Quite a Dynamo — Hansen and wife make a difference in Moscow
Travis Hansen isn’t the Ugly American in Russia.
Playing basketball for Moscow’s Dynamo, one of the top teams in the European League, Hansen, his wife, LaRee, and 5-year-old son, Ryder, have made a significant impact in the part of the world that was once considered enemy territory, a place where spies seemingly lurked at every turn in a country deemed the “evil empire” during the Cold War.
No, Hansen is representing his American heritage very well. So respected is Hansen that, in a rare act that usually takes years, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally signed papers establishing the former Mountain View High and BYU star as a nationalized Russian citizen, granting him a Russian passport.
Along with former Bucknell point guard J.R. Holden, Hansen is only the third American basketball player to be given dual citizenship status by the former Soviet Republic.
This opens the door for Hansen to play alongside Jazzman Andrei Kirilenko on the Russian Olympic team in China this summer — if he chooses to or is invited. Hansen has already had talks with the Russian Olympic coach, who told him he might have to give up his short off-season, cut his vacation trip to Lake Powell and Utah short, and be prepared to train for the China Olympics.
“It’s a lifetime dream of every basketball player to be an Olympian,” said Hansen, whose Dynamo team just finished in the top three of the 54-team European League championships in Italy. “It’s exciting. We’ll have to see what happens.”
Hansen was the 37th pick in the 2003 NBA Draft, a second-rounder to Atlanta, 14 picks before New Jersey drafted current Utah Jazz shooting guard Kyle Korver out of Creighton University.
Hansen and Houston Rockets rookie Luis Scola were teammates in Spain a few years ago. Scola’s wife and daughter will stay with LaRee — who just returned from Russia on Sunday — when the Rockets come to Utah for Games 3 and 4 in their first-round playoff series against the Jazz.
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OMG I’m not the average pervert, but much like the topless Gymnast, I could watch this all damn day!!!!!!!!!!!!Their is just something about bare Brests bouncing up and down that mesmerizes the Pervert in me! like have you ever seen the clip of topless Basket Ball?
i strongly suspect the designers of this site were shooting for the reddit/digg audience, more than actually trying to sell sportsbras.also i do not think they’ve ever seen an e cup, bare breasted, at a run. i’m just sayin. they’ll hit a girl in the chin.
Seems odd to me, the “medium” activity level looks worse than the extreme.
That really is rather retarded. People who are willing to go to the effort to pirate HD-DVD/Blu-Ray content are more likely to store it on a hard drive and use a media centre PC type thing than burn it to a writeable disc. This ONLY hurts the amateur/semi-professional market.
“Also I do not think they’ve ever seen an E cup, bare breasted, at a run. I’m just sayin. They’ll hit a girl in the chin.”Wait - so you have? That sounds like it would be a pretty good story! =P (I actually agree with you, I’m just picking on ya)!So yeah, I wasted way too much time playing with that. Mostly trying to figure out how running makes your nipples go in circles…
NSFW, but awesome.
its… hypnotic….
Correction,American sports legends,all but a few totally unknown anywhere else
Interesting point. I think the line “and you’re walking away… and you’re walking away… ” was the best part.Now I have to find out what Shadows of the Empire is.
If this is the way Blu-Ray is going, the battle has already been won by HD-DVD.
oooo i actually found that helpful
I don’t think they’ve ever seen actual breasts, before, to be honest. Even as small as their C cup, their CG boobs look very unnatural–breasts don’t just suddenly form magical, pointed mountains ~1/4 of the way down your torso.
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this site makes me giggle.
Basketballs don’t wear clothes