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.
When the family returned to Philadelphia in 1991, Bryant joined the Lower Merion high school basketball team, leading it to the state championships four years in a row. When Joe Bryant's professional career ended in 1991, the family returned to the United States and settled in a comfortable home on the Main Line, the most prestigious of Philadelphia's suburban areas. Basketball helped bridge the gap between Bryant and his classmates at Lower Merion High. Tall and skilled, Bryant quickly became a starter for the varsity team and just as quickly began to make a name for himself in greater Philadelphia. Not surprisingly, Bryant was offered scholarships to almost every major college and university in the country.
His family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, when he was only seven years old. He attended Emsley A. Laney High School where he began his high school athletic career by playing basketball, baseball, and football. During his sophomore year, he tried out for the varsity basketball team but he was deemed too short to play at that level at 5 feet 11 inches tall. The following summer he grew four inches and trained rigorously. His hard work then paid off when he averaged a triple double: 29.2 points, 11.6 rebounds, and 10.1 assists over his final two seasons of high school play.
When he was twelve years old, he made a bet with some boys in town that he could run five miles in thirty minutes. While his parents told him not to make bets he could not keep, he was determined to “…show both of them...and everyone else…that I’m a winner.” He ran the five miles in thirty minutes with twenty seconds to spare and won $2.00. That next year, at the age of 13, he played football for the first time while wearing boots with cleats attached to the bottom of them. When Bryant was 14, a traveling bear act came through town. The owner offered $1.00 a minute for anyone who could pin down the bear.
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.
Promoting sports during his early childhood proved to bring out the best of Michael Jordan’s talent, and his family showed dedication in stimulating this area in him. Jordan was born in Brooklyn, NY, in February 17, 1963, the fourth son of Deloris and James Jordan (Michael Jordan). At the age of seven, he moved with his family to Wilmington, North Carolina. There, at age twelve, he entered Dixie Youth Baseball. Two years later, he enrolled in the D.C.Virgo Junior High School, where he played the three sports that he still loves today: basketball, baseball, and American football.
Biography Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished. His stunning achievement of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin has made him the best remembered athlete in Olympic history. The seventh child of Henry and Emma Alexander Owens was named James Cleveland when he was born in Alabama on September 12, 1913. "J.C.", as he was called, was nine when the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where his new schoolteacher gave him the name that was to become known around the world. The teacher was told "J.C." when she asked his name to enter in her roll book, but she thought he said "Jesse".
There also pouring out there heart trying to get the girl back because they can’t live without her. The lyrics are very emotional, and fall under the category under romance. It was 3 members In BOYZ 2 MEN. Wanya Morris, born July 29, 1973, is a founding member of legendary R&B group Boyz II Men. Wanya, together with Shawn Stockman, and Nathan Morris (no relation) formed Boyz II Men as students at the prestigious Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts.
Shamika Hinnant Cultures & Values Prof. Wexler June 19, 2012 Family Narrative My sometimes awesome life began July 26th, almost 22 years ago on a Thursday evening. I entered the world joined by my twin sister, who cut the line and got here one minute before I did! On the day of my birth; President Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, General Hospital taped its 7,000th episode, and the U.S. beat the Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games. Not a lot of things happened on this day, but it was still very eventful! I grew up just years before the dawning of a brand new millennium, the “Y2K”, and the supposed ending of the world.
Career Profile/Education Mike got off to a good start in school. It was only when the family moved to Brownsville that things started to change for the short, stocky boy. (Torres,1989: 17) Soon after moving Mike became the victim to bullying and a chronic truant which resulted in him having to enrol in a school program for troubled children. He broke the record for the fasted knock-out in boxing history in the 1980s junior Olympics in just 8 seconds, aged 14(Tyson,Movie,2009). 'On March 6, 1985 Tyson made his professional debut in Albany, New York, against Hector Mercedes'(Biography Channel,2013:2).