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From the Cheap Seats: Russia's top teamsAs week two of the WNBA drought continues, Michelle and Becca take this episode of From the Cheap Seats to report on the latest from Russia's top teams, as well as some football talk. There's also a bit of baseball as the World Series gets under way. Lauren Jackson, Diana Taurasi with Sue Bird of the Spartak Also, Becca finds what is perhaps the strangest fantasy league in all of sports. From the Cheap Seats: Episode 21
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Love the vlog, as always
The stadium for the NFL game in London is called Wembley Stadium, it's the home ground for the England National football (soccer) team. My cousin is actually going to that game, he seems to be getting into the whole American football thing.
Oh and on the little point of the league system in Europe (certainly as it pertains to football/soccer, not too sure what it's like with basketball but I'd assume it's vaguely similar.) Each country has it's own set of leagues & Europe as a whole has the Champions League which is quite literally all the champions from each country competing to be the best club side in Europe (and also depending on the league you can have some of 2nd, 3rd & 4th placed teams gaining entry too). So if your club wins the Premiership title in England you get entry into the next season's European Champions League & play against the champions of Italy, France, Spain, Russia etc etc. It's basically just a means to get the top sides from the top leagues across Europe playing against each other.
Great explanation! I'll
Great explanation! I'll just add a lil' bit... Basically every team sport in Europe has a national league. The best teams play in the 1st league (for example in football you have Serie A in Italy, Premier League in England, Bundesliga in Germany and so on), but there's also a second league (in some countries there's also a 3rd and a 4th league, or even more than that; it's different in every sport). At the end of every season the lowest ranked teams are relegated to the 2nd league and the top teams from the 2nd league are promoted to the 1st league. In football it's usually 3 teams. Some countries have a different system of deciding which teams are relegated to a lower league, but I won't get into that right now.
Beside a national league there's also a national cup. In this competition teams from all national leagues in one country play against each other. This is actually a very interesting competition, because teams of different standards play against each other and sometimes small clubs from 2nd or 3rd league even manage to win against the 'giants' from the 1st league.
Then there are european club competitions in which top clubs from all european countries compete against each other. The elite competition in football is the UEFA Champions League, in handball the EHF Champions League, in volleyball the Champions League, in basketball it's the Euroleague... The top teams from all countries play in these competitions. There are other european club competitons in which the clubs that were placed behind the top teams (in national leagues) play against each other. One of them is the UEFA Cup (in football); there are many of them in all these sports, so I'm not even going to try to name them...
Oh yeah, there are also some regional leagues. Here top clubs from countries in a certain region play against each other...
My head is starting to hurt...
Google website translation
will translate any language into another, thats how I read the russian sites about sports. Here is a link and all you have to do is just type in the web address of the site, and pick the language it's in and what language you want to read it in.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en#
you can talk about mma, hockey, college football, soccer/futbol
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perhaps handball?
One more thing about the video thats in russian
here is the link again if some people don't have it yet
http://en.wbcspartak.ether.tv/
but if you click on the lovely bright blinking glue button under the video and then click on the box with the upside down arrow and choose the second option you can watch it in higher quality. There is also a way to make the vid go to full screen and pause the video as well.
p.s. who doesn't love the spartak cheerleaders. Have yall heard about the womens semi pro league that will be playing this summer the WBCBL? http://wbcbl.com/
"Come On Then Get These Good Done Debbies"
Just a note, Cappie
Just a note, Cappie Pondexter plays for UMMC Ekaterinburg with Penny Taylor, Asjha Jones, Deanna Nolan and Svetlana Abrosimova.
CSKA Moscow has Becky Hammon, Janel McCarville, Katie Douglas, and Ann Wauters.
*grin* I'd totally want to watch the CSKA-Spartak game too, but unfortunately the video player doesn't work for me. Boo.
Just a note, Cappie
Just a note, Cappie Pondexter plays for UMMC Ekaterinburg with Penny Taylor, Asjha Jones, Deanna Nolan and Svetlana Abrosimova.
CSKA Moscow has Becky Hammon, Janel McCarville, Katie Douglas, and Ann Wauters.
*grin* I'd totally want to watch the CSKA-Spartak game too, but unfortunately the video player doesn't work for me. Boo.
for me neither
:(((
from uk the russian website doesn't work...
(maybe it's because i can't see russia from my house?!? i should ask mrs palin...)
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It's currently playing now on the site that game
For me it didn't work at first either, but I got a VLC player and watched it on internet explorer. I just translated the webpage to read the instructions on how to get the player to work etc.
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Congrats!
Your vlog made the front page of WNBA.com!
CSKA and Spartak played in last year's final. The games are archived at this site: http://video.sportbox.ru/VidySporta/Basketbol
thanks for the link
watching the games now. How cool that their blog is mentioned on wnba.com conrgats!
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THe games
Who watched the Sparktak Dynamo-k game. It was really good, and that Fowles and DT are an amazing duo. I do wonder what happened in the 3rd quater I think when Lauren Jackson and the other girl got into it, and the other player got kicked out.
Right now i'm watching the Spartak vs Fenerbahce game. Who else has been watching these games. Do I have this right superleague games are on the sparktak site and the fiba games are on sportbox.ru?
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