Basketball Argument Essay

SHREVEPORT, La. – A day after finding out he was the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Week, junior Chris Zapata of the Centenary Gents baseball team was selected for this week’s D3Baseball.com Team of the Week, released Tuesday, March 6, the fourth edition of the list in 2017.

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With the Boys Basketball season in full swing, many students and teachers are very exited for the promising season ahead. The West Central boys are currently 0-2 but are hoping to turn the season around with the upcoming home games. “I think this season is going great I think that we have a real chance at State,” Said Senior Noah Vettrus. He said this after the 82-70 loss to Dells last Friday. It was in this game that he had 31 points and 10 rebounds. But he is not the only player that has a great outlook for this season, Junior Nick Nagel says that he is very excited for the season and he thinks the team will go all the way to state this year as long as they play smart and execute the plays correctly. “Honestly I see a lot of potential

After Sam Hinkie and the 76ers acquired a center with a top lottery pick in the NBA draft for the third time in as many years on Thursday, the timer went off on the basketball community's oven, as the hot takes were finally cooked and ready to be served. The can of competitiveness had been kicked down Broad Street once again, relegating the Sixers to another year of irrelevancy.

The Detroit Pistons franchise has an illustrious history, but over recent years there have been times of utter disappointment. The 2015-16 Pistons team is a young, talented group of guys who can put up solid fantasy stats for us. Center Andre Drummond leads this Detroit team into this season as the top fantasy option on the team. From Drummond to Reggie Jackson, the Pistons should be a team to look at during your upcoming fantasy basketball drafts.

It’s shaping up to be a trying year for the NCAA as two former athletes have come forward in the past week and filed a class action lawsuit against them for “academic fraud in its members schools’ athletic programs.” While some think this couldn’t get worse, from the numerous unacknowledged complaints from over the last century, a large number of the student athletes on the receiving end of less than stellar educations were African-American student athletes—especially in revenue-producing sports like basketball and football.

A plethora of reasons exist as to why a certain sport might signal importance to a state, but in Indiana, the sport happens to standout on a whole different level. Current Southeast Dubois Superintendent, Rick Allen, commented on why Indiana high school basketball remains superior saying, “One reason Indiana high school basketball is such a standout of a sport in Indiana is because of the community support behind the team” (Allen 2). The era of basketball between 1911-present remains crucial today not only for the big schools’ gyms in Indiana, but also for small towns gyms such as Huntingburg, Loogootee, Tell City, Ferdinand, and numerous others.

Insert your rough draft here: The NBA is a national sport that is gaining traction rapidly. Previously, the NBA surpassed the MLB in becoming the second most popular sport and surprisingly, catching up to the NFL.”12 years in and the one and done's have shaped the face of college basketball.”(Griffin)It started in 2006 when the NBA passed a rule saying players out of high school had to be one year removed from high school in order to enter the draft and since then players have done a lot of different things.

About 750 million dollars was made in television rights in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, in 2014. This 750 million dollars was not given to the players that played in those games, but the coaches and their colleges (Pallack). Athletes in the NCAA have many aspects they have to monitor: the possibility of getting hurt, expenses, and their time. Around sixty hours is how many hours a college athlete spends practicing and playing basketball (Majerol). College athletes are just like professional athletes but at a lower level, so college athletes should be paid to play a sport because of their hard work, passion, responsibility, and commitment.

Indeed, who would have predicted ten years ago? That women's basketball so wildly popular? Well, people who have watched the growth of women's basketball in southern states. The enormous campus arenas at the state universities in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia filled to capacity for home games. The coach for Tennessee's Lady Vols, Pat Summitt. She has achieved nearly godlike stature in that state. A tall, striking figure on- and off-court. Summitt commands respect. Wherever she goes. My youngest sister, Ruth Ann, who lives in Tennessee. She says you can't near Pat Summitt after a game. "You'd think she a rock star," she says. Although Geno Auriemma, Coach of the UConn women's team. Not yet enjoying that kind of support. He rapidly becoming

Basketball has been more than just a game in my life, it has always been a big part of my life, but it has been a part differently than what it is to others. I love everything about basketball. I have done everything from keeping the official book for a men's and women's collegiate team to washing a high school team's practice clothes and even making sure everyone has their uniforms and shoes before leaving for an away game. You don't have to be on the court, you don't have to be the one taking the winning shot or calling the play to be part of the team. I want you to think about this instead of feeling sorry for yourself because you didn't make the cut. I hope by the time you finish reading this you will realize

The game at first consisted of two peach baskets nailed to the lower railing of the gym balcony and a soccer ball where Dr.

Almost all student athletes get butterflies before that Friday night football game, before the fans get to watch them compete, or even the to get the ability to practice. Many argue that high school sports are a distraction in the classroom or even cause career ending injuries. There are many different scenarios that prove that high school sports do the exact opposite of those. When it comes to high school sports, it keeps students fit, boosts a student’s academic performance, and enhances a student’s self-esteem. High school sports are very beneficial and for anyone who is looking to take on a new challenge to take on.

Although men and women’s basketball are closer to being equal than softball and baseball, the leagues are still separate. America has a women’s league and a men’s league and never the two shall meet. A woman is not allowed in the NBA since she has the WNBA. The separation is strong, obvious, and seemingly permanent. Like basketball, they created softball to play indoors during the winter. The game earned the name softball and due to its easier properties was often “regarded as baseball’s stepchild” (Ring, p. 60). They passed the game down to women, as it seemed safe enough to limit the risk of injury. And so the separation began.

We have investigated the slam dunk from its humble origins predating even the Big Bang to its present-day status as one of sports' most exciting feats. Every iota of knowledge on the subject of dunking has been presented. There truly is no more to say about dunks as we know them or as they were known to inhabitants of previous eras. Thus, dear reader, we must look beyond the present time, into the uncertain haze of the future, to hypothesize on what dunks will look like ten, twenty, a hundred, a thousand years from now.