The latest updates from TMM Basketball: book chapters, blogletters and games. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:54:14 +0100 https://tmm.ba https://tmm.ba https://tmm.ba/assets/img/tmm2026-logo.png https://tmm.ba/2244 General John J. Pershing opens the Inter-Allied Games at a stadium outside Paris, an American gift to France. The Games are the idea of the YMCA's Elwood Brown. In Europe's first international basketball tournament, Team USA beats France 93-8. (2478 words) SFTBG Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2244 https://tmm.ba/2243 At a packed Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina meets the United States, represented by the Denver Chevrolets, for FIBA's first World Championship. Juan Perón's government backs the home team, whose players are later banned from basketball after his overthrow. (2309 words) SFTBG Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2243 https://tmm.ba/2242 At the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, which puts Indigenous people on display, Spalding's guide crowns the Buffalo Germans the first Olympic basketball champions. But the fair's champions come from its Model Indian School exhibit: ten girls from Montana's Fort Shaw boarding school. (2717 words) SFTBG Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2242 https://tmm.ba/2241 Australia and New Zealand play netball's first test match in Melbourne. The game and its three-second rule come from Senda Berenson's women's basketball, which Martina Bergman-Österberg brought home to England in 1893 and which spread through the British Empire. (2129 words) SFTBG Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2241 https://tmm.ba/2240 Tunisia's US Monastir meets Angola's Petro de Luanda in a sold-out Basketball Africa League final in Kigali. Critics ask why the NBA is partnering with Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, accused of repression, and New Fortress Energy, a gas company flagged for greenwashing. (2600 words) SFTBG Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2240 https://tmm.ba/2239 Tom McMillen and Tommy Burleson are teammates when the United States loses the disputed 1972 Olympic final in Munich. In March 1974, they meet in Greensboro, where Maryland and N.C. State play for the Atlantic Coast Conference's only place in the NCAA Tournament. (2432 words) SFTBG Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2239 https://tmm.ba/2238 At Smith College, Senda Berenson rewrites Naismith's game for women: three zones, no grabbing, three dribbles. She refuses outside games, but on April 4, 1896, the Stanford and Berkeley women play at San Francisco's Armory Hall, with all men barred from entry. (2292 words) SFTBG Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2238 https://tmm.ba/2237 In the men's basketball final of the 2002 Asian Games, South Korea faces Yao Ming, China's 7-foot-5 center. His story begins with his mother, Fang Fengdi, who captains China's women past South Korea in 1976, and the Shanghai officials who choose her husband. (2634 words) SFTBG Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2237 https://tmm.ba/2236 Eighteen grown men from James Naismith's class play the first basketball game, and William R. Chase scores its only basket. One player, Genzaburo Ishikawa, a Japanese lord's orphaned son, draws the sketch that helps spread the game. (2461 words) SFTBG Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2236 https://tmm.ba/2235 The Rochester Royals and Indianapolis Olympians stall through six overtimes, the longest game in NBA history. Syracuse Nationals owner Danny Biasone divides 2,880 seconds by 120 shots, and in 1954 the Royals open the season on NBC under a 24-second clock. (2419 words) SFTBG Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2235 https://tmm.ba/2234 Nausicaa plays ball in the Odyssey, and in 326 BC, Alexander the Great's army marks its Hydaspes victory with games. Julius Pollux collects the names for ball moves, Athens makes the ball player Aristonicus a citizen, and ball games stay out of the Olympics. (2619 words) SFTBG Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2234 https://tmm.ba/2233 Sergei Belov, the Soviets' leading scorer in the 1972 Olympic final, lights the cauldron at the opening of the 1980 Olympics. With the United States boycotting, the Soviet men lose at home to Italy and Yugoslavia. Belov is blamed and pushed aside. (2356 words) SFTBG Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2233 https://tmm.ba/2232 Temple hosts Alabama-Birmingham in Philadelphia after suspicious bets pour in on the visitors. The story begins in 1951, when Manhattan College center Junius Kellogg wears a wire for the district attorney, and runs through seven decades of basketball betting scandals. (2898 words) SFTBG Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2232 https://tmm.ba/2231 In Game 6 of the 2000 NBA Finals at Staples Center, the Indiana Pacers foul Shaquille O'Neal on purpose. Since leaving Orlando for the Lakers in 1996, he has thrived under the NBA's new dotted no-charge semicircle. His dominance soon brings back zone defense. (2020 words) SFTBG Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2231 https://tmm.ba/2230 At the NBA Replay Center, Joe Borgia and referee Ken Mauer review a Chris Paul foul. Replay is the league's answer to doubts about officials, from Sol Levy to Tim Donaghy, even as it embraces legal sports betting. (2443 words) SFTBG Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2230 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-08-13 Kyle discovers Indian Spotify and recalls the NBA's mid-2010s super-discounted “India Pass”, then details how India’s basketball leagues, like the UBA and INBL, seem to keep collapsing into chaotic and forgettable ghost memories. (602 words) Shirtdoku Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-08-13 https://tmm.ba/2228 The EuroLeague holds its Final Four at Etihad Arena, the first outside Europe. Visit Abu Dhabi already sponsors the NBA, which keeps playing exhibition games there despite allegations that the UAE arms Sudan's Rapid Support Forces. (2190 words) SFTBG Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2228 https://tmm.ba/2227 American women's basketball has three rulebooks, and educators and the AAU cannot agree on one. Abroad, Alice Milliat's fourth and final Women's World Games reach London, where the Durant Cardinals of Oklahoma Presbyterian College face France after beating the Edmonton Grads three times. (2462 words) SFTBG Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2227 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-29 Kyle dismisses Christopher Nolan’s *The Odyssey* as shouty Xbox sludge, trashes Anne Hathaway’s Penelope, and transitions to Giannis Antetokounmpo as a truly worthy epic hero. (569 words) Shirtdoku Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-29 https://tmm.ba/2225 Commodus gives Rome fourteen days of spectacles starring himself, while ball games stay in the bathhouse. A lineup card on a Pompeii wall and Ursus Togatus' tombstone show the first sports star system, and the physician Galen prescribes ball play. (2512 words) SFTBG Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2225 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-27 Kyle muses on EuroLeague possibly readmitting CSKA Moscow, recalling Cold War basketball nostalgia and his Both Sides Suck stance on Ukraine, sarcastically questioning whether flag-emoji warriors will ever admit they were wrong. (621 words) Shirtdoku Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-27 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-20 Kyle watches basketball drama unfold after coach Sandy Brondello gets suspended for calling Angel Reese a “protected species,” a phrase lifted from Australian slang and tragically lost in American translation. (692 words) Shirtdoku Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-20 https://tmm.ba/2222 In 1226, Kamakura's Hōjō regents make a boy of eight, Kujō Yoritsune, shogun. For centuries, Japanese women sew temari balls and girls sing as they bounce them. Jinzo Naruse sees those games in Senda Berenson's women's basketball and brings it home as marikago yugi. (2920 words) SFTBG Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/2222 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-17 Kyle notes 2027 arrives faster than a forgotten soup can, while USA Basketball’s aging stars and flimsy excuses mask an impending collapse that the doomed G League Ignite might have postponed. (661 words) Shirtdoku Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-17 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-15 After exhausting every overpriced American AI chatbot with his basketball geometry problem, Kyle fixes his trajectory instantly with a Chinese whale and an Atari ROM from 1978. (565 words) Shirtdoku Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-15