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Do you love playing sports? Do you love to travel? Have you ever considered playing your favorite sport overseas? Today, it doesn't matter what sport you play or whether you are a guy or girl, there is a chance for you to follow your dream and play professionally somewhere overseas. This podcast is designed to give you athletes an in-depth look at what it is like to play overseas as well as tricks of the trade. Through interviews with players, agents, coaches, team owners, etc, you will get ...
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FIND EVERYTHING WITH OUT LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/globallyballin 👈 As sports begin to tease that they are coming back, we welcome the commissioner of a new basketball league here in the US. The PBA or the Pro Basketball Association claims to be a new professional opportunity for players. If you are in the world of minor league basketball, this i…
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As early as middle school, Mike Singletary was getting college offers to play basketball. After all the options settled, Singletary decided on Texas Tech. Following his time at Texas Tech, Mike's talents took him and his family all over the world. Join Globally Ballin as we sit down with Mike Singletary and hear his story about his experiences play…
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Football player, John Yaple was given a tryout and a contract from a team in the NGL (National Gridiron League) the incidents that followed left him with more questions than answers. Join Globally Ballin as we sit down with John and hear his story about his experience with the NGL. John's experience with the NGL, the basics of the league, and more …
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Our guest today is David Magley. David is the president of The Basketball League (TBL). TBL is about to start their 3rd season in the early half of 2021. During this offseason they have seen significant growth. While all the teams from last year have plans to comeback, TBL has already added 8 other teams with more promised to join (per this episode…
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Our guest today is Kevin Yurkus. Kevin is the head coach of the Saigon Heat a team represented in both the VBA (Vietnam Basketball Association) and the ABL. For this episode we discuss a variety of different topics about the world of international basketball, specifically in Southeast Asia. We basketball in Vietnam for imports, the rise of differen…
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Our guest today is Zac Benalloul. At the age of 15 Zac started what is now Benalloul Sports Management. For this episode we disucss a variety of different topics about the world of international basketball told from the perspective of an agent. We talk about this upcoming season, what are some leagues to look out for, some teams to look out for, wh…
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We've talked hockey before, and we have talked women's hockey before. In the past, we looked at a totally different region. In past episodes we have looked at the current state of hockey, specifically women's hockey, in Asia. For this episode, our guest, Chloe Young, helps us break down the current state of women's hockey in Scotland and England. C…
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In the past, we talked with Zach Melcher, a professional mens volleyball player who played in the Czech Republic. For this episode we are also joined with a mens professional volleyball player who played in the Czech Republic, Matt August. While also coming from the same region of the country, Zach and Matt have different stories. We believe that t…
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First off, THANK YOU all for your support. 50 episodes is a major milestone and we thank all of you! In the past, when we talked with Claire Winter in episode 22, we talked about the NWSL (National Women's Soccer League). We did not dive much into the league because Claire's journey did not include a stint in the NWSL. However, since then, we have …
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This episode takes a look at the (for some of you, new) sport of rhythmic gymnastics in India as well as around the world. In addition to the basics of the sport and the growth of it around the world, our guest, Meghana, dives deeper into the motivation that it took to work on being the best in India. As a sport that is not given much spotlight in …
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As sports look to open up again, we look to the future of another basketball league, The EBA. Taking with him his team, The Dallas Heat, Mason Brawley looks to begin a new semi-professional basketball league. With locations spanning various regions of the United States, we are left with the questions, why another league? Why now? What makes you (Br…
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This episode takes a look a baseball around the world, but in a different light than we have in the past; we discuss baseball in countries around the world at a youth level, ranging from U9 to college level. Our guest, Mario Signorello is the CEO of the Caribbean Baseball Organization (CBO), an organization that strives to bring baseball events to …
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This episode is another double feature. Our first guest is the President of the Syracuse Stallions which, at the time of recording this, was the newest team to join The Basketball League for the 2021 season; there have since been two others, Little Rock and another to be revealed later. Our second guest is the President of The Basketball League, it…
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This episode is another double feature. The relation of the two guests on the show is that they are both from Australia and they both, as of late, played professionally in Indonesia. Although our listeners have not heard from Aryn Williams yet, Ante Bakmaz joined us on our first episode of “The Globally Ballin Podcast Preview” on Instagram live @gl…
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Full disclosure, I heard about Beau Bell from watching A&E's 4th and Loud. As I have mentioned before, this docuseries followed the LA Kiss' inaugural season in 2014 in the Arena Football League; we talked with the quarterback from this same docuseries, JJ Raterink, in episode 36. Once I started to look into Beau, who played a significant role in t…
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Together, Luke Hamilton and Brian Hertzog refer to themselves as the "Luke Brian Tour." Their names coupled with the fact that they "tour" the world doing various baseball umpiring gigs results in their nickname. I won't ask you, but, instead, I will admit that I have yelled far too many times at umpires convinced that they missed a call either on …
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For this episode we were blessed to have Courtney Felinski join us to talk international volleyball opportunities. After her time at Georgia Tech, Courtney took her talents around the world including stops like Spain and the Philippines. We have talked volleyball in the past, however, this is our first guest representing women’s professional volley…
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This Saturday, we have a double feature. We decided to take two different interviews and put them together. Both these interviews have a very strong commonality and that is they are both talking about sports in Australia. For our first interview and the first half of the show, we were blessed to talk with Matt Ellis. Matt hosts The Cricket Library …
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For this week, we were blessed to have our guest, Oscar Lopez join us. Oscar Lopez is the head of a media outlet entitled, “Gridiron Beauties.” Gridiron Beauties is an outlet that spotlights the best women’s tackle football as well as the best women’s tackle football athletes around the world. In the past, we talked with the owner of the Seattle Sp…
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Typically, I like to write, in the title, some of the countries in which my guest for the episode played. The reason why I did not do that this week is because my guest played in a bunch of different places. He started off playing in the NCAA for the UCONN Huskies. He was then drafted in the 1st round to the New Jersey Nets. Following his time in t…
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Paul Boyette Jr, played football at Texas. Soon after, he spent his time on the practice squad for the Oakland Raiders. After, he spent some time competing for a few different spots in training camps. Most recently, Boyette signed on to play professional football in Japan in the X-Leauge. The defensive end has a wealth of information on the mindset…
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This week, we get to discuss a new topic for the show. Our guest for this episode is Zach Melcher. Zach is a professional volleyball player. Most recently, Zach played professional volleyball in the Czech Republic until COVID-19 altered the plans for the season a little bit. Zach just finished his first year, so he brings an interesting perspective…
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Here’s your first warning, if you have not done so and have the time, you should go watch “Fourth and Long” on Amazon Prime. The 10 part documentary details the inaugural season of the LA KISS of the AFL. One of the main focuses of the documentary series was the quarterback, J.J. Raterink. Now J.J. (our guest this week), played in A LOT of other pl…
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When it comes to a podcast called, “The Globally Ballin Podcast,” it stands to reason that the more experiences in different places a guest has the better. That being said, Our guest this week, Cory Riordan, is a gold mine. Cory played in Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela Winter League, Dominican Republic Winter League, Independent Baseball on the US East C…
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BASEBALL FINALLY! This week we will be discussing the opportunities to play baseball in a few countries outside of the United States. Specifically, our guest will be telling his story of playing in Japan and Taiwan. Most of you baseball fans out there know about Japanese baseball, I would guess. But I wonder how many of you know about Taiwanese bas…
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Have you ever decided on something that you wanted to do or a field you wanted to pursue, but always had a back-up plan of sorts? Now, flip that; have you ever been so "for sure" about a decision that you slammed the figurative door behind you and burned the bridges on the way out to make sure that there was no going back? Well, you can probably gu…
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Shaq, like a few of our other guests played some indoor football. He bounced around a few teams in a few different leagues in the indoor football world including the NAL. Following some time playing indoor football, Shaq was presented with a very intriguing offer (and something we have not had on the show yet), to go and play America football in Br…
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You have heard of TBL before, but Dr. Ackerman and Coach Crowder have a lot more to say. Their interview is a lot more than just TBL talk. Dr. Ackerman and Coach Crowder, we at Globally Ballin can honestly say, have given us the most interesting perspective and view on the world of college sports. You have to give this a listen and see what you thi…
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Our guest this week is Chris Tan. Chris makes a wonderful guest, because besides his wonderful ability as an interviewee, his two past roles and now his current role make him able to check all three of the boxes of our mission statement here at Globally Ballin, "Promote leagues, spotlight teams & opportunities and tell players' stories." Chris Tan,…
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Although she started off in the Philippines, our guest for this weeks episode, Kayla Franchesca is now in Australia playing hockey and training. Kayla experienced the very beginning of hockey in the Philippines. During a time when there were less than 10 women in the entire country interested in hockey, Kayla became passionate about the sport. Sinc…
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We have talked once in the past about American football in Europe a while back. Today, we revisit that topic with a new guest. Our special guest, Sean Shelton has spent several years in Europe including in Paris, Helsinki as well as some time in Austria. There are a lot of opportunities that are available for you football players around the world. …
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If you have learned anything from the Globally Ballin Podcast so far, it is probably something along the lines of, "there are a ton of leagues...wow." Yeah, we are learning the same thing. Today is no exception to this. For this episode, we dive into the East Coast Basketball League (ECBL). This 19 team basketball league stretches from Virginia to …
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The world of international basketball can be very confusing and very intimidating. Because of this, we love welcoming basketball agents to the show. Daniel Green has a lot to say and a lot of great information out there for you especially if you are a young basketball player looking to play around the world. Daniel Green also has a new role with Th…
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There is no question that America has a huge passion for the sport of American Football. This episode takes that truth and puts a twist on it. This week we talk with the owner of the Seattle Spartans, a team in the WFA (Women's Football Alliance) a league with teams all over the country. This week's episode is a little bit different as we look at a…
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The ABA is a league here in the United States that confusing and interesting at the same time. There are well over 100 teams in the league, and yet the same team has won the championship 6 out of the last 8 championships. If you are familiar with the ABA, you may be familiar with some of the negatives people have used to point fingers at the ABA; i…
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Ky (Aiden) Howard a key part of the team for NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) that put the team on the map with a win over the No. 17 The Michigan Wolverines (72-70) back in December of 2014. However, his journey was only getting started. Ky had a chance at starting his career off in the G-League, Ky will explain what exactly happened with…
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After a successful stint at UCLA, Claire Winter found herself looking at her potential future full of questions. After not being selected in the NWSL Draft, Claire had to find something else. With no agent, Claire is now playing professional women's soccer in Puerto Rico. Although she, admittedly, always has her eyes open for the next opportunity, …
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Coreontae DeBerry made a mark on a small town in west Michigan. As he cruised through high school, people knew he had a real chance to really make something out of a career in basketball. Today, those thoughts and feelings people had are being proven accurate. After a time at the University of Cincinnati as a Bearcat, Coreontae played in the G-Leag…
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This week we visit a new country and a familiar sport, basketball in Thailand. Our guest, Chris Daleo, is the head coach of the mens national basketball team in Thailand as well as the head coach for the professional basketball team in Thailand, Hi-Tech. As our first guest to be a coach, Chris gives great insight on what should do to focus while ov…
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When you think of ice hockey what countries come to mind? I assume, Canada, the US, different parts of Europe all come to your mind. What about the warm countries do they come to mind? Do you think of the Philippines? If no, why not the Philippines, is it the climate or is there another reason? Okay, so maybe the Philippines did not crack the top o…
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Still no gold medal for the Philippines in the Olympics. In this episode, we welcome gold-medal-hopeful, Ernest Obiena to the show. Ernest is a Filipino pole vaulter currently training in Italy to prepare for the SEA Games coming up in just a few weeks as well as the 2020 Olympics (for which he qualified) in Tokyo. Ernest does a great job explainin…
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Baylin has a very interesting and sought-after story. While playing as the starting quarterback for the Orlando Predators in the National Arena League, Baylin began experiencing things that now, with hindsight, were definite red flags. throughout his story, players were having issues with their apartments that were supposed to be paid for by the te…
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Kassie Gormely is right in the middle of the volleyball world in the Philippines. This interview covers a lot, so there was hard to give it a specific title. Kassie and I talk about volleyball but under many different subtopics such as college volleyball vs pro volleyball, men vs women volleyball, the state of beach volleyball, our thoughts on impo…
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JoJo is a former star of the Arena Football League. While the Arena Football League is still up and running it is nothing like what it was in the past. During the height of the AFL in which JoJo played, figurines of the players were being made, Jerseys were being sold, stars were getting six figures a year, there was even a video game made about th…
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American Football is very popular here in the US, that is not surprising. It seems as though the NFL stands alone, and while there is not another league close to them, to say they are the only option for football is not accurate. The world of Indoor Football used to be on a massive stage. The AFL used to have ESPN and ABC television contracts and t…
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From the little island of Malta, to Australia, to England, to Costa Rica (I think), to Turkey, to Switzerland, to (maybe) back to Turkey, Finally to Egypt currently, Patricia Bright may be living your dream. As a professional basketball player, Patricia, has traveled the world while getting paid to play the sport that she loves. Join us on this epi…
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Professional basketball is going on all over the world for both men and women. But what does women's professional basketball look like in Egypt? How does the life of a player for the women's national team compare/contrast/connect with the life of a professional basketball? Is the life of a professional women's basketball player all glamor? What is …
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Notice the astrict by the word "Professional" in the title? Why is that there? Join me as I interview Angeline Gervacio (Dzi) a professional* volleyball player in the Philippines. Although Angeline is a local and not an import, she still gives an incredibly valuable insight into the league of indoor volleyball in the Philippines as well as the pote…
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What is the point of international competition? Is it worth the work and the money? Do the benefits outweigh the costs? would we better off without any? Is there a fiscal benefit to the games? Questions like this have fascinated me for quite some time. Now, in this shorter episode this week, I am joined with a promoter of the 2019 South East Asian …
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The Philippines is an interesting place. In terms of population, it is in the top tier of countries. When it comes to poverty, sure there are impoverished areas but it would crazy to say other places around the world do not struggle with poverty more on a wider scale. Yet, the Philippines is one of only a few countries left with so gold medal in th…
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