Sentences with phrase «for basketball talent»

Turning point occurs when an exclusive Manhattan prep school recruits Jamal for his basketball talent and his academic achievement, and he seeks Forrester's help in dealing with the new environment, becomes a reluctant hero and Jamal gradually becomes committed not only to his own writing, but to cracking Forrester's shell.

In early August, Pittsburgh coach Ralph Willard hired Troy Weaver, whose only coaching experience had been with an AAU program in Washington, D.C. Weaver had several Division I prospects in his program, including 6» 9» senior Attila Cosby, whom he helped place at Oak Hill Academy, a school in Mouth of Wilson, Va., known for its basketball talent, and who suddenly looks like a lock for Pitt.

Not exact matches

Zaza is a piece of shit and despite having passable basketball talent, I wouldn't want him anywhere near a team I root for.

For girls especially, a freshman with talent will be on varsity, so often the JV team is made up of young women who just want to see what high school basketball is like — and most of them discover it's harder than they thought.

Not as a basketball player, and not because he made me realize my severe limitations as an amateur talent scout (dude was so promising for a while, I swear), but because he was a huge part of an NBA trade in 2013.

For instance, there are sports people whose astronomical talents justified everything ever written about them who ended up in the right place at the right time: Pele bubbling up from soccer - mad Brazil; Michael Jordan being born in basketball - mad North Carolina; Usain Bolt coming from Jamaica at a time when the island's track program is dominating the world and was a perfect vehicle for his nearly perfect taleFor instance, there are sports people whose astronomical talents justified everything ever written about them who ended up in the right place at the right time: Pele bubbling up from soccer - mad Brazil; Michael Jordan being born in basketball - mad North Carolina; Usain Bolt coming from Jamaica at a time when the island's track program is dominating the world and was a perfect vehicle for his nearly perfect talefor his nearly perfect talent.

This basketball team had a good bit of talent that also fit extremely well into the scheme they ran for this season.

Draft night, though primarily focused on the athletic achievements of the nation's top female talent, was rife with glimmers of hope for the future of women's basketball and women's sports as a whole.

Here you will meet such varied and complex personalities as Marvin Barnes, who some experts say is one of the best natural talents ever to come into the NBA and who destroyed his career with drugs and passionate insouciance — «the last innocent,» Walton called him; Kermit Washington, who fled from a posh Hollywood party because the movie people were sniffing cocaine; Abdul Qadir Jeelani (born Gary Cole), a shy young man who liked Rome better than Portland but yearned for the kind of recognition you can not find as «the king of spaghetti basketball»; Maurice Lucas, educated, intelligent, married to a Harvard graduate, yet tormented by the belief that his $ 300,000 salary was somehow demeaning.

With Olympic basketball just around the corner, and the top young prospects already displaying their talents in the NBA Summer League, it's only fitting that Bovada has released odds for the 2012 - 13 NBA Rookie of the Year.

If he's successful, and this appears to be a viable path for players who want to turn pro out of high school, this could be a positive development for the NBA — which doesn't want to change the age limit, but does want talent in the G League — and for college basketball.

As the playoffs near, success or failure for basketball's top winning teams may hang on the considerable talents of those two giant stars, Chamberlain and Russell

It was the baseball equivalent of 1975 in boys basketball or 1948 in football, which are perhaps the best two years for talent in those sports in state history.

Narrowing all of NorCal's basketball talent into three teams of five for both boys and girls was NOT easy.

Florida State basketball is finally turning blue chip talent into actual wins SBNation.com The Seminoles are off to the best start in program history, just in time for a ferocious stretch in the ACC.

Get a glimpse of what's to come on ESPN as Christian Pulisic talks about his World Cup heartbreak, a talent for basketball and much more.

The project, which is to be completed within nine months and valued at GHC7Million would have a FIFA standard football pitch, eight lane tartan track, volleyball, handball and basketball court, gym, ICT Center, entrepreneur and counselling center and a modern restaurant to cater for the youth in the Brong Ahafo region as they seek to harness their God given talents.

Kobe Bryant has an incredible talent for basketball, Beethoven had an insane knack for tickling the ivories, and intuitives have a talent for picking up on energy that's outside the typical human sensory range.

Diverse though his experiences may have been — the lanky Gorham, towering 6 foot, 5 inches, was previously a professional basketball player, a supermarket clerk, an art school student and a construction worker — he was not a perfumer, nor did he think he had the talent or the patience for the intensive training required to become one.

Jerry works for SMI (Sports Management International), the sports equivalent of a Hollywood talent agency like CAA; his clients include the top stars of baseball, football, and basketball.

Unfortunately, the film's ultimate message seems to be that education is irrelevant for those with physical talents, a dangerous example to set for the countless other impoverished youngsters who are destined for the NBA - or - nothing path that left Telfair's older brother to enjoy merely the obscurity of Greece's basketball league.

His love for the game would lead to a job with the men's team as an undergraduate at Yale and, eventually, to the creation of Basketball to Uplift the Youth (BUY) of Haiti, a communtiy youth program with the mission «to use basketball as a platform to impart life skills to the youth and provide them with talent - building opportunitiBasketball to Uplift the Youth (BUY) of Haiti, a communtiy youth program with the mission «to use basketball as a platform to impart life skills to the youth and provide them with talent - building opportunitibasketball as a platform to impart life skills to the youth and provide them with talent - building opportunities.»

Public education doesn't use a «draft» to match new teachers with schools, but in both teaching and basketball, there's a labor market with a supply of, and demand for, new talent.

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