Wrap-Up #3: Crime and punishment
THE punishment should fit the crime and on Friday in Perth, Kings guard Ben Madgen suffered the equivalent of an execution for jay-walking, even if he did it twice.
Thursday an island with no oasis
NO-ONE knows what on Earth possessed the NBL to schedule a 36ers game in Adelaide last night because no-one at the club requested or wanted it.
Week #3 Rankings: Taipans under the spotlight
AFTER Cairns negotiates New Zealand today, will there still be only one unbeaten NBL team at the end of just Round 3?
Brayden Heslehurst: WNBL needs a presence too
BRISBANE-based B.O.T.I. correspondent BRAYDEN HESLEHURST says his city needs a women's national presence just as much as a Bullets team.
Wrap-Up #2: Milestones no millstones
CJ BRUTON having his #23 retired by the NZ Breakers was an appropriate reward for a great career and a great start to Round 2 of the NBL season.
Fire sale may have made Crocs a hotter ticket
IT was hard not to notice the Fire drew 1,900-plus to their first WNBL home game after the Crocs drew 1,400-and-change to theirs, yet both played at the Townsville RSL Stadium.
Time to Fire up, at long last
IT is time. When all the clash and clamour has died away, expect to see Townsville and Bendigo again still standing, but this time it will be Rachael McCully raising the WNBL Championship Trophy.
WNBL making Waves but no splash for Crocs
WEST Coast Waves have made a huge splash at the WNBL's Spring Shield, winning the preseason tournament and giving the club its first piece of silverware since claiming the 1992 championship!
Season starts for fairweather fans
THE season is off and running and just three games in I love the passion which has some folks already writing team obituaries.
Spring into Summer with WNBL
IF Opals Bronze Medallists Rachel Jarry, Rebecca Allen and Nat Burton all suit, expect Melbourne Boomers to be the surprise winner of the WNBL’s Spring Shield preseason tournament this weekend in Bendigo.

