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    Bad Officiating Essay

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    Over my lifetime I’ve officiated a few sports in basketball‚ flag football‚ and judging track and field. In the future I don’t really plan on expanding my officiating resume. I’ve officiated basketball more times than any other sport so that is the one where I have my most experience and a brighter future in. When I officiate basketball games one issue I notice with not just myself but with other officiating crews is that its not always officiated fairly. This is a big issue in all of sports because

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    Young Westbrook was growing up with a basketball family. His dad Russell Sr. was a Basketball star taught Westbrook how to play basketball at the age of five. Westbrook’s mom also taught them how to play hoops and became the first mother to teach their son to play basketball. Westbrook was attracting little attention being 5’8’’ freshman in High school in Lawndale‚ and the following year he endured a personal tragedy when teammate died after a pickup game. Westbrook played his way into the starting

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    Ray Allen Biography

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    Ray’s girlfriend‚ Rosalind Ramsey announced that she was pregnant and that they would be having a baby. This made ray want to take his game to a whole new level. He wanted basketball to be his way to take care of his family. In 1944‚ Ray arrived on Storrs Campus to make his first appearance on USA basketball team at the Olympic festival in Colorado. Ray played for the eastern team and led all players in points and rebounds. He was then selected to the all-fest team. After his highschool

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    Carmelo Anthony Biography

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    cancer when he was only two years old. Carmelo and his family lived in Friona‚ Texas for two years before they moved to Baltimore in 1992. The family lived in the Druid Hill section of West Baltimore‚ which is where he began playing the game of basketball. During the summer of 2000‚ he grew five inches and started to make a name for himself in the town by winning the 2001 Baltimore Sun’s metro player of the year‚ as well as Baltimore Catholic League player of the year. After a very successful

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    orphanage director‚ Stan Bittleman‚ after each home game of the Los Angeles Knights. Calvin meets the team’s coach‚ who is impressed by Calvin’s knowledge of basketball and honesty about the chocolates‚ and offers Calvin tickets for the next game. Calvin obtains a pair of old sneakers from a thrift store reportedly used by a great basketball player when he was a boy. The shoes have the initials MJ on them‚ so Calvin thinks they belonged to Michael Jordan. Calvin’s sneakers are taken by a bully named

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    There are many positions in basketball to explain but I am going to explain one position. The position i am going to explain is the point guard the other positions are shooting guard‚small forward ‚ and center. There are 5 people on the court so it doesn’t get to out of hand. The point guard plays offense and defense. The point guard plays on top of the key on offense to get the points for his team or runs plays to score a basket another way. He calls out plays so they can get a open shot against

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    Lebron James

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    Lebron James‚ a NBA player for the Miami Heat is recently all the talk in sports news‚ but why? I think it is all just a lot of hype for no reason‚ I mean all this publicity for a single basketball player seems kind of outrageous. Miami’s season tickets were sold out after He made the trade to the Heat. Who buys season tickets to see one player? People really thought that he was going to change that team and make it an unstoppable force. He has taken advantage of this attention and banked off of

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    Girard Visit Report

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    girard in about second grade. This town girard is smaller than other areas but it is unique in its own way. First it has an area with a grocery store fast food places like dairy queen‚ when you continue down on Main street on that road there is a basketball court and a few other places like a bar‚ faulkner’s‚ and a bank. They’re not the best you will see throughout your life but the people that work are kind and you can be very personalized with them because they do not get hundreds of customers a

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    LOVE

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    people can not get a significant achievement without practice. Levitin mentions that even one is equipped with brilliant talent‚ he also has to practice since “ practice makes perfect‚” which I think is totally right. Micheal Jordan‚ the best basketball player

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    Topic: basketball Thesis: I think basketball is the best sport to play. It can contain many fun things to do. Stephen curry is so fun to watch so is Lebron James they both are great basketball players and entertaining to watch. Intro Paragraph: Oh hello there I didn’t see you. Have you ever seen Lebron James or Stephen curry play basketball? They are two of the greatest players in NBA they make insane plays. Stephen curry has the best shooting percentage he barely misses the basket on the

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