• TREAT FOR HOOPS FANS AS GB TICKETS GO ON SALE

Meadowbank Sports Centre ticket office has opened for bookings for one of the most important basketball games to take place there since the centre opened in 1970.
Chicago Bulls NBA superstar Luol Deng and Scotland's first NBA star Robert Archibald are just two of the likely Great Britain team to meet Albania in a game which could decide whether Britain plays in the London 2012 Olympic Tournament.
GB coach Chris Finch has named London-reared Deng, Archibald and another Scot Kieron Achara in a 24-strong squad for the remaining half of the European B Championship from which the GB side must gain promotion to clinch their 2012 place.
Deng was inspirational for the Bulls in their 4-0 thrashing of the defending NBA champions Miami Heat in the first round last month and some are tipping him as the next Michael Jordan; while Archibald, after two years in the NBA, has been starring in the ACB, the top Spanish pro league, for DKV Joventut Badalona, along with two more of the likely GB side for Meadowbank, Andy Betts, the 7ft English centre, and Drew Sullivan, the GB captain and former Newcastle Eagles star.

 

• SCOTS JUNIORS IN EURO TRIUMPH IN cardiff

Scotland have won the European Junior Men's C Championship for the first time after going through the entire nine-team tournament unbeaten in Cardiff.
It is the first Scottish men's success in European age-group competition since coach John Anton and the Scottish cadets won the European Promotion Cup in Malta in 2000.
After topping their qualifying group, the Scots, coached by Troon's Tom Campbell and with Arbroath Musketeers Daniel Sutherland as captain, decisively beat Moldova 80-55 and Wales 86-62 in the final championship pool.
Edinburgh Kings guard Eoghann Dover, who leaves soon for a year at High School in Cleveland, Ohio, had an outstanding tournament, finishing third in the overall steals category with an average of five per game and fourth in assists with a 4.8 average, while Daniel Donnelly (Falkirk Fury) was named in the Tournament All Star Five.
Donnelly scored 24 points and took 12 rebounds against Moldova, with Troon's Jamie Frew adding 23 points and Eoghann Dover nine assists and seven steals.
In the tournament decider against hosts Wales, Donnelly had 20 points, Sutherland 19 points, Dover 17 and Fraser Canning (St Mirren) 12.

Results:

Scotland 81 Monaco 64; Scotland 102 Malta 68; Scotland 80 Moldova 55; Scotland 86 Wales 62.