Listening to the Spanish commentaries in this video summary (and reading some biographies on the net), you’d be forgiven to believe Brazzaville-born NBA basketball player Serge ‘Air Congo’ Ibaka is from the DRC. But that’s on the other side of the Congo River. He acquired a Spanish passport in July this year, so the Spanish […]
‘The Ghetto Cinderellas’
June 19, 2011 By 2 Comments
The Williams sisters are playing Wimbledon this year. Flemish newspaper De Morgen is pretty excited about it. So excited, in fact, that the front page of this weekend’s sports section headlines: “The Ghetto Cinderellas are back.” Meanwhile, German newspaper, Die Welt decided to interpret the Dallas Mavericks’ NBA Finals win as a triumph of Europe […]
American Sports
February 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By the end of his career, Serge Ibaka, a Congolese basketball national who plays professional basketball for the Oklahoma Thunder in the American NBA League, will probably be best remembered for the antics in the video above. (For those who don’t watch TV this weekend was the NBA’s “All Star Weekend”–basically a big party for […]
