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    he got up to practice at 6:00 am before school and went to basketball camps to work on his skills. He went to a Five-Star Basketball Camp in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and this is where Jordan knew that he would do great things in the sport. He got offered a scholarship

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    and has a family background of singing in her family her grandmother was an opera singer. Ever since Taylor started recording her albums she has always wrote and performed all of her songs. She started performing at a very young age. At the age of 11 Taylor Swift performed the national anthem at a Philadelphia 76ers NBA game. (??) The contributions to Music demonstrated by the career of Taylor Swift to prove beyond a doubt the Country Music Hall of Fame should induct this singer Taylors worthiness

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    Case Study I have devised a presentation in order to critically analyse sports as spectacle, my research question consists of how Michael Jordan’s elite NBA career elevated media speculation. By critiquing theorists such as Debore, Abercrombie & Longhurst and Tomlinson I can illustrate how spectacle is perceived in our mediated society. Media In an era of global technology, instant news, infomercials, electronic town meetings, and “Made for TV Documentaries,” the borderlines between news

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    University when Bill Duffy, a sport agent, convinced Austin to sign a contract with him and leave school early for the National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft. Austin was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the second round and advised by Duffy to play for a professional basketball team in Russia, the CSKA Moscow (Heitner, 2009). In Heitner’s research (2009), it was revealed that Austin felt that Duffy misled him to leave school earlier than he wanted to. Austin eventually did bring a lawsuit against Duffy

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    He was a huge asset to the team, and the team meant a lot to him. Michael Jordan won a lot of awards over the years, some included the NCAA D1 championship, and the player of the year in 1984. He also made his first appearance in the Olympic Games being a part of the U.S. basketball team. That same year, the U.S. Team won a gold medal with Michael’s help. Michael Jordan left the University of North Carolina his junior year, and not long after, he was drafted by the Chicago Bulls (A&E Television

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    the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” is an opportunity for citizens to honor their country and reflect on the great liberties that they are afforded. It sounds simple but the anthem has become complicated. This is America 2016, a time where police officers are getting away with murder and a businessman is elected as our president. When the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick decided to not stand for the playing of the national anthem in the pre-season game of the NFL, he was

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    Although Nike was not the first athletic apparel company to produce fashionable and comfortable workout gear for women, it was the first company to push others in that direction through the 1985 Air Jordan. The shoe was originally banned from the NBA by Commissioner David Stern because it was too colorful and basketball shoes were to be mainly white. However, it never stopped Michael Jordan from wearing them. With Nike breaking these boundaries, it opened the athletic shoe market to make more fashionable

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    school careers of two boys from the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago. The aggressive authenticity of cinema verite does not only peek through in character emotion, but film’s beginning came together naturally. James tells Robert Ebert in 2009, "A

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    Introduction On August 8th, 1988 Wayne Gretzky gave a tearful farewell to Edmonton after being traded to the Los Angeles Kings. The Gretzky trade had effects beyond the two teams. The landscape of the National Hockey League changed in the years following the Gretzky trade. Ten years after the trade Anaheim, Dallas, Phoenix, Miami, San Jose, and Tampa were awarded NHL franchises. The National Hockey League’s southern expansion was partially driven by the attendance increase the Los Angeles Kings experienced

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