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Johnson's Career
429 wordsMay 6, 2001 -- He was surrounded by his teammates, but yet Larry Johnson felt alone. Not part of the group. Not part of the struggle to advance deeper into the playoffs. And now, with the season over and done with, Johnson is extremely worried that he may never be a part of it ever again. 'Man, I just don't know,' Johnson said yesterday on his way out the door of Purchase College. Johnson's career might be finished. He missed the final six games of the regular season and the entire five-game pla...
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Biggest Game Of Our Season
1,060 wordsWinning One for Ourselves Just like the several years before, soccer season started on an early July day during what seemed to be the hottest time of the day. Only something was different this year, the moral was a little low, and everyone noticed it. The previous season, the supposed golden team that the coach had put so much faith into, had failed; losing in the first round of sectional play. The low moral was most evident in the coaching staff, especially in the head coach. Head coach Larry S...
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Teams For The Playoff Without The Polls
1,805 wordsAt Last an Answer to College Football's Problem. You do not invent a game without a means of determining a winner. You do not form a league without a plan for determining a champion. These are just a couple of basic sport concepts. For example, baseball came up with the World Series, and pro football gave us the Super Bowl. As for college football, it decided on, well, does anybody know Somebody, anybody I say that you would be able to buy a nuclear bomb at King Sooners before the NCAA approves ...
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Next Game Bob
1,042 wordsThe Twenty-yard line Bob was a jock. He was extremely huge. He looked like Grizzly Adams in a bad mood on steroids. His whole life was football. All year round he practiced football. He ran two miles and lifted weights for two hours every day just to stay in shape. When he stood on the field, you could tell people were scared. When he collided with other players the sound traveled to the top of the stadium. It was the first day of school and Bob was ready for the football season to start. He was...
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Football Player For The Notre Dame Team
1,822 wordsThe Notre Dame Legend In this epic tale of courage, bravery and persistence is made of exciting magnitude and loyalty of one man, named Rudy, to fulfill his life-long dream to play for Notre Dame University on the football team. His pride to become part of the Nations best football team was his dream, to become an All-American hero. His struggles in life were of tremendous value to him. All around him, all his life, family and friends had put him down and told him that he will never become a Not...
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Five Minutes In The Penalty Box
863 wordsThis report is going to be on the game Ice hockey. A game of hockey is divided into three twenty minute time periods that are called periods. Between each period there is a fifth teen minute intermission. In hockey there are several ways a game may end if there is a tie at the end of regulation. The pros use one twenty sudden death period in which the first to score is the winner. In the amateurs they use a shoot out in which five players from each team are selected and allowed to go one on one ...
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Great Teams In The San Francisco 49
1,748 wordsThere are great times noted in the past. One of those great teams in the San Francisco 49 ers. They have made history and are known as one of the type franchises in the history of the NFL. The 49 ers are considered a dynasty to the media and fans. The 49 ers are respected greatly for their Super Bowl achievements. It all started in 1946 when the San Francisco 49 ers first began their franchise. In 1950 is when the moved to the National Football League. They earned their name from the gold miners...
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Jim McMahon's 1985 Football Season
544 wordsThe book that I read was 'McMahon' by Jim McMahon. This biography was mostly about Jim McMahon's 1985 football season. McMahon was the quarterback for the Chicago Bears. He started eleven times out of the thirteen games he played in. McMahon emerged as one of the NFL's top quarterbacks while earning his first Pro Bowl appearance. He averaged 64% completion the first five weeks before injury had began at San Francisco on October 17, 1985. He threw a career high 15 touchdown passes. He threw 9 of ...
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Our First And Second Batters
1,225 wordsMaya Angelou's "Champion of the World " My Big Game It was pre-game warm-ups and everyone on my team was excited and ready to play our long time rivals the Everett Crimson Tide. It was great day to play baseball, sunny and hardly any wind. There were already tons of eager and excited fans sitting in the stands waiting for the game to begin. As game time approached all us athletes started to become impatient, it seemed like time was taking forever to hit 3: 30, the time at which the game would be...
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Coach Dale
1,355 wordsHoosiers As driving into Hickory, Indiana, a tiny town, I see that every house has a basketball hoop on the side of their barn. The little town consists of one main street. It has the local supermarket, barbershop, hardware store and some other small stores. While driving on the main street, I noticed that everyone notices a stranger coming into town. That is how small Hickory is. Driving into the high school parking lot I see that the girls dominate the young men by far. Looking around I also s...
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Arco The Best Venue In The Nba
531 wordsEven though the friendly confines of ARCO Arena hasn't equated into NBA championships (yet) for the Sacramento Kings, ARCO stands as one of the toughest - if not the toughest - places to play in the entire league. The Kings sported a 36-5 home mark in 2003, the best home record in the NBA. All five losses came at the hands of eventual playoff teams, including two of them against the eventual NBA champion San Antonio Spurs. The Kings record in ARCO over the last three seasons is an amazing 104-19...
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Atlanta Braves History
1,333 wordsMany people see the Atlanta Braves in different lights, by asking diverse people about them, you will get some vastly dissimilar answers. If you ask any young person who the Atlanta Braves are, you will most likely hear something like this: The best overall baseball team since I've been alive. But if you ask an older wiser person who the Atlanta Braves are, here's the answer you " ll probably get: A baseball team that has come back incredibly from they " re not so grand past, a great story of a ...
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Team
391 wordsHe was the last pick for the Milford Flyers. His tryout was inept and poorly executed. This is what he always wanted, what he worked for, what he dreamt about. He felt like a dolt for playing so horribly in a game he loved. Hockey was his life, and it almost ended with the shame of not playing again. He promised himself that he would never let that happen again. He was full of gratitude for being picked but apprehensive of what the other teammates thought of him. His mind was in perpetual though...
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Professional Gaming In Europe And Asia
1,887 wordsWe live in constant violence. It seems like every year there's a domestic event highlighted by a bloody rampage by crazed individuals armed with weapons that are meant for such frenzies. The most recent that are still in people's minds would be the Washington Sniper and the Columbine High School shootings. While it may be true that psychologically troubled individuals planned out and executed both events, later investigations pointed out one hauntingly similar coincidence. The killers practiced ...
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Grant Hill
446 wordsSetting Characters: Baby Boy Hill or Grant Hill, Grant's mom Janet and his dad Calvin. Time: 1972-1995 Place: Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina and Detroit Problem: The problem in Grant's childhood was that he constantly moved from place to place because of his father's football career. Another problem was he loved sports but he did not know which one. He first tried soccer and that did not work out. Events leading to resolution 1. When Grant was about five months old, his doctor said he w...
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Good Sportsmanship
370 wordsCatching the Spirit The American Heritage Dictionary defines sportsmanship as, "an act in which one abides by the rules of a contest and accepts victory or defeat graciously". All those in athletics are not the only ones who need to be good sportsmen. It must also be required by coaches, cheerleaders, fans, and school administrators. Two years ago, Morningside High School was in our junior varsity tournament. Since they traveled so far to be in our tournament, we treated them very well. We provi...
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Bowl Championship Series And His Team's Situation
2,670 wordsThe biggest topic around college football today is the very controversial and complicated Bowl Championship Series or B.C.S. Equations used in the Bowl Championship Series will determine teams fates throughout the entire 1998-99 college football season. Some people feel a playoff should be in order or college football should go back to its old Bowl Alliance system. To better understand this situation you must dig deep into what the Bowl Championship Series is and how the teams that will particip...
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Final Game
427 wordsNo one could believe that our weakly and unlucky soccer team has gotten so far in the finals of the most awarded soccer tournament ever. This unbelievable event had been through years on the dreams of all the loyal and patient spectators. Even I couldn't believe it either, since my hope for that team had gone very far away, but I knew it the final was going to be as we never imagined. My friends and I were extremely euphoric about it. In the final game, getting in into the classic and monstrous ...
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Carmelo Anthony
761 wordsWith all the fanfare and luster surrounding the entry of LeBron James into the 2003-04 NBA season, we all may want to take particular notice of the Denver Nuggets prize rookie Carmelo Anthony. He has already raised the eyebrows of players, coaches, fans, and media personnel alike with his flare for the game. Sometimes experience doesn't equate to success in any venture. One might say youth and exuberance is the greatest tool one could possess. If that is the formula for achieving greatness then ...
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Games As Every Team
617 wordsThe red and white stripes of his jersey seem to fly off as he sprints right by me. His black number 8 glows vividly, though, as I turn to watch him weave from side to side to set up and release his enormously powerful shot. He shoots; he scores. "G ! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! " I already know the rhythmic mantra too well as the opposing under-fifteen national team from Mexico dissolves my small under-sixteen team from south Florida. Returning to the Kellogg's National Tournament for a third strai...
