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Yes folks, the ABA, Jacksonville Giants and Columbus Riverballers got a mention on page 19 of the Feb. 13 edition of SI. |SCORED| By the Jacksonville Giants of the American Basketball Association , 211 points, in a win last Saturday over the Columbus Riverballers (who put up 84), breaking the scorin...

I just got an email from one of the team owners in the FBL and this is verbatim: The league we are entering is the Florida Basketball Association FBA and we play in the spring and summer not in the winter like the ABA. I personally think the league can work if for nothing else, they will have a sche...

[quote=""Paul S""]I would say 50% of the people who are cognizant of the fact the ABA is still in existence are on OSC. Another 5% are current owners who were daft enough to invest in this fiasco. Finally you have about 40% of people who are basketball junkies and know about this...

I have to say I am a little impressed. I suspect the black and white logo dabbed with silver/gray, is probably a marketing idea (black still sells). I am also impressed they already have a deal place where to play although a (semi) minor league team playing at the fairgrounds will be a tough sell un...

Little blurb in the St. Pete Times that the ABA seems to have found another sucker, er, owner for Tampa Bay. http://abalive.com/conferences/expansion/tampa-fl/ Funny thing, it appears they will have their official rollout at the very legit St. Pete Times Forum later this month. I just hope Newman do...

Doesn't one NBA benchwarmer make more than the entire ABA player roster? Only Papa Joe and a few of his crooks, er, cronies make NBA money. "The NBA lockout has been good in many ways," said Davis. "It's opened a window for us." Okay, now jump out of it. "Those kids now have...

[quote=""LightningMan""]Since 90 percent would be some sort of high water mark for this league ever, I think you're probably right.[/quote]
Actially I was going for 10%. Overshot it just a hair.

[quote=""nksports""]They've had that in summer college baseball for decades and it's been break-even at best with no more than five or six teams able to survive at any one time. That's with no player payroll. You're probably right, I went too far with the no one would notice comm...

[quote=""PikevilleOT""]The East Kentucky Energy will not return this season to defend the Eastern Conference Tournament Championship. The Energy were a Final Four team in their inaugural season under first year coach Galen Young. The team had recently changed its home games from ...