Sentences with phrase «basketball star»

NEW HAVEN — A former Hillhouse High School basketball star who later played in college was shot to death early today.

And, thanks to the recent campaign by former basketball star Yao Ming, shark fin soup has been on the decline in China.

After identifying the trick, the group analyzed the 2008 commercial on YouTube of basketball star Kobe Bryant appearing to leap over a moving car.

Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).

He oversees an annual marketing budget of more than $ 3 billion and has helped make deals with top athletes like basketball star LeBron James.

Documentary filmmakers Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert must have faced a critical choice when they made Hoop Dreams: would they imprint their politics on the lives of two aspiring basketball stars from Cabrini - Green and West Garfield Park, or would they let a critique of American sports culture emerge from their chronicle, using the quiet tactic of editing?

Also notable is the recent blog in which the Chinese basketball star Yao Ming, working with the nonprofit group WildAid, tracked his trip along the horn and ivory trail to Africa.

Former Syracuse University basketball star Lazarus Sims is the city's new parks commissioner, Mayor Stephanie Miner will announce today.

FYI Being an accredited investor on many of these real estate crowd funding sites is much like being 7 foot basketball star on tinder, you are what you say you are nobody is going through your financials paper work to check

The elder Skattebo was an all - league football and basketball star for the Knights in the early 90s despite playing just his senior season.

The plaintiff had analogized his case to one brought by basketball star Michael Jordan against Jewel Food Stores after Jewel placed an ad in a commemorative issue of Sports Illustrated honoring Jordan's induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

«His shooting stance and form is awful,» said Youtube user papayatomica under a video of Bieber playing with retired basketball star Shaquille O'Neal.

But a jarring moment came when the retired basketball star Kobe Bryant won an Oscar for an animated short based on his farewell letter to the sport, prompting accusations of double standards among Oscar voters, given a rape accusation made against Bryant in 2003 — a case that was dropped when his accuser refused to testify and settled out of court.

The former professional basketball star has been praised for attracting real estate development to Sacramento, including a new downtown arena for the NBA's Kings.

Though Susquehanna does not think the brand will lose its deal with basketball star Steph Curry, «it simply can not be good for business if the face of Under Armour spoke out so pointedly against the CEO's comments, «as Misty Copeland, and Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson also did.

Another sees former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal playing a local cop who gets too comfortable in a swimming pool, gradually turning all of the water dark blue, which is a joke that was set up all the way back in the first movie.

It featured 11 future Hall of Famers and one of the greatest college basketball stars of all time.

He's six - three, a former basketball star at Queens College who later became a political - science professor there.

The NBA basketball star got his original Shaq - Fu game back in 1994 but developers at Saber Interactive and Big Deez Productions have partnered up with Wired Productions to bring the sequel to the much un-requested beat em up game of 1994.

Mr Obama was on the US west coast in a fundraising push which included an event at the home of Marta Kauffman, creator of the 1990s television programme Friends, and one at the Beverly Hills home of former basketball star Magic Johnson.

Under Armour's shoe sales ground to a halt last year, and basketball star Kevin Durant dissed the brand in an interview with Bill Simmons, saying, «Nobody wants to play in Under Armours, I'm sorry.

WhenSabathia and Connors arrived, a small group of women and two men — formerCleveland State basketball stars Damon Stringer and Jamaal Harris — were waiting.Sabathia was wearing $ 15,000 diamond earrings, a $ 26,000 necklace with aplatinum cross and a $ 60,000 Rolex watch, and he was carrying $ 3,200 in cash.Stringer left with Harris, went to Stringer's home and retrieved a 9 - mm pistolfrom the safe, which also held $ 16,000 in cash.

During the opening keynote address, former NBA basketball star and U.S. global cultural ambassador Kareem Abdul - Jabbar set the tone for the summit: In order for the United States to stay economically competitive with emerging markets in China, India, and elsewhere, it will have to overhaul its education system to increase its focus on critical thinking and on applied science, math, and tech skills.

Basketball star Michael Jordan wrote a personal letter to the e-commerce giant's CEO Jeff Bezos.

In this installment, I talk to former PespiCo marketing exec Bonin Bough, who is hosting a new CNBC reality TV series featuring basketball star Lebron James.

At 6 feet, 10 inches, Deer Valley High School senior basketball star Marcus Lee broke out of the mold long ago.

Later, The Ringer's Chris Ryan chats with director Ryan Koo about his recent Netflix film Amateur, which focuses on a young basketball star dealing with corruption in the amateur ranks (55:00).

I end with a question: Will the D - League becoming the G - League make it more attractive to 18 - year - old basketball stars who would prefer to be paid rather than attend college as they wait out the NBA's eligibility requirement?

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Former Syracuse University basketball star Lazarus Sims is the city's new parks commissioner, Mayor Stephanie Miner will announce today.

Researchers were baffled by the immense popularity of curry before realizing that Twitter was crazy for basketball star Stephen Curry, not the spicy dish.

Small - town boy turned big - time basketball star Luke Kennard has fully.

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She was raised alongside two sisters, Leslie and Lynda Are Boity Thulo and Congolese basketball star Christian Eyenga dating?

Are Boity Thulo and Congolese basketball star Christian Eyenga dating?

A SHOWTIME feature - length documentary examining the 2003 murder of college basketball star Patrick Dennehy by teammate Carlton Dotson, and the subsequent accusations against both Baylor University and head coach Dave Bliss.

Basketball star Kyrie Irving reprises his popular character from a series of Pepsi digital shorts, a legendary hoopster reassembling his team for a Harlem street ball tournament.

Sometimes those guests are famous faces such as legendary basketball star - turned - ombudsman, Kareem Abdul - Jabbar.

Ingraham also was criticized in February for saying Cleveland Cavaliers basketball star LeBron James should «shut up and dribble» instead of talking politics.

was Sir Richard Branson, who has gone very public with his pleas to save sharks, as has Chinese basketball star Yao Ming.

While he may be best known as one of the greatest basketball stars in recent history, when Magic Johnson retired in 1992, he made it his goal to revitalize underserved urban communities.

Soviet basketball star Arvydas Sabonis is visiting Portland, where the Trail Blazers are assiduously wooing him

A Virginia town has split along racial lines over a stiff jail sentence meted out to high school basketball star Allen Iverson

The Michigan basketball star made the announcement Saturday morning in an essay for The Players» Tribune.

In a cage match between basketball star Amar» e Stoudemire and a duo of microbiologists, who will emerge victorious?

McConaughey's next outing, «Two for the Money» (2005), earned hardly as much ink, and quietly sank like a stone, despite the power of co-star Al Pacino and male - demographic hugging plot about a former college basketball star taken under the wing of a bookie after a career - ending injury.

Jerry O'Connell plays Joe Mulligan, a former basketball star turned club owner and drug dealer.

The billionaire basketball star owns seven restaurants, a car dealership and a majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets.