Thus, this relationship needs to be examined in other sports including soccer, volleyball, Ekiden (a long-distance relay running race on roads), basketball, and sumo wrestling because these sports include a significant relative age effect among Japanese male athletes [4].
By the aughts, though, the Knicks were on the road to basketball Chernobyl.
The state is now so blasé about having Hollywood folk around that the producers of "Glory Road", a basketball movie, had trouble finding enough extras to fill the arena.But what about the cost to taxpayers?
"While we're not totally there, we're headed down the same road as basketball and football".
MEMPHIS — Dave Joerger's road through professional basketball's minor leagues has finally landed him in an N.B.A. head-coaching seat.
Most people believed Lenny would leave for a name-brand prep school with a basketball road show revue.
Because each brand has a distinct feel, it is just another reason it is hard to play on the road in college basketball.
The evidence is everywhere: road rage, professional basketball players caught cussing on camera, cable news pundits, personal friendships disintegrating over a Facebook post on Obamacare.
Things have gone so well for Johnson that Boeheim said he expected him to leave for the N.B.A. after one year, another improbable destination after his rocky road through the basketball underworld.
Even if Louisville keeps him on, he'll have to endure a merciless razzing every time the Cards go on the road from college basketball fans, a class of people not known for their restraint.
In "Vaunted and Taunted" (March 3), Duke's J. J. Redick is quoted as saying, "There's just something wrong with the culture of playing on the road in college basketball today".
