The Great Game

The game of golf is almost more mental than it is physical. Having the ability to control one’s thoughts and emotions can turn good players into great ones. Many players learn how to play the game physically, but cannot ever make a leap towards better golf due to their actions and thoughts on the course. When playing bad, all it may take is a change in mindset or attitude to get one back on track. Sometimes it’s a little change in swing thought that will turn one’s round around. Maybe a new…

The Last Game “C’mon Blue!” “Get your head in the game!”, a parent hollered from the stands. My mind was muddled from the heat, giving me the cognitive ability of a three year old. It wasn’t the first time I had heard criticism during the game, but I was hoping it would be the last. I vowed to myself that if I managed to make it through the game alive, I would never umpire again. “I’ll give you five dollars if you umpire the plate for the second game,” I said to Nate. He looked back at me…

It was the end of my sophomore soccer season on Junior Varsity. We didn't win a single game and got blown out by large margins game after game. It hurt me to leave the field on our last game with so little success in the entire season. I was deeply disappointed and wanted deep down to have more success . I knew next year was different I was going to pour my heart and soul and make the Varsity and move on from this year. Thats what I did the next summer I showed up and early to every day of…

The crowd chanting my name, “ James James”. Kyrie “ C'mon Lebron stop choking we need to win this game, we are already done 3 - 1”. I know i'm doing bad, just get out there and keep making shots for me, fatigue is starting to strike. Announcer “ 36 seconds left, Lebron makes a clutch lay up, Cavs down by 12”. Coach call a timeout, Jr we need you man make this clutch three. Announcer “ Jr. Smith with a clutch three warriors up 9 in oracle arena ” . It's over man ugh kyrie it's all your fault…

If there is a sport in which a woman doesn’t need to be as big or strong or fast as a man, it’s baseball. The great American pastime is the logical place to begin gender integration of professional sports. A woman can, and someday should, make the seminal play of a game, or score the winning run in the World Series. It’s time for this to come to pass, and it’s not happening. I just have to wonder why.” (Via Bleacher Report) Baseball is…

couldn’t believe she didn’t sign up to coach. One of the guys at the table then turned to me and told me he was there when my mom scored the winning basket at the Boston Garden to take the team to the state championship game. When we got home later that night I asked my mom about that game. She took our her picture in the newspaper of her scoring the winning basket as well as all her other basketball memorabilia and I was hooked. I knew then and there all I wanted to do in life was win…

“Basketball is not only a sport it’s my Passion, my mission, & My Lifestyle.” Some people consider basketball to just be a sport but it’s a lifestyle for me & many others.! A Lot of people eat, sleep, and dream all about basketball. Basketball is a good way keep you a health human! Basketball is important to me because it’s a nice sport to keep you out of trouble, & may potentially carry you to college & so on. Basketball is a sport that I can make a living off of doing something that I love…

against Chiawana. This was a huge step to play varsity soccer as a freshman in high school. Two minutes into the game, I was down and couldn’t play the rest of the season due to tearing my left ACL and lateral meniscus. This injury was the first and last as I wished upon. I came back the next year after rehabilitation of over nine months, with determination and a heavy heart for the game. This experience guided me to letter four years as a varsity athlete in high school. Soccer has been a life…

ball in. The game of basketball is really important if someone wants to play. Knowing what to do when they have the ball, and when they don’t. Dribbling with head up, looking to pass. Hard dribbles everywhere, pound dribbles when drive. Be creative with drives, use different moves to get around defense. Pass the ball, until open. Follow through when shoot, go after ball. Smart defense, smart fouls. Play smart, no elbowing. Run don’t walk, and always moving. Last, let the refs ref the game, do…

Football is, in my opinion, a beautiful game. I absolutely love the game on every level. Football has impacted my life in an extremely positive way. I’ve learned so many valuable lessons in my life through the game of football. Michael Oher’s life is portrayed in the movie the Blind Side. My life and Michael Oher’s life are very different, but the impact of the game on our lives may very well be similar. Going from being a struggling homeless kid to a division one athlete is quite the…