International Boxing Federation

“Dream Team”, made u-p of the top American professional players, has stood up for the United States in the recent Olympic Games. In 1996 the “Dream Team” trailed some opponents until fairly late in the games- an indication of basketball’s growing international status. In Athens 2004, Argentina took the gold medal home. That’s the first time a Latin American country won the basketball honor. The rules to the game of Basketball is that the ball can be thrown in any direction with one or both hands. The

March Madness is the best time to watch basketball because it non stop college basketball with plenty of upsets. March madness is always fun to watch with family and friends to compete with them to find out who got the best bracket. But they need to get some more smaller and private schools into march madness and I feel has the lack of small and private schools is lacking. I feel that prices to see some of theses games is outrage the minimum pay is 100 to be way high up and to be down low it over

Boston Neighborhood Basketball League Concept Paper This summer 2016, the Boston Neighborhood Basketball League (BNBL) will celebrate 47 years of providing an outstanding recreational experience for thousands of youth in the City of Boston. It is the finest neighborhood basketball league in the country, encompassing sports recreation and community engagement. Its value is in its history and its people. BNBL has helped make Boston a “basketball town”. Even more valuable, it has helped make summers

A new sport was invented by William Morgan in 1895. “Morgan was an instructor at a YMCA and blended elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create this new sport.” (Evdokimoff 2011) Since the ball was “volleyed” over a net, it soon became known as volleyball. According to Evdokimoff, the first official game was played at Massachusetts College in 1896. Volleyball is considered an easy sport to those who have never played; however, it involves many skills, much determination, and

What color best suits me? As I thought of the characteristics of each color, it reminded me of my experience at the FFA Antique Tractor Pull I worked at last year. My advisor gave me the job of lining all the tractors up in the order in which they were supposed to pull. I thought how hard can this be? Within the first five minutes I was completely stressed out. Some tractors were on the left side of the track, some tractors were on the right side of the track, and nobody was in a perfect line where

This visualization was published by Todd Lindeman and Lazaro Gamio on 2014. It is an analysis on the performance of the team members of the Wizards team from the NBA. The visualization has the purpose of detecting the distances between the player and the hoop where the most efficient shots where taken. The content includes the distances of all the shots taken by the team, and different data per team member such as type of shots, shots missed, shot made, and a basketball court zone where the player

NBA Dr. James Naismith said “The invention of basketball was not accident. It was develop to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘drop the Handkerchief.” Dr. James A. Naismith an coach at the University of Kansas an inventor, he designed the first football helmet created basketball in 1891, Dr. James Naismith created basketball from an old childhood game called "Dock and rock", same goals applied a person had to score in a hoop but instead with a ball you use a rock and you throw in a

about one hundred and twenty five years and over twenty six million Americans play basketball. It began on December 1, 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith. They started to play the game at an International Training School of the Young Men’s Christian Association known as the YMCA. He invented the game trying to keep young athletes in shape during the cold. It consisted of 9 players on each team. Also they used peach baskets and a soccer style ball

I am reading Swagger by Carl Deuker and I finished the book. This book is about Jonas Dolan, a 17-year old basketball player that has moved to Seattle to start a new life. Not only does he have a spot on his new team, but he also needs to grind in the offseason to impress a coach that wants to give him a scholarship. When a new coach takes over coaching his high school team, Jonas starts playing well with the guys on his team. The new coach’s style of play is a lot like Jonas’, and the team started

A HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS IN THE NBA INTRODUCTION International players are athletes who aren’t born in the United States, but come to the country to play in the National Basketball Association. There’s a large number of international players in today’s NBA. International players have been playing professional basketball in America since 1946 (NBA.com, 2014). Many international players have had success in the NBA. The National Basketball Association is the best professional basketball