BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

The world is crazy about basketball 篮球 básquetbol basquete



Dudes, this has got to be a way cool event and it has nothing to do with the Space Jam animation with live folk stuff. It's hoops. International hoops to be precise. The World Basketball Festival, an event by USA Basketball and Nike, is a four-day celebration of the performance and culture of the game that runs from August 12-15 in the greatest city on terra firma.

There'll be music and concerts all around but the real action takes place in several of New York City landmarks -- Radio City Music Hall to the legendary basketball courts at Rucker Park in Harlem and to the world famous Madison Square Garden. On Friday and Saturday, August 13 and 14, Rucker Park will be home to open-air practices and scrimmages by National Teams from the United States, Brazil, Puerto Rico and France.

Then the World Basketball Festival will conclude on Sunday, August 15 with an exciting exhibition double-header featuring the United States taking on France (1 p.m. EDT) and China meeting Puerto Rico (3:30 p.m. EDT) at famed Madison Square Garden.  The exhibition games are being utilized as part of the teams’ preparation for the 2010 FIBA World Basketball Championship in Turkey, August 28 to September 12. Both games will air on NBA TV and ESPN2.

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