Summary: The Five Basketball Tournament

The third annual OVO Bounce basketball tournament began Monday evening at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on 255 Front St. in downtown Toronto. Canadian basketball players accompanied by current and future NBA stars were on-hand to play and to watch the opening games of this 8-team tournament. This tournament is sponsored by Toronto’s vey own, Drake – appropriately named for his label, October’s Very Own – alongside the Nike AAU franchise, CIA Bounce. This event accompanies Drake’s annual OVO Fest concert, which is held Sunday August 2nd this year.

March madness is the appropriate term this month for any gardener in Indiana! My husband always reminds me it usually snows during bracket season. Don’t you just love the Final Four? Our family does the whole bracket thing; it is a long cherished Petty tradition full of healthy competition among neighbors and coworkers. March 14th-April 3rd the NCAA gets into high gear. A Reader’s Digest article noted that, “this year, “American companies would lose $1.9 billion in wages paid to unproductive workers spending company time on betting pool priorities.“

Avid college basketball fans refer to it as NCAA March Madness. Because it is a one-and-done, single elimination format, it’s packed with excitement. Adding to the intrigue are the smaller schools, known as Cinderella’s, who endear themselves to the hearts of college basketball fans. Former Ohio State University coach Harold Olsen initiated the idea back in 1939.

When you here the phrase “March Madness” what comes to mind? To millions of fans, March Madness is three weeks of intense basketball, played at a premier level, where anyone can be a fan. March Madness is the NCAA men’s basketball tournament that consists of 68 teams from around the country that are selected to participate in one of the worlds most celebrated sporting events.

Division I sports are spending a big percentage on student athletes compared to education. It further speaks to how college is commercialized a lot to get top tier athletes and more students wanting to go visit/attend their school. But, sometimes there is a catch because there are private investors that help “support”(give money) to the school with buildings etc. Part of this commercialization is “ The Intercollegiate Golden Triangle”. Basically, making up three sides e.g., triangle. The three sides are television , athletic programs, and the board of the NCAA/corporate sponsors. These three all need each other to help make one another millions even billions of dollars from their student athletes. IGT is basically what is the driving force

Welcome back to the March Madness Mania blog. Once again, this has been a crazy week of college basketball. Top 10 teams have continued to fall and at this point it’s hard to predict who will grab the title this year. In this blog post I will be covering teams with March Madness stock that’s either rising or falling.

Five Star Basketball Camp is a camp for basketball players that want to improve their skills and techniques on a high level of basketball such as the NBA better known as the National Basketball Association. The camp was found in 1966 and was the first specialized sports camp. Famous NBA players like Michael Jordan, Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Stephan Curry, Dwayne Wade, and many more attend this camp. Over 422 coaches that participated in the Five-Star camp have coached in the NBA or the NCAA. Not only the Five-Star camp is just for boys, it is also for girls that want to play basketball. The Five-Star camp has different location like California, New York, Texas, Florida, and many more locations for players that will put them on the court for

The Women’s National Basketball Association, more commonly known as the WNBA, is a professional basketball league consisting of 12 teams spanning across the United States. The league was founded in 1996 but didn’t officially kick off until 1997. While it’s not the first major women’s professional basketball league in the United States, the WNBA is the only league that has received full backing from the National Basketball Association, more commonly, the NBA. Now in its 20th season under the direction of league president Lisa Borders, the regular season is played from June to September with the playoffs spanning through the remainder of September into the middle of October. Although they have the full backing from the NBA, there are still a few discrepancies between the two leagues. Even though WNBA games are not as exciting as NBA games, the players of the WNBA deserve equal pay because the team mindset makes the game more challenging, players continue to show their hard work in the offseason by playing overseas, and they inspire young girls by providing for charities as a result of their work.

With the selections concluded, travel arrangements made and the "play-in" games in the books, the final 64 teams are ready to do battle for the NCAA Basketball Championship title. March Madness has become a rite of spring for basketball fans all over the world. In this year's field, every team has lost at least four games, showing the presence of parity throughout the brackets. As play gets underway on March 17, it will be the teams that will decide whose the best college basketball team in the country.

The Michigan State Spartans always seem to be poised for a deep run in the NCAA Tournament. Ever since Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo's arrival in East Lansing, Mich., the Spartans have appeared in seven Final Fours. In addition to their success in the postseason, the Spartans have had several players find success at the next level. Most recently, Denver Nuggets shooting guard Gary Harris, Minnesota Timberwolves power forward Adreian Payne and All-Star power forward and NBA champion Draymond Green.

In monumental clashes for the ages, both collegiate men and women’s NCAA March Madness tournaments have provided countless matches, unprecedented athleticism, and glorious victories paired with heartbreaking defeats. Yet despite their similar structures, the two tournaments have attained vastly different levels of recognition in the United States. With men’s basketball, thousands of Americans tune in every year to watch the upsets and Final Four games, drooling over perennial powerhouses such as Duke University, University of Kentucky, and University of Kansas and unknown underdogs like Butler University, Wichita State University, and Virginia Commonwealth University as they all compete in titanic battles. Everyone from retirees to college students fill out fantasy brackets yearly in volumes reaching millions, praying to have that lucky year where they predict the tournament correctly. However, on the female side of the sport, audiences are

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

Throughout the existence of the NCAA and the realm of intercollegiate competition, one of the largest topics of debate has been the idea to compensate athletes based on athletic performance above any scholarships awarded. Mark Emmert, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, has previously said “We can never move to a place where we are paying players to play sports for us” (Garcia, 2010, para.9). This statement by Emmert has again sparked several conversations concerning the specifics of what defines amateurism and the exploitation of our young student athletes. The awarding of a salary to athletes is both heavily supported and strongly opposed by players, spectators, coaches, and collegiate

As a nonprofit the NCAA is often not compared to large companies even it makes comparable revenue. All television and video game revenue, as well as ticket, jersey, and souvenir sales made from college athletics all go to the NCAA, the conferences, the athletic departments, and the coaches. In fact, one study suggests, “Men’s basketball and football combine for $6 billion alone” (Mondello, Piquero, Piquero, Gertz & Bratton, 2013). None of that revenue goes directly to the student athlete even though the NCAA surely has enough money to do so if it chooses. USA Today writer Bruce Horovitz states in his article, March Madness Evokes Marketer Madness that, “The NCAA men’s basketball tournament generated $1.15 billion in television ads in 2013, well beyond the revenue generated by the NFL and NBA playoffs, according to ESPN” (Horovitz, 2014). Marc Edelman, a professor at City University of New York takes it a bit farther in his article The Case for Paying College Athletes, and claims, “The college sports industry generates $11 billion in annual revenues. Fifty colleges report annual revenues that exceed $50 million. Meanwhile, five colleges report annual revenues that exceed $100 million” (Edelman, 2014). In contrast, during the 2014-2015 season the NBA grossed about $5.18 billion in revenues according to Forbes Magazine, which was a league record high. The NCAA revenue money is also not evenly distributed among the schools, as top tiered athletic programs tend to make more money

America is home to many exciting team games, for example football, ice hockey, basketball and baseball. The football season begins in the fall when the temperatures are best for play. I did not much like football until my daughter went to Penn State. After I had gone to a few live games I realized what a good game it is ice hockey starts in the winter although it continues through early spring I have been to see all the other sports but I have not yet seen a hockey game since I do not like the fights the most important tournament in basketball is March Madness which not surprisingly takes place in March it is great to watch although it is hard to predict the result baseball is played all summer long sometimes in very warm weather there are