Basketball v.s. Football Basketball and football are both fun and popular sports. They are both played as a pro sport. To play the two sports you need to be competitive. You also can’t be afraid to hit somebody be because you have to fight for the ball. You also have to be in really good shape because you run a lot. In basketball‚ you play on a court. In football you play on a field. A football field is 120 yards long and 53.33 yards wide. A basketball court is 94 feet long and 50 feet wide. A
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Basketball Due: 12/1/10 Table of Contents History of Basketball Page 1 Rules/Fouls/Violations Page 3 Court Diagram Page 7 Bibliography Page 8 History of Basketball In early December 1891‚ Luther Gulick‚ chairman of the physical education department at the School for Christian Workers‚ now Springfield College in Springfield‚ Massachusetts‚ instructed physical education teacher James Naismith to invent a new game to
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Basketball vs Baseball Basketball and baseball are very popular. They are both in the top seven most watched sports in America. They both have the desire to win versus their opposing team mates. They also require the effort of teamwork to score points. They also have many differences like the fields they play one. One is a rectangle and one is a rhombus. Another way they are different is from the scoring. One gets scores by hitting a ball and running to touch bases. The other scores by shooting
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dreamed his “peach basketball” game would develop into the world biggest indoor sport. Basketball was made because of many reasons. For instance‚ when it’s too hot to play they used to go in their barn and nail a peach basket to the barn door at about 10 feet high. Although the original 13 rules turned into over 60. Major rules changed over years and still are‚ Including the number if players‚ court boundaries‚ and dribbling. Back when James Naismith invented basketball people couldn’t dribble
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Introduction Basketball is a athletic sport‚ usually played on an indoor court in which two competing teams of five layers each attempt to score by throwing an inflated ball so that it descends through one of two baskets suspended‚ at each end of the court‚ above their heads. The team scoring the most such throws‚ through field goals or foul shots‚ wins the game. Because of its continuous action and frequent scoring‚ basketball is one of the most popular spectator as well as participant sports in
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Basketball is a team sport‚ the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules. Usually‚ two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each width end. Basketball is one of the world’s most popular and widely viewed sports.[1] A regulation basketball hoop consists of a rim 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high mounted to a backboard. A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through
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had made all my shots and perfected every dribble move‚ not even bothering to take Sunday off because if I wanted to go somewhere with basketball‚ I would have to eat‚ sleep and breathe basketball. I refreshed the inbox of my email‚ and there it was‚ the decision that would make or break my basketball career. I had tried out for one of the most elite club basketball teams in Wisconsin‚ Oshkosh Flight 14’s team. I think I clicked on that email about five-hundred times in anticipation while it loaded
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evaluate how the various techniques a person can use to shoot a basketball at various distances and how it can affect the likely hood of making a basket. We predicted that a person was more likely to make it if they shot it over handed with some jump‚ so that the ball would have more force behind it. Procedure Step 1: Gather five willing participants and a good basketball. For this experiment we used five different people with average basketball skills. We tried to use more people‚ because it would be
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In college basketball‚ alley oops‚ fancy no look passes‚ and trash talking‚ are just some of the things we are now accustomed to today. Before 1991 though‚ it was all about making the simple plays just to get the ball in the hoop. Before the 90’s all players would wear long white socks and short shorts‚ but now baggy shorts that go to your knees and black socks are in style around the world. What caused these changes to take place? It was a group of college basketball kids called the Fab Five at
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to do the history of basketball because basketball has always been one of my favorite sports and basketball is an entertaining game to watch and to play. The game of basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith in 1839. The objective of the game back then was to throw the basketball into fruit baskets nailed to the lower railing gym balcony. Every time a point was scored‚ the game was halted so the janitor could bring out a ladder and retrieve the ball. The game of basketball has developed over time
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