I’ve been working hard on getting the newest season Pro Team Contacts 2009/10. Basketball teams overseas address, logo, telephone, address, fax and website information available.

It should be complete by the end of the week.

Current Country Contacts Updated:

• Brazil Men
• Austria Men & Women
• Italy Men & Women
• Germany Men & Women
• Ireland Men & Women
• England
• France Pro A
• Spain Women
• England Men & Women
• Switzerland Men & Women
• Germany Men & Women
• Finland Men & Women
• Netherlands Men
• Sweden Men & Women
• Ukraine Men & Women
• Portugal Men
• Norway Women & (Men soon)
• Greece Men
• Poland Men & Women
• Serbia Men & Women
• Turkey Women

Basketball overseas contacts to be completed: Norway Men, Portugal Women, Spain Men, ACB Spain, Slovania Men, Russia Men & Women, Latvia Men & Women, Scotland, Czech Republic, NBA, WNBA, Australian Leagues and more!!!

This is guest blogged by Tyler Smith, a good buddy of mine who offers a great service for basketball players to promote themselves through video. He offers professional basketball player videos at ProPlayerVideo.com.

The off-season is around the corner and it will soon be time to market your players as hard as possible. Copying, editing, and mailing out DVDs around the world can be very TIME CONSUMING and EXPENSIVE.

One great way to SAVE TIME and MONEY is to post players’ game videos ONLINE. Then, they can be viewed INSTANTLY by pro teams, coaches, and GMs. You can send GAME VIDEOS to UNLIMITED teams around the world!

At ProPlayerVideo.com, we want to make it EASIER for you to send your players’ videos out to Pro Teams!

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6-month package ($50) - 45min. game video, bio, contact info

1-year package ($75) - 45min. game video, bio, contact info

Extra game video footage - $20 per extra 15 min. of game video

These prices are per player (normally $90 and $60). It is then FREE for
anyone to WATCH VIDEOS. Plus, if you need the videos online for an extra
month, that is no problem. And, if the game video is just a little longer
than 45 min, that is ok.

Please let us know if we can help you with your game videos!

Thank you and I wish you the very best during the off-season!

For those who are overseas already or getting ready to go overseas you might want to know one of my favorite services to call to your family and friends through you mobile phone or house phone free. AND IT”S NOT SKYPE. I’m not knocking Skype at all but there are other services that you can call overseas without the use of a computer.

The name of this service is Rebtel and how it works is you connect to another phone without the use of a computer. First you must sign up free with Rebtel and then after you must register with your primary phone number. This can be your home phone number or cell phone. If you have a cell-phone plan with unlimited minutes I would use that number. If you don’t go ahead and use the house number for your primary. You will be designated a Rebtel phone number and depending where your friends are they will receive a local phone number which they can call you and which you can call them.

I had several problems understanding how it worked when I first got started but it is a breeze now. It is as simple as this:

1. You sign up and you place all of your phone numbers which you can be reached.

2. Your friend signs up with their phone number and they will receive a Rebtel number

3. You put your friends normal phone number in your contact list and your friend does the same for you.

4. You both will be given a rebtel phone number which is a local number for you to connect without charges (depending your phone plans).

5. Now that you have your friends number you can call them and they will have to call you back on the number that is assigned to you. It will be local for them if they for example live in another country.

Are you tired of going to several websites to view news about current women’s basketball news, players, gossip or anything interesting? Finally, I must admit there is a new solution. The new Women’s Basketball Buzz (WBBuzz) website has it all. You can track your favorite player, see who just signed where and when, photos and player fan websites.

Not only that you can get news in your language if its not English that you speak or read.

Basketball Connect is down today for all users. The servers are being changed at the moment and it should take about a day or two for things to restore back.

Have you had the bad experience of being on a team where the team didn’t pay? Well it actually happens more than you think. I have had the displeasure of being on two teams that paid extremely late and to me it felt the same. But not being paid at all for your hard work is should not be tolerated. I have been meaning to write about this topic during the last year but not sure how to approach it. But those teams who don’t pay should be noted and exposed.

The last thing I would like to see is another player suffer the same. More people should speak up. Which brings me to this post, over at Eurobasket someone has posted a few teams that don’t pay. Of course things could change a year later, but it is best to find out first if personnel has changed before you head off to the same team.

Here is the list:

KC Dombovar (Hungary) - my friend can’t get over 6000$ and there are many cases in the courts there.

Unia Tarnow (Poland) - no money at all

Polonia Warszawa (Poland) - this season is beter but in the past it was terrible

Stal Ostrow Wielkopolski (Poland) - they’re not paying last paychecks

Please add to the list, it will be anonymous!

Have you wanted to improve your vertical jump or your explosiveness? I’m sure at one time in your athletic career you’ve done Stair Exercises. It can be a pain in the a$$ but it’s worth it and the conditioning is excellent.

A buddy of mine Virgil has created a Stair Exercise Program for all athletes. He has trained many professional players in the WNBA, MLB, Police Academy and many company SEO’s. Below is a video of some techiques he has.

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Virgil Aponte has many options if you would like to purchase his DVD, book or combo. He has a great program. It’s highly recommended.