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.
Coach Carter Introduction The movie “Coach Carter” is all about morals. It is loaded with real life examples of choosing right over wrong and living a good life, the way God wants us to. The movie is about an inner-city high school basketball team made up with a bunch of tough guys and trouble makers and the only thing they live for is playing basketball. When Coach Carter accepts the coaching job at the high school, he makes all the players sign an agreement that they will maintain good grades and study habits during the season. Obviously Coach Carter cared enough about his players to realize that academics are more important than playing a sport.
Running head: CASE STUDY ANALYSIS PART A: “POWER PLAY FOR HOWARD” Case Study Analysis Nicole Lilly, Joshua Hudanish, Jamie Enriquez Jr., Robert Riley, Justin Perry MGT/445 March 1, 2010 Case Study Analysis Negotiation is a common problem people use to formulate a decision and handle disputes. For example, in 1994 Juwan Howard was drafted into the National Basketball Association. Juwan worked hard, carried himself with dignity and class both on and off the basketball court. During Juwan Howard’s sophomore season he placed statistics of past superstars. Howard almost was the highest paid basketball player during the 1996 and 1997 season, but his contract was voided by the NBA.
Nevertheless, I continued on with my dad’s support and mentoring to be the best player the Arkansas River Valley had ever laid eyes on. Now that I had my goal of becoming an NBA player in front of me, I wanted to know how to get there. I began by asking my dad questions about salary, work environment, would it be easy to grow as player and what type of education I would need. NBA Salary Expectations As I continued throughout junior high and High school, my attention was quickly drawn to the amount of money that professional players made for playing a sport they love. Salary expectations for this profession exceeded my wildest dreams and I couldn’t even begin to imagine what I could do if I made that kind of money.
I’m not thinking the way that I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through the long stretches of prose (p. 67).’’ It’s an agreeable statement because there are times when you are trying to concentrate on reading an article on the computer and you get distracted from what you are reading. Opening up a new hardcover book is almost impossible for me.
When I normally go to play pickup games I Reggie is one of the people I play with. Reggie is a African American who plays, and loves basketball with all his heart. He started to play basketball at the age of 13 when he was in the 6th grade, and he eventually fell in love with the game. Reggie is a not as active as he once use to be, and requires stretching before, and after the games to make sure he doesn’t feel any pain. He plays twice
My younger brother Ken (age thirteen) and Taylor, went for the already established games of basketball and dodgeball with a group of kids they made friends with. Matthew making up his own games and Taylor games that require high motor skills are both stage appropriate actions. This brings me to the social/emotional side of things. At one point during the day Taylor was picking on Matthew for being a kiss-up to their parents and Matt responded by kicking, punching, and screaming at him. This was typical of Taylor who's age group sees increased sibling rivalry, but a little premature of Matt who's physical aggression is supposed to be lessening.
THE LAST SHOT DANTE THOMSON KERSER UNIVERSITY Basketball, either playing on blacktop on a humid rainy day or playing in a gym with the feel of the wood floor moving under the soles of my shoes. Playing in a close game can really get under peoples skin, but for me it’s a different story, I love the different styles people play up or down as the clock whines down. Having the crowd enjoy every play you can make. Making them feel the need to stand and chant your name. The feel of being down and the beams from the lights on the ceiling getting heavier as the game continues or the feel of being up down and feel the dense pressure from your teammates as they cheer for you to stop the opponent from scoring.
Not surprisingly, Bryant was offered scholarships to almost every major college and university in the country. Not only was he a brilliant basketball player, he was also a good student, scoring an above-average 1,100 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test. Bryant and his parents remained coy about his future, however. They realized that they faced a momentous decision: whether to bypass college completely and go straight into the NBA draft. Vanessa met Kobe Bryant in November 1999.
During the 1920s, basketball, like everything, boomed and formed a following as minor leagues everywhere were hosted in arenas, and gyms. But when the Great Depression hit the US and the US involvement with World War II began shortly after the Berlin Olympics, the leagues fell apart as the players and the audience were swept into the war. From this difficult environment a group of arena owners, looking to fill their venues, saw the popularity of college basketball and established the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1946. The concept was to take the college athletes that had a history of basketball in America and bring them to face each other. The new league had mixed results, selling out arenas spottily mainly from fans who wanted to see George Mikan and others who wanted to see the Harlem Globetrotters, the opening act for some games.