As a part of America's higher education system, college basketball plays and important role in diversity, equality, fairness and inclusion, and will continue to do so in the future".
"When the UK plays an active leading role in Europe we can achieve enormous things which we simply could not on our own," Clarke said.
Sean Penn, who plays a jazz guitarist in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, is also nominated.
He is the author of seven acclaimed plays.
"There will be national plays and performances staged.
"I understand that basketball plays 80-something games, baseball plays this many games, soccer plays that many games, but this is a sport that's most-watched in America.
His tenure has also brought NT Live, the scheme through which plays from the National are broadcast live in cinemas in Britain and overseas.
I think you can do what you like with these plays.
There is interesting follow-up work to be done here on teachers', parents' and peers' responses to poorer children achieving grades above expectations, and indeed how this plays out across gender, ethnicity and for pupils with additional needs.
I remember the concerts and plays, and working in the kitchens, but I do not remember sleeping.
Whoever plays, and whoever they play against, that seems to be the template for Chelsea this season.
