Sentences with phrase «as basketball not»

As far as Basketball not many players have avg'd a triple - double the ENTIRE season!

Not exact matches

«They did not keep their basketball offerings updated enough and at the same time we went through a fashion shift away from basketball as the preferred fashion shoe in the United States, so it was a double whammy,» said NPD analyst Matt Powell.

Jordan Fliegel wasn't a great basketball player as a kid.

Soccer still hasn't become as entrenched as football, basketball, or baseball in the U.S. Major League Soccer has grown by leaps and bounds, and often sells out stadiums, but it doesn't generate anywhere close to the merchandise revenues or television fees that the big three pro leagues do.

It's not so much the descriptions of Jordan as a basketball player, it's the absolute, pathological obsession Jordan had to be great that fascinates me.

Though O'Kelley and McKelvey say they welcome conflict today as a result of what they learned at South Eugene, there were some boundaries they did not cross — especially when it came to basketball.

Cameron also said that the sport provided a nice alternative for students who wanted to participate in athletics but weren't interested in the more traditional sports such as football, basketball and baseball.

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»?

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

He has many fond memories of those times, not least serving as the altar boy for his parish, the Church of the Ascension, and attending basketball games with his father and brother.

I mean, playing games at places like Cameron Indoor or in the NCAA Tournament as the guy other teams are trying to stop may be of some value in terms of basketball development, but it doesn't hold a candle to FILM STUDY and EXERCISING IN A POOL!

While he clearly didn't try his hardest or play his best basketball last year as a member of the Lakers, to his credit he was hurt and still put up monster numbers (17.1 PPG, 12.4 RPG).

I am a huge sports fan.I love nfl and college football i never get enough of it.I am a big soccer [the other football] fanatic.I like basketball, hockey, some baseball and rugby.I am a big jersey buyer i have a lot of jerseys mostly of american football and soccer.I love the strategy of football i think it is fascinating.I have been a falcons fan since 1990 when the went to all black helmets and jerseys i was a fan because of that and because of primetime deion sanders.I have been a falcons fan through thick and thin win or lose they are my team regardless of how they do.I hope to one day visit Atlanta and see them play at home in Georgia.I hope to one day see them bring back black jerseys as the home colors.I am still a fan of the run n shoot offense i truly believe it can work in the nfl if ran and merged with some two back formations and a one back three wide one tight end formation.

The vast majority of people already see this regime as a success because «We won the NIT» and «We aren't a basketball school.»

«They haven't been taking games seriously and exerting max effort because A. it's mentally exhausting playing elite basketball for as long as that squad has without a challenge»

I don't know, but for the past 8 years, hundreds if not thousands of basketball players have been eligible, and none have approached his value, this suggests that the odds of improving are sufficiently close to zero so as to rule out that scenario; ditto Kevin Durant.

If Knight, as is his wont, overshadowed the play and all his players, including the spectacular Jordan, he couldn't diminish the vibrant glow of the one outstanding individual basketball star of these Olympics, Cheryl Miller.

R.J. Barrett, the No. 1 basketball recruit in America, won't be visiting Michigan this weekend as originally expected: Hearing 2018 Montverde...

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.

This Team is proving they are a dominant force in not only basketball and volleyball, but in softball as well.

Obviously, we all haven't been given the talent that Michael Jordan has in basketball or Jay - Z has in music, but hopefully each of us does something with the same passion as these two.

NIAMEY HARRIS Mission - S.F. — Football / Basketball — Senior This Harris, who is not related to Najee, gets the slight nod over the Antioch standout due to the fact that he may go down as one of San Francisco's most - decorated athletes to come out of the city's public school system.

However, they have not been playing their best basketball as of late.

As a basketball fan, I decided not to fill out a bracket this year.

If he hasn't already, D'Antoni needs to rebrand his offensive system as the human reclamation project for outcasted basketball players.

Not only were they capable of beating the Americans at a game the U.S. owned since the 1950's, but they cemented their legacy as the best collection of basketball talent south of the Equator.

SH: Women's basketball isn't respected as a whole.

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.

Joel Embiid is probably a top 10 player right now, Simmons has nearly averaged a triple double since the all star break as a rookie point guard and you have not fans, but actual basketball insiders comparing him to Lebron james and Magic Johnson.

This isn't to say that Kyrie doesn't know how to play basketball or that he doesn't study tape and watch as much as he can.

I believe him destroying my hero image of basketball players should be enough for us not to want him as our coach.

Molly wasn't enamored of Moravia's pokey pace and wanted to use basketball as her ticket out.

Belmont hasn't been as good as the college basketball world has wanted them to be since nearly shocking Duke in their season - opener.

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.

John Sugden, an English sociologist who pioneered the «twinning» concept 25 years earlier with a mixed - faith soccer team in Belfast during the height of the Troubles and who is now the director of Football 4 Peace, doing in the Middle East with soccer what PPI does with basketball, puts it both wryly and well: «It's not as if you can sprinkle the pixie dust of sport and everything's going to be fine.»

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.

so they play like the visitors as you said... to me they are playing unmotivated, not giving the proper effort, and meanwhile the Pelicans are playing play - off basketball and wanting more.

Louisiana will be disappointed to find out that basketball does not reward «cussing out your cousin at a famly function» as a important skill.

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

I recommend everyone to listen to him not as a pundit but as a basketball legend.

If you don't travel with your team in play - offs then i am done with you not only as a Spurs fan but also as a basketball lover.

Wilt is not a «one - time attraction,» as the third - largest crowd to see a pro game in Philadelphia basketball history proved when Wilt made his homecoming appearance against his ex-teammates, the Warriors.

She has played basketball a few times, but it's not the same as before.

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

This school also needs ANY theater, and no, Vasey doesn't count as a theater any more than Jake Nevin counts as a basketball stadium.

The Basketball Gods are not nearly as benevolent as you think.

Moss isn't supposed to be playing basketball, as Gary Parrish wrote earlier this year.

In fact, standard football techniques won't work on a man who weighs twice as much as his wife and daughter combined, but who can dunk a basketball, run a 5.05 40 and bench press 465 pounds.

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