Sentences with phrase «pickup games»

«I still try to play pickup games and workout to make up for it.

You can also play pickup games online or offline as well as Arena matches where your deck is built as you play instead of coming in prepared.

These days he plays pickup games with a group of friends.

He began traveling alone through some of Chicago's toughest neighborhoods, showing up at gyms and talking his way into pickup games.

I'll play pickup games for money.»

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Your friends have stopped inviting you to join pickup games because «you go all Cristiano Ronaldo when you don't like the ref's calls.»

Given that the days of unsupervised pickup games are largely a relic of the past, it is not surprising that an estimated 45 million children and adolescents participate in organized sports in the United States.

They tested themselves in pickup games, the first at a high school gym in Las Vegas against Houston's summer league squad.

«I've done it in pickup games, but I haven't had the guts to do it in a real game yet because it's the kind of thing that will make a coach pull you in a hurry if it doesn't work,» Williams, 23, says.

There would be pickup games at UCLA and Loyola Marymount, a bachelor party and a Caribbean retreat, a Kendrick Lamar concert and an Astros playoff game.

Within several months he was playing in pickup games and making cameos at youth tournaments.

The father always kept the sprawling Kosar backyard mowed to the roots to accommodate the daily «blood - and - guts» pickup games, and he fed his sons a steady diet of coachly bromides: «Don't be afraid to fail....

Fifteen years ago, he journeyed to Brooklyn to write about The Hole, a playground famed for its pickup games (SI, Nov. 12, 1973).

Rice has been able to hold his own against the Irish basketball players in summer pickup games, and in the wake of Notre Dame's 79 - 75 upset loss at San Francisco last week, Phelps just might want to reconsider Rice's bid.

When you're ready to start playing in the game like you do in pickup games, Basketball Mental Toughness is waiting for you.

Backup guard Jack McGuinness first saw Houston in the ninth grade, when the two faced each other in pickup games of one - on - one.

He mostly played pickup games and ran on the treadmill.

Sure, there are the pickup games of touch in the park or of half - court at the Y, these paid for often enough in the coin of pain: a charley horse or a bent nose.

In addition to the drills, he has organized workouts and pickup games with pro players and former Razorbacks like Ronnie Brewer, Jr. (formerly of the Jazz, Bulls and Rockets), Courtney Fortson (Banvit in Turkey), Ky Madden (Grizzlies summer league) and Marshawn Powell (Treviso Basket in Italy), and current Hogs like Jimmy Whitt and the recently suspended Anton Beard and JaCorey Williams, the kind of competition neither high school nor AAU ball can provide.

All Duke pickup games go to seven — no need to win by two — and the rookies started off by matching the seniors basket for basket.

The headband belongs to teammate Warren Wallace, and Oden used it to hold his glasses in place during pickup games because he forgot his contact lenses.

«Sean had an unbelievable summer and just went right after Greg in pickup games,» says Redick.

During his two seasons at UCLA, Davis played dozens of pickup games with Jones, who likes to claim that Davis would never have made it to the NBA without him, which is accurate only in that Jones drove the rookie to his first Hornets practice.

For eight months he passed his days playing in pickup games at a nearby church until he received word one day from his uncle, who had been sending Gai's basketball tapes to American schools: Gai had been approved for a student visa to go to the U.S. «I was lucky I got out,» he says.

Harbaugh says in Pattengill pickup games winner stayed on, loser left.

In pickup games I was always selected last, and regretfully.

«Even in the projects, there were kids around all the time,» he said, and pickup games were easy to come by.

What It Is Most college basketball fans would salivate over a day that starts with a pickup game on the court at New York's Madison Square Garden and ends with watching Duke play St. John's from a luxury skybox during the 2k Sports Classic.

Wherever he is in the world, he's looking for a pickup game.

When two of the best guards in Los Angeles first met at a pickup game at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in the summer of» 95, the Lakers» Eddie Jones noticed that Crossroads High's Baron Davis was sporting sneakers so worn that the fraying soles slapped against the floor.

I mean, lame, like the kid that would hide behind the trees at recess while you were choosing sides for a pickup game to make sure he went to the stacked team.

But if you appreciate the Pro Bowl for what it is — a group of really good football players screwing around in a pickup game for a couple of hours — it can still be somewhat enjoyable.

In a pickup game you must make at least one pass before you can shoot.

The brothers are thinking they may be able to squeeze in a 6 p.m. pickup game at the Fayetteville Athletic Club.

There, Mr. Cool is transformed into Psycho, the name he was given 30 minutes into his first pickup game with the other members of the UTEP golf team as a freshman in the fall of 1987.

Also, while it is hard to compare players across eras, if I was playing a pickup game and could choose McKinney or Shurna, I would take McKinney every time.

Looks like Kobe Bryant didn't care too much for that report about him and Carmelo playing a pickup game.

«I remember watching them play a pickup game of hockey on the Menomonee River.

He averaged 36.7 points per game but died of cardiac arrest in a pickup game a few years after high school.

Yet another Kavanaugh brother, Tim, quit playing basketball a few years ago when a man he was guarding during a pickup game dropped dead.

It's reminiscent of a pickup game.

The comedian was filming on location this week for the «Conan without Borders» series, which apparently included a pickup game with the Mexican International.

- Photo slideshow by Adi Talwar The Kennedy Knights boys hoop squad, playing for the Bronx and the memory of fallen teammate Andre «Pops» Davidson who died last summer during a pickup game, could only hold off the Lincoln juggernaut and history for so long.

Get a quick pickup game of hoops started, or take turns playing jump rope games.

Jim Rome On Showtime, Season 4, Episode 2: Golden State Warriors sharpshooter Steph Curry joins Jim Rome via satellite and predicts the winner of a two - on - two, father - son NBA pickup game.

Basically the pickup game is where you can customize your game a bit more then you can with just a quick game.

You have a quick game, pickup game, and NFL Challenge mode to choose from.

So, while Chrysler and GM are barely back on their 4 × 4 feet and Nissan and Toyota are still decoding their big - pickup game plan, Ford is rolling out the most new the F - 150 has ever seen in its 62 - year history: 4 engines, one transmission, significant chassis upgrades, and an instrument cluster that bares this truck's soul.

Many times since then, Jeep has hinted it wants to get back into the pickup game.