Sentence examples for riveting basketball from inspiring English sources
And so there has been a bottleneck of sorts — that year of college play — that has made for some riveting basketball, especially at tournament time.
Washington, like much of the United States, was riveted by the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament.
Al Maleh recalls the late nights he would stay up back home in Damascus to watch American basketball games, riveted to the television screen admiring NBA players.
Knight Gets Off Easy ESPN's hourlong interview with Bob Knight last night was riveting as the embattled Indiana basketball coach challenged nearly every question about his anger put to him by Roy Firestone and Digger Phelps.
On the Internet, many have railed against the phenomenon of the James sweepstakes, wondering how people in such troubled times could be so riveted by the deliberations of a basketball player.
Viewers peering up at a minuscule monitor set at hoop height were riveted by the repeated passage of a basketball being snapped, as if by magic, from one invisible player's hands to another's.
But millions of Americans were riveted and moved by what took place on a basketball court.
The result is "Play Their Hearts Out," an often heartbreaking, always riveting exploration of the seamy underbelly of big-time youth basketball — and one of the finest books about sports I've ever read.
In a riveting game between the top programs in women's college basketball, Snow and Randall cooled off for the first time since Catchings went down with a torn ligament in her right knee on Jan . 15
On the first screen, ESPN showed an endless reel of basketball players flying through the air and dunking the ball; I was less than riveted.
