String JSonString = readURL("//my URL is here");
JSONArray s = JSONArray.fromObject(JSonString);
JSONObject Data =(JSONObject)(s.getJSONObject(0));
System.out.println(Data.get("name"));

{
"sports": [
    {
        "name": "basketball",
        "id": 40,
        "uid": "s:40",
        "leagues": [
            {
                "name": "National Basketball Assoc.",
                "abbreviation": "nba",
                "id": 46,
                "uid": "s:40~l:46",
                "groupId": 7,
                "shortName": "NBA",
                "athletes": []
            }
        ]
    }
],
"resultsOffset": 10,
"resultsLimit": 10,
"resultsCount": 1,
"timestamp": "2013-11-18T03:15:43Z",
"status": "success"
}

JSONObject root = new JSONObject(yourJsonString);
JSONArray sportsArray = root.getJSONArray("sport");
// now get the first element:
JSONObject firstSport = sportsArray.getJSONObject(0);
// and so on
String name = firstSport.getString("name"); // basketball
int id = firstSport.getInt("id"); // 40
JSONArray leaguesArray = firstSport.getJSONArray("leagues");

// and so on, you can process leaguesArrays similarily

String jsonString = readURL("//my URL is here");
JSONObject result = JSONObject(jsonString);
JSONArray sports = result.getJSONArray("sports");
JSONObject sport = sport.getJSONObject(0);
System.out.println(sport.getString("name"));

{"name" : "Robin", "rollnumber" : "1"}

[{"name" : "Robin", "rollnumber" : "1"}, {"name" : "Mark", "rollnumber" : "2"}]

import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class extractingJSON {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws JSONException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        String jsonStr = "{"name":"SK","arr":{"a":"1","b":"2"},"arrArray":[{"a":"1","b":"2"}]}";
        JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(jsonStr);
        String name = jsonObj.getString("name");
        System.out.println(name);

        String first = jsonObj.getJSONObject("arr").getString("a");
        System.out.println(first);

        first = jsonObj.getJSONArray("arrArray").getJSONObject(0).getString("a");
        System.out.println(first);



    }


}