People who attend the University of Kansas are either told of the story of Allen and his legend as one of the greatest leaders, coaches, and friends. The cheering crowd at a big rival game or even at just an exhibition basketball game will have even the mildest basketball fan smiling and amazed at the seeming presences of a great leader. The shirts of many students read “Beware of the Phog” and the building name of Allen Fieldhouse causes one to remember what an influential and great coach Dr. Forrest “Phog” Allen really was and still is after his death. The coach with the most wins in the University of Kansas basketball history will continue to influence all those who enter the field house for as long as it
The Three Greatest Basketball Players of All-Time During the past 30 years, the National Basketball Association has helped many players become famous and wealthy. For some, if they were not a part of this association, may have ended up in jail, prison or even dead. The National Basketball Association (NBA) has basically been a tool for many African-American males to have a better way of life. Among the leading players in the history of the NBA are three African-American males: Michael Jordan, Ko9be Bryant, and LeBron James. Michael Jordan tried out for his high school basketball team and was cut because he was too short.
John Bart Speech Comm. 28 April, 2013 Jim Valvano Espy Speech Critique Jim Valvano was a decorated and accomplished basketball coach, sports broadcaster, and public speaker. In 1993 Jimmy Valvano spoke at the inaugural Espy awards, and event created by ESPN to honor the accomplished athletes and sports teams of the past year in sports. Jim was honored with receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, an award also won by other athletes and figures in sports who had overcome tremendous obstacles to create a long lasting legacy and incredibly inspirational stories. Jimmy V did not win this award because of his tremendous success as a college as a college basketball coach including winning the 1983 national championship, he won it for his amazing courage to fight and one day beat cancer even if he was not alive to see it.
Now we can add Michael Jordan name to the list of players I just named. Jordan is being inducted into the Hall of Fame today due to his great basketball skills on the court and all of the things he accomplished in fifteen seasons in the NBA. As a child Jordan basketball career had some ups and downs. According to ESPN, “during his sophomore year at Laney, a 5’9 Michael Jordan tried out for the basketball team. He was passed over for the final spot on the varsity team.” He took that as motivation and dominated on the junior varsity team.
Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high” (Housman). This sufficiently explains how the boy in that poem was a local hero that was loved by his fans. This is also seen in “Ex-Basketball Player” whenever it said, “bucketed three hundred ninety points/a county record still!” (Updike) That must have been a might feat to accomplish. Both of the poems have a eulogy feeling to them. Of course, A.E Housman’s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” has a cold, tomblike tone to it, because it is about a death of a young man.
Coach Mike Krzyzewski has been the head basketball coach at Duke University since 1980. It is interesting to point out that these two men are connected by more than the mere fact that they are two of the most successful basketball coaches of all time. When Mike Krzyzewski played basketball his freshman year at the United States Military College/school at West Point, his head coach was Bob Knight. Together, these two men built a coach and student relationship that changed into a working relationship of friendship and respect for each other. Based upon the model of Robert Katz there are a few skills that accounted for the success of each of these coaches.
With five seniors graduating, many critics expected an immediate decline in Duke's basketball winnings, but Krzyzewski's 1987 Devils won 24 games and made it to the Sweet 16, losing to Indiana, who went on to win the national championship. From 1988 to 1992, he led his team to the Final Four, five consecutive seasons. UCLA's legendary John Wooden is the only other coach in the history of the tournament to accomplish such greatness. "Leadership is getting people to buy into something, making them feel vested in the whole decision-making process," said Grant Hill, an All-American who helped Duke to two national titles. "Coach K is remarkable at doing that."
Their fascinating, suspenseful film turns the endless revision of the American dream into high drama. The story begins when Arthur and William are actively recruited by St. Joseph, a mainly white, Roman Catholic school with a major basketball program. Just as the boys' paths seem settled -- William is heading for a dazzling college career and pro prospects, while Arthur is spiraling downward -- they face abrupt changes. "Hoop Dreams" is the profound social tale of these two emblematic boys, who are sucked into a system ready to toss them aside, disillusioned and uneducated, the minute they stumble on the basketball
Joe’s father brings home a bunch of books from Eastwood Academy’s summer reading list and Joe starts to read The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Joe finds an abandoned gym where he goes to practice basketball, but one evening a mist filled the gym; a mist that “somehow held the devil” (Deuker, On the Devil’s Court 92). That night he vowed “Give me a full season, give me twenty-four games of this power, and my soul is yours.” (Deuker, On the Devil’s Court 92). After that Joe made the Eastwood basketball team and they went to the State Championship. Joe believes he sold his soul to the devil, just like the book he is reading, and is scared he or his father will die for it.
He also practiced all day to get better. Johnson came from an athletic family his father used to play basketball while he was in high school and he learned from his father and his mother used to play basketball when she was young and he watched his older brothers play basketball. By the time he was in eighth grade, Earvin Johnson began to think about his future as a basketball player. He had become a dominant play in his junior high player in his team. He had scored 48 points in a game.