“Ex-Basketball Player‚” by John Updike is the poem that struck me this week. It is about a man who once had great potential but never followed through with it. Flick Webb is the focus of this poem; he was a basketball star in high school quite some time ago‚ but nowadays he merely pumps gas at a local station. The first stanza provides the readers with geographical information about the location of the gas station. “Pearl Avenue runs past the high school lot‚ bends with the trolley tracks‚
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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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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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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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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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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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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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quarter. “Hurry in. C’mon C’mon” screamed my coach hurrying to give us wisdom on what to do in our situation. We were up twelve with the final quarter the only thing keeping us—Rocky River High School— away from the title of New Jersey State Basketball Champions. Our team had been favorites to win in three out of my fours years of starting as the high school shooting guard. Our previous seasons had ended in disappointment from our captain getting injured; to losing the last year in a pitiful fashion
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WOW‚ how did he make that pass. You might have said that if you seen Jason Williams play a game of basketball. Jason was born in Belle‚ West Virginia. He and his family lived in a trailer which was on the property of the high school he attended. Luckily for him‚ his father was a state trooper so he had the keys for the gym‚ so he could go and play basically any time he wanted to. By the age of four Jason was becoming an exceptional ball handler‚ and before the age of seven he made plans of being
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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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