...Confusing Basketball Rules When taking a charge, does the defensive player have to be still? Basketball rules state that if a defensive player is in a legal defensive stance or position, the defensive player has the right to move in order to maintain his legal positioning. A charging call can be made even if the defensive player has one or both feet off of the ground when the offensive player makes contact with the defensive player. The basketball rule of “verticality” applies here. If a defensive player jumps straight up to block a shot and the offensive player jumps into and creates contact with the defender, an offensive charging call could be made. (Therefore, it is more important if a defender is squared up and contact is made to the defender’s chest than if the defender is moving.) Is a dribble illegal if it goes over the ball handler’s head? Basketball rules states if the ball handler doesn’t “palm” the ball or place their hand under the ball, there is no dribbling violation. There is no basketball rule or restriction on how high a dribble can go. Is reaching into an offensive player's area a foul? If a defensive player “reaches in” to attempt a steal or distract the offensive player they are guarding and doesn’t create any contact, no foul should be called. Reaching in isn’t necessarily a foul until contact is created. Basketball rules state that the foul isn’t called reaching in, but holding or pushing. Is over the back a foul when rebounding a basketball? Officials...
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...common area for kids and family to engage in athletic or physical activities. The proposed project is the construction of a two acre park and recreation area that consist of one softball field, one full court basketball court, one tiny tots playground area and one club house with two sets of his and her restrooms. Selecting the project financial or non-financial method The Winterseat park and recreation area has an estimated cost of $75,000. Funds are produce from the collective amount of the resident’s fees which is collected by the home owner association. The cost will cover all supplies and man power, Scope Statement PROJECT OBJECTIVE To construct high school regulation size basketball full court. Construct regulation size softball filed. Construct one story clubhouse. Construct tiny tots outdoor play area with see saw, swings, and slides. The play area provide the community a location to engage in physical activities for young and old. The play area also make the community more desirable for new home buyers. Project not to exceed $75,000.00. DELIVERABLES * 2000 sq. ft. clubhouse with Kitchen area, common area and two sets his and her bathrooms. * Regulation high school full court basketball court. 84' long by 50' wide * Regulation softball field. 270 to 320 feet * Tiny tots play area with 2 see saw, 2 slides, 6 swings MILESTONES 1. Permits approved—May 1 2. Field...
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...Vin Smith Professor King ENG 100 21 October 2015 Basketball: The teaching of the game. Basketball is one of the world’s most popular sports. Basketball is a sport played by two teams’ and their task is to shoot the ball through a circular rim, with a net hanging from it. Each team has five players and they play on a rectangular court having two baskets on both ends. The regulation basketball hoop consists of a rim or basket attached to a backboard. A team scores by shooting the ball through the net. A player scores 2 points if they shoot the ball and make the shot within the three point line and 3 points if they shoot the ball outside the three- point line. In order to play the game, players have to know the rules, the fouls of the game, and the regulation of the game. First, there are rules that all teams must follow to make the go smooth. The ball advances on the court either by dribbling while running or walking, or by passing from one player to another. Dribbling means to bounce to bounce the ball with your hands. However, it is against the rules not to dribble the ball while moving, to double dribble, or to carry it. Double dribbling means to hold the ball with both hands and then dribble the ball with both hands. A player should not step with both of their feet or this will be called traveling. If the player’s hand is under the ball and then they start to dribble the ball, then this will be carrying. A player cannot hit the ball with their fist or kick the ball with...
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...Do you think the National Basketball Association’s rule of making a player wait to be drafted after being one year removed from high school is unfair? Many high school basketball players think this rule is also unfair. They think this rule is unjust because college is not necessary for professional basketball players. Going to college and playing college basketball can be very helpful to the league, but it is not necessary. It is not guaranteed that you will be a well skilled player, or quite possibly a better player, if you go to college for one or more years instead of coming directly out of high school. Many National Basketball Association legends and future legends have bypassed college and has or is having a very successful and tenured career. LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, and Kobe Bryant are just a few high school phenoms who turned professional and had sensational careers. Turning professional directly out of high school is a great idea, but it is also very controversial. Remember when Taylor Swift moved to Nashville at the age of fourteen to become a country music star and everyone ridiculed her and her parents for the...
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...SPM 210 Why should College Athletes Get Paid? By Calvin Mainor E013280 11/20/2013 Under current NCAA regulations, "all student athletes are prohibited from receiving any payment for their efforts". Exploited athletes generate millions of dollars for their schools, and never see a dime. Is this fair? The universities, coaches, boosters, scouts for recruiting purpose are all getting paid off the players. But the major reasons why the stadiums and arenas are filled up are because of the players but they don’t see a penny of the money. Some universities build academic buildings on campus with the money that the players make for the school. Some coaches even get a percentage of the tickets revenue from the home games the players get nothing. The school pays coaches millions of dollars to coach the player who do the work. The college athletes are slaves to the schools and the coaches. The coaches treat the players as workhorses; the student-athletes can’t even choose their own major sometimes. The student-athletes can’t have a job so where are they supposed to get money from. People say that student-athletes get four-year scholarship, or a free education, but that is not true. Student-athletes only get a year to year scholarship which they can be dropped from the scholarship for a number of reasons. The idea of college athletes being slaves have to get settled for the greater good of athletes and institutions graduation rates. College sports are big business...
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...basketball and football are the most profitable collegiate sports. For example, March Madness the college basketball post season made $1.15 billion in ad revenue in 2013 (Van Ripper). It is a proven fact that college athletics is a revenue giant so why can’t these athletes get paid to play. Instead, college athletes the main attraction, for endorsement companies, and fanatics, are paid with a scholarship that is worth, an average of $50,000 in four years depending on universities (Jennings). In addition, collegiate athletes are forced to agree to harsh rules and regulations that prevent them from being normal collage students. Therefore, college athletes deserve financial recognition for the merchandise profit they generate, as well as the opportunity to pursue their own financial gains. As athletes, they work hard on the field every day to bring in fans and wins for their school; it’s only fair that they are rewarded for their efforts, at least in some small way. Background, According to the NCAA in order to play college sports every athlete must be amateur certified. Yet, what exactly makes a collegiate athlete an amateur? The NCAA has struggled to properly answer this question for a long time. Therefore, as of 2007, the NCAA amateur rules are as follows. Collage athletes are prohibited from, signing contracts with professional teams, earning salary for participating in athletics, earning prize money above actual and necessary expenses, playing with professionals, trying out...
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...Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.0 m) high mounted to a backboard at each end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.[1] A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play. A field goal scores two points for the shooting team if a player is touching or closer to the basket than the three-point line, and three points (known commonly as a 3 pointer or three) if the player is behind the three-point line. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time (overtime) may be issued when the game ends with a draw. The ball can be advanced on the court by bouncing it while walking or running or throwing it to a team mate. It is a violation to move without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. Violations are called "fouls". A personal foul is penalized, and a free throw is usually awarded to an offensive player if he is fouled while shooting the ball. A technical foul may also be issued when certain infractions occur, most commonly for unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of a player or coach. A technical foul gives the opposing team a free throw, and the opposing team also retains possession of the ball. As well as many techniques for shooting, passing, dribbling and rebounding, basketball has...
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...Professor D.S. English Comp 112 8 March 2015 To Pay or Not to Pay Paying for a college education is one of the vast struggles of being a student. If a student is gifted with intelligence or stifling speed and athleticism they have a chance to earn a scholarship that virtually pays for their entire college experience. In recent history it is apparent that for some student-athletes this money is not enough, bringing up a burning question in college sports: should college athletes be paid? Some believe that it is essential for them to be paid for their hard work and dedication. Others believe that they are already relieved of future college debt, so why give them more? Each spectrum of this argument provides clear and concise evidence making it difficult to decipher which route may be the most reasonable. College is an expensive endeavor and student-athletes already gain a financial advantage and significantly larger benefits over the majority of the student population. The NCAA has always been considered an amateur league. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, an amateur is defined as, “one who cultivates anything as a pastime, as distinguished from one who prosecutes it professionally; hence, sometimes used disparagingly, as = dabbler, or superficial student or worker.” In 1957 the NCAA came to the conclusion, after years of avoiding the pressure, to subsidize and grant athletic scholarships. As young sports fans we aspire to be like our favorite athletes...
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...High Hoops February 26, 2013 Chris Herren a former college basketball standout turned NBA bust, had one thing holding him back throughout his basketball career, drug abuse. The story of his life has many twists and turns all of which he portrays in his inspirational speeches. He is not on any of the top 100 lists of great American orators because his speeches are not directed towards the masses instead he reaches out to high school students in hopes that they will not make the same mistakes he did. Chris Herren grew up in Fall River MA, a relatively small town outside of Boston. He attended Durfee High School from 1990-1994. It is here that his life began to spiral out of control. As a freshman, it was evident that his talents on the court surpassed that of all of his predecessors. But, his decisions off the court ultimately lead to his fall from grace. In his book he notes that during his high school years drinking, drugs, and fighting came before basketball. Despite this, he still managed to have the greatest high school basketball career Durfee High had ever witnessed. As word spread of his talents, the Burdon of the city fell on his back. He describes Fall River in one powerful sentence. “Fall River, it teaches you from a very young age, to fight, to punch first, to be loyal, to never let any friend be left behind, and it gets a bad rap for that.” Following his standout freshman year, the best College basketball teams began recruiting...
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...getting paid. This is the life of a college athlete. If going to school isn't already stressful enough, imagine adding practice multiple times a day, working a job (if possible), doing homework, and finding time to relax all into that one 24-hour period. College athletes should get paid because their restricting schedules denies them the opportunity to work. The National Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA) is a multi-million dollar non-profit association in charge of thousands of athletes. The 460,000 plus athletes compete in 24 sports year-round which are divided into divisions appropriate for the school of their attendance. Of those 460,000 plus athletes, none of them receive any type of payment for their services legally. They can receive things of monetary value illegally, but this would unnecessarily if they got paid for their services. People or even you may wonder why this topic is important. The importance of this topic is that it's been a rising issue for years but there has never been an answer to this issue. Hopefully, I can help with the issue but for now let's discuss why they should get paid. The famous Ball brothers Lonzo (19) and LaMelo (15) were both scouted and drafted from early on in their basketball careers. They...
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...imposed these rules, as a way of disciplining the players. Through this, they can be more respectful to their peers or colleagues, which will inevitably aid them through the development of important social skills. Imposing these rules will also aid the players to obtain a much better future, combining their basketball skills with good academics ensures that they have a future in college. By doing so, the players prove the statistics wrong (50% of the school’s students graduate, and only a handful of those who graduate, enter college), which means that there will grow to be more hope in the educator's eyes, through hard work, comes quality and accomplishment....
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...Intelligence, self-confidence, and determination are the leadership perspectives that have exhibited in both Coach Bob Knight and Coach Mike Krzyzewski (known as Coach K.). Coach Knight is known as the winningest coach in NCAA men’s basketball until Duke’s Coach Krzyzewski exceeded his spot. Coach Krzyzewski played under Coach Knight when they were both at West Point and he was a graduate assistant at Indiana University under Coach Knight (Snook, Perlow, & Delacey, 2005). Coach Knight and Coach K. are very successfully college basketball coaches who has different leadership styles of pursuing and producing a competitive goal of winners. Power Bases Relied Upon Coach Knight’s power bases are relied with a tight controlling type categorized by societal detachment between him and the basketball players he coaches. His leadership role consist of discipline and intimidation, sometimes goes too far. Coach Knight’s position of power is high reflected by his regular abuse of verbal and physical punishment. Based on his regular outburst of anger when he was “under stress”, he reverted to less developed ways learning in early developments (Northouse, 2004). Coach Knight emotional capabilities consist of high self-awareness, low self-regulation, high motivation, low empathy, and low social skills. Coach Krzyzewski power bases relies on a trusting bond with each of his players. He recognizes that without an unconditional level of confidence, he will not see any kind of transformation...
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...Edgar Galvan NCAA as a Monopoly After over a century of existence, the National Collegiate Athletic Association stands today as a multi-million dollar organization, one of the largest and most successful organizations in the nation. The NCAA is in charge of overlooking every college athletic competition in the United States. Every year millions of fans watch NCAA organized games and follow the top prospects of every sport. However, all schools and players involved with the NCAA are obligated to follow a strict set of rules to be eligible to compete at the college level. The NCAA holds college athletes specifically to a very strict set of rules. Under the NCAA all athletes are considered amateurs. The term amateur is used to describe a person or group of people who participate in any form of activity for their own pleasure or entertainment, often distant from those who participate in the same activity for a financial benefit. They NCAA uses the term amateurs to distinguish college athletes from professional athletes. The official NCAA website states that “Maintaining amateurism is crucial to preserving an academic environment in which acquiring a quality education is the first priority”(“Amateurism”). They believe that by labeling them as amateurs they set them apart as student-athletes and everything that the students do for their own respective sport is part of extracurricular activities they are taking a part of. Their website emphasizes this point and declare, “In the collegiate...
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...fact the main purpose of education is to encourage the growth of a healthy mind in a healthy body. A good career that brings a high income alone does not guarantee a happy life. One must also be endowed with good health. Only a healthy lifestyle with a healthy eating habits and lost of exercise can bring about health. Therefore, games should be made compulsory in schools. Games promote positive qualities like team work and sportsmanship. In games which involves in team like football, volleyball and basketball, players must cooperate with one another to ensure the success of their team. There is no place for selfish desires and personal glory. On the other hand, when the team loses, all the teammates share the blame. Games and sport make the school life interesting. They add variety. Imagine having to study a whole day and then having to sit for exams. It will be both monotonous and boring, just as the saying goes ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.’ Every game has its own set of rules and regulations. Players must adhere to these rules and regulations. If a player goes against any of them, he will be penalized. Games, thus, help students to be disciplined. Similarly, students become aware that as they grow older, they have to conform to the norms of society. If they do not, they run the risk of being ostracized. Games which are held after school hours will keep students occupied. They will not have time to pursue undesirable activities such as loafing and watching blue...
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...History of Men’s Basketball and the influence On American Society Will have on College Sports Abstract Basketball is an organized team sport which consists of 5 players from each team competing against each other. The object of the game is to shoot a round ball into a circular basket. Basketball can be played in an organized manner or at a park or local gym for recreational purposes. Over the past 100 years the game of basketball has grown from a peach basket to highlight slam dunks. As time has passed by, the rules and the way the game is played has changed. New rules were implemented to make the game more enjoyable and create more of a competitive balance for all those who play. Players were given titles for the position they played like for example, the tallest player on the team was called the center. While the shortest player on the team or the person who dribbled the ball the best was called the point guard. The history of basketball has correlated with the history of the US during the 20th century. As the game and the country began to evolve, the game of basketball became the 2nd most played sport in the world behind soccer. Some of the major events in American history in the 20th century such as Brown vs. Board of Education impacted the growth and development of basketball in the beginning. Although, whites and blacks both played basketball, they did not play with or against each other until the 1950s on a pro level. Basketball was the only...
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