In America I also studied basketball and American football and the fitness regimes and player-analysis methods they used.
"If our people studied calculus like we studied basketball," my father, age 91, once remarked as we drove past a packed inner-city basketball court at midnight, "we'd be running M.I.T".
When Mr. Kutsher left to study business at the Wharton School (and surreptitiously studied basketball as Mr. Chamberlain, another ex-Kutsher's bellboy, began his career with the Philadelphia Warriors), his parents turned the rite of passage into an advertising gimmick.
The way he portrayed it, his life during those years revolved around studying and basketball.
Peter Tierney of CBSSports.com has spent time studying actual basketball phenomena and gives you a guideline on picking upsets.
Kaevats studied his basketball sneakers for a moment, narrowed his eyes under his crown of spiky hair, and lifted his burning cigarette with a smile.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has so far sent about 500 senior associates and managers — most of them "partners in the making," as they were described to me — to study Duke basketball in a "metaphoric context" to help them reach personal and professional goals.
The shooting has been met with an outpouring of anger on social media, where people posting new pictures of the victims studying and playing basketball claimed they had been "murdered execution style".
