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Every kid who plays a sport, has someone they idolize and eventually they will want to be just as successful or maybe even more successful than that person. But what makes that person successful? Is it the money? Is it the fame? Is it the flashy clothes and cars? Well, while all of that comes along with the success, it does not make an athlete successful. What makes an athlete successful is their talent, but also their determination, desire and their leadership qualities. The God given talent…

Despite wrapping up the most successful regular season in franchise history, there is a general sense around the league that the Toronto Raptors have accomplished nothing. 21 seasons of (mostly) underachievement doesn’t help. 1 playoff series win and 7 playoff series losses don’t help. Zero best-of-seven playoff series wins definitely won’t help. Consecutive playoff series losses as the higher seed……well, you get the picture! Are you still reading? Because that’s all the negativity you’re…

wouldn't stand a chance in the NBA. So what he did was he proved that he could stand a chance by carrying his team to the AAU championship and he won it. The week after he won the AAU championship, he got a call from the general manager from the Cleveland Cavaliers they wanted to draft him and be a 6th man small forward. The author uses “Viewpoint”, as on author's craft were he uses LeBron James perspective. It really brought the story to life because it's not just some guy that goes to every…

LeBron says in the last line of the commercial, “You’re not supposed to be here, yet here you are”. The clip shows him walking on to the court to play for the NBA team the Cleveland Cavaliers. Knowing LeBron’s childhood that he moved nearly a dozen times in a year missing about 100 days of school of the 4th grade, having slim to no money and growing up off welfare, not knowing who his real dad was, and growing up in Akron, Ohio…

sound evidence, the Cleveland Clinic listed the top 10 Medical Innovations in 2016. Appropriately, vaccines preventing public health epidemics was ranked at the top of the list due to the horrifying outbreaks of Ebola and meningococcal B viruses that affected thousands in early 2016. Although this stands as a very profound case, dozens more remain that deserve recognition. Especially, cellular immunotherapy treating leukemia and lymphoma. Resourcefully written, the Cleveland Clinic writes,…

CHILDREN IN the United States are routinely taught that Abraham Lincoln of Illinois freed the slaves. But few children learn that Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana devoted his life to ending wage slavery. Ray Ginger’s wonderful biography of Debs—The Bending Cross—first published in 1949, and reprinted by Haymarket Books in 2007—introduces readers to a working-class hero as well as a period of immense struggle from below often treated as a footnote in most U. S. histories. Some of Debs’ contemporary…

However 2013 was not the beginning of his injury timeline. 2008: Broken finger and injured ribs In 2008 the Dallas Cowboys started off the season to a great start, and many thought that they were Super Bowl contenders. In a game against the Cleveland Browns, Romo was hit in his chin by the helmet of one of the Browns linebackers. Romo had to get 13 stiches after the game but he was still eligible to play the next game. 2 weeks later the cowboys were 4-1 going into a game against the Arizona…

There haven’t been many constants in my life so far, but my love for and almost reliance on sports has been one of the most consistent things that I have come to know. Growing up in a huge, Catholic family of seven children was destined to be a place where athletics thrived; although we never quite had enough kids for even teams. I had an interesting introduction to sports; when I was about one-year old, my parents moved my whole family from our home of Akron, Ohio to Manchester, Vermont, where…

Basketball Basketball was invented in the year 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts by a Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith. Naismith devised this game to condition his young athletes during the colder months. The sport did not begin with an actual basketball and two nets. It originally consisted of peach baskets and a soccer ball. He established thirteen rules and divided the teams into nine players each. The objective of the game was to throw the soccer ball into the…

interested in what had driven her students to find their passion in dance. So to find out she gave an assignment for each student to write a paper on how they fell in love with dance. In John’s case, falling in love with dance seemed as likely as the Cleveland Browns ever winning the Super Bowl. Growing up John was never the most slender kid. He always had a big appetite and a love for the sweets. His body weight was never a concern or a problem for him until he reached high school. John’s home…