Talkbasket recently had a great feature with images of 10 basketball courts from around the world; from colorful courts in Berlin, abandoned courts in Chernobyl and Russia, to snow-covered courts in the Himalayas. Other courts featured include backboards (and sometimes even rims) from Germany, Singapore, Belize, Ukraine, El Salvador, Cambodia, and Mexico. Here’s a sampling of the [...]

Whether Belize will be able to keep the silver medals they received in the COCABA tournament played in Cancun last month will be decided on by a FIBA tribunal on September 14th, 2009. Team Belize, or Belizean Heritage as is their moniker, earned a spot to next year’s CentroBasket by defeating all the Central American [...]

Rommel Beck scored 26 points and Noe Alonzo 21 as Mexico was able to withstand a 43 point outburst from Belize‘s Marlon Garnett to win the CoCaBa Championship (discuss the game). The match was tightly-contested with high drama and tensions surrounding the official status Belize’s players. After a high-scoring first quarter, Mexico extended to a [...]

Cancún, Mexico – It’s official. Well not really. Belize will take on Mexico for the CoCaBa championship tonight, Friday, August 14. Belize walks into the finals amidst controversy over the nationality of their players and they await FIBA’s decision before any of their results are finalized.  So even at the end of the championships tonight, [...]

According to a representative from the Belizean basketball team, Belize will continue playing in the COCABA championships while their official protest is being reviewed by FIBA International. …Alberto Garcia, FIBA Americas Secretary General, told (Belize) that (opponents) can rant and rave, but Belize has presented an appeal and a proper protest and will continue to [...]

FIBA announced today that Belize may be disqualified from the COCABA championships of basketball for supposedly violating FIBA’s player naturalization rules. (Discuss FIBA’s decision) As reported yesterday, Belize’s basketball team, or Belize Heritage, has been under review by FIBA for having unsanctioned players as Belize won their first two games by 30+ points against Nicaragua [...]

Fifteen minutes before Belize was to participate in their first CoCaBa tournament match vs. Nicaragua, FIBA officials questioned the eligibilities of several of their players. (Discuss Belize basketball and the 2009 CoCaBa Championships) Prior to the match, FIBA informed the squad from Central America that they could use Milt Palacio and Alex Cárcamo, two of the seven players whose [...]