Griese would come on and lead the Phins to a 35-21 victory. However, winning still eluded the new franchise which finished 4-10. 1968: In the draft the Dolphins select Syracuse All-American Larry Csonka with the 8th overall pick. The Dolphins improve to 5-8-1 as Bob Griese sets then-club records with 2,473 yards, 186 completions and 21 TDs. 1969: The Dolphins make a splash by acquiring 2 future Hall of Famers in 2 separate deals.
Sherman Alexie has brought himself into his writing by including some of his personal experience in this young adult novel. In the novel, a underlining plot in the story is Junior’s run through his freshman basketball season on the Varsity team at Reardan High School. He makes varsity after an intense battle with the teams best player, Roger. Even though he is the best shooter on the team, Junior felt he wouldn’t get a lot of playing time, which at first he doesn’t, but then he becomes the teams spark plug, their 6th man, averaging 12 points off the bench. When came time to play his former school, Wellpinit, he started his first game.
I chose it because of the related books on http://www.childpeacebooks.org/cpb/Protect/antiBias.php. 3. Summary of book: Kate was at the park with her mother one day and noticed a boy named Timmy playing basketball by himself. She asked her mom why he looks different and what is wrong with him. Kate’s mother explained to her that he is mentally disabled, but still has the same goals in life.
Oscar Del Rio APUSH 05/17/10 Period 3 “GLORY ROAD” “Glory Road" was based on a true story of Texas Western's Coach Don Haskins, leading the first all-black starting lineup team to the 1966 NCAA national basketball championship title. Coach Haskins has a lot going against him: first, Texas Western has a poor basketball program, and second, he cannot recruit good white players to the team. Coach Haskins goes to the Northern cities from Gary, Indiana to the Bronx in order to recruit talented black players from the streets to play for his team. At the time there were no black players playing Division 1 basketball in the South this included the ACC, SEC, and SWC leagues. Seven blacks and five whites made up the legendary 1965-66 Texas Western Miners.
In this paragraph i'm going to talk about how Lance Armstrong impacted the American Society socially. In 2010 the United States Anti-doping Agency (USADA) started an investigation against Lance, which he constantly denied. After many months of investigation, Armstrong announced on August 23, 2012 that he would end his fight against these charges. But yet he still insisted that he was innocent of all doping violations. Immediately after the USADA announced that they would strip armstrong of his seven tour de france and the bronze medal he won at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games and was banned from cycling for life.
Michael Air Jordan Michael Jordan has been considered the greatest basketball player to ever play. He was born on February 17th 1963 in Brooklyn New York. As a sophomore he was a skinny 5-11 guard who got cut from his basketball team but after the next summer he grew to 6-3 and was starting to become really good at basketball. He started his basketball stardom at North Carolina University after he made a game winning shot to help North Carolina win the NCAA championship. During his sophomore year in college he was named College player of the year.
This year playing football for Springfield is not the same as last year in high school because I’m not as close with the people on my college team. Last year we had so many exciting games being the top team in New York. I specifically remember the game--we played St. Anthony’s to open up the season. I remember that game perfectly like it happened yesterday. St. Anthony’s usually beats us, but it’s a close game every single time.
Mario has a terrific sense of defense, and that’s something that Erik Spoelstra has been preaching to this team. Chalmers had 5 Steals to go with 13 Points and 2 assists. He is a pain in the defensive end, Raja Bell and him almost got into a heated argument in the 3rd quarter after Bell stole the ball from him and Chalmers with his defensive swagger took it back. Many people ha said that Mario is inconsistent but I think that he has finally matured to the PG Miami needs, sure, he’s not the perfect PG yet but better then he was on the opening night. Tough Night: Michael Beasley The second overall pick in the NBA Draft, by far had the worst game of his young career.
Andy never does overcome the tragedy. Andy was charged with DWI, and lost his license until the turns 21. He also has to attend alcohol rehab, and see a psychologist. The psychologist does a lot of meetings; he also talks to his basketball coach about a lot. But the one person that was there through almost everything was his girlfriend Keisha.
Marji learns a lot from these books and reads them a lot throughout the novel when she is confused. When there is a fire at a local theatre and 400 people are killed, Marji’s parents went to demonstrations but refused Marji to go because she is too young. Many people are beginning die at the beginning of the revolution. It becomes almost impossible for the Shah to rule, so moves to the United States. After Shah stepped down from his seat, all the prisoners are released.