Basketball is probably my favorite sport to be in. This is not because of the actual game as much as being part of a team so close‚ we were almost like brothers. I had originally joined basketball in 6th grade to make friends and have fun. That is what it was like during that grade. When 7th grade rolled along‚ the 7th and 8th grade is one team and we would go to each other’s games‚ things started to get serious. We loved our coach‚ he pushed us hard to be good players but at the end of the day‚
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Dad‚ I was wondering if you could get me a basketball hoop so I can play my favorite sport at home. Some of the reasons you should get me a basketball hoop is that I don’t like walking 5 blocks to go to the community basketball hoop‚ it can help me with exercising my body and doing a workout‚ and some of my friends can come over to my house to play on my very own basketball hoop. The reason that I don’t want to walk five blocks to the community basketball hoop is that sometimes there could be another
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autumn forest. The further down the path‚ the darker the color‚ the heavier the tone‚ the smoother the texture. In the poem Old Men Playing Basketball‚ B. H. Fairchild suggests that there is an eventual downfall to all lives; they try to reclaim their competence but doing so only evokes the nostalgia for the lost youth. Through the scene of old men basketball‚ Fairchild captures the details of the old men’s unfitness and laments on the speed that life decays at and the inabilities that comes with
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Outline Topic: Basketball Central Idea: inform the history‚ rules and development of basketball Thesis Statement: The game of Basketball is very exhilarating and will keep your adrenaline plumbing. Communication and Strategic thinking is the key to teamwork. Hence you will need the help of your teammates to deliver a good pass to you to be able to score the ball into the basket. I. Introduction “To be successful you have to be selfish‚ or else you never achieve. And once you get to your
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who liked basketball and taught myself how to play‚ with the help of YouTube of course. I played basketball since I was a child. I remember shooting granny style because I was too short and weak to shoot it normally. The ball would be full size and the ball would be bigger than my head. My parents were the sexist type and thought basketball was a boy sport‚ so they never let me sign up for city league or some sort to get taught by an actual coach. It was cruel. Throughout my basketball career‚ I
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popular kid in school everyone looking up to you being drop dead gorgeous‚ amazing at sports‚ and a bright future ahead of you‚ then waking up one day to have your entire life flipped upside down. I don’t know If any of you know someone with a brain injury or head trauma but I have been influenced by it my whole life. My Aunt Terri was in a horrible crash‚ she was comatose for over three weeks‚ and woke up with the mind of a toddler‚ her story is in nothing short of a miracle. When my aunt was 15
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with two older sisters: Teiosha‚ who played basketball at Pepperdine‚ and Portala‚ who played volleyball at CSU-San Bernardino.Although George idolized Lakers star Kobe Bryant‚he grew up rooting for the Los Angeles Clippers. George spent most of his free time playing basketball at the park or one-on-one against his older sister Teiosha. He did not play organized basketball until his freshman year at Knight High School. He played for the varsity basketball team his last three years of high school under
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Crossed Up: Does Crossed Hand/Eye Dominance Affect Basketball Shooting Percentage? Abstract Everyone ’s used to the idea that people are either right-handed or left-handed for particular tasks. That is‚ one hand is preferred (or dominant) over the other for a particular task. Did you know that people also have a dominant eye? This project is designed to look for consequences of having the dominant hand and eye on the same side of the body (uncrossed) vs. having the dominant hand and eye on opposite
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Basketball: a game that requires quickness‚ strength‚ intelligence‚ and focus on both the offensive and defensive end. It is difficult‚ though‚ to play this game and maintain these skills when you’re defending or being defended by the lightning-fast Sean Michael Frank. Sean Michael Frank‚ a 22 year-old basketball player from the island of Pohnpei‚ prides himself for his speed and quickness both offensively and defensively. “Give him an opening for a split-second‚ and he will make you suffer by blowing
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my life I have never really taken any chances and run away from them‚ rather than giving them a try. It was until my freshman year in high school when my attitude changed‚ from why even try to why not. Although I did not realize it at the time‚ basketball changed my life for the better. Through perseverance and hard work‚ I learned to not let fear or insecurity stop me from trying new things. Throughout my life I was never the athletic type and never tried to be due to my fear of failing. I was
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