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    Phoenix high school JV girls’ basketball team Phoenix JV girls’ basketball team competes against other schools to get them ready for their conference games. (Henley‚ Klamath Union‚ Miasma‚ Hidden Valley‚ North Valley) The PHS girls’ basketball team went to Ashland high school for a practice game. These practice games get the teams ready for the season to come. There were no points counted when the phoenix girls had competed against the Ashland Grizzlies. It was just a practice game to get these

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    Pearls Before Swine Where you are can explain who you are. Why you are in a particular place and how you got there tell an outside observer about your decisions and the inferred motives behind those decisions. In “Ex-Basketball Player‚” John Updike introduces a character whose surroundings emulate his success in life: Flick Webb. Flick’s momentary success did not remain later in his life. Because setting partially defines a person‚ Updike uses it‚ along with tone and irony to remind readers that

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    Between 4th and 5th grade I joined a basketball team. I was in tryouts but I didn’t think I did so well. I ended up making the team though. Practices after practices‚ my first game took place. My friend John played basketball too; but we weren’t on the same team. It turns out we play each other for the first game. John said “do you want to ride to the courts with me?” I said “yea‚ what time do you want to meet me?” John asked “what time do you have to show up to the courts?” I replied “my coach

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    In the poem "Ex-Basketball Player" the author John Updike asserts the theme that some people spend their entire lives remembering the past instead of focusing on their present future. The character in the poem‚ a man named Flick Webb use to be a very good basketball player in high school. He seems to be caught up in what he was and not what he is now. His life is just passing by him because he is stuck in the past and not focused on what he is doing in his life now. He floats around on his job and

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    Have you ever felt you could not play basketball? Well now you can feel you can by doing the topics below. One topic is training‚ it is always good to be in good shape and have strength to be shooting threes. Training could be practicing shooting and passing to other teammates. Exercise would be skilled work like push ups‚ pull ups‚ and many more. Some exercises would be front squats‚ power lunge‚ chin up‚ and suicides.Training gives you strength and makes you a better player and get rebounds.

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    along with many other things. Emma Watsons speech about Gender Inequality informs everyone that it can end with the help from her program HeforShe and everyone supporting it. The speaker (and speech) chose to motivate the youth to improve society by using rhetorical devices and facts and evidence. One rhetorical device used was allusion. The speaker used this to motivate her audience by including a famous female figure that also agrees with Emma’s opinion about gender inequality. Emma says ‚ “Hillary

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    Regulation Shot Clock in High School Basketball Kobe “Black Mamba” Bryant‚ Kevin “Big Ticket” Garnett‚ Tracy McGrady‚ Rashad Lewis‚ Amar’e Stoudemire‚ and LeBron “King” James are some of the legendary basketball players to be drafted directly from high school to the NBA‚ one can only imagine what other talents might have emerged if the high school game was more like the professional league. A regulation shot clock would make the game more enjoyable for fans and closer to the professional or collegiate

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    The University of Connecticut’s Women’s Basketball team has become an icon for collegiate women’s basketball‚ and collegiate women’s sports in general. Since Geno Auriemma became head coach in 1994‚ the team has won eleven national championships‚ including the ones from the last four years. They won eleven in twenty-one years. The women’s basketball team has the record for most consecutive wins in college basketball‚ with ninety wins. They have won over twenty regular season championships. Still

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    “It’s not about being the best‚ it’s about being better than you were.” In 6th grade‚ my dad took me to a new basketball team tryouts. I was sitting in my room one day. When suddenly‚ I heard my dad call my name. “Mckenzie‚ do you want to tryout for an AAU basketball team‚ The Truth Basketball?” Obviously‚ I had agreed‚ then he told me that the tryouts were that night. Suddenly‚ right after he told me‚ I started to practice until we had to leave. Now‚ we had arrived at the gym‚ I was freaking out

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    National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college basketball players should be paid. This would solve a growing problem as NCAA basketball players quit school after the first year to go pro. If college basketball players were paid they would stay in school longer. Secondly‚ they deserve to be paid if the NCAA is making billions of them. Others say that college basketball players should not be paid because they are already being compensated through education. Adam Silver the current NBA commissioner

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