Sentences with phrase «first basketball game»

Now, if I was a Clinton supporter, would I be more or less inclined to skip my sons first basketball game to go out and vote when I am being led to believe that my candidate has a 98 % chance to win the election?

Would I be more or less motivated to skip my son's first basketball game if I thought my candidate had a 2 % chance to win?

Last Sunday, I sat with a group of parents watching our nine - year - old daughters play the first basketball game of the season.

Michigan basketball commit Austin Hatch was playing in his first basketball game since being in a plane crash two and a half years ago, where his father and step - mother perished, when he hit his first shot of his return.

The shot - blocking center of the 76ers immigrated to Montreal from his native Haiti at 14 and played his first basketball game at 16.

My friend Anita teased me with the gourmet comment when I said I just made Chocolate Covered Strawberries and Pretzels for K's first basketball game.

Hildale's school, called Water Canyon School, played its first basketball games Wednesday inside what used to be a storehouse owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints.

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I had some inroads with people I had met on my first trip, so we proposed a goodwill game of basketball with North Korea's national team.

Lexie Waymon, 16, was talking with her friend Baleigh Culp about the homecoming basketball game when they heard the first shot.

And I was so bad at basketball, I got a standing ovation from all the parents when I made my first and only basket in the five - year span I played — it was the one game my parents missed.

The regular season of basketball is done now, and we have our first district game on Wednesday and then Friday if we win.

After introducing the game to young African - Americans in Washington, D.C., over 100 years ago, he helped organized the first leagues in the city, which is now one of the most fertile basketball areas in the country.

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.

PRO BASKETBALL — Ifthe Knicks were becoming guardedly optimistic about their chances of winningtheir first Eastern Conference title in 16 years, you could hardly blame them: In a 3 - 0 week, during which New York ran its home win streak to 13 games, itdefeated the Pistons, the conference champions, for the third straight time.100 - 93.

Tonight's matchup between Michigan State and North Carolina not only pits two of the nation's most successful programs against each other, but also marks the first time a college basketball game is being played on...

Tonight's matchup between Michigan State and North Carolina not only pits two of the nation's most successful programs against each other, but also marks the first time a college basketball game is being played on an aircraft carrier.

BASKETBALL — NBA»S old pros, just about used to Boston's Bill Russell, began to pick their brains and brawn for ways and means to stop Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain after meeting up with newest Warrior for first time in benefit game for ailing Maurice Stokes at Monticello, N.Y..

UNC - Asheville flirted with the ultimate American upset - a 16 seed beating a one in the first (or second) round of the NCAA Tournament - before a handful of highly questionable calls late in the game quelled their chances and left the college basketball world with a sour taste in its collective mouth.

It was the first home basketball game for the Bulldogs since the football team's loss to Alabama in the national championship game on Monday night.

After she «accidentally» scored some 50 points in her first high school game, she was dubbed Moravia Molly and basketball became the most important thing in her life.

Kentucky's players may not watch much tape, but SI undertook the project of charting all 815 minutes and 1,299 possessions from their first 20 games using the Defensive Scoresheet method from statistician Dean Oliver's 2003 book, Basketball on Paper — which assigns credit or blame (either full or fractional) for forced misses, points yielded, turnovers created, fouls and rebounds — in order to create individual defensive ratings.

After praising Baylor for becoming the first college basketball team to win 40 games in a season, President Obama turned his attention to the tallest member of the Bears» traveling party at the White House on July 18.

Daniels had first read of Manigault in The City Game, an account of pro and playground basketball in New York written by Pete Axthelm of Newsweek, He recognized the commercial value Earl would have if he made the Stars, a notion that apparently had eluded the home - town Knicks and Nets.

First a bus ride, then a basketball game, ultimately the realization that someone you thought was your enemy makes a pretty good teammate.

BASKETBALL — Eastern leader BOSTON ran its victory streak to eight games (15 for 16 overall) and held its opponents to fewer than 100 points in the last four (while trouncing LA 114 - 78 and Philadelphia 112 - 78, the Celtics allowed the Lakers only 30 points in the first half and the 76ers 32).

First, he was that obsessed tech guy in Malcolm Gladwell's story, the one who reverse - engineered girls basketball and deduced that his seventh - grade daughter's team could win if they applied full court pressure all game long (it worked).

Villanova takes out Arizona and then knocks off North Carolina in a national title game thriller for the second straight year to become college basketball's first repeat champion in a decade.

By last week, with the Braves making another desperate run for first place in basketball's toughest division, McAdoo had, in his career, scored more than 50 points in four games, in the 40s in 41 games and in the 30s in 107 games.

But on the whole, Harden has been brilliant, earning his first ever All - Star Game bid and making basketball in Houston exciting again.

BASKETBALL — ABA: In a week of sparse action all around the league first - place PITTSBURGH (44 - 21) increased its Eastern Division lead to three games with four straight wins.

All good students of the game know you do not run on the Bearcats, because they laugh if you try it and steal your passes; nor do you pressure Cincinnati, because the Cincinnati press sticks three ways faster, including under water; and you do not play slow and careful against Cincinnati, because this is Cincinnati's specialty and what is the use of being the first basketball team ever held scoreless?

When I first heard that a kid scored 138 points in a single basketball game I was in shock.

After receiving a bye in the first round, our women's basketball 1s take to the court for their first Northern Conference Cup game of the season.

If the Twins are within three games of first place at the end of August, I will write fan fiction about Joe Mauer's twins being rivals with Buster Posey's twins at summer basketball camp, only to realize they have lots in common, which helps them band together against a common enemy, Mr. McGarnle, the mean - spirited counselor from across the lake.

Iowa State at Florida State, 46 - year - old JimmyValvano's first game back as an ESPN college basketball analyst since he had learned last summer that he most likely had a year to live.

LaVar also spoke big game about his Junior Basketball Association, saying the «real ballers» would show up to the First Korean Baptist Church in Temecula to prove they have what it takes.

College basketball teams will be featured in a video game for the first time since 2009, ESPN's Darren Rovell is reporting.

This isn't the first sport that Facebook has streamed, as they've cut deals for UEFA Champions League games and college basketball among others.

Because while some camps focus simply on games, we're all about teaching basketball fundamentals first and putting games second.

The barber wrote of Mike Peterson the basketball star; how he had averaged 21.2 points per game, how he had led Yates Center to its very first Tri-Valley League basketball championship, how Mike had subsequently made «everybody's» Class 2A All - State team in Kansas and was voted the most valuable Class 2A player in all of Kansas.

«There's different kinds of basketball all across the country,» Chidom says, and that first training in Orlando was helpful in getting used to how her teammates approached the game.

On March 27, 1971, Villanova made its first appearance in an NCAA basketball tournament title game.

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.

The first 2 games were fun games, and the third game was some of the worst basketball I've seen played by a Louisville team in that building.

Oklahoma basketball won only 11 games last season in the first year of the post-Buddy Hield era.

Phil Jackson attended his first Knicks game as the new President of Basketball Operations on Wednesday night and New York won its seventh straight game.

Team Mordini was a basketball power the first couple weeks and this is shaping up to be the game of Opening Round.

To create a winning system for College Basketball Betting Against the Public, we first created a new spread system and set the season type to include both regular season and postseason games.

It is similar to betting on the first half of a football or basketball game.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.