About us
If you live in Genova (Italy) and your friend happens to root for the other soccer team of the city (and the city offers to sport fans nothing but soccer), well it’s not that easy to… remain friends. unless, of course, you find something that can help to fill the gap. The authors of this blog eventually found this something on the other side of the Atlantic: the Sixers !
A long time passion, sparkled in the early Eighties, that lasted well into the digital age and contributed to overcome the authors’ almost religious feuds over soccer….
That common passion led to this blog, started on November 1st 2006, the day of the opener of the 2006/2007 season.
RICKY
Born in Genova in 1971, is a free lance public relations consultant and journalist. He’s of slavic descent (serbian and croatian) from his mother’s side of the family.
A Sixers fan since the early Eighties, when italian television started broadcasting NBA games (once a week, Sunday morning… can you imagine that?). Immediately loved those red jerseys, and the player wearing that #6 who could take off and fly over the others. Never stopped since.
Member of the www.philly.com Sixers board, where he posts as “Ricky” (how original..). Considers Manute Bol the greatest Sixer ever and is a proud Korver groupie.
RAFFAELE
It’s 1980 or something and NBA basketball eventually makes it to Italy. What team a 14 year old is supposed to cheer for? The choice is not that difficult since 3 are the franchises most shown on the screen: Celtics, Lakers and Sixers. Or to put it differently, Larry Bird, Kareem, Doctor J.
Well, Raffaele picked the latter and resisted as a Sixers fan through many, often not-so-glorious years, up to now. A journalist (or so he calls himself) and a blogger, he is the geeky soul of the duo and tries his best to technologically assist Riccardo’s enthusiam
CONTACT: sixers4guidos@gmail.com
December 11, 2006 at 10:12 pm
My man Ricky started a weblog…! Yes, how could not I see it coming?
Ricky, I have seen you many times at the sixers forum at philly.com. I always posted as “nowayjose”.
I am very glad you started this. You will see me visiting your blog every now and then.
Greetings from Spain.
Fernando.
January 16, 2007 at 1:43 am
“Considers Manute Bol the greatest Sixer ever”
Ricky, I think we’ll be getting along.
January 16, 2007 at 9:43 am
cool. I knew there are many knowledgeable fans out there…
maybe this blog can become a place where Manute fans gather
February 7, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Il sito fa caà
May 26, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Ciao Ricky, ho letto i tuoi interventi su ICP (il sito dei tifosi dei Celtics)…il primo è rimasto, il secondo è stato cancellato. Pensa che io, che sono tifoso di Dallas, ero felice che uno non celtics potesse scrivere, così magari postavo qualcosa pure io. Vedendo che non c’era più il tuo post ho chiesto che fine avesse fatto…oh, quei fanatici (anzi, quel fanatico di Christian che credo sia quello che gestisce il sito) mi ha bannato e mi ha fatto fuori, nel senso che non posso più postare. Pazzesco. E tutto solo per aver chiesto che fine aveva fatto il tuo post. Oh, se ricapiti da quelle parti fagli sapere che la storia dell’essere bannato mi ha fatto un pò incazzare…io non lo posso fare, visto che sono inibito a lasciare commenti.
Ciao, buon lavoro. e speriamo che l’anno prox a Phila e Dallas vadano meglio.
Saluti. Paolo.
May 27, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Paolo,
grazie di aver postato sul mio blog. Ti rispondo via mail nel dettaglio.
qui a Sixers4guidos tutti possono commentare come e quando vogliono, nessuna censura, a meno che non si vada giù pesante con gli insulti.
Sfottò e critiche, anche feroci, sono ben accette, non siamo permalosi e crediamo di avere un buon senso dell’umorismo quindi sotto anche con le prese per il c..o, nessun problema !!!
Ricky
October 14, 2007 at 12:43 am
Hi,
As the owner of alleniversonlive.com listed on your site, I was wondering if you would consider adding my new site for Lebron James Live http://www.lebronjameslive.com onto your site. I would definitely be interested in linking my site to yours.
Cheers,
Ray
October 16, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Ray the site seems nice but no updates since 9th July ?????
November 29, 2007 at 5:08 pm
hey dude i saw this ur post http://wordpress.org/support/topic/145077 … tht some posts got bold in the home page … I’m also facing the same problem on my blog … can u tell me how did u managed to get it solved ?
November 29, 2007 at 5:43 pm
hey lol… I managed to fix it … prob with sidebar.php … ther was extra br tag under ul tag …
February 9, 2008 at 5:23 pm
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