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Charting a Way Forward for USA Team Handball: Option 4: Upgrade and Expand...
The USA Team Handball Collegiate Club Graveyard: Why have so many teams come and gone over the years? And what could be done to prevent this from happening? This option for USA Team Handball requires a...
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USA vs. Puerto Rico Series: Women’s Results and Analysis: An Older Team...
The USA Women are hard working, motivated and fired up, but results on the scoreboard are still lacking. Previously, I reviewed the Men’s program and their 3 game series against Puerto Rico in October....
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Performance Rows for PANAM Games: Break for USA Women; Difficult Path for USA...
The Implications of PANAM Games performance row implications for the USA Women and Men should they qualify for the 2015 PANAM Games Ruben Gomez at Mundo Handball recently posted two articles (Men and...
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Winter Classic Results
The USA Women’s team hosted Canada and Handball Club Intrepide from Guadaloupe from 17-20 December. Handball Club Intrepide managed to go 3-0-1 with wins against both U.S. sides and a draw and a win...
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Podcast: What can collegiate team handball learn from collegiate rugby’s...
Iona College Rugby in action. Just 1 of 900 collegiate rugby clubs in the U.S. What can collegiate team handball learn from collegiate rugby? In my last post regarding the state of collegiate handball...
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2015 Women’s Pan American Championships: An Opportunity Squandered and Time...
The Numbers By the numbers: A snapshot of the U.S. Team performance at the 2015 Pan American Championships. For reference, here’s a similar table from the 2013 Pan American Championships: Link An...
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Charting a Way Forward for USA Team Handball: Option 6: The Title IX Field...
Best finishes at World Championship by select non-European nations. Should the U.S. try to climb both of these mountains or select the one the provides the greater chance of success? Developing Team...
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Charting a Way Forward for USA Team Handball: Option 14: The JUCO Transfer...
UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian and arguably the greatest JUCO transfer of all time, Larry Johnson. Could USA Team Handball take a page out of Tark’s playbook and start a JUCO pipeline to its...
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Charting a Way Forward for USA Team Handball: Option 7: The All the Eggs in...
The decision by the USOC to withdraw Boston as a candidate city for the 2024 Olympics underscores the risks and importance of timing with any decision to go forward with a regionally focused strategy....
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USA Handball Referees Gaining Experience and Respect on the World Stage
USA referees Christian Posch and Lars Jedermann a year ago at the Women’s Youth Championship. Now they are officiating professional matches in Austria. This past summer, the USA’s top pair of...
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Taking Stock and Shaking My Head in Frustration: Can Someone Please Educate Me?
Auburn formally designated as an Olympic Training Center: Can someone out there explain to me why this is such a good deal for USA Team Handball? This past weekend was a big one for USA Team Handball...
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Puerto Rico on the World Stage
Puerto Rico Asst Coach Julio Sainz gets a close shave after Puerto Rico’s victory over Kazakhkstan Puerto Rico’s surprise 4th place finish at last Summer’s Pan American Championships earned them a...
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20 Team Handball Matches have been Broadcast the Past 2 Weeks on a U.S. TV...
Holy crap! Is there something wrong with my DVR? 20 World Championship matches available for viewing. I must be dreaming I’m still living in France. No station here in the U.S. would ever show that...
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Former 16 Year Old Women’s National Team Player Contemplates a Return to...
Taylor Proctor on defense 5 years ago against Canada. She’s barely touched a handball since, but could immediately be an elite player on our national team. What does that say about our current program?...
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Charting a Way Forward for USA Team Handball: Option 6: The Title IX Field...
The Netherlands celebrating their silver medal at the Women’s World Championships. Yet another nation with little handball tradition finding success on the Women’s side. How might a U.S. Women’s...
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Christer Ahl Seeks Donor for Kidney Transplant
Christer Ahl Dear handball friends and followers of Team Handball News: You may have noticed that after many years of regularly posting commentaries at Team Handball News, I am now virtually absent....
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ehfTV: The Gift that Keeps on Giving: How Long Will this Incredibly Good Deal...
ehfTV: The gift that keeps on giving? How long will this good deal last? The past couple of weeks have been busy ones for me with end of semester grading and the start of the FIRST Robotics building...
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VIDEO: USA Men Beat Alberta Jr. Team 35-25
USA on attack vs. Alberta The USA Men beat the Albert Jr. Men’s team 35-25 last night in a game played at Auburn, Alabama. The U.S. trailed Albert 20-18 at the half, but played some outstanding...
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Commentary and Analysis: USA Men vs. Alberta Jr. Team Series
It’s a long way to Tipperary and to Auburn for that matter: Does it make more sense for the U.S. to train selected athletes in Europe? That thought along with analysis of the 4 match series played...
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Why a Residency Program at Auburn is the Best Way Forward for USA Team...
Back in September after Auburn was designated as an USOC Olympic Training Site I posted a plea asking for someone to explain how this was such a great deal for USA Team Handball. Six months later I...
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