Tag: SBBA

SBBA 2023: Team Mexico wins D-League finals

SBBA 2023: Team Mexico wins D-League finals

| March 30, 2023 | 0 Comments

The SBBA (Saint Brendan Basketball Association) 2023 season concluded Saturday, March 25 with the division playoff semifinals and title games. That was nine games in one day! Doesn’t get any better for youth basketball fans. Championship Saturday began early with the first of two Bobcat Division (ages 8-9) semifinal games. The eventual champions were Salt […]

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After absence, SBBA and youth basketball are back

After absence, SBBA and youth basketball are back

| March 3, 2022 | 0 Comments

My throat is still sore from yelling yesterday. I haven’t been inside St. Brendan School auditorium and gym for a youth basketball game in two years, and I forgot how loud it can get, even with the limited number of spectators currently permitted. Maybe wearing a mask gives the sensation that it inhibits voice projection, […]

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If you build it, they will come: St. Brendan Basketball

If you build it, they will come: St. Brendan Basketball

| December 31, 2020 | 0 Comments

I never played basketball as a youth, so it was quite a learning experience when my friend Joe Byrne invited me to be his assistant coach on the Saint Brendan Basketball Association (SBBA) teams on which our sons were members. During one of the two seasons we coached together, the squad went undefeated, then it […]

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