Women's basketball

I have grown up watching, playing, and studying many different sports, whether it be football, or baseball, or basketball, or sometimes even soccer. I have always enjoyed playing sports, however, as an athlete, I have a distinct responsibility to practice sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is one of the most important facets of sports today. Sportsmanship allows us athletes to hate the other team for the duration of the game, but respect them at the same time. Sportsmanship is defined as “fair-play,…

echoed through my head. It was the beginning of a chilly November, and the announcements for 8th-grade girls basketball starting up spread through the school like wildfire. I’ve always loved basketball, but never actually did it for school. The only sport I had been involved in was track, but…

father. Throughout the duration of the story we see Bobby's struggles while he raises his daughter, Feather, with no help from anyone else, not even the baby's mother, Nia. An example of a symbol of coming of age in The First Part Last is the basketball. In this part of the story, Bobby is leaving his apartment…

My hometown in the Sao Paulo, a metropolis that is located in the southeast region of Brazil. The municipality is a leading global city, being listed by the Globalization and World Cities, and furthermore is the most crowded city in Brazil, the Americas, and probably even the Southern Hemisphere. In its early years, the city gained a global status as a fashion center, for its culture and arts, and its thriving and never ending nightlife and dining scene. Growing up in Sao Paulo was packaged…

Swagger Book Review The novel Swagger by Carl Deuker is told through the mind of the main character Jonas Dolan as he attempts to adjust to moving to Seattle, California. Deuker is known for a book called Gym Candy, as well as many other basketball novels. He has written a plethora of novels in first person. He writes his novels in a first-person view in order to make the reader feel what the character feels. This really helps emphasize the theme of this book, which is decision-making and how…

Photo Careers A sports photographer males about $10,000-$20,000 a year. Their main responsibility is to get amazing action shots of the game. They take hundreds of photos of the game. They need great timing, quick reflexes and some knowledge of the sport. You basically get to travel with the team everywhere they go. Fashion photography is a very popular job among big cities. Its pay per year is $59,000. Someone in the fashion photography field has to know style as well as have a lot of…

Free throws wins games is most likely a phrase that most athletes hear from their basketball coaches. Even though they are only worth a point, they tend to occur at the most crucial parts of the game. For example, one second remains on the clock and your team is tied with the opposing one. The ball is in your hands, you control the outcome of the game. If you miss it, the other team has a chance to score and win. If you make it, your team wins. Thus, free throws win games. If only it was as…

2013 a nice and gorgeous day outside me, my brother, and his friends were all playing Basketball outside in front of my house. I decided to play Baseball because I was just getting bored of playing the same thing every time his friends came over, but that was a mistake. I learned my lesson not to play Baseball instead of Basketball. I was a little boy at the age of 9 and I wanted to combine Baseball and Basketball it would be called, Baseketball. I decided to grab a bat and told my brother’s…

It was a month before tryouts, on a windy Sunday afternoon. I was in my neighbor's backyard, which has a basketball hoop. In 7th grade I didn’t have the best year for basketball even though I made A team. This year I had to make sure this was different. I was practicing as I had been for the previous couple weeks, working on my jump shot, my contested layups, and free throws. I had a strict schedule where I would practice for at least 2 hours a day. I knew there was a good chance I would make…

breaks are five seconds of heart pounding and jaw dropping anxiety. While not everyone likes the sport, it is well known that basketball takes and extreme amount of love and dedication. Edward Hirsh shows this in the poem ?Fast Break? by using literature devices such as vivid words and similes. Hirsh uses similes to express the hard work and love put into the game of basketball. ?Gathering the orange leather from the air like a cherished possession,? (ll. 5-6) shows that the players have the…