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The game of basketball is fast becoming one of the most practiced team sports in jails throughout the world. This must be to the credit of basketball, a sport with such a great diversity and redeeming value to all youth, and particularly in this case to youth with some unfortunate social problems that led them to prison. We will cover all aspects of this great phenomenon hardly covered with such depth in any other site, as we believe there is no one particular site entirely dedicated to this activity as yet. Thus the pioneering aspect of our site.

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We are ready to publish your prison basketball materials (reports, essays, stories, poems, pictures) on our site. We will also run an opinion page about issues tackled on this site

Prison Basketball Announcements:

1. TOBI Productions is interested in licensing any video footage of prison basketball for use in an upcoming documentary. If you have footage of basketball being played indoor or outdoor at a prison, please contact

Matt O'Neil at: matt.oneil@tobiproductions.com

(ad posted 16 June 2003)

2. The Akron Wingfoots, a legendary basketball team, would love to play prison teams as a special event

for the prisoners.

The team website is at: http://www.akronwingfoots.com

Interested prison basketball teams can contact the Akron Wingfoots team manager Tom Ficara at: info@akronwingfoots.com

In fact, the Wingfoots is the only AAU team to play a full college season. The club recruits good basketball players year around in an effort to get them international contracts around the world (FIBA). They run a tight schedule and would need reservations very early on. They play NAIA/USCAA games, the NABL league and AAU National Tournament, College/AAU All Star competitions. They organize various tours including NCAA teams and regional tours to Europe, Canada and South America.

The Akron Wingfoots has had a rich history and string of famous basketball players. They were NBL champions in 1938. They were AAU Champions in 1964 and 1967. Five Akron Wingfooters played in the US Olympic basketball teams in 1964 and 1968. Many of its players go on to play in international leagues in many countries (ad posted April 2003).

Some Useful Resources and Links

(we acknowledge listing of our 'Prison Basketball' site whenever we are aware of such listing):

International Center for Prison Studies

PBB listed in their Links Pages

International Network of Prison Ministries

Prisonwall.org

StrengthTech: Weightlifting in Prisons

PBB listed in their links page

Please send in your comments to prisonbasketball@yahoo.com

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