My father actually refereed some of his high school basketball games some 30 years ago.
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James played high school basketball in Ohio, so his high school coach made the sentimental case for Cleveland.
No longer does every athlete aspire to be the high school basketball star.
The All-Star center, who grew up and played high school basketball here, missed 12 of the final 15 games of the regular season.
Despite all the changes, I would still argue that Indiana high school basketball, at its soul, is much different and more intense than anywhere else.
By his senior year, he was ranked as the second best High School basketball player in the USA. Some kid named LeBron James was number one.
Lukas was thoroughbred racing's first organization man, a former Wisconsin high school basketball coach who brought the principle of "flooding the zone" from the court to the race track.
In particular, the NCAA has banned high school basketball tournaments (except for those events sanctioned by a state association, which basically means postseason tournament games), and 7-on-7 elite football tournaments.
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To many, Palin's iconic status is well-deserved, considering that the high school basketball star, former beauty queen and television journalist rose from Wasilla City Council member to Alaska's first female governor in less than 14 years.
The first film, about a high school basketball star who falls in love with a girl and is torn between his on-court duties and his secret yearning to sing duets with her, was seen by 170 million people around the world.
Think about the incomparable intensity of first love, the never-to-be-recaptured glory of the high-school basketball championship.
Ronnie Chalmers, Mario's father, spent 22 years in the Air Force and coached Mario's high-school basketball team in Anchorage, Alaska.
Coming home exhausted after high-school basketball practices, my Mother frequentlymet me with a platter of freshly fried dried apple pies and a refillable glass of milk.
He played high-school basketball about 30 minutes from the Georgia Dome, the site of next weekend's Final Four, where Louisville travels this week for the NCAA tournament's national semifinals.
Manuel said his educational journey includes nearly 200 credits from five different schools, including a one-year stint straight out of high school playing basketball at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo.
Ware, a sophomore from the Bronx who averages 4.6 points per game as a reserve for the top-seeded Cardinals, played high-school basketball 30 minutes from the Georgia Dome, the site of next weekend's Final Four.
Last March, in San Antonio, Alamo Heights High School defeated Edison High School in a basketball game.
He was a standout high-school high jumper and played basketball at a junior college nearby, in the late nineteen-eighties.
After spending an entire summer perfecting his game, he tried out for his high school's basketball team.
Mr. Staley coaches the Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School girls' basketball team in South Carolina when he isn't teaching economics and government.
It escalated when the teen, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound high school football and basketball player, wrestled the 5-foot-6 Drayton into a head lock in the kitchen.
He wasnt a big guy -- just 5-foot-10 -- but he became a star basketball player in high school.
He overcame a clubfoot to become a high-school standout in football and basketball, and he played college football at the University of Arkansas.
During his first high school semester the coach of the basketball team sits him down and tells him that in order to be a pro one day, he is going to need to focus on one sport and give it his all.
My 14-year-old son Jordan did not make the JV basketball team in his high school.
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Montana, you see, played basketball at his Pennsylvania high school.
When the 49ers were drafting a quarterback in 1979, Walsh liked a skinny guy whom the other coaches had slammed as being too weak-armed for the NFL. But Walsh knew this quarterback had been an all-state basketball point guard in high school.
In the U.S., athletes are not allowed to go pro until they have been out of high school for three years ( except in basketball the number is one), so college sports is the only way for physically gifted kids to earn money from sports.
In light of the 107-2 debacle, the Indiana High School Athletic Association is looking into whether girls basketball should have some sort of mercy rule.
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For years, Tammy Lusinger, head coach of the girls' basketball team at Mansfield Summit High School in Arlington, Texas, had a favorite play called "Bama" in which the girls cleared out one side of the court then set up a series of screens to free a player for an open shot.
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