Sentences with phrase «about basketball as»

I had my biggest doubts about basketball as the Wii Remote doesn't really look or feel like a basketball.

It is, of course, not so much about basketball as the personal and social struggles of two young men attempting to do what so many young men try to do every year.

But what happened next illustrated what's different about basketball as practiced by the Chicago Area Alternative Education League, a...

That he's asked about basketball as much as any coach in the country this side of UConn's Bob Diaco perpetuates and proves the stereotypes.

Not exact matches

The company is an underdog in the merchandise category, as Nike presently owns about 90 percent of the basketball - apparel market share.

The preparation I put into it, the mental and physical sacrifice that goes into what I do as a basketball player allows me to be ready for those moments and to meet the storm with the ultimate calm, cool and collectivism that I like to have about taking advantage of those opportunities.

As a result of the similarities between the two, a lot of what I learned in my career playing professional basketball transferred to the startup world and taught me a tremendous amount about how to run my company, CoachUp.

I can't argue about its virtues as a sport though I do know it's the national sport of Canada but is it better than basketball.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

Basketball fans believe that they can be as certain about judgments of better and worse as chemists are in deciding whether a given compound is sugar or salt.

It refused to distribute flyers about Calvary Chapel's Outdoor Excursions program, Harvest Festival, and Youth Nights (which include basketball and air hockey) because they included phrases such as «worship music», «good news» and «devotional».

On top of that, Monday was full of nervous energy, as my Michigan basketball boys were about to take on the best offensive team in the entire NCAA after knocking game - after - game out of the park.

That's what I heard, and I think, as time has gone past so quickly, I've learned so much about myself, about being here as a basketball player and as a man.

As having played basketball for many many many years I view basketball as a team game and really could care less about individual statAs having played basketball for many many many years I view basketball as a team game and really could care less about individual statas a team game and really could care less about individual stats.

However, as many of us know, it isn't always the self - proclaimed basketball guru (you know, the one who boasts about staying up late to watch every mid-major team) who wins the office pool.

As I've said before, I don't know shit about basketball, so having you folks explain it to me is a big help.

With college basketball's tempo lagging so far behind the NBA's as to raise rightful concerns about the State of the Game, there is at least one historic quest in progress.

You were also talking about MSG and it's reputation as a basketball mecca.

He just doesn't care about playing basketball as much as he used to.

I don't know anything about college basketball, but I do enjoy gambling on as many NCAA Tournament games as I can.

Hernandez told a story about when he had braces on as a child and he got hit in the face with a basketball, mashing his lips in with the braces.

Our goal is to provide our readers with excellent content about the team and the NBA from a variety of perspectives, as well as to provide the best forum around for intelligent discussion of the Wolves, basketball, and life.

Just 10 months after Oklahoma State marked the decade anniversary of the deaths of 10 members of its men's basketball team's traveling party in a plane crash, school president Burns Hargis welled up last Friday as he addressed the media about OSU's «worst nightmare.»

I don't know about Philly's baseball and basketball fans, but I think their hockey fans have just as bad a rep as their football fans.

• An article on his basketball philosophy by the man whom SPORTS ILLUSTRATED quoted as saying (SI, Dec. 16), «I don't give a damn what anybody says about me or my methods.»

And as Fitzgerald notes: «You're talking about the best human being to ever shoot a basketball in the history of the world.

Asher has written about sports such as basketball, baseball, and football.

It's part of me as a basketball player, like let's just worry about basketball.

Chris has been passionate about basketball since he first attended the Excel Camps as a child.

Pitching inside to make hitters uncomfortable is about as controversial as setting a screen in basketball.

Which reminds me that he has a lot of goals outside of basketball, he isn't as passionate about the game as I would like.

Dennis Rodman and John Stockton would seem to be about as different as two human beings — much less two basketball players — could be.

Byrd manages and promotes events from basketball games to rock concerts, serves as agent to a half - dozen players, consults with companies like Spalding and Converse about opportunities in Great Britain, runs several summer camps and handles the accounts of all the companies that do promotional tie - ins with the Kingston club.

It was November of 2013 when Mark DeLuca sat in the Berkeley High gym «'' roughly an hour before his first exhibition game as the Yellowjackets boys basketball coach «'' and spoke about the opportunity he'd been given.

They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....

these Heat are about as fun to watch as mid 2000's Steelers and have as many punch - able faces as the 2014 Notre Dame basketball team.

If you want a more modern college basketball game, this is about as good as it gets.

«She's focused, she cares about her teammates and she's really embraced basketball as a positive outlet.»

Sports that primarily use moneylines, such as baseball and hockey (as opposed to sports like football and basketball, which use point spreads) often create debates about which strategy is best.

We see more young athletes think of MMA as a viable career just like a lot of young athletes today feel about Basketball, Baseball, football, Boxing 2.

He used to share stories with me at Michigan about how as a youth he kept individual statistics on his batting average in baseball, scoring average in basketball and touchdowns in football.

The Heisman Trophy winner probably shouldn't be putting out videos of him playing basketball though, as this may worry NFL GM's about the possibility of him getting injured.

Think about the power needed to jump high for a dunk in basketball, to swing a baseball bat, to increase agility & sprint speed, to accelerate mid-sprint to catch up to someone in soccer, to hit someone as hard as possible in football, to shoot from the hips in wrestling, to swing a racket or golf club, and the list could go on and on.

It's not about basketball, it's about us as a family.

Ranadive didn't teach his team about basketball; he didn't increase the skill level of his players so that they could move to play in high school; he didn't help the opposition develop either, as since they couldn't break the pressure, they couldn't play basketball.

In fact, tonight's most heavily bet baseball games are attracing about four times as many bets as basketball.

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Get a glimpse of what's to come on ESPN as Christian Pulisic talks about his World Cup heartbreak, a talent for basketball and much more.

«One thing about being on a military post is that kids don't have that much time to meet other kids in the local community, so traveling instead of being on post was huge for them as a way to bond with the local community and the kids really enjoy it,» says Agbayani of the impact of the travel basketball program.

Less is known about the consequences of participating in contact sports where body - to - body contact is permitted, but is not purposeful, such as soccer, basketball and field hockey.