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NEWS
Mon, Jun 15
The win is Bryant's 4th championship and coach Phil Jackson's 10th. Jackson became the "best" coach in NBA history by passing Red Auerbach's 9 championships.
Sat, Jun 13
Have a read Laker fans.
Wed, Jun 10
"iHoops is a positive response to the need for basketball's key stakeholders to take a more unified approach to youth basketball."
-- Duke University's Mike Krzyzewski and iHoops board member
Read on.
Mon, Jun 08
-- Phil Jackson
Mike Bresnahan has the recap of tonigh's NBA Finals game 2 action at the Staples Center tonight. Lakers up 2 - 0! Woot.
Have a read.
Sat, Jun 06
Bill Plaschke of the LA Times has a nice piece on the Lakers' sixth man Lamar Odom today. Have a read.
Fri, Jun 05
-- Lamar Odom on Kobe Bryant
Well, the Lakers took game one of the NBA Finals in convincing fashion tonight at Staples Center, routing the Magic 100-75. Kobe Bryant had an outstanding 40 points (a career playoff high) in the effort. The Lakers' big men played exceptional defensive against Dwight Howard, limiting him to 12 points in 1 for 6 shooting from the field -- no dunks.
Tue, May 26
-- Kobe Bryant
The Nuggets took control in game four of Western Conference Finals tonight in Denver, tieing the series 2-2. Kobe had 34, and Gasol 21. J.R. Smith and Chauncey Billups had 24 a piece for Denver. Game 5 is on Wednesday.
Mon, May 18
Quoted: Their playoff victories over New Orleans and Dallas were by an average of 20.5 points, including a 58-point defeat of the Hornets. They haven't lost a home game since March 9, winning 16 consecutive at the Pepsi Center.
Fri, May 15
I am following a number of current NBA players including Shaq, Baron Davis, Steve Nash, Randy Foye, Chris Bosh, Andrew Bogut, Fabricio Oberto and Troy Murphy. You can find them all on my Twitter page.
Sun, Apr 26
Try it out and let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Tosh Meston
Mon, Apr 13
Just a quick update. InfiniteHoops now supports Facebook Connect and MySpaceID as login methods. This means you no longer have to remember your InfiniteHoops password, you can just click the Facebook Connect or MySpaceID button and get right in.
Try it out and let me know what you think.
Cheers, Tosh Meston
Wed, Mar 18
Too funny. Click on through to view Obama's NCAA bracket.
Wed, Mar 18
-- Don Reisinger, CNET Blog Network author
CNET mentioned InfiniteHoops in a March Madness inspired post this evening. How cool is that? Check out the article everybody.
Wed, Mar 18
-- Charlie Villanueva on Twitter
So I guess the Millwaukee Bucks' Charlie Villanueva snuck a tweet out to his followers during half-time of the Boston game on Sunday and head coach Scott Skiles wasn't really pleased about it.
"We made a point to Charlie and the team that it's nothing we ever want to happen again. You know, (we) don't want to blow it out of proportion. But anything that gives the impression that we're not serious and focused at all times is not the correct way we want to go about our business."
-- Bucks' coach Scott Skiles
I see his point about being focused during the game, but outside of that, I think it's really interesting to get an insight into the players' lives, even if it is just 140 characters at a time.
Charlie's Twitter page is here if you want to follow him:
http://twitter.com/CV31
And don't forget big Shaq's:
http://twitter.com/the_real_shaq
Sun, Mar 15
On the techy side, I've been doing mostly search improvements lately. The search box used to be fairly restrictive in terms of looking up cities, i.e., the search string had to match pretty closely to locations in our database. Now, it has been improved in two ways. One is that search looks for games and groups in a geographic radius from the location you type in. Secondly, the string you type in doesn't have to be city name. It's nice if it is, but you can also type in zip codes, neighborhoods, park names or other locations. For example, if you type in: "Denny Park", the geocoder will figure out that this might be a location in Seattle, WA and show you a dropdown list of locations you can pick from. Early results indicate that people are finding it effective in matching them with groups. If you're using the search box, let me know what you think.
On the business side, clearly 2009 has been pretty tough so far. Advertisers are spending less and niche web sites such as ours are definitely aware of the pull back. Nevertheless, our costs are low and we're in it for the long haul.
InfiniteHoops and the other domains that make up our social sports network - InfiniteSoccer.com, InfiniteSoftball.com, InfiniteFootball.com and InfiniteHockey.com - continue to grow at a steady pace. 2008 visits and page views were up approximately 50% from 2007. Registration was up nearly 200% over the same period. We look forward to 2009 being another successful year.
So, who was the 6000th player? A basketballer from Tacoma, Washington. Tell your friends about the site everybody!
Thanks,
Tosh Meston
Founder of InfiniteHoops
ESPN HEADLINES
- NBA free agents: The latest chattersource: Marc Stein
- Hedo Turkoglu pulls out of talks with Portland Trail Blazers, source sayssource: Chris Sheridan
- Sources: Detroit Pistons' Joe Dumars to meet with Avery Johnsonsource: Marc Stein
- NBA free agents: Sources: Shawn Marion, Toronto Raptors deal is not imminentsource: ESPN.com news services
UPCOMING GAMES
- in Hawthorne, CA for Sat, Jul 04 at 8:00 AM
- in Santa Cruz, CA for Sat, Jul 04 at 9:00 AM
- in Missouri City, Texas for Sat, Jul 04 at 9:00 AM
- in Pleasanton, CA for Sat, Jul 04 at 10:00 AM
NEW GROUPS
- in Merrimac, MA
- in Redwood City, CA
- in Windsor, CT
- in South Boston, MA
STATISTICS
- Games Scheduled
16,608 - Total Players
7,815 - Total Groups
5,584 - Popular Groups
1,750
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