Breaking Old Habits JD Walsh in India. Amongst our several unique nuances, we Indians have a particular slogan, which is repeated multiple times daily by tens of millions, like a mantra across the country’s wide, three million square kilometer area: “Chalta hai.” Translated literally from Hindi, it means ‘it goes.’ The Dictionary of Indian English emphasizes it further as ‘it will do,’ or ‘anything will...

In mid-December, Bollywood actors Lara Dutta and Dino Morea were spotted with US Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant! The hot couple flew out to Los Angeles, California for an all-access VIP weekend with the Los Angeles Lakers. The couple sat in the VIP box alongside Hollywood A-listers, Jack Nicholson and Andy Garcia! The stars were also invited to a Lakers practice where they got to meet their favorite player, Kobe Bryant....

By Neil Thomas | UD Daily “There is no reason why India could not become a basketball power in Asia within the next ten years” says FIBA president Robert Elphinston. Aug. 26, 2008—-A delegation from the University of Delaware traveled to New Delhi, India, in July to conduct a Youth Basketball Management Seminar as part of a U.S. Department of State-funded International Basketball Initiative. The program...

By Sean Gregory | Time Magazine NBA commissioner David Stern has already executed a beautiful pivot move into China, where, thanks in part to Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, hoops is hotter than Sichuan cooking. There’s still work to be done in Europe, even though it is now a source of many NBA players, including seven Frenchmen and six Slovenes. Before the season, the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns played...

By Sam Dolnick | The Associated Press 7/12/2008 - 7/13/08 NEW DELHI — Could LeBron James or Shaquille O’Neal catch on in the Hindi heartland? The NBA certainly hopes so as it plans a major push to introduce basketball to India and expand its already formidable global reach into a country with a soaring economy, a growing appetite for Western tastes, and, most importantly, 1.1 billion potential fans. The NBA has...