recreational basketball game‚ I was upset because we lost‚ and I told my father “I don’t care that we lost!” My father got upset at me for saying this and yelled at me all the way home‚ which was a ten minute drive‚ about why I should always try my best and care about what I do. “I like it when somebody gets excited about something” and my father got excited about me not caring about losing (Salinger). My father yelled at me for ten minutes in a car ride back from a recreational basketball game because
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holding Texas State’s University collegiate sports events. It is the home court of the Men’s and Women’s basketball team and the women’s volleyball team. It has seven thousand two hundred seats that surround the hard wooden gym floor. This stadium is where students like me go to see the games and to go show my Bobcat spirit. But Strahan Coliseum was not always there and while I was at a basketball game I wondered why Strahan was built‚ when it was built and was it named after somebody and if it was
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Allen Iverson Javin Cooper It was late at night‚ and Allen Iverson was on the basketball court being covered by his childhood hero‚ the legendary Michael Jordan. He called for the ball from his teammate‚ and he was passed the ball. The crowd cheered loudly for Iverson to make a move. Iverson faked to the left side then pulled the ball over to his right hand quickly. Michael Jordan lunged for the ball‚ but fell for the fake. Iverson was now open for a shot‚ and the opportunity did not go to waste
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On April 4th‚ 2007 radio shock jock Don Imus‚ began discussing the NCAA Woman’s Basketball Championships. During the show Imus characterized the Rutgers University woman’s basketball team players as “rough girls” commenting on their tattoos. He even went as far to call them “nappy-headed hoes.” “What has society come to that anything is acceptable today?” (Vivian Stringer‚ coach of the Rutgers women Scarlet Knights as reported by CNN news). This is a prime example of how our current society feels
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Chicano background and the neighborhood he grew up in. Furthermore‚ he describes himself being stereotyped as one of the “barrio boys” basically meaning that he is considered inferior to the Anglos. In high school‚ the writer states that he was on a basketball team and that there was one day when his coach announced that his team was to “buddy up” with the opposite team. The opposite team was all White and therefore had a big conflict with the “barrio boys” due to racism. One of the Anglos threw a bag
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High School. When he was there they had a student verses teacher basketball game‚ and he decided to sign up. He was really tall in junior high‚ and he figured out that during the game he could dunk. Turns out that he was a lot better at basketball than he thought he was. He attended St. Mary High School. He was on both the basketball and the football team‚ and he was very good at both. In both his football and basketball careers in high school he was always one of the best players. Everyone
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most number of funerals his classmates have gone to are 5. Throughout this traumatizing event‚ Arnold takes refuge and stays focused in his passion of playing basketball. Through sheer dedication Arnold qualifies to the varsity team as a freshman‚ leading his team to a near perfect season‚ and beating his reservation’s high school basketball team. Soon after‚ Arnold discovers that if you let people into your life and open up a little bit‚ amazing things can happen. At the end of this novel‚ Arnold
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I enter the gym‚ the smells of stale sweat and cleaner mingle with my nose‚ creating flashbacks of prior experiences. I flash my ID card to the employee working at the front desk and continue on through until I reach my ultimate destination; the basketball court. When I enter the court the first thing I notice are the baskets. They stand over the court like sentinels; opposing each other on opposite sides like guards on the border of North and South Korea. The padding on the backboards‚ now a
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1. Name of event and consulting company: SAS Skills challenge. We chose this name for our event because our group members’ name starts with an S and an A. Because this is our event‚ that we are hosting‚ we wanted it to have something that has to do with us so that when we look back to this event in the future we can say that it is our event. The name of our consulting company is called Big Ballerz Event. The reason for this name is because we as a group usually create events outside of school
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items. Title of Movie: Coach Carter Overall summary of movie: Coach Ken Carter is offered a job to coach the basketball team at his former high school‚ Richmond High‚ where he was one of the best athletes to ever attend a secondary education there. He took the job to bring change into the poor neighborhood of Richmond but more importantly the student athletes on their basketball team. He made the athletes sign a contract outlining that they will only be allowed to participate in games if the
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