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The Soul website has been updated.
Go to www.soulfulhoops.com for info about the big event coming up on July 14th.
You are all invited.
The San Antonio Soul held their try-outs this past Monday and Tuesday Nights at Antioch. From what I saw, it was a huge success.
They are off to a good start with what perhaps five or six players that will certainly stick around after September when cuts are expected to be made.
Two players who tried out are currently living in New Jersey and North Carolina.
A number of others are from Texas but out of the San Antonio Area.
It appears that this team will get support, at least in the Antioch area.
It remains to be seen how well they do when the exhibition games begin.
right now the Soul have a pair of exhibition games scheduled in August, but they are being played at San Antonio college where the Soul will play the majority of their home games for the regular season. There will be at least one exhibition game at Antioch.
I will keep you all posted.
The Soul website has been updated.
Go to www.soulfulhoops.com for info about the big event coming up on July 14th.
You are all invited.
E20 should check this out.
I am going to play in minor/rec leagues when I'm older and I would love to play in this, but the drive is way too long...........a couple thousand miles or so........
I hate basketball. I did once know a mac that I used to play with at Ward .......
I'm in.
What are UBL ticket prices? $5? $25?
if only this was a purely "defensive" game! im like bowen without the three point shot...actually...with no shot...but i love the friggin game!
High School Kid?
Make sure its a women only league, that way you can dominate.
Ticket prices typically will be between five and eleven dollars. The league will try to keep prices pretty uniform. If you are a sounds fan and want to see them against the Soul in San Antonio for instance, the ticket prices will be similar if not exactly the same.
The Soul will be making an appearance at a sports outlet in San Antonio. Check the website Monday for details.
so I missed try outs ?
The Soul will be at the Sports Authority on Loop 410 off San Pedro on Saturday, August 4th. It's an all day affair and players will sign autographs.
The Soul are pretty undersized - 6'10'' 6'6'' and 6'5'' are the tallest on the team.
They would like to have another big perhaps, but you and i both know that former Knick Dean meminger was right when he said, "it's not how tall you are, it's how tall you play."
The Soul event on Saturday was a success. You may have caught a part of the press conference on KSAT last night. I think they will have a longer segment on the Soul on their sports show tonight.
Drea Avent of KABB did a segment Monday Night on the Soul.
Hope you guys caught it.
San Antonio soul players are making scheduled appearances soon. Check out www.soulfulhoops.com for details.
New team coming to S.A.
Web Posted: 08/20/2007 04:07 PM CDT
Chuck McCollough
Express-News
The next year promises to bring a spring full of basketball to San Antonio.
In May, when the Spurs are pursuing a fifth NBA le and the Silver Stars are starting a new season, the San Antonio Soul will dribble into the local sports history books.
San Antonio Soul?
That's the name of the local franchise of the United Basketball League, a fledgling professional minor league that plans to have 15 teams in Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, according to UBL Commissioner and Chief Executive Mac Claire.
The 15 teams are spread among three regional divisions, and teams within each division are not far apart.
"We didn't want the teams to have to pay more for travel than necessary," Claire said.
San Antonio Soul is in the southern division with teams from Austin, Houston, San Marcos and Belton.
The central division consists of teams from Fort Worth, Dallas, Mesquite, Texarkana and Frisco, while the northern division consists of squads from Little Rock, Ark.; Oklahoma City; Tulsa, Okla.; and Springfield, Mo., Claire said.
Claire said he decided to start the UBL two years ago after seeing a need for professional minor league basketball in the Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma area.
"We want to have a league that gives basketball players a chance to follow their dream and also provide affordable sports entertainment for average families," he said.
Ryan Parker is one of the aspiring San Antonio Soul players who dreams of a career in the NBA.
The New Braunfels resident said he couldn't believe it when a professional minor league basketball franchise decided to locate near his hometown.
"I played basketball at New Braunfels High School, then one year at Tyler Junior College and then briefly for an American Basketball Association team in New Mexico. I most recently played for a summer pro league in Long Beach, Calif.," Parker said.
"I was skeptical at first when I heard about the San Antonio Soul, but also curious. I talked to the folks there several times before I went to the first tryout," said the 6-foot-5 former New Braunfels Unicorns player, who graduated in 2001.
Parker said he can play point guard, shooting guard or power forward.
"For me, it's not about the money, but the love of the game. If I don't make it to the NBA in a couple of years, then at least I can say I tried," he said.
Parker said he closed his tile construction business to focus on his basketball career and now works for someone else during the day so he can pursue his goal.
The dreams of wannabe NBA players are what Soul officials said is at the heart of their franchise.
"Our guys have played either high school ball or college ball but have not been able to make it to the pros, so we offer them this opportunity to showcase their talents," said team co-owner Bobbie Lee.
Lee and her mother, Evelyn Watkins, the other owner, relocated to San Antonio after fleeing New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina was headed into the Crescent City.
"Bobbie is an avid sports fan, and when she discovered the United Basketball League's Web site, she contacted commissioner Mac Claire to learn more about how to get a team started here in San Antonio," Watkins said.
Watkins said she saw the UBL franchise as an opportunity to assist Lee with something that she really loves — sports — and remain active in the community by working with young people.
Claire said the league will start in spring 2008 and have a 24-game schedule.
"We are pulling everything together and posting a lot of information on our Web sites. In fact, the Web sites have helped us spread the word and line up a number of teams and sponsors in different cities.
"I think the fact the Soul team is starting up in the home of the NBA championship helps. The Spurs and the Silver Stars have helped create a real basketball hunger in San Antonio, and the Soul will try to help meet that," Claire said.
Tryouts for the Soul are 8-10 p.m. Mondays and Fridays at Antioch Sports Complex, 314 Arrow St., on the East Side.
For more information about the San Antonio Soul, visit the Web site at www.soulfulhoops.com. For details on the UBL, visit www.ublhoops.com.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/nei...b.1def64a.html
I looks like Mac has his act together and is taking his time to line things up before next spring. The sponsor list is pretty impressive at this point. I wonder if the UBL made any overtures to the three most stable teams from the now-defunct USBL - Salina, Dodge City and Enid. Would've made some sense as the UBL is supposed to have teams as far north as Topeka.
I guess they did.
Wild duo explores pro hoops
Indoor football team's GM and owner would like to put a basketball team in planned Park City arena.
BY KIRK SEMINOFF
The Wichita Eagle
The Wichita Wild indoor football team is trying to create another local sports franchise -- still indoors, but with a round ball.
General manager Mike McCoy said Tuesday that he and Wild owner Wink Hartman are considering a professional basketball team for Hartman's planned Park City arena, which they hope to open late next year.
"The homework I've done is that it would be perfect for a 4,000- or 5,000-seat arena like we're going to have," McCoy said.
But McCoy isn't working alone in search of a league for a franchise. He met with officials from the Salina-based Kansas Cagerz and Dodge City Legend last weekend to figure out what leagues would be viable options for all three teams.
"If Mike can pull off the Wichita thing, and he thinks he can, I think we would want to be a team package," Cagerz general manager Carroll Long said. "I've said for a long time that for us to get newspaper and television coverage (in Kansas), we need a franchise in Wichita."
The Cagerz and Legend have been franchises in the United States Basketball League, but the league floundered to the finish this season and is in limbo for next season. One option for the Kansas teams would be to join up with some former USBL teams in the Midwest.
Another option would be the new, Texas-based United Basketball League, which lists franchises as far north as Topeka and Springfield, Mo. A UBL official met with officials from the three Kansas groups Saturday, and they'll meet again at UBL meetings Sept. 29 in Dallas.
"What we're looking to do is to see if it'd be a good fit for all three of us," McCoy said.
Unlike the Wichita Thunder, which will run a hockey operation in the fall and winter and the city's new unaffiliated baseball team in spring and summer, a new basketball team would play a schedule at the same time -- April through July -- as the Wild football team.
http://www.kansas.com/sports/other/story/178819.html
Makes sense geographically if nothing else. It could be pretty huge for the UBL if those teams bring their player/agent/coach connections with them. The USBL teams could also go with the IBL, which is fairly stable but with goofy rules that might not mesh well with their mission.
Hey Gang!
I know it has ben a long time since my last post.
It has been real busy.
This past Saturday we (the Sounds) played the Texas Wranglers at a school in Temple, TX. It was a benefit game and 100% of the proceeds went to the school and the PTA. Players from both teams did just what I had wanted--they signed autographs and posed for pictures and mingled with the crowd before and after the game. It was a good day. I am proud of all the guys from both teams.
Oh yeah, the Sounds lost 98-59. We were unable to hit our shots. We had good looks at times but didn't get the bounces.
The Wranglers had alot to do with our poor play though. They out-physicaled (is that a word?) us, and they were superior in the paint.
We will see them once more before the season.
Other News: The Sounds will split time between San Marcos and either Austin or New Braunfels and call those cities home. IT hasn't worked out in Austin thus far as we had a venue ripped out from beneath us after we had a deal.
We have two teams in Missouri, three in the Dallas area. That includes the Wranglers.
The San Antonio Soul are going to be a force in our division. It would be great if you could come see the next Soul home game. I will announce it on here. It likely will be against the Sounds.
Best Wishes,
Mac
what does the roster look like? any local talent on the team?
Teams are made p mostly of home area talent.
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