"... Turquoise was chosen because the greenish-blue stone is indigenous to Arizona, copper because Arizona is one the nation's top copper-producing states and purple because it has become a favorite color for Arizona sports fans, thanks to the success of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns.

Beira-Mar Sport Club ( founded 1922 ) has a sports academy with various youth levels participating in all kinds of sports codes notably in Basketball and Futsal in both National and Provincial levels.

Basketball has evolved many commonly used techniques of shooting, passing, dribbling, and rebounding, as well as specialized player positions and offensive and defensive structures ( player positioning ) and techniques.

Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.

He has been an in-studio host for NBC's National Football League coverage and a play-by-play man for National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball coverage.

* The Notre Dame Men's Basketball team currently has the 9th most wins in College Basketball History.

Every Hall has its own Mess, Canteen, Basketball Court, Badminton Court, TT tables, Reading room ( for newspapers, magazines etc.

In college athletics, Kansas City has been the home of the Big 12 College Basketball Tournaments.

The show's success has led CBS Sports to schedule the Masters Tournament, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and other events leading into 60 Minutes and the rest of the network's primetime lineup, thus ( again, except on the West Coast ) pre-empting the Sunday editions of the CBS Evening News and affiliates ' local newscasts.

The city has held the 2005 NCAA Men's Basketball First and Second round and hosted the Big 12 Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments in 2007 ; the city will be the site again in 2009.

The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association ( ABA ) but changed its name to Rockets, because has made famous in the movie BASEKETball, they due not allow Larks in Denver.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

RIT has 24 men's and women's varsity teams including Men's Intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field and Wrestling along with Women's Intercollegiate Basketball, Cheerleading, Crew, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, and Volleyball.

Basketball has appeared in the regional finals on four different occasions, which is the last game before the state tournament is held in Charleston.

Girls Basketball has won a state championship ( A ) in 1982.

Muncie Southside High School also has had success in winning two Wrestling State Championships ( 1975 & 1990 ) a 3a State runner up in 1999 as well as a State Championship in the Class 3A Boys Basketball ( 2001 ).

The gym has also played host to the 2006 Indiana Class 3A Basketball Champs and the 2007 Class 4A Volleyball Champions

He has been named MVP more times than any other player in the history of the other three North American Major Professional Leagues ( Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, and National Football League ).

The men's basketball program has produced a number of NBA players, most notably Jeff Martin, Popeye Jones, and Joe Fulks, who is a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and has been credited with being one of the pioneers of the jump shot.

The school has won the Class D Girls ' Basketball Championship 4 times, most recently in 2008.

Clearbrook is the home of Clearbrook-Gonvick High School, which has had a history of strong sports teams over the last two decades, including trips to the Minnesota State High School Basketball Tournament, and the Prep Bowl semi-finals in football.

He had helped start the successful American Basketball Association and World Hockey Association, some of whose teams survived long enough to enter the established basketball and hockey leagues.

Not long after the destruction of the first high school, a northern Missouri legend was born: the annual Brashear Basketball Tournament.

Australians such as Luc Longley and Andrew Bogut have had long careers in the US National Basketball Association.

Among them were Moses Malone, acquired during their second season, who went on to a long and successful career in the NBA, culminating in enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Their stay in the First Division did not last long, and although they finished in 4th position with a 10-8 record, the Forgers were admitted to the professional top-tier British Basketball League to replace the withdrawing Guildford Kings.

While the head basketball coach at North Carolina State University, he won the 1983 NCAA Basketball Tournament against long odds.

Basketball has been a long standing tradition of Sha Tin College.

* Avondale Heights Basketball Team named the ' Flying Sparrows ' after long time great basketballer player Michael Jordan.

Press Maravich lived just long enough to see Pete selected as a possible member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, but not long enough to see him officially inducted in May 1987.

The school has an all-weather football pitch which is hired out regularly for football training by local teams, Netball, Basketball and Nine Tennis Courts, Cricket nets and long jump pits.

The Philippines was suspended by the International Basketball Federation on July 2005 after a long standing feud between the Philippine Olympic Committee and the BAP.

Louisville long ago hosted teams in the National Football League and Major League Baseball and fielded a strong franchise, the Kentucky Colonels, in the American Basketball Association before the ABA-NBA merger in June 1976.

The Los Angeles Lakers franchise has a long and storied history, predating the formation of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

Although there had been earlier attempts at professional basketball leagues, including the American Basketball League and the NBL, the BAA was the first league to attempt to play primarily in large arenas in major cities.

On February 15, 2005, NBA Commissioner David Stern announced that Donna Orender, who had been serving as the Senior Vice President of the PGA Tour and who had played for several teams in the now-defunct Women's Pro Basketball League, would be Ackerman's successor as of April 2005.

The last professional basketball team in Dallas had been the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association, which moved to San Antonio in 1973 to become the San Antonio Spurs.

Ever since, Knoxville's downtown has been developing, with the opening of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Knoxville Convention Center, redevelopment of Market Square, a new visitors center, a regional history museum, a Regal Cinemas theater, several restaurants and bars, and many new and redeveloped condominiums.

Basketball has always been one of the biggest sports for Bloomburg and is often times a community even.

In recent years the college's ice hockey team has been exceptionally successful, once winning second place in the intercollegiate cuppers tournament, with the Basketball team winning third place in its intercollegiate cuppers tournament the year before.

William Charles " Bill " Fitch ( born May 19, 1934 ) is an American former National Basketball Association ( NBA ) coach who has been successful in making teams playoff contenders throughout his coaching career.

The pair had previously been the founder and first president of the American Basketball Association, respectively.

The league was formed when basketball mogul Abe Saperstein did not get the Los Angeles National Basketball Association ( NBA ) franchise he felt he had been promised in return for his years of supporting the NBA with doubleheader games featuring his Harlem Globetrotters.

The Continental Basketball Association ( CBA ) was a professional men's basketball minor league in the United States, which has been on hiatus since the 2009 season.

Brillion Basketball Team has been successful of late.

The song's title is often thought to have been a pun on the name of the American capital city's National Basketball Association franchise, which later went on to change its name to the Washington Wizards in 1997, but The Clash have denied any knowledge of the basketball team previous to the song's release.

His NBC Basketball Theme has been hailed as one of the top three sports themes of all time.

Monmouth has been in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament in 1996, 2001, 2004, and 2006.

Ten players who played for Auerbach have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame -- Macauley, Ramsey, Cousy, Sharman, Heinsohn, Russell, K. C. Jones, Havlicek, Sam Jones and Bailey Howell.

His first, Basketball for the Player, the Fan and Coach, has been translated into seven languages and is the best-selling basketball book in print.

There have been numerous instances of teams winning three or more consecutive championships in the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball and Australian Football League most of which occurred prior to the advent of the term three-peat.

Apparently the copyright to the Bayrunners logo, name, and color scheme has been bought by a group proposing a revival, for the 2004-05 season, of the former All-American Basketball Association, a failed effort at a basketball minor league in the late 1970s ; whether this proposed league ever materializes and whether the Bayrunners will be part of it remains to be seen.

The 2012 men's championship marked the 75th edition of what has been tabbed College Basketball ’ s Toughest Tournament.

The Athletics have been to 26 National Superior Basketball ( BSN ) Finals.