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    ensures success. As the captain of my Freshman Basketball team and now as the Head Manager of my Varsity Women’s Basketball team‚ this lesson has been learned over and over again in the past four years. I carry this with me everywhere I go. In each organization I am a member of and with every experience‚ focusing on family‚ consistency‚ and common goal is what has allowed me to motivate others as a leader to realize success. Hundreds of basketball games has taught me that success is not

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    toward my right side. Not at anyone or anything unless they got in my way but that wouldn’t matter much because I would aim fairly high….I guess it would just release some tension.” However‚ attorney for the Paducah families‚ Jack Thomson claims that Basketball Diaries should be held responsible for Michael Carneal’s “spiraling decent into depression” Carroll counters the attorney’s argument‚ claiming that answers are being looked for in the wrong places. Carroll claims that it would not have been “boyish”

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    Bill Russell I am writing about a famous African American professional basketball ball player named Bill Russell. Born in Monroe‚ Louisiana on February 12‚ 1934 as William Felton Russell. Mr.Russell was very educated‚ he attended the university of San Francisco. He was drafted in the NBA in 1956‚ by the St.Louis Hawks and was later trade to Boston Celtics. Bill Russell accomplished many things in his basket ball career and considerd the greatest defensive center to play In the NBA.

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    When I watch basketball on television‚ it is a common occurrence to have an announcer state that some player has the hot-hand. This raises the question: Are Bernoulli trials an adequate model for the outcomes of successive shots in basketball? This paper addresses this question in a controlled (practice) setting. A large simulation study examines the power of the tests that have appeared in the literature as well as tests motivated by the work of Larkey‚ Smith‚ and Kadane (LSK). Three test

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    I was the first freshman to make the varsity basketball team in six years. My freshman year season was excellent I helped my team reach the semifinals but we ended up losing that game. Sophomore year came around and the season was just a few months away I had got better and mentally ready for the school year and the season but overnight all of that would change. In late October had just got home from the gym playing basketball with my friends my day was going marvelous it was late at night and I

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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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    thunder because i believed in the star players that played on the team. They are really good and have a good future ahead in the NBA. basketball is my favorite sport that’s why i believe in in the thunder so heavy. Everytime i watch the thunder i get excited and have a good day. I also know that me watching certain players on the thunder will give me a boost in my basketball game because they are really good. If i keep watching i can learn some new things on and off the court from the star and role players

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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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    In my sophomore year of high school I was faced with adversity on the basketball team. The coaches showed a lot of favoritism and I was not one of their players they favored. They would put me in positions to fail‚ like placing me as a Center when I was more suited to play Small Forward or Power Forward. They expected me to not perform well and wanted to punish me and take playing time away‚ but instead I worked hard and performed well enough that they could not afford to keep me on the sidelines

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    always have to believe in yourself no matter what. I used to think that I couldn’t score over 22 points in a basketball game‚ but I soon learned otherwise. If you don’t give your all‚ you’ll never learn your true limits. On a beautiful warm fall day‚ my basketball team was looking forward to our game against KIrby later that evening. We were all excited to get to play our first basketball game of the season. I was already thinking of the role I would play in the game‚ which would be point guard.

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