The Journey Of Two Young Inner City Boys : Arthur Agee And William Gates

That summer, Simpson’s father, Phil, who was a great athlete in his own right, called and asked me if I could take him to the Five Star Basketball camp in Pittsburgh. Every July I would take several of the top players in our area to Five Star, an invitation only camp that featured many of the best high school players in the country. I told Phil that I did not think he would get in because the camp’s youngest players were rising sophomores and Greg was only entering his freshman year. I gave him an application and told him to give it a try but not to be disappointed

They recruit guys from soccer, basketball, a farm and even other football teams to come and play for them. Lengyel has a new vision for Marshall, and calls them the “Young Thundering Herd.” Jack is the person to do things that most coaches wouldn’t do because that just in his personality. As a result he seeks out help from Bobby Bowden, the coach of the University of West Virginia. Jack asks him “if He and Dawson can see the coaches’ videos, plays, and handbooks and even if he had any tips for them.” Bowden laughs at first and asks “if Jack was serious…” He then see that the men are serious and allows them to view the tapes, rules, handbooks and anything else they wanted. He does this because Bowden understands that a team is in grief and confusion. When this happens Dawson’s disbelief that he had about the team and Jack trying to help changes and he becomes a little bit more optimistic about the future of Marshall and the town.

Throughout the film we, see both the coach, individual players, and the team as a whole face numerous psychological obstacles which they overcome to reach the final. The film is based highly around racism and racial divides within basketball. Throughout the film we can see a constant battle with the idea of Perception, and how both player and overcome this. In order to form the 1966 championship winning team,

Navigating his way through contracts, money, recruiting; William Rhoden makes it clear to readers that the most important aspect of Forty Million Dollar Slaves is the history it includes. Rhoden draws clear parallels between the slave markets and the business of college recruiting. Throughout the novel, he focuses on the struggle for power in the twenty-first century. His book educates African-American athletes about their heritage and encourages future engagement with their community. Focusing on the history of cultural and social oppression, Rhoden argues that black athletes lost sight of sport’s purpose. African American athletes rose to “victory” obtaining the highest ranks of the multi-billion dollar sports industry. Although making millions, athletes were still neglected significant opportunities for leadership and roles in decision making.

The film wasn’t about that 13-0 record and winning a state championship, but the struggle that came with it and all the hardships they had to deal and get past. Racism, prejudice, compassion and love were all key aspects of this film as shown. The racism, prejudice of the team when they first met was severe and had been changed. The love and compassion came as the team grew to become one unit and love each other and be able to become something more powerful than they could be by themselves.

In the excerpt from the book “Night Hoops” by Carl Deuker, the main character Nick Abbott changes in many ways. The excerpt was about Nick and his friend Trent working well in Basketball games together. The coach was impressed by the two but he told them to give the others the ball sometimes. The two refuse and don’t listen.

With Warren Hartenstine’s article in The Baltimore Sun, he is responding to Paul Marx article “Athletes New Day,” with stating the disagreement of facts that Mr. Marx represents about the graduating student athletes. The explanation of the article explains all of the resources student athletes have to succeed while playing the sport. The graduation rate in 2011 was up by 59 percent, 61 percent were women and 56 percent were men (The Baltimore Sun). With these facts there is an explanation that some student are enrolled as “exceptional admits” but there are tutoring programs and the success rate shows that it is working. While in school Hartenstine has the insight to this topic just because he did play Division I football and had the inside look to graduation and success rates as a assistant dean. With more explanations of how the NCAA has scholarships that pay for rooms, tuition, books, and even money for laundry every month. Warren Hartenstine wants players to have discipline and success while being college athletes and within this article he tries showing this explanation.

Looking at the film from a certain perspective it can be seen that both Arthur and William lived their lives “by proxy”. They looked up to many of the famous NBA players at the time and thought that

When the group of male students are first introduced to their summer training camp, students are roomed with someone of the opposite race, it begins a long and hard road for them to move past some of their preconceptions. At first players are instructed to learn more about every player of both race. But there are major turning points such as when black and white players finally see past differences that are imposed, and they begin to connect and become better athletes and people. I see the camp as an ideal for a movement for the team to get away from the bias of their community and grow together as a team. Most of the young men start to see the bigger picture and that they all want to win. Although this is a gradual process, most of them gain each other’s respect and friendship by the end of the trip.

While the rag-tag team of players enjoyed several glowing reviews over the decades, the Carlisle men felt like they were denied proper credit. A large portion of the press would attribute their victories to their White Yale coaches. Their losses, on the other hand were the inevitable evidence of their “Indian character flaws”.

Coach Carter is a 2005 movie which was based upon a true story. The movie underlines the social structure and stratification of life in the American ghetto. The theme of the movie is the outcome of such societal boundaries on this group of students who play basketball; how it outlines their life, affects their social life and also their life goals. The movie depicts a Structural-functionalist of society

“The Best That Never Was” is a 30 for 30 documentaries ESPN produced about the life and career of Marcus Dupree. Almost every topic we have discussed in class this semester came together in this documentary. It had everything from racism, eligibility to ethical behavior by everyone involved in sport including agents. I will focus on these three issues in particular because I feel they have the most direct correlation between the film and classroom discussions. I will follow these up with my opinions of the movie and some of the key players.

Coach Carter is a sports drama film based on a true story about a former record holding Richmond High School basketball player, Ken Carter, who returns to his high school to coach the current juvenile players. At the first practice of the season, Coach Carter immediately acknowledges that the players are rude and disrespectful toward their superiors and he decides to require each player to sign a written contract that states that they have to maintain certain regulations and follow many rules throughout the year, in and outside of the classroom to be able to play on the team. He feels that the players are not disciplined enough and that they would not survive life or have a successful future outside of playing basketball, so the contracts are intended to teach the team discipline, structure, and leadership skills on and off the court. The lead protagonist, Coach Carter, faces many difficulties in this movie.

In the movie Coach Carter, the protagonist, Coach Ken Carter is heavily impacted by his surroundings, which turned him into an honest and respectable adult that wishes to give back to his community. He takes the difficult task of training a basketball team to try to give them a brighter future. Because he too grew up in a violent and poor neighborhood, Coach Carter knows how to interact and teach his team about values and commitment. Coach Carter opposes many of the stereotypes established by his community, for example the casual use of slang. Unlike his team, Ken Carter believes that the use of vulgar language is demeaning as shown by this quote from the film.

The project had done grew out of a very large research group which was examined on basically on how high an achieving urban youth that talks about barriers for school success. This article is basically talking about a group that they have and that they did a large research on it and was examined on the achievement of the urban youth so basically they are talking about urban schools its aiming towards urban schools. They are saying that sports came together as a hard force, that promotes success for strategies and speaking on the obstacles that were more likely experienced by high school students that are in public schools or urban schools they are talking about how playing sports throughout the high school year and being academically good with your schoolwork if you are good with your work in school you should do good in school academically to sum up the first page it gives a critique of information about cares and cultural things.