Comments on: World Basketball Championship 2006 http://www.consolationchamps.com/2006/08/25/world-basketball-championship-2006/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-basketball-championship-2006 Top of the B-List Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:28:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: james http://www.consolationchamps.com/2006/08/25/world-basketball-championship-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-1235 james Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:46:52 +0000 http://www.consolationchamps.com/wordpress/?p=1204#comment-1235 After two upsets, it will be Greece playing Spain, after these two knocked off the superstar-filled US team and Olympic champions Argentina, respectively. After two upsets, it will be Greece playing Spain, after these two knocked off the superstar-filled US team and Olympic champions Argentina, respectively.

]]> By: James http://www.consolationchamps.com/2006/08/25/world-basketball-championship-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-1234 James Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:42:03 +0000 http://www.consolationchamps.com/wordpress/?p=1204#comment-1234 Hey, thanks M-D. That's some good sleuthing! Maybe I'll check out the Bit Torrent sites to see if anyone's capturing the games. Hey, thanks M-D. That’s some good sleuthing! Maybe I’ll check out the Bit Torrent sites to see if anyone’s capturing the games.

]]> By: M-D http://www.consolationchamps.com/2006/08/25/world-basketball-championship-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-1233 M-D Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:35:44 +0000 http://www.consolationchamps.com/wordpress/?p=1204#comment-1233 Near as I can tell, it's not airing in the US either (unless it's on ESPN 8 - THE OCHO!), probably because until recently, our national team has been TERRIBLE. Of course, since no one in the USA is paying attention, we're leading Group D (sorry, Slovenia)... CORRECTION: I found the US TV schedule - it's at the NBA's website at <a href="http://www.nba.com/wbc06/schedule.html." rel="nofollow">http://www.nba.com/wbc06/schedule.html.</a> Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the FIBA has a broadcast partner in Canada (I found their broadcast partner list, after quite a bit of digging, and it doesn't seem to think Canada exists - link: <a href="http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/06_wcm/mediCent/tvBroaCast/fe_mediCent_tvBroaCast.asp?selNodeID=693&openNodeIDs=693&eventID=3507&roundID=3507)." rel="nofollow">http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/06_wcm/mediCent/tvBroaCast/fe_mediCent_tvBroaCast.asp?selNodeID=693&openNodeIDs=693&eventID=3507&roundID=3507).</a> Near as I can tell, it’s not airing in the US either (unless it’s on ESPN 8 – THE OCHO!), probably because until recently, our national team has been TERRIBLE. Of course, since no one in the USA is paying attention, we’re leading Group D (sorry, Slovenia)…

CORRECTION: I found the US TV schedule – it’s at the NBA’s website at http://www.nba.com/wbc06/schedule.html. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the FIBA has a broadcast partner in Canada (I found their broadcast partner list, after quite a bit of digging, and it doesn’t seem to think Canada exists – link: http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/06_wcm/mediCent/tvBroaCast/fe_mediCent_tvBroaCast.asp?selNodeID=693&openNodeIDs=693&eventID=3507&roundID=3507).

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