinary few days for basketball that was in Adelaide this past weekend - think Pete's Bar Lunch, multiplied by 10.
Wisdom of the Ancients 2
FROM Friday's magnificent lunch - and with a brief playing interlude as Lightning produced a magnificent display of selfless WNBL basketball to snuff Townsville - fast-forward to Saturday night.
The Night They Drove Old Lindsay Down
"BASKET CASES" is a basketball ebook I have been working on for several years and this is a random chapter - the story of the 1976 showdown between South Australia and Victoria's 10 Montreal Olympians.