Basketball: The Most Difficult Sport

Being six foot four means I get a lot of stares and attention when I walk down the street. Most people will look at me in astonishment and say things like “wow you’re tall!” or “how tall are you?” when they see me. But the question I get asked the most from random strangers is “Do you play basketball?” Depending on what kind of mood I’m in, I answer in one of two ways. In both ways I tell the person asking “no,” but my attitude while doing so differs. Most of the time I find this question rather annoying. Just because I’m tall doesn’t mean that I play basketball, nor have I ever. It’s a question that I’ve gotten practically my whole life, but anymore I tend to spend more time thinking about the bigger picture behind it.

Practice is so intense, to the point where players are drenched with sweat from head to toe. The entire team leaves practice tired, sore, and dwells about how bad practice was, but in reality everyone on the team enjoys the memories made from practice. Physically this sport is challenging because players compete every minute and seconds on the court. If it is not game time, practices consists of pushing and shoving for each others positions, one on one drills, and sprinting from sideline to sideline. Game time rolls around and everything becomes more of what we can do together and not by ourselves. As losses come, this makes the team even more disciplined to work harder, to

Have you ever noticed the environment that basketball has? How the players on the court are always trying to get the basket with a quickness? There are five players on each team and other sports like football and soccer have many more players on their team which makes it hard for me to move. Sometimes players run into each other and

“Rejected by Rose,” screamed, TNT broadcaster, Kevin Harlan. Derrick Rose’s block on Rajon Rondo’s shot was the play that forced game 7 and kept the Bull’s season alive. The 2009 first round series between the Chicago Bulls and the reigning NBA champions, Boston Celtics was the best playoff series I ever watched. What does Rose’s late-game heroics have to do with anything? The excitement of the sport of basketball. My paper will be about my favorite sport to watch and play I will also mention about my favorite sport to participate in ancillary. Afterward, I will relate my favorite sport to Michael Mandelbaum’s The Meaning of Sports and offer my opinion on the book.

Basketball is one of the most talked about topics, as well as one of the most played games. Compared to other sports like American football and baseball, basketball is known around the world for the unique play style and rules of the game. It is a sport many people love to play, but people can take it too seriously which makes competition very stiff. In this decade, basketball is one of the hardest sport to be successful in, not because of the rules and playstyles; but the competition and how many people want to play. In an actual basketball game it would be five on five on the court. In total one team could probably only take around ten to thirteen people. In other sports like soccer, would have eleven players on the field or sports format in total, each team could have about twenty five to thirty people on one team, football could have up to fifty people on one team. This shows why basketball is the hardest sport to play in todays’ world; because when people want to make it as a profession, not a lot can be chosen. Even when some make it to the pros, not everybody on the team even gets to play in the game; sometimes people would be allowed to play for a small portion of time. However it is something that still motivates people to play the sport of basketball, it helps them make a better name for themselves so that they would have a bright future. Basketball overall changed from the eighties and nineties to now; because of unfairness in competition, helping kids stay out of

In sociology, there are 3 paradigms. There is the conflict theory perspective, the symbolic-interaction perspective and the structural-functionalist perspective. From a conflict paradigm point of view, the essay would focus on gender and how the assumption that girls lack the same level of strength and stamina as men. The WNBA (Women National Basketball League) doesn’t get the same amount of respect as the males do in the NBA (National Basketball League). Another issue could be that the NBA players have a higher annual salary than an average teacher. A structural-functionalist approach could be focused on how it creates jobs (the NBA) and academically too. Basketball could also be focused on how

We can all agree that basketball is almost becoming popular around the world. So many people play this sport but do people know how basketball started and how it evolute throughout the years since basketball was borned? So like every other sports and creations, there has to be a inventor and in basketball there was a man by the name of Dr. James Naismith. “Created in 1891 in a Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gymnasium has grown into a game played worldwide by more than 300 million people”(historybits.com). So this game has been out for a very long period of time with many changing of the rules in basketball throughout the history. When it was first played in the late 1800s, there were different rules and even different looking basketball. As for the rules, originally there would be 10 people on the court but it first started with 18 people on the court which after couple of years it changed to only 10 people. Substitution was also different and the rule for this was at first no one can enter until the next game. “The rule was changed in 1920 to allow a player to re-enter the game one time. In 1934, the rule was expanded to allow players to re-enter the game twice, and, in 1945 the rule was finally changed to permit players to return to the game an unlimited number of times”(hooptactics.com). The first basketball looked very alike a football but round. The backboards were made out of straight wood and the baskets were made out of peach baskets or square boxes. There was only

Sports contain some of the hardest things to do in the world this includes hit a puck into a goal defended by another person, run down a field trying to avoid being tackled, put a ball in a basket a little bigger than itself, and in my opinion the hardest of all is to hit a ball with a circumference of 2.86cm with a bat that has a circumference of 2.75 inches. Not only this but the ball can be thrown from 70-100 mph in high school through the pros. This is why I think baseball is the hardest sport to play. Like I said before the baseball is very small and the bat isn’t much bigger so you must have great hand eye coordination so that you can even hit the ball.

Over 30 million people play basketball in America and it is one of fastest growing sports in the world (Lynn). It is an exciting and very intense sport to play and watch. Most people how ever, do not know how or when it was created. The purpose of this paper is to inform people about when basketball was created, how much it has changed, and talk about some influential players of the game.

Basketball is one of well-known sport that is now nationwide. It is America’s past time when it

In this paper it will be proven that the sport ice hockey is absolutely the most difficult sport known to man. I will state the differences it has to other sports like football, soccer and basketball. I will also explain what makes hockey the toughest sport, mentally and physically. By the end of this essay you will know more about hockey, have more respect for the sport, and truly realize the perseverance players must possess to participate in this amazing sport.

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.

There is a debate raging about what is the world's hardest sport, with the top contenders being golf and polo, both considered among the most difficult sports to play proficiently.

What comes to your mind when I say the world’s hardest sport? I’m sure many of you start picturing football, baseball, maybe even hockey, but how many of you would ever consider golf to be the hardest sport? Unlike the three sports mentioned above in golf you don’t have any teammates to help you out if you’re have a bad game. In golf you have to be good at all aspects of the game in order to be successful unlike in football, baseball, and hockey where you can still be successful by only mastering one position. In football every football field measures the same size, in baseball the pitcher is always the same distance away from the batter, and hockey rinks are all the same size every time, however in golf ever course is different and you don’t get a home field advantage like you do in other sports you have to be prepared for everything. This is why I consider golf to be the world’s hardest sport because there are no teammates it’s just up to you and your caddy, you have to be great at every aspect of the game if you want to be successful on the PGA tour, and finally ever course is different and you have to be able to make adjustments from course to course in order to succeed. I believe I am able to make this claim because I have an abundance of experience from playing nearly every sport in my childhood. I earned three varsity letters in high school and competed at a varsity level for four years in golf, lacrosse, and cross country. Out of

You can do the best average score and rebounder. Did you think that you are very good at it when you were a freshman?