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    Basketball is the best Sport Basketball is the best sport because it can be played anywhere . Some people say it’s fun‚ but don’t play it. I play the sport because I love to shoot‚ and being a starter. Basketball is an amazing sport. Why because it also involves using other methods in sports like passing‚ players‚ a basketball‚ and also can be played one on one. Basket is a interesting and easy sport to understand and play. You see there are two teams‚ and 5 people on each team. You must dribble

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    Every aspect of basketball has some type of force working upon it. For example‚ without friction a basketball player would be unable to stop because inertia states that objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Without friction acting upon the player‚ there is no force to stop him‚ until he hits a wall that is. With this information you can come to the conclusion that without forces‚ there would be no game of basketball. However‚ what exactly is a force? Webster’s dictionary defines force as a push

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    team. That’s the pressure I get every game I played that year of my freshmen year in my high school basketball games. I loved playing freshman basketball because the road trips we went to together. the thrill you get out of the games we played and lastly the team was like a family to me.

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    ensures success. As the captain of my Freshman Basketball team and now as the Head Manager of my Varsity Women’s Basketball team‚ this lesson has been learned over and over again in the past four years. I carry this with me everywhere I go. In each organization I am a member of and with every experience‚ focusing on family‚ consistency‚ and common goal is what has allowed me to motivate others as a leader to realize success. Hundreds of basketball games has taught me that success is not

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    “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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    toward my right side. Not at anyone or anything unless they got in my way but that wouldn’t matter much because I would aim fairly high….I guess it would just release some tension.” However‚ attorney for the Paducah families‚ Jack Thomson claims that Basketball Diaries should be held responsible for Michael Carneal’s “spiraling decent into depression” Carroll counters the attorney’s argument‚ claiming that answers are being looked for in the wrong places. Carroll claims that it would not have been “boyish”

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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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    large dose of adrenaline as she takes the court for one of the biggest games in the state tournament. First round of the tournament they play the number one team in class A. Her former summer teammate‚ now known as the 2015-2016 Big Ten women’s basketball player of the year takes the court against her. They both fight to stay on top to continue on to the semifinals. My sister Marisa fought until the last minute in the game after losing earlier in the season to the undefeated Fremont tigers. She beat

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    When I watch basketball on television‚ it is a common occurrence to have an announcer state that some player has the hot-hand. This raises the question: Are Bernoulli trials an adequate model for the outcomes of successive shots in basketball? This paper addresses this question in a controlled (practice) setting. A large simulation study examines the power of the tests that have appeared in the literature as well as tests motivated by the work of Larkey‚ Smith‚ and Kadane (LSK). Three test

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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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