The secret to this blog's success, International Roast!I have Googled and looked high and low for all things basketball in the Oceania area or involving an Aussie hooper. Here is what I come up with and I was only aided by a few cups of the good stuff, International Roast.- New Zealand Breaker Kirk Penney has picked up his second NBL Player of the Week award for season 2009/10.- Defending NZNBL

Years ago it was Larry Bird and Michael Jordan playing H-O-R-S-E for a Big Mac and fries for lunch.Now Gen Y has their go at re-creating the classic commercial. Take a look at the new Lebron James and Dwight Howard version of the McDonald's ad made legendary by the Hall of Famers. As usual, Larry Legend leaves the winner.THE OLDTHE NEW

There is mounting speculation that two of Australia's greatest basketball products will announce their retirement from NBL basketball today.Melbourne Tigers pair of Sam MacKinnon and Chris Anstey will announce they are done with their professional basketballing careers sometime today.MacKinnon has been named MVP and won several NBL Championships while flirting with Europe and the NBA throughout

On Friday the Townsville Crocodiles held a luncheon with former Test Cricketer Wayne Phillips as the MC and Greg Ritchie as the guest speaker.Phillips has MCed a few functions for the Crocs and he is quite the entertainer (this can be seen below in the video footage as he never lets the truth get in the road of a good story).But once I saw Ritchie's Andrew Vlahovesque frame mount the stage it

Now former NBA and Serbian center Vlade Divac and I have never seen eye to eye but you always have to respect a guy for his individual skills.Divac was considered one of the best passing big men in the league during his time in the United States. I will not argue that point and I will not argue the point below in the video footage that was kindly brought to my attention by my Serbian friend.Divac