Bob's Corner: Oh for someone who can shoot!
USA correspondent BOB CRAVEN has a feast of American news to keep you busy reading this weekend, starting with an amazing - for the wrong reasons - college game. But he also has NBA news, the latest college updates and even some NBL insights to keep you captivated.
Bob's Corner: When Queen were kings
THANK Naismith for our US correspondent BOB CRAVEN, who kept sending his popular column for publication during my recent back spasm cataclysm. He's on holidays now but here's another anniversary update I found in my B.O.T.I. Inbox. And once again, Bob has spread his wings beyond the boundaries of a basketball court.
And yes, unfortunately we've stayed offline
APOLOGIES to regular readers and visitors here but as you will have noticed, your author has stayed out of commission for several weeks despite promising the website's imminent return. Sadly it's been the result of a series of back spasms that laid me out for several weeks and kept my chiropractor extremely busy.
Bob's Corner: Happy anniversary baby, Part II
BASKETBALL On The Internet's US Corresondent BOB CRAVEN has been busy compiling a list of notable anniversaries in the NBA during my prolonged absence from the keyboard, and there have been some doozies during the month of November, as you are about to relive.
Bob's Corners: Mills still a boon for Nets
BOB'S CORNERS: While I've been out of commission (link), our man in the USA, Bob Craven has not, filing regular stories and updates. Today he filed about our own Boomers superstar Patty Mills sticking 29 points for Brooklyn against OKC. But there's been so much more from Bob...
Bob's Corner: LeMarcus returns
BOB'S CORNER: US correspondent Bob Craven sent this for publication on October 9 but that was the day my eldest gal got hitched so it fell by the wayside. Was it worth the read? Of course! LaMARCUS Aldridge, veteran big man (210cm) for the New Jersey Nets, is back with the team.
Apologies for the temporary delay...
DEAR regulars, apologies for the recent lack of B.O.T.I. coverage but have had a lot on the old plate. One daughter's wedding and marriage, another one's birthday, the imminent release of my memoir. In the meantime, great basketball stuff has been piling up but back on deck now and will start clearing those same decks shortly!
Bob's Corner: Storm in teacup, new champ soon
BOB'S CORNER: The home team of our U.S. correspondent Bob Craven, is the Seattle Storm but sadly for him - and all those Aussie fans who jumped aboard that club when Lauren Jackson was starring there and stayed aboard with Ezi Magbegor and Steph Talbot now there - they have been bundled out of the WNBA playoffs. That and more here ...
Bob's Corner: Lauren inducted and Kareem's new record
BOB'S CORNER: Our U.S. correspondent BOB CRAVEN, a former import who starred in ACT and NSW during the Sixties, has more to add to Lauren Jackson's recent Hall of Fame induction and an on-court record Kareem Abdul-Jabbar helped end, six years after he retired as a player.
Seattle Times: LJ 'feels so lucky'
OUR U.S. correspondent BOB CRAVEN is a native of Seattle where Lauren Jackson was a WNBA superstar with the Storm. Bob's sent along this article by PERCY ALLEN of the Seattle Times, celebrating Lauren's elevation into the Naismith Hall of Fame.

