Sentences with phrase «of about a basketball»

«If you were to try to measure global precipitation on the ground — I mean currently I can fit all of the rain gauges on the globe in the area of about a basketball court,» he said.

Not exact matches

King says to expect «strong statements about basketball» this year, likely in the form of getting «innovative product» on players» feet.

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In 2012, Benson purchased professional basketball's New Orleans - based team, then called the Hornets, for about $ 338 million from the National Basketball Association, which had taken temporary custodianship of the teabasketball's New Orleans - based team, then called the Hornets, for about $ 338 million from the National Basketball Association, which had taken temporary custodianship of the teaBasketball Association, which had taken temporary custodianship of the team in 2010.

«Hopefully we're evolving from I want to see my kid be the star quarterback or see my kid be the star of the basketball team to them being an entrepreneur and being excited about business.»

The company is an underdog in the merchandise category, as Nike presently owns about 90 percent of the basketball - apparel market share.

In fact, American workers will spend on average of about six hours focusing on basketball during the tournament — checking brackets, watching a game online, reading coverage, and verifying team rankings, according to staffing firm OfficeTeam.

The preparation I put into it, the mental and physical sacrifice that goes into what I do as a basketball player allows me to be ready for those moments and to meet the storm with the ultimate calm, cool and collectivism that I like to have about taking advantage of those opportunities.

«We were talking about some different projects, and somewhere in there came the concept of putting logos on the players» chairs at basketball games,» says Weisbach.

As a result of the similarities between the two, a lot of what I learned in my career playing professional basketball transferred to the startup world and taught me a tremendous amount about how to run my company, CoachUp.

He writes about a talentless girls basketball team that resorted to the strategy of the insurgent, playing an exhausting full - court press to compensate for their lack of traditional skills.

Teachers (about 13,000 of them), plus administrators, nurses, janitors, school bus drivers, band directors, guidance counselors, psychologists, secretaries, business managers, basketball coaches, and more — many, many more.

While we can't reveal too much, it will be addressing the hotly debated topic of paying college Read more about Week 49 — Secret Basketball Project -LSB-...]

Dan Gavitt, the NCAA's vice president of men's basketball, will be making the rounds this month, bouncing from conference meeting to conference meeting, talking with coaches and athletic directors about reforming college hoops.

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 sun and moon about the size of basketballs.

Instead we read comments from a pro basketball player about Obamacare, or of a former «Wrestler», a «Kardashian», or T. Nugent about gun control.

The pop star has been vocal about his faith lately, and while in Australia, he posted a picture of himself playing basketball with Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz.

It manipulates the whimsy of fan - boy power that Jared Hess explicated in his fine but critically reviled Gentlemen Bronchos (a comedy about young, would - be sci - fi novelists) and that David Gordon Green's 2000 George Washington, with its poor Southern boy wearing an old football helmet, basketball jersey, and kitchen - curtain - cape made poignant.

Basketball fans believe that they can be as certain about judgments of better and worse as chemists are in deciding whether a given compound is sugar or salt.

Although he is shy about public attention, the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and New York magazine have all done profiles of Konchalski, with the latter calling him «the last great (and good) basketball scout» in an industry too often devoid of integrity.

On top of that, Monday was full of nervous energy, as my Michigan basketball boys were about to take on the best offensive team in the entire NCAA after knocking game - after - game out of the park.

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.

Crowded around one end of a long table in the Mansfield High cafeteria, three of McMillen's best friends, Frank Rich, Ron West and Tom Cole, the little guard who is the second - best player on the basketball team, talked about McMillen.

But that said... A good friend of mine who knows more about basketball than I do (he has coached HS, and is very involved with the game on a personal level) said he thinks at least two of the W's injuries are fake, specifically Durant's and Curry's.

The unfolding story of this year's Harvard - Westlake girls basketball team has more twists and turns than a Shakespearean play, but in reality the facts about the Wolverines» season up to this point makes a very strong case for it to be a tale of its own.

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.

There was plenty of talk about what Thompson was going to have to give up on the basketball court when Kevin Durant came to Golden State.

TBH, I'd be more concerned about his view on the 2nd amendment than the fortunes of Bullets» basketball.....

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.

My favorite times to cover and write about high school sports will always be warm September nights for high school football, March evenings in packed - to - the - rafters gyms for playoff basketball, and the final weeks of May and early June at events that honor athletes I've covered throughout the year.

A lot of folks in the girls high school basketball community in California know about the current Harvard - Westlake team, mostly because of the prominence of the Pepperdine - signed Ruffus - Milner twins, Jayla and Jayda, who helped lift the Wolverines to the CIF Southern Section Open Division final last season before they lost 62 - 58 to Long Beach Poly.

Sirs: During the past winter a basketball player named Frank Burgess of Gonzaga led all the NCAA colleges in scoring, yet SPORTS ILLUSTRATED carried nothing about him (except a brief listing buried in BASKETBALL»S WEEK,basketball player named Frank Burgess of Gonzaga led all the NCAA colleges in scoring, yet SPORTS ILLUSTRATED carried nothing about him (except a brief listing buried in BASKETBALL»S WEEK,BASKETBALL»S WEEK, April 3).

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

Stern was a guest on NBC Sports Radio's «Speaking of Sports with Rob Simmelkjaer» and had this to say about Andersen's controversial outburst, via Pro Basketball Talk:

While your season's exploits have been noticeable, it took something otherworldly for people to care about women's college basketball and your side of the world.

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.

This always has been a trip for basketball teams from the mainland to dream about — the ultimate escape from the drudgery of practice.

One secret about (possibly) the greatest defensive team of college basketball's modern era: «The only film we watch,» says Cauley - Stein, «is 10 clips during the pregame meal.

One of the many things that I love about basketball, is that there are so many variables that lead to success or failure.

With college basketball's tempo lagging so far behind the NBA's as to raise rightful concerns about the State of the Game, there is at least one historic quest in progress.

Of course everything we thought we knew about the major storylines for this season was blown to bits when the FBI dropped its bombshell on the college basketball world in late September.

Perhaps the worst part about the loss for everyone associated with Arizona basketball is that they now have to face the harsh reality of the road that lies in front of them.

The Milwaukee native shared his thoughts about the future of Michigan basketball recently on Twitter:

Rationale: This is a refreshing matchup between two sides coached by club legends who care more about the supporters than the chase of money and prestige that is so common in modern basketball.

Honestly I might take about 6 shots in 1.5 hour of basketball.

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).

College basketball's regular season has been all about parity and depth, and it's reflected in the announcement of the final field of 68 in the NCAA Tournament.