College basketball

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. Every suicide and scrimmage was just a test to see how hard I could push myself and how I could improve. From this I have learned that the only way you can get what you want is if you go and work for it. The best feeling is finally achieving something after working hard for countless hours. Basketball has…

retired. Getting your number retired is telling you that all your hard work paid off, now a new future starts. But before any of that can happen my education was be completed. If you're grades are low in high-school you're off the team. Starting basketball in fifth grade gave me a rough start, while my friends started younger. So Making the NBA would prove them that it’s not about talent or shooting, it’s about hard work. One big motivation is my family. They sacrificed so much for me, now…

With a lifetime grossing income of over $90 million dollars, Space Jam is the top grossing basketball movie ever produced by almost $15 million dollars (Richard, 2016). Space Jam, according to the rotten tomatoes website, scored a 63% audience rating and a 37% on the tomatometer. Both of these scores, however, scored above the average mark set…

his final forecast of who would and wouldn't be accepted to medical school because of my firm belief I was put on this earth to be a doctor. Realizing it would be impossible to bring my B+ average up to an A average in one year, I saw the Medical College Admission Test as my newest challenge in life. The test, which was known to its past and future victims as the Med Cats, was a standardized test that theoretically measured aptitude for the study of Medicine. The test was a day-long, "multiple…

many kids and men all around the world that play basketball. But, in order to get that you have to want it more than the people next to you and around you. Basketball is played all around the world. It’s exciting, fun, and keeps people active. Many of people's goals have been achieved through the great sport of basketball. The culture of basketball has changed and grown ever since 1891. There is all sorts of things to basketball then just basketball. There’s always those players who are the…

Bird and Magic Johnson in there many face-offs for basketball glory. “When you think you have done enough, do a little more, because someone out there is working harder than you.” Jackie Macmullan really does a fantastic job telling the story on what it was like when the game was theirs. Magic Johnson and Larry Birds rivalry was unmatched, even to this day there hasn’t been a rivalry between 2 players of this magnitude. The rivalry between basketball legends Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird…

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…

My love for basketball started from my father taking me to see the Denver Nuggets. Music has always been a big part of my life. I have been writing music since 6th grade, It has always been like an escape for me. I can listen to literally anything and can enjoy it, my brother was the main person that got me into music, he would show me all the latest albums and would even show me oldies and classics such as Wu-Tang clan and The Isley-Brothers. During the end of my ninth grade year, my brother…

experiment surprised. I have read about Zimbardo’s Prison Study a couple of times but never have got to see a video of it in detail. Before watching the video I really underestimated how out of control the experiment got. I just can’t believe that decent college student can turn into the roles they were given in a couple of short days. The participants had really become either a prison guard or a prison. It is a scary thing that a person’s whole behavior can change just by giving them a certain…

” More than 300 fundraising efforts throughout the year supported the 4-day competition, which is the largest event for Special Olympics Texas. During the Games, athletes from more than 17 regional areas across Texas contend in track and field, basketball, cycling, soccer, tennis…