August 25, 2011

Basketball Fever

By amanda

Lithuanians LOVE basketball — and right now the entire country has basketball fever because Lithuania is hosting Eurobasket 2011.  The European basketball championship games start August 31 and the final rounds will held in a brand new arena in Kaunas on September 18.  The arena was officially opened last Thursday with a “friendly game” between Lithuania and Spain, the reigning European champions.  Lithuania won (whoo-hoo!) but I’ve been told that they don’t have a particularly strong team this year and probably won’t get a medal.  But that doesn’t mean that the streets aren’t awash with red/yellow/green basketball paraphernalia.  There is even an official song featuring three Lithuanian pop starts.  Go Lithuania!!

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About amanda

Creating academic and public environments for the humanities to flourish Researching Soviet and Eastern European history Engaging people and ideas as a writer and interviewer Traveling as much as possible View all posts by amanda
This entry was posted on Thursday, August 25th, 2011 at 1:00 pm and posted in Life in Kaunas, Life In Vilnius. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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