USADB News: Important Message about $100 USADB Team Registration Fee
Posted: January 20, 2012
USADB Board has a very important message that all regions and teams need to watch. The message is to clear up the confusion on "$100 Team Registration Fee". The vlog gives several clear examples.
USADB News: Reminders
Posted: January 13, 2012
USADB Board posts its first vlog for the 2012 year! This vlog talks about Early Bird tickets, team registration and USADB Constitution, By-Laws and Guideline changes.
Providence Hope (Providence, RI) Women's Team is hosting the 4th Classic Invitational Tournament on February 4, 2012. (Snow date: February 11, 2012)
USADB Press Release: Ad-Hoc Committee to Study Tournament Payout
Posted: December 17, 2011
USADB formed an Ad-Hoc Committee to study USADB's practice of sharing tournament proceeds (profits) with the championship teams. A report is due at the next HOD meeting scheduled for April, 2012 in Houston, TX.
USADB Board released a memo clarifying that the $100 team registration fee replaced the $20 player fee. The $100 team registration fee was inadvertently omitted from the form.
The memo is linked to the image below
USADB News: First Annual USADB Men's and Women's Classic Basketball Tournament
Posted: December 9, 2011
In cooperation with New Jersey Deaf Sports, USADB is hosting the First Annual USADB Men's and Women's Classic Basketball Tournament to raise money for the USADB Youth Program. Please click on the flyer below for more information.
USADB News: USADB Mentioned in SLAM article!
Posted: November 16, 2011
SLAM Online (www.slamonline.com), an online news source of basketball news, info, has published an article that mentions USADB. You can find the article by clicking on the link: "Loud and Proud"
USADB Press Releases
Posted: November 16, 2011
Please visit our new page dedicated to USADB Press Releases for the 3 Press Releases -- 2 on Hall of Fame and 1 on the International Program Task Force. Press Release V-Logs will be added to that page when they are created.
USADB News: USADB Tournament Registration Process Timeline
FAAD Region Press Release: DSA Played Against LAPD
Posted: October 3, 2011
FAAD issued a press release highlighting the games between DSA and the LAPD. Read about it here.
News: Legendary AAAD Basketball Player Leon Grant Dies
Posted: October 3, 2011
The deaf basketball community was saddened to learn of the death of well-known and legendary basketball star, Leon Orlient Grant, age 67, on September 9, 2011 in Charlotte, NC.
He was a long time player (uniform #22) for the Los Angeles Club of the Deaf (LACD) with teammates Maurice Mosley, Jim Renshaw, Jim Spears, and others with legendary LACD Coach Lou Dyer, Manager/Scorekeeper Saul Lukacs and Athletic Director/Manager Marvin Greenstone. These storied players brought FAAD member club, LACD five (5) straight AAAD national basketball Championships during the FAAD’s golden years, 1966 through 1970.
He was also a star player for the Carolina team in later years.
Grant was on the 1965 World Games for the Deaf (Deaflympics) track team that competed in Washington, DC. He placed third in the high jump with 1.83.
Famed AAAD co-founder, leader and deaf sports writer, Art Kruger named Leon Grant as the athlete of the decade.
Front: Justin Anderson (NWADB), John Scott (SWBAD), Christina Costello (EAAD), Chuck Wallace (Tournament Director), Mark Corson (FAAD), Shirley Platt (Commissioner), James Powell (Secretary) Back: James Johnson (MAAD), Jimmy Miller (SEAAD), Brian Fruits (Treasurer), Doug Mader (CBAD), Joey Baer (Deputy Commissioner)
Gallaudet University Archives Features Art Kruger Manuscript Collection
Posted: September 20, 2011
Gallaudet University Archives has a collection of manuscripts written by Art Kruger. Visit our USADB History page and go to the bottom to see the link.
USADB Releases 2011 Constitution, Bylaws and Guidelines
The deaf basketball community was saddened to learn of the death of well-known and legendary basketball star, Leon Orlient Grant, age 67, on September 9, 2011 in Charlotte, NC.
