The sport I will be study is basketball. Basketball is one of the few sports whose exact origin is definitely known. In the winter of 1891–1892‚ Dr. James Naismith‚ an instructor in the YMCA Training College (now Springfield College) at Springfield‚ Mass.‚ deliberately invented the game of basketball in order to provide indoor exercise and competition for the students between the closing of the football season and the opening of the baseball season. He affixed peach baskets overhead on the walls
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English 101 Dr. O’Haynes 6/30/13 Cause and Effects of Basketball Basketball‚ a sport of humble beginnings in 1891‚ is now one of the greatest and most watched sports in history today. It began because of a physical educational instructor asked for a new game for his students. By the early 1900s‚ basketball was played in roughly 90 colleges and has grown to be one of the best sports today. It has been played at by many who aspire to be the greatest sports athletes of their time. Many
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SOCCER PLAYER I remember that night; I was ten years old watching Jason Roberts score the winning goal in the state championship game‚ and right‚ then I knew I wanted to be a professional soccer player. I was in blue jeans‚ slippers‚ and a t-shirt‚ sitting on the bleachers kicking my feet back and forth in total excitement. All I heard was “ooooh’s” and “aaaah’s” from the spectators cheering there team on. I looked up at my mother and said “Mom‚ I am going to be the greatest soccer player”. People
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football team under the lights no matter what. Weather‚ distance‚ and access to a vehicle never stood in my way. Each player was a role model for me‚ and I wanted to be just like them. In my younger years of playing‚ I was just known as the “average” football player; I was slightly above “bad” but slightly below “good”. As I grew older‚ I started to talk to varsity football players‚ and I asked them about their own experiences. I wanted to know what they were like when they were my age and how they
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Jaynyah Bland Miss B. English1-2nd per. Dec 7. 2012 My Basketball Experience When I was in the 8th grade‚ I came back to public school. I was eager to make the basketball team. My friends who were on the team last year motivated me to tryout. So after school I went to the tryouts and surprisingly‚ I saw most of my friends there. The coach‚ coach Huff‚ had us do lay ups‚ free throws‚ running up the bleachers‚ three point line shooting‚ two point line shooting‚ and suicides. Then we had to
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Black on black violence is an enormous problem in the African-American community. Living in a neighborhood that is mostly minority‚ many may have witnessed a lot of black on black violence. The black on black violence has continued to arise in many communities and continues to be a problem around the world. Black on black violence is ignorant‚ and many black Americans should be coming together instead of killing one another. African-Americans people should be helping each other achieve in the world
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because it offers the fans competition with the best players and teams around the world. It is believed that competition could be limited with the league’s salary cap. Others say it gives small market teams a chance to compete. Most importantly it creates revenue to allow an increase in salary cap and players contracts. The National Basketball Association is a big corporation. It offers the public competition at its best. The National Basketball Association or the NBA consist of 30 teams around the
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Basketball is a very important sport to me because you get to meet new people and build a team with them. I love playing because when you’re playing you can blow off steam and take your anger out on the court. If I’m angry or upset I play basketball because that’s where I can go and take all my anger out without hurting anyone. Basketball also builds up your confidence‚ when you make a shot your confidence boosts up and that’s when you start to play better. Basketball also teaches you life lessons
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to put a lot of energy into basketball training if you want to make any progress in this sport. You have to work on your specific basketball skills‚ as well as developing strength and endurance. If you want to improve faster‚ you should try some of the training tips that follow. Any effective basketball training program must show you how to improve your endurance level. This sport requires very high levels of energy‚ and without this even great talent won’t be enough. So you must do training exercises
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murdered in the streets of London. Many victims die at the hands of members of their own community. Iti Awosika joins the heated debate about how we can protect our children. There has been an alarming rate of deaths amongst teenage black boys. For the past decade Britain has had the largest rate of teenage deaths amongst teenagers both black and white‚ however this number has been much higher of amongst teens of Black decent‚ may have questioned the reason for this with statements like’ I blame the parents’
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