As basketball player at Stanford, Collins competed in the national collegiate championship tournament, reaching the fourth round.
Rather than relying on dedicated wrestling arenas, his company rents other venues, such as basketball courts, for its fights.
He was once an honor roll student, but his grades began slipping in the fall of 2011 as basketball season approached.
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But he beamed about their intensity, conditioning and growth as basketball players.
That is still less than a top American sports star such as basketball's Michael Jordan can command, but perhaps not for long.
Baseball officials complained about the interminable length of the games, fearing that the sport would lose its younger fans to faster-moving games such as basketball and football.
The shopping mall, located in a growing entertainment district that draws an estimated 10 million visitors annually, has fountains, outdoor fireplaces and walking tours highlighting legends such as basketball great Wilt Chamberlain.
The same thing happens in other sports as well, such as basketball in which one study found refs are 7% more likely to call fouls on visiting teams than on home ones.
This is a strategy that former Secretary-General Kofi Annan identified, and the UN Foundation has been thrilled to help the UN on this front by building issue-based grassroots campaigns to involve individuals and groups from all walks of life such as basketball players, bishops, business leaders, students and celebrities in the critical work of the United Nations.
"We know that this means a lot to us, as a basketball team and as a program, " Syracuse's Brandon Triche said.
"At a place like this, people are talking about the first win in 377 years, as if basketball has been around as long, " Lesley said with a chuckle.
These muscles can become strained after a rapid twisting of the chest or torso, and are quite common injuries in sports such as tennis and basketball, as well as in baseball.
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In pro basketball playoffs as well as in college basketball in the late 1980s and 1990s, coaches and players figured out that leagues and officials prefer not to foul out more than one or two players in a game.
Colangelo described casino magnate Steve Wynn's eponymous hotel on the Strip as USA Basketball's home.
This was the last game under its current configuration as the basketball schools will break away from the football schools next season.
Other athletic facilities such as the Basketball Arena will be taken down completely, though leftover parts may be recycled and reused elsewhere.
And NESN, which shows heaps of other sports programming--such as college basketball and football, boxing and bowling--is likely to increase revenue much more.
Teams don't fly up and down the court 70 or 80 times, as in basketball, where mistakes can be ironed out over the course of a game.
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As AP Basketball Writer Jim O'Connell reports, Krzyzewski made sure at his news conference that everyone knew the rules are different for college programs than professional franchises.
Not that the New York Knicks should mind quite yet, but on one court Jeremy Lin has been torching his own team as badly as regular basketball opponents.
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But as in basketball, life occasionally affords a stunning comeback.
His hedge funds started losing money in the following years even as the basketball team won on the court and by 2009 Pallotta shut his Raptor Global hedge funds.
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An arena needs to be filled with fans so that it is sufficiently utilized the maximum number of days throughout the year, and Louisville has proven itself as a basketball city.
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From time to time, George brought in giant vegetables that he grew in a greenhouse, including an onion he cultivated which was almost as big as a basketball, its skin like parcel paper.
But the smartest kid in the school, the National Science Award winner should be getting as much attention as the basketball star. (Applause.) That's a change that we've got to initiate in our community.
"He has a tremendous pedigree as a basketball coach and will be an outstanding leader for Chicago's Big Ten team, and mentor for our student-athletes, " Jon Phillips, Northwestern's vice president for athletics and recreation, said in the university's statement.
But over the last several years, as the shuffling of teams has forced the Big East to expand to an unwieldy 16 teams, Boeheim said he's found himself not recognizing the conference that formed in 1979, as a basketball-dominant league based in the northeast.
It was disappointing that the Moseley game was called off but it allowed guys who have been playing regularly to let the niggles heal, put some quality training in and have a week away from waking up on a Sunday morning with the feeling of your head being used as a basketball the day before.
Mr Hanson was injured when caught up in a gang shooting and as a result started a basketball club as an alternative to guns, gangs or offending.
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