...Why is Lionel Messi one of the greatest futbol players to ever go down in history. Lionel is one of the greatest players because he is one of the most technical player in the world. He is also very physical and tactical. Lionels skills belong in a different planet. Different types of people may disagree and think that Ronaldo is the best futbol player to date. At a height of just 5’7’ he is one of the shortest futbol/soccer players to play. Those are just some reasons that Messi is one of the all round players. Why is Lionel a very respected individual. He is very respectable because of his technical skills. His technical skill are marvelous, he uses his footwork to get around the defender/ player that is marked up upon him. He is very well...
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...huge debate for years on who the better player is, Kobe or LeBron. People can and will go back and forth for hours explaining their argument why Kobe is a better player, and at the same time, they’ll make their argument why LeBron is right below him. These arguments can and have been flipped. With the facts and background of the two, there is only one player that is better than the other. Kobe Bean Bryant, born August 23, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is a pro and star basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe entered the NBA draft fresh out from high school, and was selected by the Charlotte Hornets, but during the draft he got traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. He has played for the Lakers his entire career,...
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...Arshpreet Singh Pete Rose Pete Rose one of the best baseball players in the history of baseball. He was born on April 14, 1941, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Upon graduation from Western Hills High School, Rose signed a contract with the Cincinnati Reds. In 1963, he made his major league debut. Even though he gambled on baseball games, Professional baseball player Pete Rose is one of the most remarkable players in the history and a 17-time All Star for his hustling style. Firstly, some interesting facts about Pete Rose. In 1963 he was voted for the National League Rookie of the season. In fact, in 1975 he was the most priceless player. In high school, he played baseball and football. Rose betted on baseball games which was illegal. He was in...
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...Jackie Robinson born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie Robinson was arguably the best baseball player ever. The first black baseball player in the M.L.B. And he was also the first African American to get a M.V.P. Award, also played in six world series. He sadly died from a heart attack on October 24, 1972 when he was 53. When Jackie Robinson was in high school he was a really good athlete. Jackie Robinson went to UCLA, he played football, basketball, track, and baseball. After college he served in the U.S. Army. After that he played baseball for the Kansas City Monarchs ( a negro league team ) . In 1946 Jackie met a man named Branch Rickey ( the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers ) and got signed to the Dodgers and broke the color barrier...
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...There is a lot of controversy about who is the NBA’s greatest player. Now there has been thousands of basketball players in the NBA, but only a select few are honored to be known as one of the greats. Wilt Chamberlain, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and of course one of the most famous is Michael Jordan, they all share one thing; the love of the sport. Since sports have begun people always wonder who the best is. Everyone has different thoughts on who is the best, but the facts will show who really the greatest NBA basketball player is. Wilton Chamberlain was born August 21, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended high school at Overbook in Philli. He moved on to college level on a scholarship to the University of Kansas. He was drafted...
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...Stephen Curry is an NBA player, he helps people out basically everyday. With my opinion, I think he's the best basketball player as of right now. He's missing the first round of playoffs because he sprained his MCL. His real name is Wardell Stephen Curry ll, Curry’s salary is 34.68 million dollars. He's a two time MVP of the year, which was two years in a row, and that's pretty good for a young basketball player like Stephen Curry. In College Stephen Curry averaged 25.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 3.7 assists per game. Curry only played three years in college and then got drafted into the NBA. Curry’s family is a basketball family, his brother plays but not on the same team. Currys dad taught him how to handle the ball, dribble, shoot excetera....
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...While it's not every day that a major basketball team is sold, Bruce Levenson and his group recently sold their NBA team the Atlanta Hawks to entrepreneur Antony Ressler for an estimated $850 million dollars. Levenson, a businessman and philanthropist, along with a group of partners, had originally purchased the thriving team in 2004. In addition to being a co-owner of the professional basketball organization, Levenson was also the Hawks' Governor on the NBA Board of Governors beginning in 2004 as well. Prior to taking ownership of a NBA team, Bruce Levenson began establishing himself as a successful and admirable businessman. Born in Washington, D.C., he later enrolled at Washington University in St. Louis and then returned to D.C. to receive...
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...Broken: violently separated into parts: SHATTERED. Broken is how my heart felt as I stared down at my damaged baseball. I never thought that something like this could ever happen to me. My best friend Cheala and I have been together since preschool. We weren’t ever really best friends, she was family, she was my sister. We rarely ever got into fights. We had agreed on mostly everything. But, baseball is where we were true competitors. I loved the Dodgers and she was a humongous Giants fan. The Giants and the Dodgers have been rivals since the Brooklyn Dodgers became the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Giants became the San Francisco Giants. I don’t even see the whole big deal with the stupid Giant. We have some of the best players ever...
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...Intro Paragraph: For many years people enjoy basketball for the positions and the rules. There are five positions Point Guard, Shooting guard, power forward, small forward, and center. The point guard is usually the smallest guy on the team, the best shooter and the most athletic. Also, the point guard runs the ball up the court. Next we have the shooting guard he is the most likely to a point guard and could take place for a point guard sometimes. Some famous shooting guards are Michael Jordan and James Harden. Next we will jump right into the power forward. A power forward is usually the second tallest guy behind the center and is in the low post. Probably the best power forward is Tim Duncan. Next we'll go to the small forward. The small...
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...world and the number of players is nearing one billion. No one knows exactly why volleyball has such a huge following outside the United States but one thing is for certain: in the over 100 years of its existence, volleyball has gone through some dramatic changes. Changes made for the love of volleyball and its expansion as a popular sport. Volleyball, first known as mintonette, found its beginning in 1895. William G. Morgan, an instructor at a Young Men's Christian Association, developed a sport for young businessmen to keep in shape yet not be as physically demanding as another new sport, basketball. It was first played with a tennis net raised to a height of 6 and 1/2 feet off the floor and combined many of the rules of baseball, tennis, handball and basketball. The Basic Rules and Regulations of Volleyball, The server must serve from behind the restraining until after contact. Ball may be served underhand or overhand. Ball must be clearly visible to opponents before serve. Served ball must clear the net without touching the net. Failure results in a side out. First game serve is determined by a volley, each subsequent game shall be served by the previous game loser. Serve must be returned by a bump (dig) only. No setting or attacking a serve. Rotation, Team will rotate each time they win the serve. Players shall rotate in a clockwise manner. There shall be 4-6 players on each side. Playing the Game (Volley) Maximum of three hits per side. Player may not hit the ball twice...
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...win a state championship. The team has the skills and also has many great athletes as well as other schools do. The thing that other schools have is strength and faster people on their team. I have come up with the greatest solution that will make Saline football players and fans go crazy. The plan will come into effect starting now. By starting the taking of the steroids now, the players will be ready go by next august in their first game. The summer conditionings for football and all the lifting they do just don’t seem to pay off when season comes. During the summer they lift really hard, run a lot, and players work on their skills. When it comes game time in August, Saline thinks they are a step ahead of the other team on the field, but when the opponent steps on the field Saline becomes scared. The players become scared because they are really small compared to the opponents. Therefore, the other team has an advantage because they are a lot stronger. Steroids are the answer for the Saline football program. The program will do a fundraising event in which the team will earn a lot of money that will pay for all the steroids. Every Saline football player in the high school will start to take these steroids. Every player will go to a workout before school and receive one shot of this powerful drug. This drug will...
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...9 Player Safety…………………………………………………………………………..11 ABSTRACT Professional sports are leagues that are made for the best of the best athletes in sports. Once a player leaves the collegiate level of sports and moves into the professional level, he is now competing every day for his job. Owners try hard to build their team from the ground up. When a team is struggling, owners try to find new solutions to bring in team revenue and on the other hand when a team is successful owners try hard to keep players by offering large contracts that they can afford. To keep order on teams, leagues have strict drug testing policy that keeps players healthy and allows the playing field to be fair. Leagues make changes for the better of the players and the fans. In order to market effectively leagues do what it takes to allow more access to the fans by using technology. Commissioners take notice on feedback from players and fans in order to make the sport safer to play and fun to watch. When watching a professional sports game, we do not see the orchestrating job of the league commissioner, team owners, and players. From players entering the league at a young age from college, they need to be ready to compete for their position and take in all the rules the league hand out. Super star players carry so much pressure to bring financial success to the team and the. It is important for the owner of the team to play those players for leadership and talents. When a player or players feel...
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...I think that the moderators have a very important job and very valuable skills. They need to be adaptable to various situations the players may have as well as assisting to each individual players needs. I want to be a moderator to be able to help those who need assistance as well as promote the game and enrich lives of the players. I love PIMD. I have been playing everyday straight for a couple of months and its apart of my daily life. I also want to assist in keeping the pedophiles and other negative people off of the game because they easily infiltrate the system. If I was to assist in creating the moderator teams, some of their responsibilities would be active participation in the game, learning about how to play as well as rules and regulations of the game, visiting clubs to learn about the different players and to see if any negative activity is occurring within the clubs, regularly checking random walls for bypasses, participating in world chat regularly and informing players that they can come to them for any questions about the game and creating clubs to help new people get adjusted to the game. In order to recruit moderators, I would recommend some people based on their actions in the game and inform people of the benefits of being a moderator as well as telling them about the good purpose they serve. Some of the major challenges would be trying to filter out those who wouldn't take the position seriously and those who would abuse the power. If I could change the...
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...Many people pose the question who is better Allen Iverson or Kobe Bean Bryant ? This argument has been analyzed for years with different stats and according to most of the experts Kobe Bryant would be a better player, and right is where they are wrong. These players were two very different players but also shared a lot of the same tendencies on the court as each other. Kobe bryant stood six foot six while Allen Iverson also known as AI only stood six foot tall on a good day. Now who would you take ? Would you chose Kobe because of height automatically ? First we will analyze Kobe Bean Bryant one of the best basketball players in NBA history. Kobe born to former NBA player JO Bryant in Philadelphia Kobe grew up on the move he was born...
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...Athletes are treated as celebrities in American society and idolized by young athletes. The kids who see what their favorite player is doing through the media also are being influenced by them. The example that professional athletes set is very important because they looked up to. The example that many athletes set is unfortunately a negative one. Most people think that athletes make too much money but there are those that believe they are paid fairly. The enormous amount of money that professional athletes receive is having a negative effect on kids today. Athletes should make less money to play a game because the huge contracts that they receive give them power. They are concerned with making money and not the example that they are creating for today’s youth. Professional players feel that they earn every dollar of the millions they make every year to play a game. Those who think that players are paid fairly in professional sports argue that since athletes make so much money for their teams they should compensated accordingly. According to Forbes magazine "The average NFL team is worth $957 million" (Forbes, 2012). Teams generate large profits and as a result can afford to pay athletes large salaries. The past NFL season, players and team owners tried to come to an agreement before the season. According to Pete Prisco, a senior writer for CBS Sports "The players and owners can talk all they want about health issues, playing 18 games and any other issue thrown into these talks, but...
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