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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Year ago‚ National University snatched away the hopefully 20th victory of the FEU Men’s Basketball Team. Would they achieve the 20th crown this UAAP Season 78 because 6 stars of the team are on their last year of wearing their FEU jersey. How they plan to make their final push before leaving FEU/UAAP? Al Francis Tamsi‚ Roger Ray Pogoy‚ Alejandrino Antonio “Achie” Iñigo‚ Jr.‚ Russel Escoto‚ Christian Michael Tolomia‚ and The King Tamaraw‚ Rey Mark Belo. And before they puts down their FEU jerseys
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I believe that the Professional Women’s Basketball association has are the price of tickets for each game. The average per ticket is lower than the NBA‚ according to StubHub. The reason why tickets are lower in the WNBA is because of less amount of advertising compared to the NBA. The objective of having lower prices in the WNBA is to get as many people to the games in order to bring more revenue. Also the numbers of teams in Professional Women’s basketball are slim. There are currently only 12 teams
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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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all-star basketball team playing at the Target Center as incoming 8th graders? We knew we would face some hard competition‚ but we were ready for it. State was our next big competition for basketball‚ after qualifying at South Qualifier. We practiced all the time‚ and were getting prepared to face Newell-Fonda‚ 1st place at North Qualifier. April came around and it was the weekend of state. We were excited and nervous at the same time. We played Newell-Fonda first. They were great at basketball and were
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Here is your Chino Hills basketball starting line up; Lonzo Ball‚ Gelo Ball‚ Melo Ball‚ Eli Scott‚ and Onyeka Okongwu! These 5 guys are just a fraction of one big team who have become real winners in our hearts and really showed this nation who we are and what our basketball team is really made of. Now these guys aren’t just all basketball‚ yet it is year round for them‚ their also just regular beings like us. on March 23‚ 2016 our Journalism class sat down with these 5 guys and interviewed them
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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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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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Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries‚ basketball became a popular sport to play for both men and women like Wilma Jean Buntin. Born in 1909‚ Buntin described her experiences playing basketball at John H. Reagan High School in Houston‚ Texas‚ particularly wearing her first pair of the basketball suits: “We had a sweater that came over and it had to have long sleeves‚ and then we had these black bloomers that were box pleated. […] We began to have the shorts‚ but they came right
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“I love sports. I’ve played basketball‚ baseball‚ soccer‚ tennis‚ track and field growing up.” states Michael B. Jordan. The sports listed above‚ couldn’t be more different‚ but they still have some characteristics and elements in common. Specifically the sports basketball and soccer. Soccer requires quick reflexes and thinking ahead; whereas‚ basketball requires speed and agility. Now‚ I’m not saying that either sport only focases on those skills‚ but they are displayed in other ways. To play both
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