"Go Pro" (sports), phrase when an amateur becomes a professional in sports
The following are the all-time stats leaders of the Greek Basket League, since it became fully professional, starting with the 1992-93 season.
Professional level coaches may have contracts for millions of dollars a year.
Ron Thomas (born November 19, 1950 in Louisville, Kentucky) played basketball at both the college and professional level in the United States.
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The Germany-based enterprise has received strong media coverage within the German sports community as the first adopter of Airbnb's business model to sports and for the professional athletes amongst its coaches.
The Best Angler ESPY Award has been presented annually since 2006 to the amateur or professional angling sport fisherman, irrespective of gender or nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year; although the award may technically be presented to an angler of any fish, in practice only bass fishermen are considered as nominees.
The Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the professional female tennis player adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year.
Christian Abbiati (born 8 July 1977 in Abbiategrasso, Milan) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Milan.
Elmer Torres Espiritu (born November 23, 1985) is a Filipino professional basketball player who plays for Barako Bull Energy Cola in the Philippine Basketball Association.
During the mid-1970s, Honochick was one of the many professional sports-related celebrities who became spokespeople for Lite Beer from Miller.
In professional sports, season creep refers to lengthening of the playing season, especially the extension of the MLB season to 162 games.
Vanger Conceição da Silva (born 27 January 1987 in São Luís), or simply Vanger, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Tombense.
Besides the Seattle Metropolitans victory in the Stanley Cup in 1917, this remained Seattle's only men's professional sports championship until the Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII.
AgonSwim produces swim suits for amateur aquatic sports using dye technology (dye sublimation) otherwise limited to use in professional sports like soccer, rugby union, cycling, and basketball.
Ference's association with environmentalist David Suzuki while in Calgary led him to create a carbon-neutral program for the NHL, which now includes over 500 players who purchase carbon offset credits to counteract the negative environmental impact of professional sports.
In 2008 Murstein with former baseball star Hank Aaron and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, both Medallion Financial board members, and former football star and Congressman Jack Kemp, now deceased, formed a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) which raised $230-million to buy a professional sports team.
Best Play ESPY Award, an annual award in the North American professional sports leagues
Pennington is a 12-time finalist and six-time winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors national writing award, writing stories about overuse injuries in young athletes, unethical medical practices in professional sports, a profile of ski racer Lindsey Vonn and Title IX abuses.
He was drafted in the 1953 NFL Draft in the 26th round by the Cleveland Browns as the 311th overall pick, but he did not play professional sports because of a career ending serious knee injury he suffered in the 1953 KU versus KSU football game.
Two professional sports facilities – the Family Circle Tennis Center and Blackbaud Stadium – are located on the island, along with a private country club, the Daniel Island Club, with golf courses by Tom Fazio and Rees Jones.
New York Black Yankees: In 2005, while working on a project documenting the histories of professional sports franchises in Rochester, NY, Brei discovered that the New York Black Yankees of the Negro National League had moved to Rochester for their final season (1948), a fact that had been erroneously omitted from every reference material for the ensuing 57 years.
He has spoken for several professional sports teams, and was a featured chapel speaker for the World Series.
Dixon became an owner of and investor in Philadelphia professional sports franchises, including the Eagles, the Phillies, the Flyers, and the Wings, but his most notable sports investment was the Philadelphia 76ers.
George N. Gillett, Jr. (born 1938), American businessman, professional sports franchise owner
He has partnered with Matt Young as a co-owner in a professional sports car racing venture, Matt Young Motorsports with Heath Pearce.
Only one other athlete in North American professional sports has achieved winning eleven championships in his respective league - Bill Russell of the NBA's Boston Celtics.
The 12th IASL Conference on Legal Aspects of Professional Sports was held from 23 to 25 November 2006 in Ljubljana.
Wilhelm graduated from Macalester College with a BA in history and began his career in professional sports as general manager of the Minnesota Thunder Pro Soccer Organization, then as a PR/Communications manager at the Seattle Sounders Pro Soccer Organization in 1998.
Kyra and her Weimaraners perform live acrobatic shows, and have appeared at professional sports halftime shows, and on television shows such as The Tonight Show, Ellen, ET, Worldwide Fido Awards, Animal Planet's Pet Star, Showdog Moms & Dads, and Disney’s Underdog stage show at the El Capitan theater in Hollywood.
In October 2004, FSN Chicago lost broadcast rights to all of the professional sports teams in the Chicago area when the owners of the Bulls, the White Sox, the Blackhawks, and the Cubs decided to end their agreement with the network and partnered with Comcast to form Comcast SportsNet Chicago.
The series sees Jason Gann reprising his role of Mark Wary from the The Wedge, a professional Sports star, that is a parody of controversial real-life sport stars Shane Warne and Wayne Carey.
He serves as primary diagnostic consultant for numerous professional sports teams including the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Red Wings, and Detroit Lions.
Following his Ohio career, he became one of a rare fraternity to play two professional sports – basketball with the Cleveland Rebels in 1946–47 and baseball with the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies over a 10-year career.
Beirne's professional sports management career includes the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs teams of the National Hockey League, the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association and the Toronto FC Major League Soccer franchise.
The Portland MSA is home to a number of professional and semi-professional sports teams, with the best known being the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, and the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer.
Before selling a majority of HSV to Omnicom in 2000, Horrow served as a consultant to the NFL, NASCAR, PGA Tour, and Major League Soccer, among countless other professional sports franchises.
While there is no exact definition of a scoring chance, the Elias Sports Bureau, who is the official statistics recorder of the National Hockey League and many other professional sports leagues, clarifies a scoring chance as an attempt or shot taken from a "home-plate shaped area" that goes from the top of the faceoff circles, through the faceoff dots, then angled to the goal posts.
McDonald has two cousins in professional sports - former NBA point guard Mike Bibby and Nottingham Forest forward Robbie Findley.
The club became a member of the bj league in 2010, becoming the first professional basketball team in the Sanin region to compete in top-tier competition, and second of any professional sports team after Gainare Tottori.
Bristol has a number of notable professional sports teams and a large number of active amateur sports clubs.
The Dayton Dragons are the first (and only) team in minor league baseball history to sell out an entire season before it began and was voted as one of the top ten hottest tickets to get in all of professional sports by Sports Illustrated.
Exhibition Stadium, a former professional sports venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the northern shore of Lake Ontario; site demolished in 1999
Cleveland Stadium, a former professional sports venue in Cleveland, Ohio; site demolished in 1996
More recently, the PBA brought trick bowling to the national spotlight by creating a trick bowling competition, similar to the All-Star games of other professional sports leagues, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, National Football League, and National Hockey League.
While they left boxing, they remained involved in professional sports as owners of the Chicago Blackhawks National Hockey League franchise.
In 2004 the club purchased professional sports gear for the first time to be able to spar with the very first opponent on the Polish arena - Fireballs Wielkopolska.
Gary Wichard (d. 2011), American college football player and professional sports agent
This is where Jonny Wilkinson and Graham Thorpe started careers in their professional sports as well as many sportsmen of some generations before such as Billy Beldham and Vic Cannings.