Sentences with phrase «at basketball as»

«I just looked at basketball as something to do.

I work as hard at basketball as I saw them work.»

Not exact matches

If you look at our football cleats and basketball shoes today, very few have the traditional three stripes as prominent as in the past.

«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.

She resumed athletics as a wheelchair basketball player, starring on the U.S. gold medal - winning team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, then took up alpine skiing, winning two gold metals, a silver and a bronze in Vancouver and this past weekend a silver in Sochi.

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.

A team including Roderick Swaab, a professor at European business school INSEAD, and Adam D. Galinsky of Columbia recently took the action on the pitch as inspiration and decided to examine how adding more superstars to the mix affected football (aka soccer), basketball, and baseball teams.

In one of the three complaints, Jim Gatto — director of global sports marketing for basketball at Adidas — and four other defendants were accused of bribing high - school athletes to play at universities sponsored by Adidas (referred to as «Company 1» in the case).

As a former professional basketball player, longtime coach, and founder of CoachUp, the nation's leading sports coaching company, I've been afforded a rare opportunity to see coaches at their best - and at their worst.

(At truly incandescent sports moments, as when the basketball team of my alma mater and former employer Valparaiso University this year advanced, against all expectation and indeed against all rational hope, into the third round of the NCAA championship, the grace takes on the character of the miraculous.)

College basketball is very good, but professional basketball is almost as boring as baseball (at any level).

Louie Carnesecca, who preceded Curran as basketball coach at Molloy, said that Curran «won everything except World War III.»

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!

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.

All blue eyes and sun - streaked hair, she is graced with legs as shapely as her mother's (her father's are crisscrossed with old soccer and basketball scars) and can charm any man in her presence — including Actor Randolph Scott, who has a nearby cottage at Eldorado.

There was Don Davidson from Salem, Ohio, all - state in football and basketball as a prep and quick enough, even at 6 feet 5 inches, to handle opposing guards.

Glen Rose, who produces winning basketball at Arkansas without fuss or fancy stuff, has a team as blunt as the Ozark countryside which may be best in the Southwest

As drivers await rig repairs or freight, they can luxuriate at Prime's spa or use its library, weight room or basketball court.

# 44 Bill Strannigan ROCK SPRINGS All - state in football, basketball and track at Rock Springs High; led Wyoming with 10.5 ppg in 1941; 179 wins as Cowboys hoops coach (1960 to» 73).

MILEPOSTS — FIRED: DON BEASLEY, 35, as basketball coach at Jacksonville University.

That's because Jose Jube, one of two Brazilians at the College of Southern Idaho, the nation's top - ranked junior college team, is as slick on the dance floor as he is on the basketball floor.

At Sacramento's Jesuit High, where he took a year of classes, Ezeli excelled in chemistry but got cut during basketball tryouts by his chemistry teacher, who doubled as the coach.

However, if they take care of business in flag football and basketball later this week they still have the inside track at the # 2 Seed and, thus, be on the opposite side of the bracket as Team Bruksch..

Unbeaten in its league, Lefty's Davidson team lost its chance at an NCAA basketball title, as Southern Conference officials continued to choose a tournament representative in their own peculiar fashion

This Thursday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, players from across the globe will eagerly wait to hear NBA Commissioner David Stern announce their names as they move onto the next stage in their basketball life.

He is now in his second year as Head Varsity Basketball Coach at Acalanes High School.

Wisconsin opened as a 7 - point favorite at the market - setting Cris sportsbook and, according to Sports Insights» College Basketball Betting Trends, is currently receiving 40 % of spread bets and 45 % of moneyline wagers.

Kansas opened as a 3 - point favorite at the market - setting CRIS sportsbook and, according to Sports Insights» College Basketball Betting Trends, is currently receiving 83 % of spread wagers.

Louisville opened as a 4.5 - point favorite at the market - setting Cris sportsbook and, according to Sports Insights» College Basketball Betting Trends, is currently receiving 60 % of spread bets and 72 % of moneyline wagers.

«The summer before he enrolled at Chino Hills as a freshman, they brought in all the eighth graders to a summer league and they were grooming him to play freshmen basketball because they had two other freshmen pegged to play varsity,» Lafayette remembers.

I suck at picking spreads in basketball or football, I did ok at hockey but I've done the best using the run line as described above.

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.

As a player at Alabama he had been «the other end,» opposite Hall of Famer Don Hutson; at Kentucky he had been «the other coach,» eclipsed by basketball deity Adolph Rupp.

Reinhart, who will remain as baseball coach, compiled a 475 - 342 basketball record in his 37 - year career — 13 at Oregon — ranking him fourth among active winning coaches.

It was only fitting that some of the NBA's biggest stars were at their best at the basketball center of the universe known as MSG.

It was another slight, once more he had been overlooked as a player with a future at the next level of basketball.

Even though it had long been known primarily as a basketball conference, the Big East had always fielded football schools, and a few powerful ones at that.

As a kid I was able to attend basketball camps at both Carolina and Duke.

If our people want to see good basketball we can get them tickets to the Lakers» games, just as we can for golf tournaments, art shows, concerts, Disneyland and the like, at less than box - office prices.»

As a student at Oklahoma I was disappointed to see that all of your top six basketball teams except the two Big 12 schools, Texas and Oklahoma, were honored with special covers.

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

A sellout crowd of some 2,200 — 500 more than the season's average — attended the Brigham Young University basketball game at the academy gym Saturday night and it cheered the cadets as they have seldom been cheered before.

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.

As long as they are both on the roster, that objective will at least slightly skew decisions that might otherwise be made for strictly basketball reasonAs long as they are both on the roster, that objective will at least slightly skew decisions that might otherwise be made for strictly basketball reasonas they are both on the roster, that objective will at least slightly skew decisions that might otherwise be made for strictly basketball reasons.

As in, «Yes, please call me Three because I've worn three since my days at Marquette, but also please call me Three because I have three rings... which is one more than that other really good basketball player on my team.»

The event will certainly be regarded as one of college basketball's great turning points, since nobody comes to Arizona and wins — at least no one had in 71 previous tries.

TJARKS: As a Big 12 basketball fan, I can't give Fred Hoiberg enough props for what he's done at Iowa State.

Brown was Mr. Basketball in Kentucky as a high school senior in 1991 and played for two years at Tennessee before transferring to Georgetown....

As a senior at Bonds - Wilson High, Shell made all - state in football and basketball, and he accepted a football scholarship to Maryland State.

«The idea in basketball is to score as many points as possible, and that's what we do — we don't slow down at all.