NBA Finals

all kind of sports at Oregon they do basketball, baseball, football, volleyball, etc. My favorite sport at Oregon would have to be basketball they are really good at basketball. They have an amazing coach also. Dana Altman has taken Oregon to many final four games and many national championship games and winning. Oregon also has a great football team. Oregon administrative staff put lots of money and effort into the football team. Oregon has had lots of players go pro in many sports. Dillon…

Have you ever heard of the famous NBA player, Magic Johnson? He had a very success career back in the day. He was born on August 14, 1949, is now currently a retired. He played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers for over ten seasons. He also won MVP in the NBA finals on his rookie year. He was also one of the top 50 best players in history. With all these great accomplishments, it goes without saying that he is very success. Not only is he successful, but he is wealthy. His network is about…

Legendary UCLA head basketball coach John Wooden has died. The 99 year old was well known for his legacy as the UCLA Bruins head basketball coach. His impact was remarkable considering how many people and players he touched during his basketball career. Wooden was and always will be basketball. When anyone mentioned any reference to greatness in the sport, John Wooden was the first to come to mind. For many years, Wooden led UCLA to National Titles and produced players that went on to bigger…

Pre-Test Essay The beginning of sneakers started around 3,000 years ago with the Mayan, Olmec and Aztec civilizations. The first rubber soled “shoe” was in this age, made by sticking ones feet in them sap from a rubber tree. After the rubber had cooled, the rubber on the foot would be peeled off, and heated over a fire. This hardens the shoe making it flexible, and waterproof. From this point on sneakers started to develop into more of what we see sneakers as today. Modern sneakers were…

after James Naismith. Before Naismith introduced it to boys, it was known as a girl sport. On February 4, 1899, Kansas played its first varsity game at an ice skate rink. 150 people attended the game, now they have 16,300 people at every game. The final score was 16-5. The Jayhawks lost.…

As most high school students stress over their college admission, some stress over trying to get an athletic scholarship. Athletic scholarships can let the student get a real chance at a better life or even a chance at becoming a pro. College is a time where people can explore career options, have fun and experience the real world. To a student athlete, college exists as a path to a successful career, however, collegiate athletes who have potential in a professional career in sports view college…

2015, par.1). Abby Wambach has broken the stereotype that women are not as good athletes as men; she has outscored even the soccer greats, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Another great example is midfielder, Carli Lloyd, who in the World Cup final, “scored a historic hat trick, with all three goals occurring within the first sixteen minutes of the game.” (Pennsylvania Conference for Women, 2015, Par.3). Lloyd’s hat trick is the fastest three goals to happen in the history of the tournament,…

‘Media event’ is a term first coined by Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz with regard to the festive viewing of television. A media event consists of three levels—syntactics (the interruption of the normal routines), semantics (the asserted meaning of the event) and pragmatics (the response of a committed audience). (Dayan and Katz 1992, p. 14) These occasions are preplanned, promoted and presented live to the viewers (Dayan and Katz 1992, pp. 5-7) which thus create a disruption of dailiness including…

I chose to write a parody of LeBron James returning back to Cleveland, after leaving for Miami in 2014. I found a lot of similarities between Act 1 and the events that transpired in the fall in 2014. LeBron James is arguably one of the best basketball players of all time and was seen by many as the heir to Michael Jordan. Therefore he was dubbed by the media as King James in the wake of his basketball success and accolades he had achieved by the fall of 2014. I found this to share similar…

teach you all they can, but eventually you learn the most from what you consume. Mine was the television. In that summer of 2009, along with the rest of the world, I learned a lot. I remember going to my uncle's house and how big of a deal this NBA Finals series was for the name of Kobe Bryant. “He has to win one without Shaq or else he’s just another accessory player,” this and that. And Kobe showed and proved, on and off the court. Up two-zero, a reporter for NBA.com asks Kobe why he isn’t…