College basketball

championship game, Hannahville inbounds the ball, and I steal it. Three, two, one, I have a wide open layup, and I choke. Preparing for the championship game was a struggle, physically and mentally. We all put in hard work, and were determined to win. Our basketball team hadn’t won a championship game since 1992. It was my senior year and my last shot at redemption against the defending champs. The whole season we only lost one game, we were projected to lose, and we were the underdogs. We had…

College sports have become a universal pastime for many Americans. Popularity of college sports has peaked with the 2014 inaugural college football playoffs, becoming “[t]he two most-watched broadcasts in cable TV history,” with a combined total of 56.5 million viewers between the two semifinal games according to CNN (Pallotta). Young men playing college sports are exciting as it brings back the college atmosphere that many older individuals crave. However, some question if African-American…

do these people have in common? They play basketball. It is playable at many different levels. There are high school, college, professional, and even international teams. Basketball has become so popular due to the simplicity of it. The game as we know it wasn 't always the way we think of it today. Basketball has evolved in many ways over the years with all the history, rules refinements, rule additions, and the basic play. Today 's version of basketball is very different from the original…

of Ken Carter who returns to his former high school to bring back the basketball team. This school was in an African American community, where graduating only occurred about half of the time. The school allowed the players to walk around like they were above the law and saw basketball as the best times of the lives of many of the players- not the potential of them to be successful in school, let alone graduate or go to college. Carter changed the lives of many by changing the expectations of the…

What It Takes to Work Hard Work is means something different for everyone. How is it possible to work hard if we do not even know what work is? To me, work means an action you do to better yourself or an object. There has to be a motive behind the world to be granted the reward in the end which is success. Anybody that is motivated wants or needs to be successful within their lifetime. Maria Bartiromo, a well known American television journalist and magazine columnist, had once said, "I think…

My professional goal is to become a NBA player. I choose this professional goal, because I was playing basketball since I was young till now. Also I love to play basketball with my family’s and friends. This professional goal is important to me because I love it, and also its pretty fun playing with other teams, plus you also get paid while you playing. Sport is one of the good things that I like to do in my life. This professional goal is good to those who are not healthy because if they grew…

non-other. One of the biggest concerns when first heading off to college is will you be able to make friends. By pure chance I was assigned to room with a freshman basketball player, we quickly became good friends. I also quickly became friends with the entire basketball team and now find myself living in a suite, apartment style housing located at the North end of campus, composed entirely of basketball players and myself. The basketball team has become my best friends and me one of…

schoolers want to make money in the NBA right away, they should still consider getting an education in college before entering the draft. When first considering whether to get drafted directly out of high school, players need to see the positives of going to college and not straight to the NBA. When an 18 year old first leaves the house for college, they usually need a little bit…

activity that will be used in this paper is basketball. Basketball has grown since it has been created, becoming one of the United States most popular sports. Studies say, a form of basketball dates over five hundred years ago. Faurschou’s (2005) studies found the following: The First basketball type game may have been played by the early Olmec people of ancient Mexico as early as 500 years ago. The Aztec and Mayan cultures also had a game similar to basketball, only instead of a rubber ball…

Teaching college students can be challenging. But for those who love what they do the challenge is what keeps us going. Every year new students come in and out of my lecture hall. Some you will never talk to, some you somehow can’t get them to stop talking, and then others leave a lasting imprint on their fellow peers, faculty and staff. Our students are relentlessly challenging what we thought we knew about a subject and class that we have been teaching for numerous years. But as a college…