Single-owner leagues have their precedents: Major League Soccer is owned by one entity, as was the old American Basketball League.
The Riders, who played in Loughborough from 2000-2004, have won their first three games in the 2012-13 British Basketball League season.
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The Birmingham A's District Basketball League was also his creation, for 50 basketball clubs for young people to play together throughout the city.
Now I know that some of those kids played in the local Parks and Recreation basketball league, where I help coach a team each year.
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He went on to spend four years playing in the NBA, the top basketball league in the world, with Orlando Magic, Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets.
In 2009, he set up and co-owns the AirAsia Asean Basketball League with Malaysian airline tycoon Tony Fernandes, meant to promote the sport of basketball across the region.
These guys have committed to go help us spread the word, along with a lot of athletes from Major League Baseball and National Basketball League and folks who play professional soccer.
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Americans Nurse and Finch cut their coaching teeth in the British Basketball League - Nurse with Derby, Manchester and Brighton and Finch with the Sheffield Sharks - before moving on to bigger things.
The NBA work stoppage delayed the start of the professional basketball league's regular season by about two months, cutting the combined number of preseason and regular season games to six from 40 a year earlier.
Although TCU, located an average of 1, 140 miles from the Big East schools, does not fit geographically and adds to an already overcrowded basketball league, the Big East had no choice but to beef up football.
Lawrence Hecimovich, perhaps most prominent for his work as deputy attorney for the city of San Francisco, lost a lawsuit he filed after the local Parent-Teacher Organization no longer allowed him to coach in the Encinal School after-school basketball league.
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After a final audition in front of celebrity judges including wrestler John Cena, ESPN personality Erin Andrews, and National Basketball League star Tony Parker, the pair won the opportunity to spend their summertime traveling around the country as product brand ambassadors.
He told the packed hearing room that Ms. White served as chairman of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, likes to "crack open a cold can of Bud" and was effective on the basketball court as a member of a New York women's basketball league.
Firm also owns the Alaska Aces, a contender in the Philippines Basketball Association league.
It has also bought the rights to games by the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, the NCAA men's basketball tournament and English Premiere League soccer, and such personalities as sportscaster John Madden , skateboarders Bam Margera and Tony Hawk , cyclist Lance Armstrong and political commentators Bob Dornan and Michael Reagan .
While it will never be confused with the drafts in the National Football League or National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball is clearly creating a comfortable niche for itself.
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This was National Junior Basketball the Little League of basketball.
Altogether, there are 24 financial services firms with their names on Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Basketball Association and National Hockey League venues, making it the largest sector in the business.
But the Bruins were a college team, so essentially they dominated minor-league basketball.
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John's, Seton Hall, Georgetown, Providence and Villanova joined forces in 1979 to form the core of a new basketball-centric league.
The White House event focused on successes already in place from Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and every other professional sports league in the country.
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.
The alleged investment scheme could prove to be embarrassing to the NCAA because Salinas was prominent in the Houston basketball scene, backing a summer league that attracted the best local basketball players.
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The study evaluated each of the top 20 teams in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League based on media market size.
The latest to join this league of basketball players slash fashion watchers is Chris Bosh who showed up at Lincoln Center on September 9 to attend the runway shows of General Idea and Cynthia Rowley.
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On August 7, 2012, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), and National Hockey League (NHL) instituted a lawsuit to prevent the State of New Jersey from sponsoring a desired sports gambling system.
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The deal is in line with recent National Basketball Association and National Football League contracts.
The reason is thatattendance at National Basketball Association and National Hockey League games has been flat for the past fouryears.
Prior to this, the ten biggest naming rights deals were all at stadiums that house NFL teams or arenas that jointly host National Basketball Association and National Hockey League teams.
Taking a page from college basketball, NBC and the league spread out the post season schedule among its flagship over-the-air network, NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus Network), CNBC and the NHL Network.
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