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- 3871: Record Holders
- ... years have changed dramatically, and so have the players, but the records have always been there. The players in the 90’s have a different look than the players in the past. Today there are high- tech weight rooms, and players use nutritional supplements. So why haven’t they broke all these records? Is it because of the longer seasons or the changing of the rules. Maybe they just aren’t ... game and he did it by himself. Wilt’s 1961-62 season was the best of his career. He scored a remarkable 50.4 points per game that season, compared to Michael Jordan’s season high 37 points per game. Chamberlain was absolutely the greatest ever to play the sport of basketball. Basketball is a fairly new sport, not leaving room for many longevity records, but with all the new talent who can say how high the standard will become.(Hickok 59) The greatest hockey player to ever play the game was a Canadian. Wayne Gretzky start his career off in his home country playing for the Edmonton Oilers. He ...
- 3872: K.k.k.
- ... Stars and Stripes next to my Allegiance to God alone. I believe in just laws and liberty. I believe in the upholding of the Constitution of these United States. I believe that our Free Public School is the cornerstone of good Government and that those who are seeking to destroy it are enemies Of our Republic and are unworthy of citizenship. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in the ... in other areas of Michigan. As Chalmers writes, "The Invisible Empire was particularly strong around Flint, Lansing, Kalamazoo and Muskegon."(Chalmers, p. 196) Some groups had to hide behind a front such as the Public School Defense League of Michigan, but some could be openly out such as in Kalamazoo. An Official Bulletin of the Kalamazoo Klan was found in Robert Anderson's collection. In it the Klan of Kalamazoo describes ... the back is a cross and the letters "KKK" above a red brick schoolhouse with smoke coming out of the chimney. Above the doors of the schoolhouse is the phrase, "One flag, one country, one school, one law." (Anderson). Also within the Anderson collection is a songbook from the KKK. One song in particular seems to sum up the Ku Klux Klan as a whole. It reads: "I. Oh when ...
- 3873: Langston Hughes
- ... an abolitionist family. He was the grandson of Charles Henry Langston. His brother was John Mercer Langston, who was the the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn't think he would be able to make a living as a writer. His father ...
- 3874: The Olympic Athlete
- ... pageant of athletic skill and competitive spirit. They are also displays of nationalism, commerce and politics. These two opposing elements of the Olympics are not a modern invention. The conflict between the Olympic movement's high ideals and the commercialism or political acts, which accompany the Games, has been noted since ancient times. The ancient Olympic Games, part of a major religious festival honoring Zeus, the chief Greek god, were the ... regular exercise was important in a society where men were always needed for military service. Plato's Laws specifically mentions how athletics greatly improved military skills. Greek youth therefore worked out in the palaestra (wrestling-school) whether they were serious Olympic contenders or not. Ancient competitors were required to train at Olympia for a month before the Games officially started, like modern competitors at the Olympic. Young men worked with athletic ...
- 3875: The Hartford Whalers Are Going Going ...
- ... year they raise over 4.5 million dollars for this fund. In addition, the players go to the hospital to visit these kids to try to cheer them up. The Student Athlete Leadership Program teaches high school athletes the importance of being good role models. In addition, this program prevents drug and alcohol abuse. At the Tip A Whaler dinner, the players serve food to anyone who comes and the tips they ...
- 3876: Sport Psychology
- ... is represented by the following formula. nAch = (M - M ) x (P x [ 1- P ] ) Without exploring the subtleties of this model in any depth, the single most impor-tant message to come through is that high achievers will be drawn towards competition and difficult yet realizable challenges. Low achievers will try to avoid personal challenges or set unattainable goals where failure is a high probability. "In terms of applied sport psy-chology, this motivational model can often be very revealing of problems, particularly those afflicting young athletes." (Hackfort & Spielberger, 1989:252) There are some methods of sport psychology that ... encourages supervised practice in coping in increasingly stressful situations, e.g., practice, game-like practice, and games and SMT introduces an induced affect as a major factor: the athlete imagines dis-tressing situations which generate high levels of emotional arousal and use coping skills." (Smith, 1983:141) The final stage is an evaluation component which is included to assess the effectiveness of the program in meeting individual needs. Another method ...
- 3877: The Chicago Bulls: Number 5???
- ... have Hakeem Olujuwon, Clyde Drexler, and guess who? Charles, yes, Charles Barkley, the man from Phoenix, the round mound of rebound. They have alsodrafted Othello Harrington, Randy Livingston, and Terrell Bell. Livingston was the top high school player in '93, but has had some severe knee injuries. Bell is a great shotblocker, but very raw on offense. If the Bulls can overcome these two great teams, which they most likely will, coming ...
- 3878: History of Basketball
- ... name is Dr. James Naismith, he was born in 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. Most people wonder were a young man would think of a game like basketball. The concept of basketball was born from his school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of ... a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 1891 (after serving as McGill's Athletic Director) Naismith moved on to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts where the sport of basketball was born. In Springfield, Naismith was faced with several problems. One problem was making a sport that was suitable for play inside during the Massachusetts winter for the students at the School for Christian Workers. Naismith wanted to create a game of skill for the students instead of one that relied solely on strength. He needed a game that could be played indoors in a not ...
- 3879: Greed In Sports
- ... by doing what they have always been good at, they start concentrating on the money to be made instead of concentrating on playing a game. The same person who played little league, then for his high school team, while never making a dollar for doing it, but still enjoying it all the same, suddenly develops a greed that is unimaginable. Not only do they want to get paid, but they want to ...
- 3880: Einstein
- ... provincial Swabian-folkways in a rural characteristic. Einstein’s character was so simple that people were astonished that he was able to deduce such complex theories. His childhood also shows contradictions about his failure in school and rejection to teachers. The world’s genius, Einstein, never settled down in one country nor admired Hitler as most of German people. Although he was a simple and optimistic character his life doesn’t ... parents feared that he might be retarded child since he wasn’t able to talk before he was three-year old; he also continued to have trouble in speaking fluently for several years. In elementary school his performance was so bad that his parents were sure that he was mentally retarded. His classmates and teachers used to call him names because of his peculiar attitude such as repeating his own words and observing the ceilings for such a long time. Albert’s reaction wasn’t positive, he just isolated himself more. May be his failure in elementary school was due to the fact that he rejected to be taught by others. He preferred to teach himself instead. So when he was a teenager he taught himself advanced Mathematics and science. Einstein carried ...
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