Sentences with phrase «not on a basketball»

The young Julius became The Doctor in a sixth - grade classroom, not on a basketball court.

No, I'm not on a basketball team.

No, not on the basketball court at Staples Center, but in Playa del Rey, where Jerry Buss» mansion has come on the market at $ 5.95 million.

Not exact matches

He says he wasn't a good student — «Cs and D's» — until he started establishing himself on the basketball court.

Whether it be Christmas, summer, or basketball over half of your year could be riding on the chance that one particular event doesn't go overlooked.

This is not the case when it comes to what ESPN captured two basketball fans heartily and joyfully chowing down on at a Detroit Pistons vs. Sacramento Kings game during its broadcast on Tuesday.

He's a twelve - time member of the U.S. national team and is to mountain bike racing what an NBA All - Star is to basketball (except he's currently not out on strike).

He went on to say, «I don't know all the rules and regulations about it, but I do know what five - star athletes bring to a campus, both in basketball and football, I know how much these college coaches get paid.

He might not have had the triple - doubles of Russell Westbrook or the defense of Kawhi Leonard, but anyone who watched basketball last year knew that if Harden was on the court it was in your best interest not to look away.

USA Basketball committee member Rod Thorn (same guy who drafted MJ) made it clear to McCallum that «no one would be on the team if Jordan didn't want him on the team.»

The current mayor, former basketball great Dave Bing, announced in May that he wouldn't seek a second term and angrily denounced Michigan officials for not giving him enough time to solve Detroit's financial problems on his own.

Not just on the basketball side, but with connections to business people, connections to politicians — the kind of connections that most people garner when they're in college, that scholarship athletes don't typically avail themselves of.

How come everytime something happens to a jewish person / team / organization it's all over the news??? My old Seventh Day Adventist basketball team was in the same position about 15 years ago in Portland, (Playoff game fell on Friday, the Sabbath, and we didn't play) and the press was called - NO COVERAGE!!

I'm sure the creator of the universe would not be bothered by a few of teenagers playing a basketball game on a Friday night.

They both believe in ridiculous stuff, not playing basketball on Saturday goes against religion?

If you physically do something on the sabbath your soul does not get pulled down to hell, you don't lose your ability to be jewish, you wont be cast a derelict of society, grow up, let the kids play in thier basketball tournament, they won't all grow ill if they play saturday, its 2012 not the Middle Ages.

At least LeBron's / Wade's / Bosh's basketball blasphemy didn't involve them being carried out on chairs... and Miami had Pharoah Monarche's «Simon Sez» on the loudspeaker in the American Airlines Arena when they were introduced.

If you're a basketball fan, I hope you won't mind setting aside some time from that other March Madness and its brackets to focus on these muffins and prizes.

Deron Williams and the Brooklyn Nets have been playing great basketball lately, but on Saturday night, that wasn't exactly the case...

He just wanted an opportunity to shine on his own, and not in the shadow of one of the greatest basketball players ever.

He was not being fair to the Russians, many of whom could easily play on our better college teams, but he was accurately describing the quality of basketball his own team was displaying.

On Boykins, I mostly just want him because while it's still unknown how he'll perform at a higher level, he's still been around the block and won't have to get used to college / college basketball.

You couldn't have published any better articles during the holiday season than those on Joe Paterno and Ernie Lorch, coach of New York City's Riverside Church basketball team (ON THE SCENE, Dec. 22 - 29on Joe Paterno and Ernie Lorch, coach of New York City's Riverside Church basketball team (ON THE SCENE, Dec. 22 - 29ON THE SCENE, Dec. 22 - 29).

I wouldn't bet on it given he picked against the Warriors for years because he didn't like their new style of play and thought that it was an affront to basketball the way it was played in the 80's and 90's.

On the road, we don't know how to play basketball.

If you haven't already done so, please check out SportsInsights» report on «betting against the Public» in NCAA Basketball.

The Halo device that will be on all F1 cars in 2018 is not a good - looking piece of kit, with fans comparing it to a flip - flop, basketball hoop or a Zimmer frame.

They've played hard every week and excelled on the basketball court... This group is full of All Sports Series vets and a lower seed in the Opening Rounds of the Playoffs are not going to stop them from thinking they can get Ws..

Tonight's matchup between Michigan State and North Carolina not only pits two of the nation's most successful programs against each other, but also marks the first time a college basketball game is being played on...

Tonight's matchup between Michigan State and North Carolina not only pits two of the nation's most successful programs against each other, but also marks the first time a college basketball game is being played on an aircraft carrier.

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He also loves his high basketball IQ, his impact on the game does not always show up in the stat sheets.

«People don't give him credit for his basketball intellect,» says the Knicks» director of administration, Ernie Grunfeld, the second bill in the Bernie & Ernie Show at the University of Tennessee, who was King's teammate on the Knicks and is still his neighbor in Franklin Lakes, N.J. «Bernard had to consciously change his game.

Born on the same day, May 9, 1975, on the same island, they have both conquered long odds to reach not one but two pinnacles of amateur basketball.

Steph would drop him a line on big game days, making sure his brother knew he and the family had his back, but the encouragement could not change his basketball fortune.

The NCAA tournament is not won on a temporary court built in a football stadium in March but in sweaty gyms where kids who know Michael Jordan only as a small - market team owner work through the tropes of basketball success — hardship, effort, tricked - out Escalades — and adults hang on the decisions of high school juniors.

Also, I don't know if they would be top 25, but Hank Gathers and Larry Johnson were better college basketball players than 1/2 the people on the list.

Manigault did not graduate from Franklin, but he subsequently received a diploma, which he says he did not deserve, from Laurinburg (N.C.) Institute, which he attended on a basketball scholarship.

Utah could spend more to win more, but, on the tethered basketball and business side, that kind of spending for a small - market team isn't sustainable.

Kentucky's players may not watch much tape, but SI undertook the project of charting all 815 minutes and 1,299 possessions from their first 20 games using the Defensive Scoresheet method from statistician Dean Oliver's 2003 book, Basketball on Paper — which assigns credit or blame (either full or fractional) for forced misses, points yielded, turnovers created, fouls and rebounds — in order to create individual defensive ratings.

He played some basketball on Mondays, when the missionaries were free until 6 p.m., did some push - ups and sit - ups, some sprints and one - legged bounding, but not as much as he knew he should.

If bowling — yes, bowling — does not instantly supplant baseball, football, basketball and hockey as the nation's No. 1 spectator sport, it will not be for any lack of optimism on the part of the proprietors of the new National Bowling League.

Says Pittsburgh basketball coach Paul Evans, «Not only will it lead to more cheating on the SAT and ACT scores, but you'll have cheating by boosters who will pay for the [nonqualifiers»] first year of school.»

It wasn't basketball at its finest — more like, it was basketball with four drinks on a Friday night when everyone is your friend, the music is just right, and all you want is to dance a little at your table because you know the nachos are coming out at any moment now.

I was joking because the the NCAA won't hand down anything serious on UNC because of the basketball $ $.

You're a mod / manager And in all honesty, most of us probably don't have your knowledge on the team or basketball in general But we can have opinions.

Technically, Varanese's job is special events (getting a planeload of vacationing Lockheedians off for Europe each spring) and general troubleshooting (persuading two ex-collegians not to play on the same team, which would upset the delicate balance of power in the employee basketball league), but his real vocation is remembering the first name of what seems to be every Lockheedian, greenkeeper, bowling - alley operator and sports promoter between San Jose and La Jolla.

Definitely cornering the market on that valuable «PMSing chicks who can't get enough of summer league basketball» demographic.

Even if you're college basketball's most surprising newcomer, it's not easy to generate a lot of ESPN - grabbing, headline - making stuff when you have one of the plainest names on the planet.

Loyola's Erik Etherly broke the net on one of the goals during the first half of the Greyhounds» loss to Ohio State, which wouldn't have been a major issue had the man sent onto the floor to fix the problem had any idea how to thread a net into a basketball rim.