The following year Harvard founded its boat club. In the beginning years, these boat clubs served in essence as a social purpose. It wasn’t until Yale's 1852 issuance of a challenge to Harvard "to test the superiority of the oarsmen of the two colleges" that the first competition between the two took place. The first Yale-Harvard Boat Race—and the first American intercollegiate sporting event—took place on August 3, 1852 (Wikipedia). The Yale–Harvard Boat Race or Yale–Harvard Regatta is an annual showdown between Yale University and Harvard University rowers.
Winning. Kobe Bryant is a better player than LeBron James because he is a proven winner. A ring rush of 5 championships, a compilation of game-winners, having the assassin mentality, leading by example, this is what gives Kobe the edge over LeBron. Kobe Bryant and LeBron James are both extremely gifted basketball players who possess the talent and athleticism, allowing them to be prosperous at their profession. First of all, Kobe Bryant holds the record for most three- pointers made with twelve in one game, on January 7th, 2003 vs. the Seattle SuperSonics.
Of course, he was under the supervision of a professional and the sharks weren’t anything close to a Hammerhead, but he still carried on the title. In his assistance of helping Drama, his cousin, live up his brand young and reckless, he had him jump off an eight story building onto a giant inflatable pad. Even though his brand was nowhere along the lines of dropping to near death, Rob proved his bravery by taking the leap of
Steinbeck uses the technique of putting an ellipsis. “It was thirty-five feet long...” (Steinbeck 24). This sentence is after mentioning he is a boat builder, the ellipsis after stating how big the boat is was to show that thirty-five feet was impressively long that the speaker didn’t even have to finish the sentence off to make the reader realize how amazing that was. And even then, that is where the passage finishes, making the readers last thought of Henri be that he was extremely skilled. The author does this to give Henri a new level of respect from the reader after him being ambushed for painting horribly.
He convinces the administration to let him start a swim team, so instead of adding a few points on another sport, he adds and entire sport to get points for. Since he’s head coach, he sets the letterman requirements. You have to always do better than your last time, constantly 1 uping your best time. From a football, basketball, or track view this would be very hard, but not for
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."
LeBron James understands what it means to be a team player. For example his style of play and winning success is to involve his teammates and Kobe relies on his individual performance to pull his team to victory. The difference is noted and evident with their assist and field goals attempted statistics. Throughout LeBron’s career (10 years) he has accumulated a total of 5,302 assist which is roughly 6.9 assist per contest. Kobe is not known as the pass first player.
Some similarities are they both play professional basketball, both drafted out of high school into the NBA, and both have won Olympic gold medals in 2008. The differences are Kobe has been in the league for 15 years and LeBron for 9 years. Since in the NBA, LeBron has played for two teams and Kobe only one. Nevertheless if these two great athletes played a game against each other, the stats at the end of the game would determine who might be the better player for just that game. People may say LeBron was better because he has more power, better vision, bigger, faster, stronger, and he over powers people.
Name of Book: Whale Talk Author of Book: Chris Crutcher Name: Date: March 10, 2014 Summary of Book: At Cutter High School there is no swimming pool. This affects the swim team because they have no pool to swim in but there is only one student that can swim on their team. A bunch of students are looked upon as the outcasts that T.J. brings together he calls them "one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath." His goal is that all the members in the group will earn a Cutter High School varsity letter. T.J. faces angry opposition from the athletic advisors, and he and his coach spend lots of time throughout the season going through the politics of high school athletics.
The team won the gold at the games that year, which were held in Los Angeles. Jordan later helped the American team bring home the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games, held in Barcelona, Spain. He was an extremely accomplished college athlete and more people were starting to recognize his undeniable talent. Jordan left college after his junior year because he was drafted into the NBA by the Chicago Bulls and just like he did in school, he proved himself to be great on the court. In his first season (1984–85) as a professional, he led the league in scoring and was named Rookie of the Year; after missing most of the following season with a broken foot, he returned to lead the NBA in scoring for seven consecutive seasons, averaging about 33 points per game.