Allen has the most wins in Kansas’s basketball history and has a big impact on players, students, and visitors who walk into a home basketball game. Allen Fieldhouse was named for him because of his coaching career and his influence on players and students at KU. The shirts that read: “Pay Heed to All Who Enter: Beware of the Phog,” have a meaning to those who know the legend. “Legend has it that the great coach’s spirit haunts KU’s opponents in his namesake,” says Carpenter about the influence the coach still has today on the people entering the field house. The field house is a major influence during the games.
I’m No Jordan Every single avid basketball fan yearns to be like Mike, young, old, rich, poor, tall, short, everyone. Michael Jeffrey Jordan now, 48 years of age and nine years away from the game he loved with the passion that drove him to harness raw talent and cultivate it every day until there was separation between him and every other superstar the game of basketball has ever seen. I wondered how I could be like that. The comparisons have been made by hundreds of sports analysts, former players, current players, Hall of Famers and even celebrities over the years as to who would be the next MJ and they all have different opinions leaving us without a conclusive “Air to the Throne”. And then there was Kobe.
Michael Jordan had a remarkable beginning when joining the draft because he excelled in basketball in college and in the Olympics in 1984. Nike found this an opportunity to market Michael Jordan since Nike had a hard time entering the basketball industry. From the success from the shoe, the shoe collectors, who bought sold and traded these shoes, Air Jordans expanded over time to different outlets, such as clothing, hats, key chains, phone cases etc. and was recognized as the best basketball brand known to man. Throughout the course of twenty-six years Air Jordans has over 100 different styles of shoes and color schemes and has dominated the sneaker market.
8277812 AP English /4B October 24, 2012 UNC vs. Virginia Tech This year I have gone to a couple Carolina Tar Heel football games. Of the games I’ve been to, the one against Virginia Tech has been the most memorable. The game was full of excitement, and even better, we won. The game was on October 6, 2012 at Kenan Stadium. The ride to Chapel Hill took about two and a half hours.
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Alma Mater is a bronze sculpture. It is the subject of many Columbia legends. Also including that the first student in every new class to find the hidden owl on the statue will be the class valedictorian Daniel Chester designed and built the beautiful sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in 1920, which is placed in The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., USA. The giant statue of Abraham of 2 that Daniel Chester Created was made of twenty blocks of Georgia Marble, and was carved in the Bronx Studio of the Piccirilli Brothers, and was assembled in the memorial in Washington. This statue is very well known and cherished, since Abraham saved America.
John Doe DCA Julie Jones ENGL 1301-066 DCA Essay Topic 1 For almost eight years now, I’ve been drawn to the sport of Basketball. Before then, I played little league Baseball for about two years. That was fun, but I was the only one in my family that played. One Christmas, when I was about ten, my favorite cousin, Jim, got a Basketball goal. Jim is about four years older than I am, so I have always looked up to him.
Austin Olson 1301.187 Professor CJ Aravelo 27 August 2008 Descriptive Essay Pop Warner It was a blistering hot Saturday afternoon at the Birkelbach Memorial Stadium in beautiful Georgetown, Texas. It was my little brother Logan’s first football game of the Pop Warner season. The game was Georgetown eagles versus West Austin. Watching my little brother play the game is going to be great; but I could not wait for it to be over so I could go home and watch college football. I had just pulled up and stepped out of my truck when I heard the whistle for the kickoff.
I knew it was going to be a hot day because at eight in the morning it was already unbearable to sit in the car. I was going to Detroit to watch my first Tigers game, and it was a day I would never forget. When I was five years old my family moved from a house in the city, to a house in the country with a big yard. The front yard is a little bigger than a football field and is perfect for kids playing sports. I also have four brothers and two
Tiffany Johnson Laura Govia Composition 2 October 10, 2012 Shatter dreams in John Updike’s “Ex-Basketball Player” The title of the poem really tell you what the poem is all about. The speaker tell you what a great basketball player he was and how often he dreamed about his basketball career. The poem tells us about a basketball player who was the best player on his basketball tea, and hold the high school that still has not been beat. “He never learned a trade”(line49) and now he works at “Berth’s Garage” (line 4). The poem implies that Flick was a great basketball and that he was the best in the county and that he hold the county record of scoring the most points.