...Midterm Paper: Love and Basketball The main characters in this 2000 American romantic drama film are Sanaa Lathan as Monica Wright and Omar Epps as Quincy McCall. The movie started as a Quincy and his friends playing basketball and Monica asked to play, but when they realized she was a girl they began telling her what she can and cannot do, basket isn’t a sport for girls through reflected appraisals. Quincy was shocked that a girl could love basketball and even more shock that she played so well. Quincy and Monica begin small talk when his mother went over to meet her new neighbors and they had so much in common both loved basketball and has dreams of playing in the NBA. From that conversation, they used social comparison to see who is better than the other but Monica proved to him she can do everything he can do. Monica’s self perception was that she was ugly compared to her sister and didn’t do normal things girls would do. She faced criticism from her mother about her boyish ways, never wearing a dress and earrings, and always playing basketball. Quincy attractiveness landed him all the attention from girls at his school, at his games all eyes were on him and every girl wanted to be his girlfriend. As they aged, they begin to realize how attractive they were to one another and fell in love prom night. After prom Monica ended up losing her virginity to Quincy and from there a relationship was built. Several years into the relationship as they were in college, Quincy needed...
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...Basketball is my favorite sport and my favorite team is called “The Heat “. Basketball was all me and my dad watched when I was younger. My dad bought me a shirt with LeBron James on it for my fifteenth birthday. He is the best ball player in the word even before he was on the Heat. He has started as a small forward positions, then he worked his way up. He won rooky of the year and he did not believe a small city person like him could make it to the NBA. LeBron is the reason I watch and love basketball. It shows team work. To watch basketball, you have to understand what basketball is not just about who wins it is the mind set and the strategies that they come up with. You don’t have to be tall or have a lot of weight players one all different...
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...Growing up in North Carolina traditionally a basketball state, I was supposed to grow up to love basketball and Michael Jordan, but raised by a football loving father basketball was seldom on our TV. The only basketball we ever watched was when South Carolina played on TV. Seeing how that almost never happened because they were so bad, I never watched basketball as child. I played YMCA basketball up until the third grade, quitting because I was not good, was undersized , and did not have love for the game. I thought my basketball career was over. After all I loved baseball and football so I could just play them. I continued playing baseball and began to football, but after I learned a medical condition prevented me from playing football, I...
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...The Way Basketball Has Affected Me Sarah Ban Breathnach once said “Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.” This means a lot to me because I play basketball a lot, so the days I do badly, I think will happen again the next day. But now I’ll learn to forget it so it won’t let me down again. When I was little, my friends and I played in a basketball league called “Upward.” I played in that league for most of my childhood. My friend Kevin played with me and he would sometimes give me pointers on how to improve my game. Now, when he comes over, he’ll teach me moves, He’ll show me channels on YouTube to look over in case I want to learn something. I’ll even show him some moves....
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...Austin Franklin 3-1-15 Summary of Boy21 The book I read was called Boy 21. This book is about three high school seniors that love basketball. One of those people is Findly. Findly is the starting point guard and loves to play basketball and not just because his girlfriend’s Erin’s loves to. Findly is the type of kid that doesn't talk a lot because his mother died when he was young. Findly has been assigned by his basketball coach to look after and mentor a new kid. His name is Russ Washington. Findly doesn't really want to because Russ has the same number and plays the same position, but it's ok because Russ doesn't want to take Findly's spot because he really likes Findly. Coach wanted Findly to do this because he thinks Findly is a really nice kid but also they have a little bit in common. Russ's parents were both murdered like Findly’s mother. Coach was really good friends with Russ's father and went to college with him. That’s why he wanted Russ to come to school at Belmont High, but that’s not the only reason. Russ is wonderful at basketball. He is a national scouted player. Russ is six six, and has phenomenal muscle tone. He was made to play basketball, "so to speak." After the incident with Ruses parents, Russ thinks he is from outer space. He thinks he was sent here to learn about emotions from the earthlings. He always tells Findly to not feel bad because he is programed this way. When Findly first brings Russ into Belmont, Russ thinks it is disgusting, because he...
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...Michael Jordan was a champion, the greatest basketball player to ever play the game. After winning his third championship with the Chicago Bulls there no was no doubt that Michael was the best. Jordan did something unheard of in today’s world of sports and decided to walk away. Too often superstars today milk as much fame and money out of their careers in professional sports. For Michael he knew there was more to life than just basketball. In the prime of his career Jordan was hit with the hardest news of his life. Jordan’s father had been shot and killed in a robbery along the border of Jordan’s home state, North Carolina. The news devastated the star. The close relationship between Michael and his father was something that was well known. Jordan decided the best way to honor his father would be to follow his father’s dream of seeing his son be a baseball player. A team, a sport, a nation all quivered as the idol of basketball was ready to throw away his talent to pick up a sport he hadn’t played since high school. Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox owner, Jerry Reinsdorf, thought that Jordan deserved a chance to fulfill this dream. Reinsdorf offered Jordan the opportunity to stay in Chicago and become a member of the White Sox. When Jordan joined the Chicago White Sox there were many doubters far and wide. The baseball world felt that Jordan was spitting on it. The idea that someone could pick up a baseball bat and just start hitting came across as insulting to baseball...
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...Teacher 6. College basketball coach 7. Pro basketball player nba/oversees 8. Clothing store owner 9. Athletic trainer 10. Banker The two things I would pick out of this list to be in life would have to be a clothing store owner and a pro basketball player. I want to own a clothing store because it has always been a dream of mine. I’m really into fashion and I love clothes and the latest sneakers. Although you don’t need any type of college degree for this you do need to be an intelligent person and have a plan for your store. You need to know what it takes to start and stay in business so research is the first way to do so. Next, decide on a specialty or what you want to sell. Which I will start with selling other popular brands of clothes then with the money I make, slowly build my own clothing brand. As a long time goal I want my clothing store to be where celebrities come and pick up nice clothes and listen to the latest music. But for now I want to finish college and learn as much as I can about the businesses world so I can have my own someday. I would also like to be a professional basketball player. The NBA is hard to get into but playing oversees I have a better chance of making a team. In the NBA you do need 1 year of college but oversees you don’t really need any type of degree. This has always been my dream because I have played basketball all my life and it is my passion, so why not get paid for something you love to do and have fun with...
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...Dome Presents: Canada’s Sweet 16 | | Arjan Jonuzi and Alex Kim | 1/20/2015 | Basketball tournament for the top 16 high school teams across Canada | Table of Contents Title Page______________________________________________________________ Table of Contents______________________________________________________1 Event Description______________________________________________________2 Objectives____________________________________________________________3 Target Market_________________________________________________________4-5 Core & Ancillary Product_________________________________________________6-7 SWOT Analysis________________________________________________________8 Place________________________________________________________________9 Pricing ____________________________________________________________10-13 Sponsorship__________________________________________________________14 Advertisement ________________________________________________________15 Branding & Print advertisement Analysis ___________________________________16 Print ads_____________________________________________________________17 Event Description Basketball in Canada is growing rapidly. More and more people are playing basketball and there are more interests in basketball than ever before. Also the level of basketball is increasing. There are more Canadian basketball players playing in the NBA and top Canadian High School team can compete with the top...
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...and always will love the sound of basketballs being pounded on the ground, shoes squeaking, and the swish should the net makes whenever the ball meets its goal. Yes, I love the sport basketball. Basketball to isn’t just another sport, it is a passion. So why wouldn’t I want to get better and compete with other who love the game as much as I do. Bringing it back where it all started, the summer of 2002. I have finally been introduced to the sport. I remember that day like it was yesterday. Having my dad come home one day with this round leather ball, not knowing what is, my first instinct was to dribble it. As I did, dribbling a basketball has become addiction. But then I found out more to this sport that just a ball bounding. There is shooting, passing, defense, and discipline. Wanting to learn all aspects of basketball, my dad took time to practice with me, and before you know it, I got the hang of it! So yes, it is true that anyone who plays basketball, their dad was their coach one time in their life. But as time passed, I was able to shoot, dribble, and pass! Having learned these skills, my parent enrolled me in a basketball league in our local youth center; YMCA. Not to sound cocky or anything, but I was a pretty good six year old basketball player. Let’s just say I breezed through my 3 year of YMCA then I stopped playing basketball the whole incoming year thinking I was still one heck of a ball player. After my yearlong break I decided to play basketball again, but in a...
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...I am short. There is no way of getting around it. Unfortunately it's not something I can hide. However, my love for basketball wouldn’t be deterred by my physical attributes. When I was younger, I was always the shortest kid in the grade and I was always made painfully aware of that whether I had to lineup with my piers or play sports with my piers. I had a deep love for sports, but specifically basketball. I would always watch basketball on tv, do fantasy basketball, and get together with my friends at any opportunity I had, to play basketball. Because of my love for basketball, I was very excited in the 6th grade to tryout for the school basketball team, which was the first grade where you can try out. Before tryouts, I was very concerned whether I would make the team because of my physical attributes such as my height. I always knew I had the skill and the intelligence to play the game, but I didn't know if my height would let me get over the hump. After tryouts, the coach told me that I made the team. However, he gave me the option to quit the team because chances were that I wasn't going to ever play. When the coach told me that, I was really taken back by it and questioned if I should bother staying on the team. I was really down on myself, but my family and friends convinced me that I had to give it a shot and be on the team. After the first game, I was devastated and mortified in front of my family that I never had the chance to get in the game. Despite...
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...The Hardwood to the Diamond When the topic of baseball and basketball is mentioned, many only think about the differences between the two. What people do not realize is the parallelism between them. Comparing these two sports can vary from uniforms to the playing surface. Although athletes who take part in basketball and baseball complete different tasks, their ultimate goal remains the same: victory. The playing surfaces for both sports require constant maintenance. A baseball field requires much more (care or caring) than the basketball court, such as watering, mowing, and raking weekly, if not daily, depending on the use of the field. A basketball playing surface only needs waxed or resurfaced once a year and washed biweekly. Although baseball diamonds require far more work, the hardwood of a basketball tends to be more complex with the different lines from various sports running throughout the court. Much larger than a basketball court, the baseball field is typically located outside. Despite the differences, the games and practices take place on their own playing surfaces. They also contain a scoreboard located in a clearly visible...
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...1. American Sport Movies There are few countries in the world in which sports permeate national life to the degree that it does in the United States. Sports are a big part of the fabric of American life. The centrality of sports in American life is amply reflected in the American cinema. For decades movie makers have successfully mined sports to produce some of the most inspiring, poignant, exciting and memorable American movies ever made. The genre of ‘Sport Movies’ established in the Fifties and the Sixties. At the very beginning it was hard to see it as an independent genre because there was a lot of mixture. There have been propaganda movies as well as comedies, dramas, gangster movies or even westerns combined with some sport scenes. So the movie industry defined three categories of sport movies. Category 1: movies in which the main part of the narration is about sport or an athlete Category 2: movies which tell the life story of an athlete Category 3: movies which use sport scenes to describe a special milieu In addition to that there are a lot of movies of another genre which use sport scenes to dramatise the story or to create a good suspense. The first sport movies were all about the so called American Myth of victory and glory. Fair competitions and the better athletes defeating the weaken. The fascination of sport inspiring the people was used to lure the public. Then in the eighties and nineties there have been made a lot of biographical movies...
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...and Brazil in July of 1998. And it is also a genuine world championship, involving teams from 32 countries in the final rounds, unlike the much more parochial and misnamed World Series in American baseball (that doesn't even involve Japan or Cuba, two baseball hotbeds). But although soccer has become an important sport in the American sports scene, it will never make inroads into the hearts and markets of American sports the way that football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and even tennis and golf have done. There are many reasons for this. Recently the New England Revolution beat the Tampa Bay Mutiny in a game played during a horrid rainstorm. Nearly 5000 fans showed up, which shows that soccer is, indeed, popular in the United States. However, the story of the game was buried near the back of the newspaper's sports section, and there was certainly no television coverage. In fact, the biggest reason for soccer's failure as a mass appeal sport in the United States is that it doesn't conform easily to the demands of television. Basketball succeeds enormously in America because it regularly schedules what it calls "television time-outs" as well as the time-outs that the teams themselves call to re-group, not to mention half-times and, on the professional level, quarter breaks. Those time-outs in the action are ideally made for television commercials. And television coverage is the lifeblood of American sports....
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...horses, or the dark skies, or precipitation of cats and dogs? When college basketball removed five seconds from its shot clock, going from 35 to 30, many were declaring the move an abomination to the senses. That, despite the quality of playing already being ho-hum, the abandonment of five total seconds on the shot clock would result in some horrific things. Remember all of those people? I do. Outside of an E! "Where Are They Now?" special, most have gone the way of the dinosaur. You will read few, if any, columns on the idea that the 30-second shot clock did not work in the 2015-16 season. Thing is, it was always going to work. Not because it would mean more efficient basketball, which ended up happening anyway, but because the tempo of games would alter. There would no longer be 10-second meaningless motion sets to start a team's offensive set before the coach allow his players to make an honest attempt at...
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...my father would say. Growing up in the country with limited access to entertainment my father put up a basketball globe and volleyball net in the backyard, I was an outstanding basketball and volleyball player from middle school to high school. I would also watch videos to learn how to dance. My family traveled a lot during the summer I visited many lakes and beaches I was always team captain on the teams I guess that is what lead me to my career in law enforcement and many other team lead positions I love being in charge. Growing up in the country I had nothing to do but play outside mostly with boys who would tell me you got to be tough to hang with us we do not want a cry baby hanging with us. My father was dying to have a child that was athletic it was almost as if I was his last chance none of my siblings seem to even be interested any sports. It all started in elementary school during summer leagues I would always look for the information for basketball summer leagues. My physical education teacher would always tell me you need to make sure you are playing sports every year, tell your parents to give me a call and I will even pick you up and take you myself even if they cannot. My desires to be outstanding in sports lead me to practice every day. My father encourages me he was my biggest support. Its 1980 now it is time to show my talent in middle school. Basketball and volleyball try outs and I am playing my heart out because it seems like everyone is taller than I...
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