I was an eight year old kid when I had my first ever glimpse of the NBA Basketball. It was a lanky afro manchild doing a reverse dunk versus Indiana right in front of the Laker crowd. Crowd was in awe‚ Commentators were ecstatic and Kevin Harlan in his usual voice saying‚ Kobe can’t be denied. That day‚ my love affair with the Los Angeles Lakers started. The 2000-2002 Seasons were the very foundation of my Purple and Gold affair. My Lakers were champions and Kobe was the superhero. He’d beat the
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James Naismith was the creator of basketball. He created it in 1891 to condition young athletes in the winter. The “hoop” was a peach basket and the ball was a soccer styled ball. There were many rules for the new game. He created it in a YMCA gym in Springfield‚ Massachusetts. His team of eighteen was divided into two teams of nine and then the peach baskets were nailed above their heads. Every time one would score a basket‚ the game was stopped for the janitor to get up on a ladder and retrieve
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I had great fondness for my gray Lebron 12s. I had anticipated receiving them for Christmas for two whole weeks prior of the holiday. I wore them through strenuous basketball practices‚ hooping on concrete courts throughout West Newton‚ and whenever I journed on the trail with friends. I even wore them to notable occasions like funerals or parties. They were always in immaculate condition‚ until March… Accordingly‚ I was sitting on my soft bed 14 hours before the clock struck 12 to signify that
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Darwish Vince E. Bederi Eng 11 Dr. Marianne Perfecto Not Just a Janitor‚ But a Man Who Once Dreamed A person who is unique compared to others in what he does. Maybe I will find such a person in a place almost hidden from the outside world. The secluded underworld that is‚ Agora market. I could have chosen some guy who chops bits of meat or a lady who works on removing the scales from the fish that they sell. But somehow‚ the person I was going to interview was the one who chose
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In chapter two of the book‚ The Sports Gene‚ the author David Epstein compares and contrasts two high jumpers that have achieved their greatness in very different ways. Donald Thomas is a basketball player who happened to be in the right place at the right time when a fellow high jumper challenged him to clearing a high jump‚ which he surprisingly did with ease. The other jumper; Stefan Holm‚ was a trained professional who had won the previous championships. These two athletes could not be anymore
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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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Experiencing Failure Participation in sports has always been a part of my life. The first time I experienced playing a sport‚ I was five years old. Although my father was the coach for my team‚ after I had played for a few years‚ I decided that I did not like soccer anymore. At that time‚ I began playing football; I loved everything about that sport. After three years‚ I realized that I could not continue to play because I was not as big as the rest of the players. I felt like a failure. The
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¨Your team becomes your family‚ the ball becomes your best friend‚ the court becomes your home‚ and the game becomes your life¨-Unknown. The inventor of volleyball is William G. Morgan in 1895. William took the characteristics of tennis‚ basketball‚ and handball. William enjoyed the game tennis more than the rest‚ but tennis needed a racket. William did not like all the equipment but did like the idea of a net. So‚ William invented volleyball which was a less rough version of basketball. This took
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This principle goal the scientific investigation was to see if changes in temperature expands the air inside of the basketball causing it to bounce higher. This experiment was decided by observations made while playing the sport basketball. It was observed that when a basketball is left in the sun and made warm‚ the ball bounces higher when dribbled than if left inside. Our assumed result was that an increase in temperature would cause an increase in air pressure causing the bounce of the basketball
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The History of volleyball has changed very much since when it was first invented but the changes were probably for the better. Volleyball is a male and female sport where there are opportunities for both to play and be successful in. I think it is a very fun and interesting sport to play. Volleyball was created by a man named William G. Morgan about four years after basketball was invented. It was originally a combination of baseball‚ basketball‚ Tennis and handball‚ and was called Mintonette. It
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