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    The sound of my basketball going through the hoop is so satisfying. The hours go by so fast that I don’t even notice. It’s starting to sunset, meaning it’s time to go inside, but my hoop and basketball will be waiting for me tomorrow. Can you tell I really like basketball? As a kid and growing up with brothers I had to get use to them doing different hobbies then myself. For one, I had to accept the fact that my brothers weren’t going to sit down and play baby dolls or tea time with me. They were

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    The film, Coach Carter directed by Thomas Carter, is based on the true story of a basketball coach in Richmond, California. The basketball coach, Ken Carter, appeared on the news in 1999 when he suspended his players from their basketball games because they cared more about basketball than their grades. Through proper leadership, the players learned that it takes more than basketball to escape the harsh reality of the inner city. They found that the right authority figures, proper ethics and academic

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    Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike Essay

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    of the basketball team? He still holds most of the records for the team. He scored more points than anyone else in the school’s history. He never studied much because he was an athlete. His basketball skills were going to take him places. But high school ended and there are no more games to be played. Where is that former all-star now? In his poem “Ex-Basketball Player,” John Updike examines the life of a former high school basketball star. Flick Webb was a local hero, and he loved basketball. He never

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    In basketball, the point guard is the ball carrier. They need to avoid getting the ball stolen from them by defenders, and run the plays that may or may not lead to a score by the end of the possession. The three main fitness components that are required for a basketball point guard would be agility, co-ordination and aerobic capacity, and the most dominate fitness system would be aerobic system. The first fitness component required by a point guard is agility. The definition of agility is the ability

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    interview for this position the supervisor was astonished by my academic achievements, the awards I’ve won during my Girl’s Varsity Basketball

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    In my life I have been involved in many service “projects”. One service that I have always participated in and enjoy doing is helping the boys in sixth grade and below. I have worked many boys basketball tournaments and helped out at these tournaments. I have also went to the saturday morning boys basketball practices as well as the camps that have taken place over the years. At these practices and the camps I lead the boys in drills, help them out, and teach them. I have also helped out at the preschool

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    Chapter 11. I will use these excerpts from Chapter 11 of our text book to explain why the examples/quotes from the film, that I have pointed out, demonstrate good communication skills. The film “Coach Carter” is a great film about a high school basketball team that is located in a bad area of town. The

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    greatest game of all time. Basketball was invented December 1891 at a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts. The game was invented to be an indoor game for students to play during the cold winter months since there were no previous indoor game that could involve a whole class. Basketball started out with only 13 rules that were made by Naismith in 1891 and the rules have continued to grow and change up to present day. The change that had the biggest impact on how basketball is played was the introduction

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    starting a very important life and works very hard to get what he wants! My brothers hard work is working well for him. He worked hard and kept working and got the position for his basketball team. Do to his hard work everyday doing his best he got a lot of playing time and never quit even if the other team was better,besides basketball also played football, one of his favorite sports so he tried his hardest and gothe his

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    learn from it? The answer is yes, but it is a successful failure because you learned from it. Failure is possibly the best way to learn, such as the time I got thrown out of basketball practice freshman year. I got in a futile argument(i just made a comment) with my coach over what position he wanted me to play versus what position I thought I should play. I ended up getting thrown out of practice and had to call my mom to come pick me up while I started walking down the road. I was devastated because

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