VIDEO: Champions League Group Play (Week 5)
Flensburg beat Hamburg at home last Sunday 31-29. Will Flensburg return the favor this Saturday in a Champions League showdown? After a 3 week break the Champions League is now back for 3 consecutive...
View ArticleVIDEO/AUDIO: Metalurg vs Vardar
Cross town rivals Metalurg and Vardar meet in a Champions League showdown This past Thursday night Skopje, Macedonian clubs Vardar and Metalurg fought for city bragging rights in a key Champions League...
View ArticleHandball News Summary (18 Nov 2013)
USA National Team athletes pose with Aubie, the Auburn University mascot. 1) Austria’s Hypo eliminated from Champions League. This past weekend the Austrian women’s club, Hypo Niederösterreich lost to...
View ArticleAmerican Football and Team Handball (Part 2): The historical pipeline and...
American Football to Team Handball: Which positions are most likely to provide the best candidates to transition to team handball? ehfTV recently had a profile on Danish Center Back, Rasmus Lauge...
View ArticleVIDEO: Champions League Group Play (Week 6)
Vardar and Metalurg meet again in a Macedonian showdown. Week 6 of the Champions League is very much a rerun of Week 5. This is because the same teams that played in week 5 will play each other again....
View ArticleMoneyball Handball: Part 1: Broad Categories for Athlete Evaluation
The blue boxes are the target. Is the U.S. finding enough athletes that meet these age and athletic ability definitions? In 2003, Michael Lewis wrote a book (recently turned into a movie) that...
View ArticleHandball News Summary (28 November 2013)
Canadian Women in action against Bulgaria. 1) The IHF Trophy (Intercontinental Phase) is taking place in Monterrey, Mexico. The IHF Trophy is a development initiative of the IHF focused on providing...
View ArticleVIDEO: Champions League Group Play (Week 7)
Mads Mensah Larsen: Not your typical Danish Centerback. Can he orchestrate an upset over Flensburg? Handball fans have one more weekend of Champions League handball before a long dry spell starts....
View ArticleMoneyball Handball: Part 2: Pushing the Outside of the Recruiting Envelope.
The blue boxes represent the recruiting envelope for USA Team Handball National Teams. Where should the USA push the outside of the envelope? (Answer: In the direction of the green arrow; not the...
View Article2013 Women’s World Championships Preview
No Surprise: Norway is the team to beat. The Women’s World Championships starts today with host Serbia taking on Japan in the opening match at 1800 CET/ 1200 U.S. Eastern Time. The format for this...
View ArticleHandball News Summary (10 December 2013)
Sally Potocki, who plays for Dortmund in the German 2nd division has been a bright spot for the Australians at the World Championships. 1) Australia Women struggle against top foes, but look forward...
View ArticleAUDIO: All About the Big Apple Tournament with NYC Handball’s Bini Mustafa
An event that just keeps getting bigger and better. The 5th Annual Big Apple Tournament in New York City is scheduled for 28-29 December. The New York City Team Handball Club is hosting its fifth...
View ArticleHandball News Summary (17 December 2013)
An exuberant LA Team celebrates their title in El Salvador. 1) Laser pointers target Korean penalty shot takers. During yesterday’s match between Serbia and South Korea, laser pointers were used to...
View ArticleMoneyball Handball Part 3: USA Team Handball Recruiting (Past, Present and...
Despite a questionable decision in the closing minutes of the Auburn – Alabama football game, Alabama Coach Nick Saban is considered to be a pretty good sideline coach. Where he truly excels, though,...
View ArticleCommentary: Three Great Additions to the USA Team Handball Board of Directors
Dr Harvey Schiller, Mike McNees and Bob Djokovich: 3 great additions to the USA Team Handball Board of Directors. It’s taken several months for the Nominating & Governance Committee to complete its...
View ArticleDanish Flavor for Today’s Semifinals
Danes rule the sidelines today at the Women’s World Championshpihs: Left to Right; Head Coaches Morten Soubak (Brazil), Jan Pytlick (Denmark) and Kim Rasmussen (Poland) A few short notes on today’s...
View ArticleWorld Championship Final Preview: Can Brazil Tame the Home Crowd?
Serbia’s boisterous home crowd has helped propel them into the Finals. Will the crowd put them over the top one more time against Brazil on Sunday. Tomorrow’s World Championship final is a refreshing...
View ArticleHandball News Summary (26 December 2013)
Coach Stefansson at training session with Reykjavic’s Valur Club Commentary: Outside of handball’s stronghold in Europe only the occasional story ever gets published in mainstream news outlets. Case...
View ArticleTaking Stock of the Pan American Competition: Can the USA Women Beat the Pan...
Argentina: Still the best of the Pan American also-rans. Can the USA put together a team capable of beating them in 18 months? Much has been written or said about Brazil’s historic run to the title...
View ArticlePODCAST: Interview with Handball Commentator, Paul Bray
Paul Bray, the dean of English language handball commentators If you’ve been watching the European Handball Championships online you’ve surely heard commentator Paul Bray’s distinct voice and delivery....
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