Get ready for a rip, snorter NBL season
SOMEBODY asked me at the Preseason Blitz whether we were heading for another year such as a couple of seasons back when Perth and New Zealand were a cut above the NBL pack all season.
Freo, way to go
A SECOND NBL team in Melbourne, a second team in Sydney … it continually amazes me no-one ever seems to say: “Second team in Perth?”
No Crocodile rocking from TEN
THEY may have won the Loggins-Bruton Cup but Townsville is still the dubious uncle alone in the corner at any NBL family gathering when the talk turns to TV viewing.
All good in the Land of Nod
AS predicted here last week, all is well on the "FIBA Oceania qualification for the NBL" front. Although, if it looks like an old cabbage and smells like an old cabbage, it’s probably an old cabbage.
Map of Tasmania relevant again to NBL clubs
IF I was a betting man, I’d be putting the house and land package on Brisbane and Tassie being NBL fixtures in 2015-16.
Oceania ruling still murky but NBL off hook
IF you have been wondering why it has all gone quiet on the "FIBA Oceania" eligibility questions I posed here last week, don't for a second think because it is sorted out.
Life of Brian should be revisited
HALL of Fame legend and the man who once pumped the blood into Brisbane's NBL heartbeat, Brian Kerle, was "in the house" for the Blitz at Auchenflower Stadium.
'Elder statesman' sits well with Wortho
MARK Worthington is as passionate about the future of the game as he is about playing it so he was the right man to be the NBL players' liaison with Team 9 - our national elite referees.
Blitz Deja Vu: The Bullets are firing
WHAT a fantastic finish it was yesterday to the Preseason Blitz, first with Townsville claiming the Loggins-Bruton Cup, then with confirmation Brisbane will have an NBL team in 2015-16.
Blitz Day 3: Cup bound for Queensland
THE Loggins-Bruton Cup is heading for Queensland after Townsville yesterday swept to the head of the NBL Blitz table, with only Cairns capable of knocking it off today.

