Sentences with phrase «of basketball leagues»

Last week, it was reported that Ice Cube is suing several Qatari investors for $ 1.2 billion by alleging that they tried seizing control of the basketball league.

On Saturday February 22nd, the third round of the basketball league took place, this time having headed back to Ambergris Caye for a home game.

Not exact matches

The move would make Powell Jobs one of the most influential female investors in America's «Big four» sports leagues — baseball, basketball, football, and hockey — which remain dominated by male ownership.

For example, as evidence of the growth of e-sports, many people use data from different sources to claim that the annual championship of Riot Games's League of Legends is watched by more viewers than the National Basketball Association finals.

A battle over how players and team owners will split the league's $ 4 billion in annual revenue, which led to the suspension of exhibition and regular - season games through at least Nov. 14, is bringing collateral damage to a range of businesses counting on professional basketball events to survive, including caterers, bars, stores, parking lots — and even the self - employed masseurs who tend to players.

Compare this to breaking the color barrier in baseball or the emergence of women's professional sports leagues in soccer or basketball.

Other options could involve an extension of the G - League that allows teams more flexibility with younger players, or teams could adopt something close to the academy system of soccer and basketball clubs in Europe.

The mission of the league is to have fun playing and to give many San Diego County girls the opportunity to receive scholarships for summer basketball camps.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

Who has time for meditating at work when there are football fantasies, bowl (and football and basketball and baseball) pools, golf leagues, fitness centers, video games and coffee breaks to get finished before the end of the day!!!

Today, COCO5, the Chicago - based all - natural sports hydration company, reported a capital raise of $ 1.5 million, with key contributors including longtime investors Jim Reynolds and Spiral Sun Ventures, National Basketball Association players Marcus Morris and Markieff Morris and National Hockey League player Andrew Shaw.

Now January is right smack in the middle of our collegiate, industrial league and AAU seasons, so our representatives in the International Basketball Federation knew they had little chance to assemble a decent team.

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.

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.

Of the dozen or so colleges still under consideration, almost all have medical schools nearly as renowned as their basketball teams, and most of the coaches spend as much time talking up new chemistry labs as they do their latest league championshiOf the dozen or so colleges still under consideration, almost all have medical schools nearly as renowned as their basketball teams, and most of the coaches spend as much time talking up new chemistry labs as they do their latest league championshiof the coaches spend as much time talking up new chemistry labs as they do their latest league championship.

Yes, in 1994 he had played for money with the Perth Wildcats of Australia's National Basketball League, but not for much ($ 11,100) and not with particular distinction (limited minutes in only 22 games).

Princeton's Bill Bradley astonished the nation by leading his Ivy League team to the semifinals of the NCAA basketball tournament.

They are fresh off of a Summer League Crown and playing their best basketball in Franchise history right now.

There is simply no comparison in terms of quality of life between the G - League and high major college basketball for an 18 - year - old.

They are main - stays in All Sports Series and with the new Playoff tweak (Floor Hockey is joining the early rounds of the Playoffs with Basketball) they can use this Spring League as a way to build toward their ultimate goal — winning an All Sports Series crown.

Team Lalez has been in this League since its inception and they know how to whether one of those momentous storms and get back to playing their brand of basketball.

This Team is like a combination of the Spurs and Warriors — they've been playing together forever, they seem to always make the right basketball play, their IQ is through the roof, they have two of the most consistent shooters in the League, and they don't play with a true post-up big.

The Women's World Cup is over, the Copa America is over, and the only matches to watch right now are the Gold Cup, Wimbledon, Baseball, NBA Summer League basketball and reruns of Game of Thrones.

In addition to watching NBA basketball every night from October to April — both in arenas and via League Pass — I've spent most of the last seven months consuming basketball content, poring over statistics, and talking to people who work in the lLeague Pass — I've spent most of the last seven months consuming basketball content, poring over statistics, and talking to people who work in the leagueleague.

Watson, a 6» 4» sometime point guard in the New York Urban Pro Basketball League, does most of the legwork.

Led by a group of former Stevenson and Deerfield high school basketball players, this is a team that will end up in the top half of the league with wins against some of the top teams.

But he believes that the timing is right for at least one women's league, given the surge in interest in women's college basketball and the success of the gold - medal - winning women's Dream Team.

The Sixers may be the stuff of League Pass fever dreams, but until this past weekend they still didn't look like a fully functioning basketball team.

None of the teams in the current Lockheed basketball league would give the old Flyers much of a game.

«I was late for a parks league basketball game because my eyes were too wide open from watching both Tommie Frazier break all of the tackles and the Blackshirts22Thatâ $ ™ s the nickname given to the Nebraska defense.

If bowling — yes, bowling — does not instantly supplant baseball, football, basketball and hockey as the nation's No. 1 spectator sport, it will not be for any lack of optimism on the part of the proprietors of the new National Bowling League.

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.

Unlike many of college basketball's nouveau riche, those alphabet - soup and hyphenated leagues that are inhabited by institutions of higher learning previously sniffed out only by police dogs, the Big East from the git - go incorporated a bunch of traditional powers sitting there just panting to group - boogie.

That's one of the few statements out of the league office that Billy Hunter, executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, agrees with.

Several first - round NBA prospects have been told that they can not play for the G - League this season due to a rule that bars players who have been part of a college basketball program during the same academic year, according to ESPN's Jonathan Givony.

Technically, Varanese's job is special events (getting a planeload of vacationing Lockheedians off for Europe each spring) and general troubleshooting (persuading two ex-collegians not to play on the same team, which would upset the delicate balance of power in the employee basketball league), but his real vocation is remembering the first name of what seems to be every Lockheedian, greenkeeper, bowling - alley operator and sports promoter between San Jose and La Jolla.

«He's one of the most competitive kids I've ever seen,» says Boo Williams, who runs a summer basketball league in which Iverson played and who compares Iverson with Kenny Anderson of the New Jersey Nets.

Definitely cornering the market on that valuable «PMSing chicks who can't get enough of summer league basketball» demographic.

Over the years, even as black youths turned away from baseball and toward football and basketball, JRW blossomed into one of the most successful and heralded youth baseball leagues in Illinois.

The «hustling but inept gang of track stars who collaborated with Baltimore in horrendous exhibitions of church - basement basketball» must be disheveling the league.

James Gary Joseph Kennedy Jr., age 20, is a forward on the University of Missouri basketball team that recently went to the finals of the NCAA Midwest Regional playoffs after winning the Big Eight Conference championship, the school's first outright title in that league since 1930, when it was composed of six teams.

Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.

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.

According to the Central Basketball Association, a minor professional league, as recently as March of 2014 Stuckey appeared in a game with the Memphis Soul Kings.

Under that labor deal, players earn just over 50 percent of the league's basketball - related income.

Growing up in Southern California, Watson played in the Say No Classic, one of the top college basketball summer leagues of its time.

The superstar of the Little League World Series, Philadelphia pitcher Mo'Ne Davis, who hopes to go to UConn and play basketball for Geno Auriemma, has shown that she has all the tools to make it big in either baseball or basketball.

BASKETBALL — NBA: The West had six of the league's top 10 scorers on its team, but the East had Willis Reed and Oscar Robertson to lead it to a 142 - 135 All - Star victory.

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.

It's part of Nike's Elite Youth Basketball League, where in one game last year Malik scored a single - game high of 59 points, an EYBL record.