Everyone knows the game of basketball by now, but not many people know how it got started. Basketball was first discovered in Springfield, Massachusetts by a guy named Dr. James Naismith in 1891. Dr. Naismith was told by Dr. Luther Gulick, who was in charge of the Physical Education at the School of Christian Workers, to think of a new game. Dr. Naismith struggled to come up with something. His first idea was to bring soccer and lacrosse inside, but that was too physical. He finally thought of…
process I have learned a lot about high school basketball and how it relates to race and class in Los Angeles. I set out to research the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball scene in Los Angeles and identify issues of race and class within it. As a team manager for the USC basketball team, I have great interest in basketball and wanted to learn more about the sport I love and how it relates to this class. I knew that many high school basketball players play on AAU teams in addition to…
to the least bit, you were well aware that he would pull something like this to favorite his favorite children, and you had tried to not let this idiotic stuff phase you but you sometimes got a little angry. You were known to be the best female basketball player in the small town you lived in, yet still the bald-headed man never once looked at you like he looked at your…
gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score,” said the famous Pat Summitt, as she did an interview with Oprah. One may say that Summitt is the utmost inspirational woman to walk the earth. She was an American women’s college basketball coach who, throughout her career, helped people live their dreams and impressed many others. Pat Summitt was born on June 14th, 1952 in Clarksville, Tennessee. Throughout her childhood, her parents, Richard and Hazel Head were…
‘I don’t need to be in the gym six days a week in June to stay in shape,’ Sune Agbuke, a women’s basketball player at Baylor University, said. It’s not a new complaint, but it’s one the athletes said continues to be largely overlooked by those hoping to reform College sports. Juggling athletics and course work during the season is expectedly difficult…
Professional athletes have always been labeled as inspirational heroes, role models and compensated well for their talents. But now, collegiate athletes feel warranted in requesting compensation; however, this level of play is far from a “professional.” Student athletes must never receive compensation during college play. Universities cannot afford to pay a salary to an athlete. Athletic programs receive donations from past alumni and / or corporations, part of these donations help with the…
I am contacting you regarding the Walled Lake Central Women’s varsity basketball team. Three years ago when Robert Schopf was put in the position as head coach, the program decided to give him another chance even though he was terminated in the past. His inappropriate actions have not only appeared during the regular season, but also during summer league. During one summer he made unnecessary comments, some exemplifying prejudice, towards his players. For example, he told Peyton Brikho to stop…
I like playing basketball with my sons at the park.” (http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/walter-dean-myers-interview-transcript | Walter Dean Myers Interview paragraph 1).This shows that he liked to play basketball, with further research he had the passion for it during high school as well as writing. So the story Hoops relates to him a lot just because as he was in high school, he liked basketball so he put the main character in the story of Hoops to be playing basketball, which he…
Where baseball is the Dominican Republic’s “major source of cultural pride” (Klein in Sanabria, 320), basketball is our school’s cultural pride. Last night one of my friends scored is one thousand points of his varsity career. Social media was flooded from our South Kortright fans congratulating him. When he scored that one thousand point it wasn’t considered…
agents of socialization had on my nonmaterial culture, my high school peer group was generally positive and negative pressure was never difficult for me to avoid. Most of my friends and I shared similar family backgrounds and the love of organized basketball. We aspired to make the junior varsity, then the varsity teams and ultimately, reach the goal of a college student-athlete. As athletes, we were governed not only by the school’ s student code of conduct, but by the more strict…