Sentence examples for professional star from inspiring English sources

But in 2010 not one of them was able to identify Jeremy Lin of Harvard as a future professional star.

Gallinari's father, Vittorio, a professional star in Italy, considered Bird his favorite player, so he made sure his son saw snippets of Bird's career.

He played a lot as a child and has told Gutman that he once went up against New York City playground legend and later professional star Connie Hawkins.

By traditional measures, he was a prime target: a ranked professional star in his sport whose downfall could serve as an example.

Since the NCAA expanded its signature event to 64 teams in 1985, just four of 108 15-seeds had advanced to the second round: Richmond beat Syracuse in 1991, Santa Clara (led by Steve Nash, a future professional star) outlasted Arizona in 1993, Coppin State shocked South Carolina in 1997 and Hampton edged Iowa State in 2001.

Just how an out-of-the-way city of 200,000 people became the 3-on-3 capital of the world says a little about Spokane's hoop madness (it is home to the former professional star John Stockton and to the college basketball powerhouse Gonzaga University) and a lot about a little city's penchant for pulling off big events.

Not even the professional star-watchers and tattletales can say for certain.

Baseball's All-Star Game remains the best and most legitimate All-Star game of all of the major professional star-studded exhibition games, but officials are concerned that the game has lost luster.

Padel has rapidly lost momentum because of a resurgence of tennis and a new generation of professional stars like David Nalbandian.

Neither the course nor the gilded professional stars performed up to their reputations, though in defense it should be noted that the weather could hardly have been worse.

For the past three years, former professional stars have been honored (mostly in person, but also posthumously) in their hometowns, usually at their high school.