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		<title>UBL Annual 3&#215;3 Charity Tournament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s back on again!  This tournament will be raising funds for the great work of the Big Bang Ballers, a not-for-profit using the game of basketball to fight youth poverty and social disadvantage around the world.
ALSO PART OF THE CHARITY TOURNAMENT: 3-pt SHOOTOUT AND WOLLONGONG’S ONLY DUNK CONTEST! ASK WHEN YOU REGISTER ABOUT ENTERING THESE EVENTS!
Date: Saturday 2nd October
Registration Cost: $50 per team of 5
RSVP: Anthony Nguyen &#8211; 0402 787 827
Or email: info@ubl.net.au
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		<title>Presentation of 1.4 Billion Reasons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big Bang Ballers are pleased to invite the public to a presentation of the Global Poverty Project’s 1.4 Billion Reasons.
1.4 Billion Reasons is an engaging, thought-provoking multimedia presentation designed to educate audiences about the challenges of extreme poverty.
Endorsed by development and economics experts, and based on leading research, it articulates the facts of extreme poverty and demonstrates how everyone can be part of the movement to end extreme poverty.
1.4 Billion Reasons explains what it means to live in extreme poverty, and why extreme poverty can be ended within a generation. It outlines success stories, and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigbangballers.org/blog/?p=1303</link>
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		<title>Kicks for Kids &#8211; Working With Basketball Canberra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday 12th August, Big Bangs Australia delivered 100+ pairs of shoes to Basketball Canberra.
From their website:
Basketball ACT is supporting the FIBA Oceania &#8216;Soul to Sole-Our Heart to Your Feet&#8217;project. Donations of shoes(and maybe socks) helps in community and school basketball programs in Pacific countries. The countries being partnered are small in population and poor by our standards.Despite this, basketball continues to hold its own in being the preferred second sport in the Pacific. Your donation can be given to the Duty Manager at either stadium or the front office ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigbangballers.org/blog/?p=1300</link>
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		<title>Big Bangs France, Ballin For Kabul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Malgré l’appel du bikini et la chaleur écrasante du mois d’août gapençais, nous avons été plus d’une cinquantaine de fous de la balle orange à participer au tournoi Big Bangs du 8 août à Gap. De nombreux jeunes du Gap basket, accompagnés d’anciennes gloires locales, ont vu débarquer sur leurs terres des grenoblois descendus pour un weekend guinguette haut-alpin, avec des manosquins, des parisiens et même une guest star lilloise ! Ce cocktail explosif avait la main plus chaude que jamais avec des switch à faire frétiller les marmottes et ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Ballers &#8211; Gap, France</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mountain Ballers, part 2 !
The city of Gap, located in the south eastern part of France, is about to experience its first Big Bang event.  The French crew is enhancing its network to new ballers from the mountains !
Barbecue, music, 3&#215;3 tournaments, sun and more will be waiting for you ! so if you&#8217;re around, take time to pass by &#8217;cause &#8220;ain&#8217;t no mountains high enough to keep you away&#8221; from ballin&#8217;!
Peace
Julien Kerdoncuf
Big Bang Ballers France

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		<link>http://www.bigbangballers.org/blog/?p=1256</link>
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		<title>Day-Camp for St Vinnie&#8217;s kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday 13th July, members of Big Bangs Australia ran a basketball clinic for 34 kids at St Vinnie&#8217;s Holiday Camp.
The St Vincent de Paul Society&#8217;s 40,000 members and volunteers work hard to assist people in need and combat social injustice across Australia. Internationally, the Society operates in 130 countries and has over 950,000 members.  A small part of their work has been school holiday camps for disadvantaged and at-risk kids; you just know we couldn&#8217;t resist helping them out!
Our group of 10 volunteers ran the kids through warmups, team-building ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigbangballers.org/blog/?p=1252</link>
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		<title>Sudanese-Australian Basketball Invitational, Canberra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the weekend of 10th and 11th July, Big Bangs Australia lent their support, expertise and sponsorship to the inaugural SABI 2010 tournament.
Teams from Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and hometown Canberra came together to celebrate the talents of Sudanese-Australian basketball!
The weekend included an All-Star Game, Dunk Contest and 3-pt shootout.
The games were all exciting and hotly contested; plenty of dunks, plenty of highlights and of course a ton of support from all of Canberra&#8217;s basketball community.
After upsetting the firm favorites Melbourne to book a spot in the grand final, the Canberra Blue ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigbangballers.org/blog/?p=1247</link>
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		<title>Big Bangs Australia Sponsorship &#8211; Uni Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big Bangs Australia is very proud to be sponsoring Kalie Kamara to participate in the Canberra Institute of Technology team currently playing at the Eastern University Games.
Kalie will be writing a story about his experience at the tournament very soon.
We wish him the bets of luck, and note that he is joined by fellow Big Bangs player Felix Chan!
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		<link>http://www.bigbangballers.org/blog/?p=1242</link>
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		<title>Big Bangs Cocktail Fundraiser 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you believe it&#8217;s already been a year since the Big Bangs officially launched?  At the time who could have imagined how quickly we would expand, how many kids we would serve, how many emergency packs, basketballs, t-shirts, meals, shoes, uniforms, textbooks and school supplies we would go through&#8230;
On Monday 21 June, Tongue &#38; Groove, our perennial sponsors, helped us celebrate by throwing a cocktail bash for some 70 of our friends and supporters.
It was a wonderful night, and we would like to make a special shout-out to some very ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigbangballers.org/blog/?p=1229</link>
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		<title>CEO Sleepout &#8211; 17 June 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday evening, the Big Bangs &#8211; Australia team took part in the St Vincent De Paul Society&#8217;s CEO Sleepout, joining  684 Business &#38; Community Leaders sleeping rough in capital cities across Australia, in a bid to experience first hand what it is like to be homeless, along the way raising $2.6 million, which will go directly towards the ongoing provision of Vinnies&#8217; homeless services across the country.
It was cold, windy, altogether miserable, and unfortunately a reality for far too many Australians.
Why did we support?  The article below from our CEO should explain&#8230;
He has ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bigbangballers.org/blog/?p=1225</link>
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