Shake True Blog

Video of Jon House, speaking about all things basketball, is up in his diary. Stay tuned for his first written diary entry.

• Ex-D-League North Dakota Wizard and current French Pro-A League Player (with SLUC Nancy) Rod Benson has his own blog titled “Too Much Rod Benson” however, he contributes to the Ball Don’t Lie Blog on the Yahoo! Sports Network. Anyways, he’s pretty hilarious. You should definitely check out his life as a D-Leaguer and as a pro player in France. Too Much Rod Benson & Ball Don’t Lie.

• Bill Simmons, who is my favourite sports writer (actually, he’s so good that I even read his baseball and football articles and still find myself enjoying them even though I take no interest in either sport), recently wrote an article for ESPN The Mag about the 2008 Olympic Gold Medal game between USA and Spain and makes a case for it being one of the 10 best basketball games ever. Check it out.

• Big Shaq working out some dance moves with his kids. You’ve got to appreciate the amount of fun this guy seems to have all the time.

Belmont Bruin Jon House pontificating on the importance of hitting the books:

Anti Wesley-James sharing a little insight:

Natalie returned from Argentina where the CanadianJunior Women’s team posted a second place finish at the 2008 FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Women. Check the results here.

Here’s what Natalie has to say about the impact Shake True Hoops has had on her basketball career:

Felix was gracious enough to bless us with a cello performance at one of the last Shake True Hoops skills sessions in April. I used the footage from that, along with some footage from various STH events (Summer Camp, A2 Athletics, Skills sessions, etc.) to make this video. Bon appetit.

P.S. I switched to dailymotion from youtube because the youtube version is very choppy and gross. See if here if you want.

Shake asked me to get in touch with my creative side a while back and I lunged at the opportunity. With a bunch of video footage from the March Break Camp, I set out for unexplored territory. I had never done video editing, but I had some ambition. Below are the first two of the three I was asked to come up with. I used footage of a camper for the first and filmed my own footage for the second. The third one is still in the works as it is a much more ambitious project than I had anticipated. It’s coming along slowly, but surely whenever I have some free time.

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