United States men's national basketball team

basketball is better than football because less players get injured.football statics shows that football player get over 60% concussions per 100,000 players , also per game or practice.basketball statics shows that 22% of all male basketball players sustained at least one time loss injury each year. The percentages show approximately 42% of injuries were to ankles and foot injuries, far outnumber other injured body categories such as hip/thigh ,and knee(9%). Basketball is better because it is…

The beginning of Team USA basketball really started making the game of basketball well known to people across the United States. The history of how it started and how far it has gone has also made it very interesting to see the growth throughout the years. Team USA began with just a couple of tryouts in a couple of different cities and now it is one of the most popular things in the US. From the first years of Team USA basketball, they started to dominate and they have continued to do so as time…

At the start of the 20th century, many small scale leagues were created for the operation of professional hockey. The current league, National Hockey League (NHL) was founded in 1917 to structuralize the various teams around North America. NHL reviews rule changes and schedules the games in which the many teams play. Ice Hockey is considered one of the 4 most popular sports in North America, as well as being very prominent in Canada. Thus, ice hockey is a very popular sport…

Marion Jones: Press Pause Iyanna Rivera-Gough University of Arizona The film focuses on the highly dynamic struggle a woman, Marion Jones, faces as a basketball, and track and field star. Although being a post-title IX athlete, Jones’ story tells of gender issues that still existed during her stardom, including socialization, physical gender gaps, media coverage, availability of female coaches, and the female physique within sports. The film illustrates the chronicles and journey of becoming…

The University of Kentucky is superior to SIUE in many aspects such as academics, athletics, and housing options. The University of Kentucky is consistently ranked within the top 100 public colleges in the United States. The median ACT score for UK is around 25, which is above the national average of 21. This means they are more…

The passion for soccer in Sioux Falls can be improved if high school soccer games begin to be televised. Often times football, baseball, and basketball games are shown on local TV broadcasts. From personal experience, I have never seen a high school soccer game broadcasted on TV in Sioux Falls. This is a problem because other sports are getting more exposure and as explained above, more exposure leads to more popularity. The graph below in Figure 2 shows the popularity in football vs. soccer…

Jr. of Oklahoma State University is the leading sports geographer and his research from 1974 in his book A Geography of American Sport from Cabin Creek to Anaheim is the foundation of sport geography research. In 1974, when Rooney did his research, he determined “The region encompassing Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and spilling over into several adjacent states is truly phenomenal as a player source region” (Rooney, 1974 p. 156). Rooney defined a player being from a certain state based on the…

proposed and shot down by the National Federation High School Basketball Rules Committee (Obert np).” Each year, the call for a shot clock is evident during high school basketball games. Many people believe that the shot clock would improve the game; nevertheless others maintain the belief that if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it. While the game of basketball is constantly evolving, it is essential that the rules evolve as well. Throughout history we can see the rules of basketball have evolved…

Physical education. Physical education is defined as the “curricular area that teaches about physical activity” (Burgeson 1). In this sense, it is different from just physical activities. Here, in the United States for example, it is agreed that students may be physically active in activities such as basketball, football, and other sports and recess. But this does not eliminate the need for physical education as an institutional program. The elements of a good physical education program include…

at what they do even though they spent most of the time on the field during their college career. According to NCAA, only 1.3% of men’s basketball players go professional and 1.6% football players continue their careers in NFL (Wilbon, Michael). For comparison, only 0.9% women’s basketball goes professional, for baseball, 9.7%, for men’s ice hockey, 1.2%, and for men’s soccer only 0.7%. So, the chances are low to become a professional and start earning money for what you were doing since college…