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AUSTIN, Texas--West Virginia University's basketball team is coming off a blowout win over the top-ranked Baylor Bears on Tuesday. Now the 10th-ranked Mountaineers travel to Texas to battle the Longhorns at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. WVU (14-2, 3-1 Big 12) has used its smothering pressure defense to wear down opponents all season. From the opening tip to the final buzzer, they are constantly in opponents' face. The Mountaineers forced Baylor to turn the ball over a season-high 29 times.…

Jay Cutler is a very famous body builder. He was born August 3,1973. He grew up in Massachusetts and lived there for quite some time. He has 3 brothers and 3 sisters. He was the youngest sibling. He received a college degree in Criminal Justice. Now that he is focussed on his body building he has moved to Las Vegas to live on with his wife, Kerry. He has always been involved in sports growing up. He didn’t get into body building until he was 18 years old. He started out just wanting to look…

experience I had was going to Greensboro, North Carolina this summer to compete in Seventh Grade Nationals with my Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball team. I always enjoy tournaments when we stay at a hotel for the weekend because I have a strong relationship with my teammates. However, this trip was something special. For almost a week, I had the opportunity to bond with my teammates, play basketball, relax, and explore Greensboro. In addition, I met some of relatives, who live in North…

The biggest lessons I've learned in high school is to never give up and accepting failure. As a kid in middle school I played basketball. I was always one of the best players. I was always in the starting lineup. I was always shooting three-pointers and averaging 23 points per game. Then I graduated and went to high school. I wanted to branch out and try other sports. Given my tall, long-limbed stature, I thought I should join cross country. Cross country is a sport in which a person runs for…

strongest spotlight and the brightest stars in America. Kobe, known simply by his first name to even those who haven’t watched a second of basketball, is mentioned with Michael Jordan and LeBron James as the faces of the sport in the last 20 years. So it’s no surprise that after his retirement was announced earlier this season, it assured crowding basketball headlines for the entire rest of the year. By now, at the beginning of February and nearing the All-Star break, Kobe’s season has…

As the new NBA season about to unfold months from now, many teams have upgraded their lineup, especially at the point guard position. The New York Knicks got former MVP Derrick Rose from the Chicago in a trade this offseason and the Indiana Pacers got Jeff Teague from the Atlanta Hawks thru trade also. But one team is doing the opposite. The Minnesota Timberwolves are looking to trade their star point guard Ricky Rubio in another team. It's been weeks that Rubio is involved in trade rumors…

Jordans are known and a really popular sneaker everywhere you look! Jordan’s should be everyone's favorite shoe because They are good for basketball. The first ever Jordan released was the “air Jordan 1’s” and those were released in 1965 and they were designed by Peter Moore, Tinker Hatfield, and Bruce Kilgore. Jordan has a shoe named after him because he was the best in the NBA at the time and he's known for his signature dunk he has made over 30 pairs of shoes they all have different names…

The piece of art that I chose to write about was, Basketball Superstars by Leroy Neiman, painted from November eleventh to December seventh. This painting was featured in the Hastings Gallery. In this painting I see a lot of the all time greatest basketball players. I see eleven time NBA Champion Bill Russell, the only player to ever score one hundred points in a game, Wilt Chamberlain. I also see Willis Reed, who I think is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julius Erving also known as Dr. J, and Oscar…

Elijah Macon that everybody thought we got when we recruited him," WVU head coach Bob Huggins said. "His attitude has been so much better. He’s become extremely coachable. He’s bought in more to trying to understand —not just play basketball, but understand basketball. We were supposed to run a back-cut when they were staring at the ball but it wasn’t suppose to be him. Then he back-cut the guy and looked over at me and winked. He’s listening.” It was the performance Macon's teammates knew he…

May of 1987, and Marquette for 3 years from 1987 to 1990, and she played soccer at Ripon and Marquette and basketball only at Ripon. Senior year in College, Patrick and his friends created an intramural basketball team to compete and play against other intramural teams at Ripon College. On day in the month of February, him and his friends were playing and then they saw a girl playing basketball on another court. Patrick asked his friend to go ask her later that day if she wanted to…