N.B.A. Explores Opening Developmental Academy
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N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern and Adam Silver, the deputy commissioner, toured IMG Academies in Florida for ideas on how to create a European-style basketball academy for young, elite American players.
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Program focuses on developing running, passing and catching skills, as well as teamwork and self-confidence.
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SALVO, North Carolina  - A newly formed group of  athletes' representatives are meeting in Miami this week to  seek a larger voice in the development of athletics.
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Metro opened its newest station yesterday amid hopes that it would spark more economic development in the city&#39;s Northeast commercial district along Florida and New York avenues while serving residents in the nearby, emerging neighborhoods.
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By Joseph Ascenzi  Clatchy-Tribune Business News  Feb. 19--Eighteen months after construction began on the Claremont Village expansion, the project has yielded its first business opening.
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The International Cricket Council are to open a global cricket academy designed to improve standards of lesser nations.
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Newfields, N.H., is an unlikely place for a basketball clinic by a former professional player, but that is exactly what is going to take place Saturday when former NBA forward Dwight Davis conducts the first Newfields Youth Basketball Clinic at Newfields Elementary School.
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Some of the new academies set up with help from business have better GCSE results than the schools they replaced.
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The academy is finally catching on to the results of common sense, money-making principles.
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Boston University is touting a new business and technology incubator that offers free space to entrepreneurs -- as long as they agree to offer lectures about their innovations to students at the school.
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Ten trainee construction workers are to start work at the first of the government's employer-led skills academies.
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Four of the leagueâs nine teams have been ranked in nationwide polls this season, and at least eight players are expected to join N.C.A.A. Division I basketball programs next season.
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The Heat Basketball Academy in Martinsville, Va., takes a new approach to prep basketball -- the games are required and the classes are optional.
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As impressive as Boston College's record has been this hockey season, coach Jerry York believed there was plenty of room for improvement. He changed his lines, hoping something would click. Last night against Northeastern at Matthews Arena, the changes paid off.
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Millionaire businessman's cash goes to academies.
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WESTFORD -- At the beginning of this season, Nashoba Tech boys' basketball coach Rob Beaudette and his assistant coaches challenged their team: If they won 16 games, they could shave their coaches' heads at center court.
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As educators look for ways to move to smaller high schools, Manhattan Theater Lab is starting out with just over 100 freshmen.