Global Village Basketball: June 10, 2009: In 2002 I posted the beginnings of an idea to link together a bunch of pickup basketball games through the internet into one meta-game as my first (and only) column to SportsFilter. Though it looks much different today from that original concept, the event -- Global Village Basketball -- is finally here and it will be held for 24 hours this Wednesday, June 10.
(a follow-up to a boknows posting a few months ago)
In 2002 I posted the beginnings of an idea to link together a bunch of pickup basketball games through the internet into one meta-game as my first (and only) column to SportsFilter.
Though it looks much different today from that original concept, the event -- Global Village Basketball -- is finally here and it will be held for 24 hours this Wednesday, June 10 (12:00pm UTC time) until June 11 (11:59am UTC time) [http://tinyurl.com/gvb2009timeconvert].
We already have responses from as far away (from here in Toronto) as Poland, Uruguay, Germany, China and Ghana.
The web site:
http://www.vsport.tv/gvb/
A YouTube video explaining a bit more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjk2sm9obyw
To register:
http://www.vsport.tv/gvb/wp-login.php?action=register
For anyone on Facebook, here are two more links:
Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2305999547 Event: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2305999547#/event.php?eid=109905140055
We hope you will be able to join us on June 10 by playing, opening a gym for someone, or passing on the message to anyone you know who likes pickup basketball. Thank you,
Sean (aka smithers aka sportsbabel)
posted by smithers at 10:20 PM on June 08, 2009