Sentences with phrase «not about basketball»

It's not about basketball, it's about us as a family.

«At that point it wasn't about basketball anymore.

Not exact matches

He went on to say, «I don't know all the rules and regulations about it, but I do know what five - star athletes bring to a campus, both in basketball and football, I know how much these college coaches get paid.

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Ludlow's version of «Dayenu» included all of the customary lyrics — about the parting of the sea, the manna from heaven, the giving of the Torah — in addition to some with unique significance to the BYU community: «Had he scattered us among the nations, but not gathered us in the Rocky Mountains, dayenu; had he gathered us in the Rocky Mountains, but not given us Latter - Day Temples of our own, dayenu; had he given us Latter - Day Temples of our own, but not given us a special university, dayenu; had he given us a special university, but not a mighty basketball team, dayenu.»

I can't argue about its virtues as a sport though I do know it's the national sport of Canada but is it better than basketball.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

The trouble is, Faith's starting to ask for tee - shirts from schools I haven't visited recently — schools she reads about, or sees when we watch a basketball game, or learns about when a faculty member stops by for dinner at our apartment.

How come everytime something happens to a jewish person / team / organization it's all over the news??? My old Seventh Day Adventist basketball team was in the same position about 15 years ago in Portland, (Playoff game fell on Friday, the Sabbath, and we didn't play) and the press was called - NO COVERAGE!!

Oh and I forgot to say - your comments are irrelevant here... The real truth is that your Mormon buddies don't give a hoot about this woman... Nor did they give a hoot about that young black basketball player at BYU... He made a mistake and they treated him llike a slave... That's my observation about that that whole religion..

They need to try and play more tougher teams from the mid major leagues or power five leagues and try to get more of those teams to play at the SMC.I think that would help put butts in the seats and help a little more in recruiting better players.A complaint i hear about the basketball program from fellow fans hear in tulare county is why don't they play more higher profile teams like the football team does.

(Just think about how worked up we get about Team No. 69 not getting a shot in basketball.)

However, as many of us know, it isn't always the self - proclaimed basketball guru (you know, the one who boasts about staying up late to watch every mid-major team) who wins the office pool.

More often than not, it's the co-worker who knows absolutely nothing about basketball and chooses his or her bracket based upon which mascots they like or which cities they enjoy visiting.

From what I know about this team basketball isn't their strong suit so for them to be 2 - 0 in hoops has to be a great sign for them.

If you didn't know anything about basketball, you'd wonder where the hell this kid came from, and even if you did, you'd have the same reaction.

Here's the beautiful thing about basketball: it doesn't really matter how you make the ball go in the hoop, it's just that you do it often enough to not be Matthew Dellevedova.

They need to not worry about that and just get back to playing their exciting brand of basketball.

But for winning basketball games, it's not just about how many numbers a player can get.

I'm hopeful that it is just a maturity issue and he cares about basketball and winning and isn't just someone with God given talent that does this only because he is good at it.

We're talking about some of the best basketball players in the world, but other than the MVP candidate and the league leader in free throws made, a bunch of guys couldn't hit the easiest shots in the game.

People are skipping class, people are skipping work, people who don't like college basketball are tuning in to see what all the fuss is about.

If we're going to be up watching basketball after midnight, at least make us not feel guilty about it.

As I've said before, I don't know shit about basketball, so having you folks explain it to me is a big help.

My point is that there is much more to NYC basketball than the Knicks and I imagine that most NYers would agree that the Knicks are the weak link in the NYC basketball environment (but only because they either forgot about the Nets or don't really consider them part of NYC).

He just doesn't care about playing basketball as much as he used to.

I don't know anything about college basketball, but I do enjoy gambling on as many NCAA Tournament games as I can.

This is a story about a basketball player, but it's not really about basketball.

It's like something out of Mad Max, but if Mad Max was about winning a basketball game and not eluding a killer post-apocalyptic motorcycle gang.

I do nt know a thing about him, have no idea about his work ethic and dedication to the game of basketball.

Between Midnight Madness at the start of the season, and March Madness at the end, Lefty's influence on the state of College Basketball today can NOT be underestimated, and it's about time he was recognized for it.

But I don't think it's just basketball we're talking about.

There are demographic concerns about baseball — the average fan is older than the average football or basketball fan — so it's not ludicrous to worry about how to appeal to a younger audience.

If college scouts and coaches didn't already know about the Salesian senior, his performance at the Nike Peach Jam, part of the Elite Youth Basketball League, certainly turned a few heads.

(Just a hunch based on everything everyone not named John Calipari has ever said about one - and - done's effect on college basketball.)

When Calipari lost to UNC in 2015, he attacked the refs for causing the best players on his team to dwell on the bench with foul trouble.When Calipari had a very public fight with John Chaney, the legendary Temple coach, it was about threatening the refs with losing their jobs when he was at UMass.Two of the schools he coached were hit with NCAA sanctions but of course Calipari's hands are always clean.He is the Teflon basketball coach.Calipari is not an X's and O's type of coach and makes poor adjustments during games.Frankly I don't understand why so many people think this arrogant bloviating fool is a good coach.You will say, well he went to 4 final fours and one Championship.One.....

this is not a scottie problem and anyone who thinks it is knows absolutely nothing about basketball.

I don't know about Philly's baseball and basketball fans, but I think their hockey fans have just as bad a rep as their football fans.

• An article on his basketball philosophy by the man whom SPORTS ILLUSTRATED quoted as saying (SI, Dec. 16), «I don't give a damn what anybody says about me or my methods.»

I'm just not that sold on their playmaking and I'm really worried about their shooting for this to be any more than just a bad basketball team with a lopsided roster.

The University of Michigan basketball team doesn't get much time to sit around and think about the heartbreaking loss this past Saturday in Bloomington against Indiana.

It might not be fair that college basketball is decided by a series of win - or - go - home matchups in a 68 - team tournament, but it's what fans love about March Madness.

Which reminds me that he has a lot of goals outside of basketball, he isn't as passionate about the game as I would like.

... unless you just don't care about getting better at basketball.

I want the next coach to be a role model for our young players Part of this job is not just about basketball.

If we really could tell the future, we wouldn't be writing about basketball for a living.

They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....

While Sportianity can't make a dent in basketball, the Rev. Billy Zeoli leads a phalanx of clergymen into football and baseball locker rooms, where prayer is a function of «team unity» and the players and chaplains talk a great deal about the Seventh Commandment.

But I don't get why basketball makes such a big deal about tanking; rebuilding is a thing in every sport and building through the draft is the biggest part of that.

«Luc doesn't understand how Americans can get so excited about basketball.