Sports

Basketball to bring Latvia and Lithuania closer

The Latvian capital Riga is hosting the Group D Phase of Eurobasket 2015 on September 5-10 in which national teams from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Ukraine will be competing for the right to advance to the Final Phase of the European Basketball Championship which will take place in Lille, France. […]

Anthem of Lithuanian SSR was played during the award ceremony in Taiwan
Foreign affairs

Taiwan’s diplomats in Vilnius apologize for Soviet anthem incident

Taiwan‘s diplomats have apologized in Vilnius for the recent incident when Lithuania’s old Soviet anthem was played during the award ceremony of the 2015 World Deaf Basketball Championship after the Lithuanian team won gold. […]

Jonas Valančiūnas
Society

Basketball player Valančiūnas stopped by police over window film

Basketball star Jonas Valančiūnas had an encounter with the police of Vilnius, Lithuania, who pulled over the tall man to inspect window tinting on his car. […]

Photo by Aleksejus Podpruginas
Sports

Žalgiris lost to Maccabi but still hopes to be in Euroleague Top 8

Maccabi Tel Aviv won yesterday at home against the Lithuanian champions Žalgiris in a close match 79:72. Jeremy Pargo paced Maccabi by 26 points while Artūras Milaknis with 19 points led Žalgiris. Žalgiris was always close to the Euroleague champs during the match, but it was not enough and the Lithuanians fell to 4-7 in the top 16 stage while for Maccabi the numbers are upside down: seven victories to four losses. […]

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Sports

Šarūnas Jasikevicius to be named Euroleague Basketball Legend

Lithuanian legendary basketball player, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, who retired at the end of last season, will be formally crowned a Euroleague basketball legend this Thursday. […]