Sentence examples for basketball popularity from inspiring English sources

But in a city with three major sports but no N.B.A. team, the Dukes now trail the University of Pittsburgh in college basketball popularity.

Rivera, Cruz and Hernandez were all quick to say that football still had a long way to go in matching baseball and basketball in popularity among Puerto Ricans.

As basketball's popularity grew, financing for park programs was cut, and the advent of travel baseball priced out many youths from low-income families.

At the end of the 1980s, football was challenged by basketball, whose popularity soared after Spain won the silver medal in the sport at the 1984 Olympics.

Since the early 1980s, basketball's popularity in Egypt has risen thanks to the achievements of the men's national team, which won the African championship in 1983.

But both players are quick to say that football still had a long way to go in matching baseball and basketball in popularity among Puerto Ricans.

Ueberroth said that basketball's popularity could grow rapidly in India because of the sport's relative simplicity and the fact that a court can be created almost anywhere one can hang a hoop.

Because of basketball's popularity, failing to adopt some rule that stems the tide will flood the nation with this lesson in a way that baseball, hockey, golf and tennis never could.

While basketball's popularity in Asia can partly be attributed to the NBA's creation of a $2.4 billion industry in China and characteristics such as the league's logo on milk containers in Inner Mongolia, the sport's rise in countries across the world is also apparent (while not as rapid and widespread).

Because of their popularity basketball grew from a fill-in sport to a major attraction.

But it remains little known in the United States, where it began in the late 19th century as a women's version of basketball before gaining popularity in Britain and spreading to British colonies.