Sentence examples for competition basketball from inspiring English sources

Under the glare of competition, basketball players cannot find the basket and golfers cannot find the pin.

Gymnastics, Greek wrestling, ice skating (no hockey... sorry!), cycling, tennis, logging/lumberjack competitions, basketball, diving, swimming and the like might be good starting places.

"It was a great team win," Connecticut Coach Jim Calhoun said of the Huskies, who had lost by 18 points to underdog St. Bonaventure on Dec. 28 and by 12 points to eighth-ranked Maryland on Dec. 3. "It's what competition and basketball games are about; a great basketball game.

Just like the slam dunk competition in basketball.

They include better job opportunities outside sports and competition from basketball, reggaetón music, multiplexes and malls.

Teams in other countries can offer prestige, pay, or pro-level competition to basketball prospects.

Once the only global game in town, soccer has recently gained competition from basketball.

Athletics Southwestern is a member of the NCAA Division III competition in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, and track and field for men and women; men's baseball and lacrosse, and women's softball and volleyball.

The music blasting through the loudspeakers, the immense machinery for vending food and souvenir gimcracks, the sky boxes isolated by their private concourse from the hoi polloi…all this may be baseball as it has to exist in order to meet the competition of basketball and video games and heaven knows what else, but it is not baseball as I once knew and loved it.

"We don't stay in the village because we don't feel it's the best way to prepare for competition," USA basketball spokesperson Craig Miller told the Associated Press.

The fall season sees competition in basketball, flag-football, team handball, soccer, ultimate disc, and wrestling; while the spring season sees competition in combative grappling, floor hockey, orienteering, flicker ball, and swimming.