Sentence examples for groundbreaking basketball from inspiring English sources

Although he was a groundbreaking basketball executive, Mr. Gourdine (pronounced gore-DEAN) had no athletic background.

Inside a tent in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon, the mayor and the governor mingled with celebrities and titans of business, nibbling knishes served in martini glasses, to celebrate the long-delayed groundbreaking of the basketball arena that will be the cornerstone of the Atlantic Yards project.

What is groundbreaking though is framing basketball and scoring in efficiency terms.

The Women's Basketball Coaches Association declined to screen "Training Rules," a groundbreaking documentary about a homophobic college basketball coach, at a coaches' conference in San Antonio during the women's Final Four tournament in April.

As of 2007, Shine on Sierra Leone has created and is actively behind two comprehensive educational programs, adult and computer literacy programs, a community recreation and basketball center, and a groundbreaking microcredit-lending program.

Riley's basketball life has spanned social groundbreaking in black and white (he starred for Kentucky's all-white team in its 1966 N.C.A.A.title game loss against Texas Western's all-black starting five) to the free-agent frenzy that played out like a digital manhunt, 24/7, until LeBron James declared, "I'm going to take my talents to South Beach".

Women's National Basketball Association WNBAA) star Brittney Griner made a groundbreaking announcement earlier this year when she came out shortly before the basketball association's annual draft.

Though giving no specific date, the flock plans to march and picket my current institution, the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, to protest what I and many others consider as the brave, courageous, and groundbreaking announcement of Derrick Gordon, a sophomore starter on our men's basketball team, when he came out as the first gay athlete in Division I men's college basketball.

Sean McManus, the chairman of CBS Sports, used the words "groundbreaking" and "landmark" when describing Aresco's negotiations for rights to the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament and the Southeastern Conference.

So groundbreaking!

Something groundbreaking.