Not exact matches
Out
of Context: This verse has nothing to do with dunking a
basketball, hitting a
game - winning homerun, bench - pressing a bus, winning the lottery or
closing a business deal.
After an extremely
close first
game of the season last week, our Cheshire - based women's
basketball team make their way to Salford for a late (8 pm) tip off against our other neighbours.
Our analysis includes
closing lines from Pinnacle and College
Basketball Betting Trends since the start
of the 2008 season (over 14,000
games).
Arenas, Butler, and Jamison used to average
close to 40 minutes a
game under Eddie Jordan and not look that exhausted in the 4th, but I guess it's a different era
of basketball now.
I've stated before on this forum that I am from the United States and I follow the sports here as well, particularly
basketball, which is the
closest game to football that we have in terms
of fluidity and the combination
of stamina, pace, and power.
When the arena
closed again on March 27, preventing fans from attending another Kings» home
game against the Mavericks, impeded fans were less forgiving this time, and footage captured confrontations between ticket holders and protesters who attempted to remind a city
of what a
basketball game can make one forget.
Basketball is the
game of the city in these times, for it is cramped and fast and vertical, and everyone is very
close and vulnerable.
Varsity was more mixed, though it was a thrilling day
of basketball with each
game successively
closer than the last.
She earned a full - ride scholarship to Duke, spent her summer playing for USA
Basketball in the 17U World Championships, and
closed her high school career as a McDonald's All - American — just the second ever to come out
of the Bay Area since the girls
game began in 2002.
Unlike the NBA where the second half total is usually
close to the line on the first half
of the
game, second half totals in College
basketball are on average almost 8 points higher than first half totals for the same
game.
The principle in sport is obvious, just figure the
basketball player, who has to shoot a free throw at the end
of a
game, the tennis player who has to hit serves in the final
game to
close the match or the football player who has to take the deciding penalty.
Its a shame that the core
basketball game still feels like it needs another couple
of years
of polish to even come
close to its competitors.
It's probably unrealistic to think it'll gain a remote camera for FaceTime calls, but a refined notification system could alert us to phone calls and messages while we're watching TV, or suggest tuning to the end
of a
close basketball game.