His immediate challenge, and he stresses the word challenge, was to stabilize the basketball team.
At Bay Ridge Prep, students who try out for the basketball team make the basketball team.
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Volcker went on to Princeton, where he was a reserve on the basketball team.
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Floyd was on the basketball team, Fred played hockey, so they were out most evenings at practice, they said.
Grousbeck and his team recognized that the basketball team had an undervalued asset in its local television rights.
Along with the basketball team, trendy restaurant and Broadway show, Jay-Z now has a website.
The basketball team has long played in the shadow of cross-town rival UCLA, which hired Steve Alford from New Mexico on Saturday.
Still, it might not be the basketball team that Ilitch is after.
In the meantime, he is also hoping that the multi-ethnic successes of the basketball team will rub off in ways well beyond sport.
In high school, he was valedictorian and president of his class, played quarterback for the football team and point guard for the basketball team.
Federal officials are involved because the alleged victim claims to have crossed state lines with Mr. Fine and the basketball team, from New York to Pennsylvania.
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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With Michael Jordan's jersey hanging from the Dean Smith Center's rafters and the basketball team a perennial contender for the national championship, basketball is the cornerstone of the university's athletic department.
Thank you, Principal Schaeffer, for letting us hold this little assembly here at the high school. (Laughter.) The principal was bragging about both the basketball team and the football team.
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One supposes it's difficult for a 17-year-old to take business trips while keeping up a 4.0 average at Solomon Schechter School, playing point guard on the basketball team and laying out the school yearbook.
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.
Last season, after decades of fielding mediocre basketball teams, Harvard was ranked among the nation's top 25 in basketball, and at the heart of the basketball team's success was a program dogged by controversy ever since Harvard hired former University of Michigan coach Tommy Amaker in April 2007.
At West Point the origins of the cheating scandal were traced to a small group of football players, and at Harvard the most noteworthy early withdrawals from the school are those of the senior co-captains on the basketball team, which in recent years has been faced with troubling questions about its players and coach.
Paulus, national player of the year in high school as a quarterback for Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse and also a star on the basketball team, opted to play point guard at Duke for coach Mike Krzyzewski and after receiving his undergraduate degree enrolled at Syracuse as a graduate student for his final year of eligibility.
And they are not the worst basketball team in the NBA. No way.
And I believe being in the center of Silicon Valley, the Warriors will be the first basketball team of the 21st century, in terms of the types of players they have, the coach, the strategy, the tools that they use, the arena, the facilities that the fans have.
In Sacramento, the professional basketball team plays in the Arco Arena, named after a company that no longer exists.
The Raptors basketball team is putting up a new downtown arena, the Maple Leafs ice hockey team another.
The men's basketball team collected the team award after winning bronze in China.
He and owns the Seattle Seahawks football team and the Portland Trailblazers basketball team.
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The 62-year-old also owns the Denver Nuggets basketball team, the National Hockey League's Colorado Avalanche and Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids.
My 14-year-old son Jordan did not make the JV basketball team in his high school.
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In 1972 the American basketball team were denied a gold in dubious circumstances.
"It's just a massive time-saver, " said Patrick Geil, head coach of the boys basketball team at San Joaquin Memorial in Fresno, Calif.
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Calls for a rematch between the US basketball team and their Russian rivals following that "defeat" in Munich 30 years ago never happened.
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