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World Championships - Men Basketball
| Group A |
| Angola | Aug. 28 | Serbia |
| Germany | Aug. 28 | Argentina |
| Australia | Aug. 28 | Jordan |
| Group B |
| USA | Aug. 28 | Croatia |
| Iran | Aug. 28 | Brazil |
| Tunisia | Aug. 28 | Slovenia |
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| Greece | Aug. 28 | China |
| Ivory Coast | Aug. 28 | Turkey |
| Russia | Aug. 28 | P.Rico |
| Group D |
| New Zealand | Aug. 28 | Lithuania |
| Canada | Aug. 28 | Lebanon |
| France | Aug. 28 | Spain |
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Jim Harrick to coach the Lebanese NT ? ? ? ? - Dec 21, 2009 (by Maarouf Mawloud)
Jim Harrick 72 years old will coach our national team with big amount of money (born July 25, 1938 in Charleston, West Virginia) is a former college basketball head coach who coached at Pepperdine University, UCLA, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Georgia.
Harrick graduated in 1960 from Morris Harvey College, now known as the University of Charleston. He is of Lebanese ancestry
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Jim Harrick 72 years old will coach our national team with big amount of money (born July 25, 1938 in Charleston, West Virginia) is a former college basketball head coach who coached at Pepperdine University, UCLA, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Georgia. Harrick graduated in 1960 from Morris Harvey College, now known as the University of Charleston. He is of Lebanese ancestry.
On November 20, 2009, Sally Lee Harrick, his wife of 49 years died at the age of 70, from complications of scleroderma.
College coaching career Harrick's coaching career began at Morningside High School in Inglewood, California where he served as an assistant coach from 19641969 and as head coach from 19701973. He was then hired as an assistant coach at Utah State from 19741977. Harrick then spent two seasons as an assistant coach at UCLA from 19781979. His first collegiate head coaching job was at Pepperdine University in 1979, where he led the school to four NCAA Tournament appearances and was a conference coach of the year four times. UCLA In 1988, he returned to UCLA to assume head coaching duties after the firing of Walt Hazzard. During the recruiting period before his first season, he recruited Don MacLean which was the most significant recruit to commit to UCLA in several years and helped start a revival of the basketball program. During the 19941995 season, he led UCLA to the school's eleventh national championship in school history and its first since the 197475 season. Shortly before the start of the 199697 season, he was accused of falsifying receipts at a student-athlete recruiting dinner, although the NCAA exonerated Harrick of this offense. UCLA fired him for lying to university investigators. Harrick did not tell the athletic department accurately about who attended a recruiting dinner with a $1000 expense report from Monty's Steakhouse, where two extra current team members joined the table. He is the second-winningest coach in UCLA history, behind only John Wooden. Rhode Island After a one-year hiatus, Harrick returned to coaching by accepting the head coach position at Rhode Island. He coached the Rams for two seasons (from 199799), where in both years they qualified for the NCAA Tournament. During the 1998 tournament, the Rams upset Kansas in the second round and reached the Midwest Regional finals but were defeated by Stanford 7977. In his second season, he managed to recruit Lamar Odom and led the Rams to their first Atlantic 10 Conference title. Georgia After the season, he left URI to become the head coach at the University of Georgia. He served there for four seasons (199900 through 200203), leading the Bulldogs to the NCAA tournament twice following a losing record. He resigned from his position and retired from coaching after several scandals during his reign at Georgia came to public light. Later career After Georgia, Harrick worked as a scout for the NBA's Denver Nuggets and helped develop basketball in China.[1] On June 13, 2006, Harrick accepted the recently created head coaching position for the Bakersfield Jam, a NBA Development League expansion team.[2] Harrick resigned for personal reasons in December 2007, after the Jam struggled to a 214 record.[3] He is now serving as a college basketball analyst for Prime Ticket, the Southern California affiliate of Fox Sports Net. Controversies While Harrick has been successful as a coach, his checkered history led to his departure from the college coaching profession. He was investigated at UCLA and fired for filing false expense reports. Harrick says he owns a letter from the NCAA exonerating him from any wrong-doing regarding this incident.[1] At Rhode Island he had been accused of sexual misconduct with a secretary in the athletic offices and of giving players access to privileges not permitted by NCAA regulations. At Georgia, Harrick's son, Jim Harrick , Jr., got into trouble for paying the $300 phone bill of one of his players, Tony Cole. He also gave an 'A' to Cole, Rashad Wright and Chris Daniels for a basketball strategy class even though they never attended the class. [2] Additionally, it emerged that six players didn't pay for over $1,500 of long-distance telephone calls in December 2001, but Georgia didn't report the violations until July 2003. In the midst of the controversy, Georgia pulled out of the 2003 SEC Tournament and withdrew from postseason consideration. After the story broke, Georgia suspended Harrick, Jr. on February 28, 2003 and fired him five days later. Harrick, Sr. was suspended on March 10 and resigned on March 27. In 2004, the NCAA placed Georgia on four years' probation for the violations. It also forced the Bulldogs to vacate half of its wins from 200102 and all of its wins from 20020330 games in all. Harrick, Jr. was slapped with a seven-year 'show-cause' order for his role in the academic fraud, as well as telling two of the players involved to lie to the NCAA. The 'show-cause' effectively blackballed him from the college ranks until 2011 at the earliest.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Harrick
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LIB Lebanon goes to Turkey with one eye on London 2012 - Dec 21, 2009 (by Maarouf Mawloud)
BEIRUT (2010 FIBA World Championship) Nowhere in Asia is there a bigger appetite for basketball than Lebanon.
For that reason, there was unbridled enthusiasm and a huge sense of relief in the country after the news broke on December 12 that the national team had received a wild card to play at the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey
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BEIRUT (2010 FIBA World Championship) Nowhere in Asia is there a bigger appetite for basketball than Lebanon. For that reason, there was unbridled enthusiasm and a huge sense of relief in the country after the news broke on December 12 that the national team had received a wild card to play at the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey. FIBA Secretary General Patrick Baumann made the recommendations that Lebanon, Lithuania, Russia and Germany receive the wild cards and the FIBA Central Board unanimously approved them. A winning tradition, participation in the last two FIBA World Championships and a passionate fan base were all contributing factors in the wild-card decision. I think the last 25 or 30 years in which we achieved results, both clubs and national teams, it's made basketball popular for the Lebanese people, Lebanese Basketball Federation president Pierre Kakhia said to FIBA.Com. If there is ever basketball in the news, it gets the maximum readers. We have even more supporters outside of Lebanon, all over the world, in the Gulf, in the United States, in Argentina and Brazil. We have a lot of fans and all Lebanese are proud we have a good national team. The wild-card announcement came four months after Lebanons painful 72-68 defeat to hosts China in the Semi-Finals of the 2009 FIBA Asia Championship. Dragan Racas team still had a chance to qualify by winning the bronze-medal game but fell to Jordan, 80-66. Kakhia said of the fans: Everyone loves us, feels sorry for us, and no one blames anyone (about not qualifying directly). The federation president says he expects 2,000 to 4,000 fans to follow the national team next year in Turkey. So what are Lebanons chances of winning some games next year? The draw was held on December 15 three days after the wild-card announcement and Lebanon ended up in Group D against France, Spain, Lithuania, New Zealand and Canada. We played against France at the last World Championship and won, Kakhia remembered fondly. It's one of the good results of the national team. We hope we can achieve some good results, particularly with Canada and New Zealand as we feel they are close to our level and we hope to play a good match against the champions Spain as well. Kakhia has revealed that he expects to have a new man in charge of the national team in early January. There will be a new coach from the United States, he said. We are in the middle of the negotiations. While grateful for the opportunity to play in Turkey, Kakhia says he and Lebanon are thinking about another big tournament as well. Our target is not the World Cup (Championship), he said. Its important, but our target is to qualify for the Olympics in London. So we will have a coaching program to take us to the World Championship and to have a team at the Olympics in London, 2012. Jeff Taylor FIBA
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USA - COACH K WILL BE SUPREMELY FOCUSED ON EVERY GAME IN TURKEY - Dec 18, 2009 (by Maarouf Mawloud)
DURHAM (2010 FIBA World Championship) Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski has stressed the importance of winning each Preliminary Round game at the 2010 FIBA World Championship following Tuesdays draw in Istanbul.
The Americans were draw in Group B with Slovenia, Brazil, Croatia, Iran and Tunisia and the games will be played at the Abdi Ipekci Arena in Istanbul
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DURHAM (2010 FIBA World Championship) Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski has stressed the importance of winning each Preliminary Round game at the 2010 FIBA World Championship following Tuesdays draw in Istanbul.
The Americans were draw in Group B with Slovenia, Brazil, Croatia, Iran and Tunisia and the games will be played at the Abdi Ipekci Arena in Istanbul.
This will be the third time I've been head coach of a USA World Championship team so I know what an intense and extremely competitive tournament this is, Krzyzewski said.
Looking at todays draw results, you see just how balanced the 24-team field is for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. I dont see a team in any of the groups that isnt capable of advancing into the next round.
Winning each game in the Preliminary Round is important, not just to make sure you are one of the four teams from your group that advances, but also for securing the highest possible seeding for the next round, the Eight-Finals.
Once you reach the Eight-Finals, its like the NCAA Tournament, its a one-game format and a loss in any of the last four games eliminates you from capturing the World Championship gold medal.
All of the USAs opponents had impressive summers.
Brazil won the FIBA Americas Championship and both Croatia and Slovenia advanced to the 24-team World Championship field with their performances at the EuroBasket.
Iran won their second straight FIBA Asia title while Tunisia snatched an Afrobasket bronze medal.
Our preliminary round group has an interesting mix of talented and tested veteran national teams like Brazil, Croatia and Slovenia, as well as two less experienced, but nonetheless talented teams in Iran and Tunisia who are making their first appearances in a World Championship, Krzyzewski said.
Krzyzewski guided the United States at the 2006 FIBA World Championship and they had an outstanding tournament with just one defeat.
That loss came, however, in the Semi-Finals against Greece and they had to settle for a bronze-medal game win over Argentina.
They followed that with gold-medal performances at the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship in Las Vegas and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
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TUR Hard games everywhere after draw for 2010 FIBA World Championship - Dec 17, 2009
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FRA Parker, France welcome chance to meet Spain early on - Dec 17, 2009
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PR N41 - Draw Results for the 2010 FIBA World Championship - Dec 15, 2009
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Draw Results for the 2010 FIBA World Championship - Dec 15, 2009
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Seedings for 2010 World Championship announced by FIBA - Dec 13, 2009
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FIBA World Championship 2010 Draw Live on JSC Sports !!! - Dec 13, 2009
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Lebanon , Germany , Lithuania And Russia Awarded Wild Cards For 2010 FIBA World Championship ! - Dec 12, 2009
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Draw Of The 2010 FIBA World Championship - Dec 12, 2009
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Germany, Lebanon, Lithuania and Russia awarded wild cards for 2010 FIBA World Championship - Dec 12, 2009
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Taking a wild card route to Turkey - Dec 11, 2009
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Lebanon vs. Dominican Republic - Who would succeed in a possible encounter? - Dec 10, 2009
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HoopsAgents.com launched - Dec 9, 2009
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The World Championships Race Update Vol. III - Dec 7, 2009
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Most informative basketball Daily Newsletter Available !!! - Nov 24, 2009
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The World Championships Wild Card Race Update Vol. II - Nov 23, 2009
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The World Championships Wild Card Race Update Vol. I - Nov 12, 2009
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14 countries already qualified for 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey - Sep 8, 2009
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