ASK Riga

One of the Fulbright Professors and his wife invited us to watch Latvian Basketball last night. It turns out there are four Americans on the team and their coach is Lithuanian so the team is really more international than Latvian anyway. The team was called ASK Riga and the games were held in an arena smaller than my high school gym. Despite that the game was throughly entertaining. The cheerleaders were the most hilarious at first I called them the Parex Bank girls and they had fake tans and fake hair. Their dancing was a lot of hip moving hair flicking and was something anyone could do. Then I was expecting a nice and exciting half time show but instead they left before anyone else to change their cloths. Then they were no longer the Parex Bank girls but the Reebok girls. The game was great and the last five minutes were really exciting because the Riga team only beat Valmiera by two points. We got to meet the mascot and I even got an autograph of one of the American players.

The Tip Off ASK Riga is in yellow
The Parex Bank girls
Devoted fans with flags and drums
After half time the new and improved Reebok girls
Whit, Monika and I with the Mascot (which I think is a lion)