I have played baseball ever since I was a young kid, but somehow, at seventeen I still had numerous struggles with it. You would think after my grandpa being drafted to the Pittsburgh Pirates, a Major League baseball team, and my dad getting a full ride to the University of Denver their skill would have rubbed off on me, but you would be wrong. I wasn't terrible, I could hit a 90 mile per hour fastball and I could, for the most part, field a ground ball. However, I was definitely not about to be scouted by the college scouts.…
Basketball Nerd “If only I could beat Tommy in basketball,” I though. Everyone would laugh at him and I could prove that I am good at sports. I have recently moved in because of getting bullied in other schools. I have gotten pushed into lockers, punched in the face and even locked in the teacher’s lounge. My parents are sick of me getting bullied.…
Basketball has been a part of my life as I have played it since I could remember. I was in the school’s team year after year and was even drafted for the team as high school came. However, a bike accident prior to the regional tournament took a toll on my body. The lower pelvic of my right foot was injured and could no longer withstand the stress of playing basketball. All hopes and expectations of playing in the high school team were shattered.…
THE EIGHT FOOT CIRCLE “Stand up for what you believe in even if that means standing alone”. When I was younger and got my first opportunity to stand up for myself without anyone pushing me to succeed things didn't go as planned. Although I didn't succeeded I took a lesson from it in the end. “Play ball” the umpire called out as we jogged on to the field. Like every game before I headed for third base.…
I bolted to the wing. Nabil had just caught the rebound. He took charge of the point. Trying to showcase his “great” dribbling, he got the basketball knocked out of his hands. The defender jumped for the ball.…
A time in my life when I attempted to fulfill my dreams was when I wanted to be able to dunk. It all started when I was 12 and in the 6th Grade. I was like 4’11 at the time and wanted to dunk in basketball. I set this goal because dunking had gotten my attention when I was watching basketball and watched the NBA Players attempt insane dunks. My Dunking goal was significant to me since I was shorter than the rest of the students and short people have trouble with dunking.…
Basketball made my friend range bigger, i talked to people I would have never talked to before. We had to get to know each other. If one of us failed, all…
When the game is tied up with 30 seconds left , nobody knows how it will turn out. Everyone is anxiously waiting to see the buzzer go off and someone is the winner. This time it is different because my team is going into another over time. If you’ve ever played basketball and the other team and your team are tied, you know what it feels like to be under pressure. You’re both trying to play better than the other and it’s chaos at that point.…
Basketball isn’t just a sport to me it’s my life. My dad was a coach of a boys team when I was first born, and my mom and I would always go to his games. In fact, his whole entire team signed a little plush basketball for me. I think that basketball is somewhere floating around my house still to this day.…
I look up through the piercing pain of sweat in my eyes between gasps of precious air. My tired and aching muscles are all soon quieted by the rush of accomplishment that overcomes me after every workout. That toxic smell of my soaked clothes is just a reminder of victory. When I started my high school basketball career I was a nobody that no one knew, but the following year I was able to make the varsity team. This was because I showed up everyday willing to work and get better.…
First Place in Basketball I woke up at 5:00am in the morning to take a warm shower. Usually I take fifty thousand years in the shower, but this time I think I stayed for about 40 minutes. After changing and eating breakfast, the sun was still sleeping, but I didn’t care and I left the house. The stars were still shining in the dark blue sky. I took a motorbike to school and it was so fast I felt like the driver broke the speed of sound.…
Basketball I woke up so early to eat breakfast because l had a big day. I got all my stuff ready for the game so I brushed my teeth. I had a basketball game today and my dad was coaching it was exciting because he was a good coach. My dad said to me, “ are you ready?”…
As a third generation Lakers fan, loving basketball is in my blood. When I was little, Dad used to explain basketball to me when we watched NBA games together. As I grew older and my knowledge of the sport expanded, Dad and I would discuss trades, scrimmage in our backyard, and debate who would win the championship that year. My passion for basketball intertwined with my enthusiasm for academics when I took a debate class in seventh grade. My first topic, I decided, was to debate why Byron Scott was the best replacement for legendary Lakers’ head-coach Phil Jackson after Jackson retired.…
Millions of people like to watch and play soccer and basketball. Although these two kinds of sports are very famous and have a lot of similarities, they have many differences, such as playground, number of players, time of the match and the goals or points. One important difference between soccer and basketball is a playground. The play ground in soccer is very big, and the lenght is 122 meters. The…
The first time I learned basketball was when I am at the 6th grade when my physical education teacher registered me in a basketball summer camp. I used to be a shy and quiet girl but since joining the summer camp I started to socialize and have friends. After two months of learning basketball, I began to like it. Then, I started playing basketball in high school as part of my school’s team and I’ve been playing ever since. It started out as just an activity, and then became a hobby that’s something fun to do but later on, I found that I really like basketball.…