Rj Jordan Biography

At this camp Danny’s friends are all in different groups, leaving him all alone. To make matters worse for Danny, all of the kids in his group are a lot bigger, faster, and skilled more than he is. This makes Danny start to regret coming to this camp. At the beginning of camp nothing is going right for Danny. His coach doesn't like him, his friends aren’t with him, and a boy named Rasheed Hill, whose team got beat by Danny’s team in the championship game

Greg Simpson sat in his dorm room that night and stewed about his rejection. When Simpson hit the Five Star courts the next day he was focused and determined to make a point. Despite being younger than everyone in the sophomore league, he dominated his rivals. He basically pillaged Five Star. When the week was over he was the league’s leading scorer, led his team to the championship earning the MVP honor and was named the top prospect in camp. To top off his week, Simpson threw down a monster dunk in the All Star game, an event that was witnessed by many of the top college coaches in the nation. At that point, Greg Simpson’s name was on the lips of every major college coach in the country. And he was yet to play a high school basketball

In the summer James practiced with his dad and sometimes with his friends. James loved playing with dad. They would play every day and would never miss a game. Their favorite team is the Dallas Cowboys. James was born in Dallas and lived in Dallas his whole life. His dad always gave him tips and lessons. The Morgan’s had always been having trouble with money. James’ dream is to play in the NFL and help his parents with money issues. Summer flew by and college was starting soon. On his way to his friend’s house, his dad’s friend from work came over and had news, bad news. He said that his dad got in a bad car accident and is paralyzed from the

Have you ever felt left out or pushed away from others? In the novel, The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander. I chose to write about the main character Josh Bell. Josh Bell is a caring, immature and athletic teen who, through a series of trials comes of age. Josh Bell is caring because in the book it says, “ Tell him a joke.

High school is a big time for change in a teenagers life. They go through problems with friends, family, grades, and sports. For Andy Jackson, a 17 year old student at Hazelwood High School, he went through all of those troubles. He plays for the basketball team with his friends Rob Washington, Tyrone Mills, and B.J. Carson. One night after basketball practice, Andy was drinking alcohol and driving which led them to get in a car crash. Andy, Tyrone, and B.J. escaped the car with a few cuts and bruises, but Rob got stuck and burned to death. Rob’s death brought Andy to blame himself. He turns away from his friends, his girlfriend, Keisha, and his family. Andy changes negatively after the car crash; he becomes insecure, he closes up his feelings, and he turns emotionally weak.

In the beginning, fifteen-year-old Felton Reinstein had always been on the small side. When he starts to develop, everything changes. During gym class one day, Felton smokes all of the football players in a 600-yard race. Felton was never into sports, but there was no doubt he was “stupid fast.” He explores his newfound athletic prowess, while his mom grows in depression, and he still has to put up with his annoying brother named Andrew.

Beyond athletes, Cutter High School also contains problematic coaches. Part of the reason T.J. doesn’t participate on other sports teams at school is because of the coaching staff. He explains, “Coaches have tried to get me to turn out for sports since junior high. Sometimes they’re insistent and sometimes downright nasty…even to the point of calling me a traitor” (11). These are grown men who place an overwhelming amount of importance on their sports and can’t look past their goal of winning. T.J. refers to Coach Benson, the football coach, and Coach Roundtree, the basketball coach, noting that at some point he’s sure the two coaches would “retreat to the time-tested and highly grating tool of public humiliation as a motivator” (12). Besides the way this coaching style grates personally on T.J., it shows a lack of tolerance from these coaches as well as a lack of respect for the very

His first day there he felt nervous, but he just thought about basketball, he didn’t think about the school he just thought about basketball.He played his first game in college,he scored 22 points.He wore the shoes that game.He could have scored more but he was nervous about playing.He soon won a championship and he was the player of the year.In his senior in college he won another championship and he was 18 years old.He got drafted to the NBA to the

Monday afternoon when David got home he got a phone call from Alabama’s Head Coach, Nick Saban. Saban said,” Hey, David.This is Nick Saban. I was calling to say I heard about your performance Friday night, and I would love to have you come out, so I could see what all the talk is about.” David agreed and scheduled a tryout for that coming up Saturday. Once David got off the phone, he wrote down on every calendar “ALABAMA TRYOUT” for September 6. After he finished writing on the calendars and was able to tone down his high-pitched, excited girl squeals into a more manly fashion, he called his friends to tell them the good news. His friends were excited for him because they knew how long he had been wishing for this day to come. They decided to throw a party for David Friday night to celebrate this big moment for

Michael Jordan had a spectacular senior season playing for the Laney High School varsity basketball team. He led Laney to the No. 1 state ranking, while averaging a triple double ( 29.2 points, 11.6 rebounds, and 10.1 assists ). He wasn’t able to lead his team to a state title, with his team losing to their rival New Hanover in the conference championship game, 56-52. But because he had a great senior season, he was rewarded with the opportunity to play in the 1981 McDonald’s High School All-American Basketball

Andy Nguyen Professor Kimble Language Arts 7 August 2014 Magic Johnson Magic Johnson is known for being one of the greatest point guards to ever play the game of basketball. He remade the sport and even the country for what they knew about basketball. He was a very talented player but had to retire due to HIV’s. Magic Johnson has changed basketball, America, and his greatest rival HIV’s.

In this book there is this kid that is really into basketball and last season he was that best on the team and in the league. Then this year there is a new kid named chase and he is bigger and he is also the more versatile player he’s stronger and better because he is bigger. Then for the first scrimmage of the year they had to play against each other. It was a hard fought game for it all till the end when Ben got tired and didn’t push as hard as he could. Also Ben got mad at Chase because Chase talks all this stuff on the court and Ben don't like when he does do that. So when Chase was saying all this stuff about Ben and it made him mad and it got into his head and it messed up his game. So after the game Ben went home and hit the court that is right across the road from his house and he was out there all night trying to

Jones, who happens to be a superb athlete with a caring heart and a good sense of humor. T.J. has been through plenty of trouble and issues in his life and he’s only in high school. Although T.J. is a standout athlete, he has always rejected Cutter High School’s athletic teams because “something inside me recoils at being told what to do, and that doesn’t sit well with most coaches, who are paid to do exactly that.” But he is all of a sudden given a spark when his favorite teacher asks him to start up a swim team at the school, something the school has never had; they don’t even have pool.Now, Cutter High School is known for the privileged, good-looking, white, male jocks running the school. T.J. sees a chance to change that and jumps at it. He gets a group of misfits together to form the swim team consisting of “one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. He wants to get every one of these misfits a Cutter High School varsity letter, something that has never happened at the school. He faces several problems along the way, including anger from the coach and the athletic department. But there’s beauty in the struggle and along the way, these guys come out of their shells and start to reveal their true selves. They are not just the labels that the jocks have placed on them, they are

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Bobby Joe wanted to make the a All star team. There were 3 all star teams in his region, Region 1. He was on the B All-Star team. Each season, Bobby Joe would do his best to impress the coaches and the parents. He wasn't big, but he could run really fast. He also had good skills. Bobby didn't know his rating though. He thought that it would be 750 /1000. He was right, but he underscored himself. His rating was 949, in a group of some of the highest ratings in his league. Bobby Joe was discouraged though, he would do better every year, but he would never reach his goal. He didn't know about his rating, and that didn't help him one bit. Bobby Joe would pray every night to be on the A All-Star Team, he was tired of being degraded