Basketball is my favorite sport‚ and I am hooked on it. Not only a popular Olympic event‚ it is also a beneficial daily exercise to help people keep fit and have fun. The graceful basketball games have always been a favorite for the spectators‚ and they are always a crowd of pleasers. Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high mounted to a backboard at each end. A team can
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Persuasive Essay December 4‚ 2013 Word Count: 1073 “One and Done” For the past 7 years high school basketball players have had to be one year removed from high school and at least nineteen years of age if they have wanted to participate in the NBA draft. Before this time‚ high school basketball players had the option of leaving high school after their senior year in hopes of playing in the NBA. College was not a requirement for these athletes. This became very controversial when many players
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Product Category – Basketball Shoes Definition (Dictionary.com) Basketball - a game played by two teams of usually five players each on a rectangular court having a raised basket or goal at each end‚ points being scored by tossing the ball through the opponent’s basket. Shoe - an external covering for the human foot‚ usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above‚ at‚ or below the ankle. Basketball shoes are used when
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Critical Lens Essay 12/8/10 American poet Robert Elliot Gonzales once wrote‚ “A good many family trees are shady.” What he means is that parents do not always give their children what is most necessary to achieve in life. In Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike and Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller the main characters lack self-esteem and cannot fulfill their dreams primarily because of their lack of familial support. More specifically‚ the protagonists‚ Flick Webb and Biff Lowman‚ suffer
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More than Basketball At first glance‚ basketball may seem like an easy concept to comprehend. It’s pretty basic; two teams compete against each other to shoot a ball in a goal more than one another‚ scoring more points‚ thus winning the game. Simple enough‚ right? Well‚ basketball goes a little deeper than that. It is quite a bit more than what meets the eye and can even get a little complicated at times. However‚ sticking to the basics is what will be done in this essay for getting in depth would
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mindsets? When you have a fixed mindset‚ you believe that “your qualities are carved in stone” (Dweck‚ 2007‚ pg. 6). Someone with a fixed mindset is always trying to prove themselves over and over again (Dweck‚ 2007). Let’s take my situation with basketball for example. I played one year and decided that I was too short to play on a team. I had heard that short people couldn’t play well. I didn’t think I was capable of being on a team‚ and I decided to quit playing all together. Another person may
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Why is soccer not popular in the U.S.A? It’s not popular in U.S.A because of riots‚ player with one name‚ brutality‚ flopping objectivity‚ substitution‚ not enough scoring‚ the use of hands‚ the tie‚ and that they are not the best at it. Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/21488-top-ten-reasons-soccer-isnt-popular-in-the-united-states 2. Why soccer is called football in some countries? A journalist in The Time of London recently bemoaned the use of the Americanism “soccer”‚ but in
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In recent years soccer has been growing in popularity but so have trips to the emergency room (ER). In the article “Heads up: concussion risks more soccer players to visit the ER” by Associated Press. Kids are going to the ER because soccer can cause head injuries‚ sprains‚ and fractures. In the article‚ it states that soccer is a dangerous sport and causes kids to go to the ER more. Soccer attracts kids of all athletic. According to LaBella a doctor in an emergency room most of the injuries she
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Matte/page1/Soccer Assignment #1 – Expository Writing Piece Joshua 8/10/13 ENG 1D Mr. Rostek Matte/page2/Soccer Soccer the Sport of Kicking Soccer is the world’s most popular sport‚ played by 250 million players in over 200 countries. The game is played on a rectangular grass field with a goal net at each end and has a simple objective of putting the spherical ball know as the soccer ball in the opposing net with any part of the body besides the hands and the arms. Soccer is a great
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hundred years ago‚ the only soccer shoe fit for a King was a clumsy leather boot. For four shillings King Henry VIII wore a pair made by Cornelius Johnson in 1525 with pride. Four shillings today would equal about 100 dollars. Johnson was King Henry VIII’s personal shoe maker. Cornelius Johnson applied past knowledge of the injuries to create the soccer cleat and illuminated the world with the footwear. Cornelius Johnson created the first soccer cleat in 1525. “King Henry’s soccer cleats were made ankle
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