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(Benjamin Edwards #40, playing with the Veszprem 1st Team)
John and JD discuss 18 year old Benjamin Edwards playing with the Veszprem 1st Team, John’s dream of an HBL-LNH pre-season showdown and some overarching takeaways from the Olympian Handball Haus interviews.
Here’s a summary with links to some of the items we discussed:
- Benjamin Edwards: USATH Profile Nice assist vs Berlin
- Germany Cup Results; Both ASV Hamm (Ian Hueter) and Vfl Lubeck-Schwartau (Paul Skorupa) advanced to the next round where they likely will face HBL sides: Link
- John’s proposed HBL-LNH Pre-Season Challenge modelled after the NCAA college basketball ACC – Big Ten Challenge
- SoCal Beach Handball Championship: Results Match Videos
- Yoav Lumbroso Wikipedia
- Handball Haus Olympian Interviews: Link
- The interviews are about 10 minutes long and halfway through the videos
- Bryant Johnson 88
- Leora Sam Jones 84, 88, 92
- Cindy Stinger 84, 88, 92
- Brad Schlesinger 72
- Matthew Ryan 96
- Tom Fitzgerald 96
- Craig Thompson Gilbert 84
- Tim Funk 84
- Pete Buehning 76
- Laura Coenen Ryan 88, 92, 96
- No relation to me or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Joe McVein 84, 88
- Terry Tinkle 72
- Dennis Berkholtz 72 76
- Two takeaways from these interviews
- “Play handball. See the world”: The greater resources applied for these athletes in terms of training and playing opportunities.
- Pound for pound these athletes were better and more accomplished than the crossover athletes that have played for the U.S. the past two decades
- Article on Air Force basketball athletes that played handball: Link
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