Sentence examples for professional drafts from inspiring English sources

The package includes proposals on organied competition before an athlete enters college, entering professional drafts, signing contracts and competing with professionals.

And that has led some to take a critical look at the N.C.A.A.'s policy toward athletes who seek insurance against serious injuries, especially those players who are projected to be high selections in professional drafts.

It is like the other professional drafts, with teams choosing amateur players who break into wide smiles when their names are called, even if — rather than being from U.C.L.A. or Tennessee — they come from the Peterborough Petes, MODO Hockey Ornskoldsvik or the University of North Dakota.

"Speaking for the colleges, it seems to me they would be happy if there were football and basketball developmental leagues," Brand said, while reiterating his concern for the likely fallout, for what he called "the lost generation," young athletes manipulated by hustlers into professional drafts and out of the chance for a college education.

Should they remain in college or declare for the professional draft?

By nightfall, the first seven rounds of the professional draft had been completed, six quarterbacks had been taken.

The coach who had never lost an underclassman to the professional draft suddenly had three turn aside the potential of a Duke degree for the professional ranks.

During the 1980's, between 5 and 14 players a year left college early to enter the professional draft or went right from high school to the pros.

Jamal Crawford has been suspended from Michigan for writing a letter making himself available for the professional draft while still in high school.

"One and done" freshmen — or players who have no interest in college and are enrolling only until they turn 19 and become eligible for the professional draft — have been a hot topic in the runup to this weekend's Final Four.

The aim of this study was to determine speed characteristics of high-level American female soccer players and evaluate if speed could distinguish between players selected (n = 56) and those not selected (n = 84) in a professional draft.