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They even made it to where you can get a scholarship in basketball for college then if you were good turn around and go pro in basketball for both males and females. Sports has gotten to the point where they will pay you just for being good at it . You would even have people come out and watch how good your were and how you…

on the violent television shows or the video game with the most blood in it or even music with the most foul language and suggestive ideas. Along with another case where people like to blame it on media is a topic that also happened in 1998, In Springfield, Oregon where a boy named Kip Kinkel was accused of shooting and killing both parents. Later the next day found going too Thurston High School and shooting up his school. When questioned later that day why he did it, his response was “I am…

The Best of the NBA Have you ever wondered what basketball was in the olden days where basketball came from when was it first founded and who was the NBA Greats and how they played?The NBA was founded on June 6, 1946, in New York City it was invented by James Naismith.Earl Lloyd was the very first African American NBA player to ever play in the league and he was an African American. According to History “Lloyd grew up in Jim Crow Virginia, and went to West Virginia State where he was the star…

“The origins of basketball go as far back as the late 19th century, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dr. James Naismith, a physical education at the YMCA, had class was full of fractious men, and was told that he needed to create an indoor game to keep the class distracted. He created basketball in two weeks, and it originally had 13 rules. As a child, Naismith and his friends played “duck on a rock”, a game in which they tried to knock a large rock off of a boulder by throwing smaller rocks at it…

McGill University in Montreal, Canada and being athletic director at this sameUniversity, Naismith moved to Springfield, Massachusetts to join the YMCATraining School there. Being a physical educator he was dealing with the problemthat his students and workers could not play sports outside in winter and that therooms for indoor sports where rather small (History of Basketball, 2004). Hisprimary goal was to invent a game that, like duck-on-a-rock, did not rely onphysical strength…

Naismith designed and founded the game of basketball. He was to discover a game that would keep football players in shape during the off season. Basketball origin dates back almost two hundred years and the first game of basketball was played in Springfield, Massachusetts in December. The basic of the game is still the same although it has changed very much. The North Eastern part of the United States, it snows a lot so there were not many things for children to do when it was cold outside.…

design wise.The gameplay has also changed is the hoops,the hoops used to be peach baskets instead of metal goals. Basketball was created in 1891 by a P.E teacher named Dr.James naismith.James naismith was a man who loved sports and loved God.At the springfield Massachusetts YMCA James created basketball because he was thinking of a new sport to play in the winter time while it was cold outside.Basketball was based off a game called Duck on a rock where children would have a rock on another…

The history of basketball wasn’t really even created to be an individual sport itself. It was actually supposed to be a daily exercise or indoor activity in the YMCA. It was being in use for off season football players. They called a man to create the indoor activity. His name was James Naismith. (Sportsknowhow.com) He made a ball out of rubber in a sort of volleyball form and put up fruit baskets for hoops. The players had to dribble to the other side of the court and try to shoot the ball into…

you on a journey to understand how basketball became alive. It all started in December 1891 at the international YMCA training school where a group of college students were sent to play indoor activities to burn off their energy from building up from football season. The indoor activities that they had them doing, didn't help much and the college students didn't want to do them. 31-year-old James Naismith, decided to play a game in which would be played with a soccer ball. Dr.…

I was trying to choose what college I was going to attend that August after I graduated high school I had to think about many different things. I thought about what is the difference between this college and that college? How far was the college going to be from home? Each college that I visited had both good and bad qualities. My first choice was to attend Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, it was only fourteen miles away which is twenty minutes. My college visit there was…