Sentences with phrase «of basketball season»

Of course for him that means NFL Sunday Ticket and the start of basketball season.

With the end of basketball season in sight, the natural progression of sports focus drops on baseball to save our sports senses (because golf ain't gonna do it).

What successes does the team achieve by the end of the basketball season?

The beginning of fall marks the changing of the leaves, comfortable sweaters and, best of all, the return of basketball season.

With a bachelors degree in Global and International Studies, Eric works for a leadership and sports academy outside of the basketball season.

Nine of those 35 enrollments came in the fall semester, when players needed suitable grades to keep them eligible for the second semester and the second half of the basketball season.

Not exact matches

Way back in 2004, an icon of professional basketball named Kevin Garnett emerged as a future champion, leading the Minnesota Timberwolves through a Cinderella season.

Montague's expulsion helped mar a historic men's basketball season for the Yale Bulldogs, ahead of the NCAA Tournament.

Before he went on to direct and produce movies and TV series such as Varsity Blues, Coach Carter, Smallville and One Tree Hill, sports - fanatic filmmaker Michael Tollin made Hardwood Dreams, a documentary that chronicled one season of the Morningside High basketball team in Inglewood, Calif..

USA Today's annual ranking of the top paid NCAA basketball coaches estimates Few's compensation totals around $ 1.6 million this season, up from $ 1.37 million a year earlier.

That distinction goes to University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, who earned an estimated $ 7.77 million this season.

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.

His play throughout the season was fantastic, but it was his performance in the Finals that set Durant apart as a singularly dominant force of basketball.

As for Ogwumike, she said she makes the bulk of her living playing basketball in Russia, with the Dynamo Kursk squad, in the off - season.

But for all that he's already accomplished, James claims that in his 15th season, he's playing the best basketball of his career.

No only does Smith have a history of on - and off - the - court issues, he was also playing the worst basketball of his career with the Knicks where his player efficiency rating (PER) had dropped to 11.6 after averaging 15.8 his first three seasons in New York.

Basketball fans may as well kiss the start of the NBA season goodbye.

RALEIGH, N.C. — College basketball has spent an entire season operating amid the specter of an FBI corruption investigation that led to criminal charges against assistant coaches, agents, apparel company employees and others.

The quality of your basketball team is measured over the full season.

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Boosters at the University of North Carolina — the reigning national basketball champion — require a donation of at least $ 6,000 for the right to buy two season tickets.

Perhaps a more telling example is the standing ovation that was given two basketball players from North Carolina State University during a game of the 1972 - 73 season.

In one of the most touching scenes of the new season, Dan and Mark play a game of backyard basketball while Mark wears a plaid skirt.

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

During football season I make trays of cookies to bring to tailgating, but during basketball season, I love making snack mixes.

I can't wait to figure this out (especially since it's basketball season and both of my girls are playing four days a week!)

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.

He's also grown into a knockdown three - point shooter after four years of college basketball, hitting 42 percent of his triples this season.

Duke basketball would be without its two biggest games of the season, and the rivalry would lose its fire for a few years.

Don't know whether this will comfort Muhammad Ali or not, but early in the season Coach Ron Farris of Spencerian, a Louisville business college, decided to test a computer by having it analyze the possible outcome of Spencerian's basketball games.

From Jared Sullinger knocking down triples, to Tim Hardaway Jr. and Dion Waiters having a shootout, to Andre Drummond pulling down 25 boards, this was one of the most exciting basketball games of the season, even if it didn't count.

So here's an incomplete timeline of the defeats, indignities, and self - owns sustained by the Pac - 12 in the two major revenue sports, football and men's basketball, since the start of the most recent football season:

You couldn't have published any better articles during the holiday season than those on Joe Paterno and Ernie Lorch, coach of New York City's Riverside Church basketball team (ON THE SCENE, Dec. 22 - 29).

The good news is that we still have two full seasons of basketball before we even get to that point.

In a small personal way, then, the dawning of yet another college basketball season — which, as you well know, is my favorite stretch of the sports calendar — somehow seems infinitely more special and revitalizing this time around, if only because it's my first season as a college dad.

It was a blast to watch them once they really started to gel at the end of the season into tournament time, and it's objectively a big event for Penn State Men's Basketball to win the NIT.

Consider: Cal has one of the best programs in the country, but its team includes both Olympians and women who are just discovering crew — as if the 12th man on the Duke basketball team were learning the game a month before the season.

The improvements they've made from previous years to this season in terms of basketball is astronomical.

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.

Before the season we wrote our annual College Basketball and Betting Against the Public article, which found that road underdogs of 10 - 20 points had won at a 54.6 % clip since 2008.

Speaking of basketball royalty, Dwyane has been bringing the heat this season and we're equally impressed with his unique choices when it comes to suiting up off the court.

The NCAA Basketball Season tipped off on Monday, but the first big day of «major» college hoops action is tomorrow, Friday (November 12)-- with more than half of the Top 25 College Basketball teams...

Jackson was one of the better defenders in college basketball last season despite being just a freshman.

Ball's odds of being selected with the top pick dropped from +200 to +300 following the conclusion of the college basketball season, and from +300 to +750 following the NBA draft lottery.

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.

At the close of the regular season he and the rest of the basketball staff had determined 50 likely invitees and funneled their names to art director Ed Truscio, who began assembling the cover image.

Oxford University Basketball Club (OUBbC) is mid-way through its 2017 - 18 season, and it has been quite the roller coaster of emotion thus far.

As our Premium Pro members can attest to, a large number of our College Basketball Steam Moves have been extremely profitable this season with Carib steams leading the pack.

It starts with an elite veteran point guard in Jalen Brunson, a player who already has a national championship to his name and might be college basketball's player of the year this season.

The College Basketball season tipped off last Friday with a slate of highly forgettable matchups.