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London Lions vs London Beards
Surprise, Surprise London Lion is playing again Lion Beard today making it quite an amazing game to watch. There were 5 team players on the Lion Beard while there are 6 for the other, making it difficult for Lion Beard to switch players when needed. Throughout the game, it was quite impressive to see how [...]
Summer BBQ Party (plus other special event!)
Enjoy a BBQ afternoon on our Highbury park area, followed by a superb BSB tribute act and gameshow! Please bring your own meats, bbq grills and drinks. We also provide play-zone, water pool, face paintings, art & craft and storyteller for kids! Families and Friends are more than welcome! When: Saturday 30th July 2011 Time: [...]
NEWS ARTICLE: Report by Stirling Observer on Scotland basketball team and Mitch Graham.
NEWS ARTICLE: Report by Stirling Observer on Scotland basketball team and commented about one of the players who is our own deaf legend – Mitch Graham! SCOTLAND’S U18 men’s team aim to keep ice-cool as Basketball Scotland’s Summer Slam sizzles to its climax at The Peak this weekend. They face Norway in a double-header, in [...]
NEWS ARTICLE: Report by Shoreham Herald about Alex Milner- GB Deaf basketball player
NEWS ARTICLE: Report by Shoreham Herald about Alex Milner – member of GB Deaf Men Basketball Team and the funding support needed for the 2011 WDBC. ALEX Milner is thrilled to have been selected for the Great Britain basketball team for the World Deaf Championships later this year. Milner, 19, from Worthing, played for GB [...]
London Amateur Basketball League: Play-offs
London Lions Quite an interesting game the London Lions played today against the Queen Mary. The London Lions were on the roll with remarkable moves and tricks as had begun leading the game to a winning start during the first half of the game. A strong voice of the coach believed to be based on [...]
GB Deaf Men Basketball Team: July Training Program
This is July training program schedule for GB Men and London Lions Basketball Team. Please feel free to take a good look at the schedule. Note to players: 1) Please wear appropriate basketball gear and shoes. Bring your own water and money for share of court hire fee. 2) This is men teams only. Date [...]
London Amateur Basketball League: London Beards
An impressive game for the London Beards their first competitive game today. The team shows enthusiastic, full power energy with sharp moves throughout the game. Despite the age range differences they work sort of well together, but can notice that the young groups stayed together passing more to each other than allowing the older range [...]
London Amateur Basketball League: Game 4
Could it possibly be the beautiful day that the team, London Lions, played a fair game? The game was another tough game between the Red Dragons especially when that team had seemed to have “must win” attitude as they were continuously determined to make sure the ball was in the basket the entire time. Interesting [...]
London Amateur Basketball League: Game 2 & 3
The first game London Lions vs. Tower Hamlets Trojans was challenging to play out a game among both teams. The Tower Hamlets Trojans had been ahead of the game as far as scoring but The London Lions were not that far behind. It seems believable that the Tower Hamlets Trojans were set to win with [...]
13th International Deaf Veteran Men Basketball Tournament
13th International Deaf Veteran Men Basketball Tournament, 2-4 June Our match report will be coming soon! The final results are: 2nd June Group A London-Riga 30:65 London-Kiev 30:56 Riga-Kaunas 30:46 Kiev-Turku 48:36 Kaunas-Turku 63:33 Group B Athens-Tallinn 52:45 Vilnius-Moscow 46:30 Athens-Moscow 51:35 Vilnius-Tallinn 38:42 3rd June Group A London-Kaunas L:W Kaunas-Kiev 43:40 London-Turku 39:47 Riga-Kiev [...]
Trip to Paris
Deaf Paris Sport Club celebrated their 100th anniversary on 7-9th June 2011. They invited us “London Lions” basketball team to play with them to honour the 100th anniversary. We left London on Friday evening with the minibus. The team enjoyed the trip. The first game we had was on Sat afternoon with the Paris team. We played [...]
Ramas and Maria 10km Marathon Successful!
Myself and the Laumets’ family did a run of 2km and 10 km as part of our fundraise for Deaf Basketball UK (DBUK). Jaan, who is the father of two sons ran with his sons the 2km marathon. I went with Maira for the 10km run. We had such a great time and experience to [...]
Training program schedule: GB men and London Lions
This is June training program schedule for GB Men and London Lions Basketball Team. Please feel free to take a good look at the schedule. Note to players: 1) Please wear appropriate basketball gear and shoes. Bring your own water and money for share of court hire fee. 2) This is men teams only. Date [...]
Kid’s Basketball Event- 28th May 2011
The Kids Basketball event had been at Bishop Challener Sport Centre, in Shadwell, London on 28th May 2011 and we had 23 attendances, with ages ranging from 4-12. I was really brilliant and really excited. All kids really enjoyed themselves and learned a lot. We did present them how to played with balls, competitions and [...]
13th International Deaf Veteran Men Basketball Tournament
Russia Deaf Basketball has its 13th International Deaf Veteran Men Basketball Tournament taking place in Moscow, Russia on 2nd -4th June 2011. The London Lions Basketball Team has been invited to apply for this tournament and we would like to take this opportunity to recruit more players or potential players to come to our training [...]
Freaky Friday- 13th May 2011
We had a successful ‘Freaky Friday’ fundraiser at the Vibe Bar in Brick Lane on 13th friday 2011. With thanks to organisers ‘Sign Language Brings Freedom’, the night was enjoyable with performances from Ricky Hoyte who kept us all entertained with R’N’B songs in BSL and Richard Carter with his BSL poems. We raised a [...]
There will be no basketball world championships in Sweden
There will be no basketball world championships in Sweden The Swedish Basketball Team for men qualified for the World Championship in Palermo. But now, says Swedish Dövbasket no to games. The reasons are several. There was a sense that the Swedish national team in basketball this fall would go to Palermo to play the World [...]
Match Reports & Comments from the President of DBUK
Comments from the President of DBUK: Time has gone extremely fast since 2006. DBUK celebrated their 5th anniversary on 30th April 2011. We are proud of what we have achieved at DBUK and from what I foresee, the future is going to be very bright for Deaf Basketball UK. To celebrate our 5th anniversary we [...]
England Basketball: GB lose second leg in Deaf World Championship qualifier
Thursday, 14-Apr-2011 Great Britain’s Deaf Basketball team lost their second leg qualifying game against Sweden 53-47 at Edmonton Green Leisure Centre on 10 April. With GB also losing the first leg in Stockholm 59-37 on 2 April, they are now unlikely to qualify for the World Championship Tournament in Palermo, Italy from 16-24 September 2011. [...]
