Dribbling – keep your eye on the ball but at the same time every so often look up to see surrounding players, you can either keep the ball close to your feet or kick it slightly ahead and run with it, using a change in pace or stopping and going method is also effective to get past players.…
Throughout the 19th century and during the early 20th century, America’s working class endured hazardous and unsanitary labor conditions. After a long day of work, industrial laborers would return to their homes that offered anything but comfort. Many of the workers, especially immigrants, lived in slums, where their needs were not met and disease spread easily. It took a group of journalist called muckrakers, such as Jane Addams and Upton Sinclair, to bring attention to labor and living conditions and make a difference. President Theodore Roosevelt coined the name muckrakers, because they “raked the mud of society” by uncovering and reporting the nation’s issues. Jane Addams cofounded Hull-House, which attracted reformers that were committed to social service, challenged boss rule and the…
Laughter, let downs, memories, and regrets are all aspects of life itself. Explaining these aspects is the hardest part. When is laughter present? When are let downs expected? Where can memories lead? How do these all affect someone in the long run? The poem “Schoolsville” does a great job of representing life itself. It points towards life in general and explains the comical, serious and memorable, then poignant parts of life.…
Basketball is something most people think they have to be skilled to play. Although this may be true,…
I have always love to play basketball. The swish when you make it just right,and the boom of the basketball hitting the floor “are sounds I love”. When I first started playing basketball, my mom and my couch Richard knew that I was expectational. I played with Richard for a few years, then one day he told us about this newspaper ad he saw for a team named “Eugene Fire”. My mom decided to check it out, so she called the coach, Jim. He said I probably won't make the team, but I believed I could. So I would try anyways.…
Many people look at baseball and see a slow-moving game with a bat and a ball, but it is so much more than that. What they do not fully comprehend is the strategic and mentally challenging aspects of the sport that make it special and complex. Baseball is a game filled with life lessons. It teaches you how to have a strong work ethic, be competitive, control the things that you can control, make a plan, and, most importantly, how to fail. As the great Ted Williams once said, "Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." Everyone fails, and everyone is thrown curveballs in life, but baseball helps us react to those curveballs and hit them out of the park.…
A primary concern of mine as a coach on the collegiate level is for each player to excel in the classroom and leave with a marketable degree at the end of her college experience. A sincere and conscientious student will be a sincere and conscientious basketball player. Each player will be a student first and an athlete second. No exceptions allowed!…
Who looks at a short Asian kid and says, “he’s going to be a basketball superstar when he grows up.”? The last time I checked, Asian people are pretty scarce in the NBA. Culture tells me that the only teams I’ll ever make are the math or chess team. The only arena I should dream of playing in is Carnegie Hall as the next musical prodigy. No one, not even my own family, expected me to play basketball. Even if there is a quiet voice whispering inside you to try the sport, why would you even listen to those whispers if everybody around you does not expect you to succeed at it? Stereotypes and cultural expectations have built a mountain between basketball and Asians, and I was not planning to climb it anytime soon. But on my first day of 7th…
The first men to ever play basketball were a bit skeptical of the game to begin with, and basketball was seen as just “[a]nother new game” (Fox 15). However, author Larry Fox says, “The game was an immediate success … Word of the game began to spread around the campus. Before long the secretaries found themselves playing in front of an audience of fellow students”…
The majority of athletes think failing is not losing a game or missing a basket; however, a player has failed once they quit or give up. Learning from the mistakes made and improving yourself is what should be done instead. If someone were to never mess up, how would they ever improve? The world will not end if you don’t win a basketball game, for it’s an opportunity given to give it another go. By learning that at a young age through sports, kids can apply it to everyday life in their future careers. When the ones who grew up learning this lesson fail a test or don’t get the promotion at work, they will know the right way to handle…
Have you ever felt you could not play basketball? Well now you can feel you can by doing the topics below.…
On the 20th of October, 1998, the world was blessed with a talented basketball player. (That would be me.) Growing up, I didn’t really have reasons to like basketball. My family did not play or have interest in any kind of sport, besides for my father turning on the Lakers game once in a while. So my influence had to come about from a mishap. A mishap I am very thankful for. The television was playing the Lakers game in my living room one night when my attention was caught by an astonishing performance by a player wearing the number 8. Shot after shot he would score with emphasis, scowling after each basket. This player was arguably one of the greatest professional basketball players still to this day, Kobe Bryant. It was at this moment that…
Since I was 7 years old, basketball has played an integral part of my life. I have devoted countless hours to not just a sport, but a passion, an outlet; to the game that I love. When I arrived at Bow Middle School as a fifth grader, my classmates and I would always look up to the 7th and 8th grade middle school basketball teams. Every year during winter carnival, the boys and girls teams would play a game in front of the entire school. Playing in that game became a dream and a goal of mine, but first I would need to make the team. For three years I developed my basketball skills, using my passion for the sport and desire to play in that game as motivation. When tryouts for basketball in 8th grade drew near, I knew I was ready. However a new coach would be at the helm this year. Our new basketball coach was also a coach for the youth football program. This resulted in numerous football…
All my life I have excelled at 2 sports, basketball and soccer. I have always put basketball on a pedestal above soccer, both because of my talent for the sport, and because I enjoyed playing it more. I never truly realized the potential I had until 9th grade, I loved my coach and my coach seemed to really believe in me as a player and a person. He seemed to think the sky was the limit for me, and he had me believing in myself as well. Before I knew it the season had flown by, and I had led my team scoring that year, as a freshman! My dream of playing college basketball had never been stronger and I had the determination to make that dream come true.…
I believe drugs can kill, but basketball will save me. I am a young adult, a teenager, a young man who has witnessed close family members deceased due to the presence of drugs. As I witness this, the game of basketball keeps me safe. I was born into a family, a loving caring family, one who did not think they were doing anything wrong because it was not around me. Soon enough I came to realize they would no longer be around me.…