Basketball And Masculinity In Women's Sports

College basketball students train to go pro but only a few make it.

In this game the officials took the side of the super star Kobe Bryant, and didn’t call all of the fouling and some of the flagerents that Kobe Bryant did in that game, and the foul’s were as clear as day. The Celtics should have taken the championship but the Lakers swiped it away from them. Not only did this happen in the battle between these two teams, it also happened between the Miami Heat v. the San Antonio Spurs. In particular, it was clear that Miami at that time could beat the Spurs, but some how the Spurs took the win and with that the championship. Miami was clearly the better team with D-Wade, Kris Bosh, and Lebron James, the new BIG three.

In David and Goliath author Malcolm Gladwell talks about how Vivek Ranadive overcomes many obstacles while building his basketball team full of nerdy girls. At first Vivek didn’t understand the concept of basketball he thought it was a pointless game. Later he became the couch of his daughter's basketball team and went on to compete in the nationals . It shows how sometimes things aren’t so appealing to us at first so we tend to denounce them. Rather than taking time to develop interest or understanding the subject we just label it as a dislike.

This framework includes 5 levels. The individual, interpersonal, institutional, structural and cultural, these areas are used to investigate the ways in which inequities challenge the area of sport and physical activity. I know from personal experience some of my sport choices has been affected from these levels, either because of cost or because the only facilities for these sports were not near the area that we lived in. When it comes to athletics, I haven’t personally been always engaged in this for various reasons, pressure from others watching you as it is an induvial sport. As I have been more interested in other team sports such as basketball getting better in these sports had become a priority.

She is still envisioned in the shadows of every basketball court, as her way of coaching is being passed down to the current generation of ball

In the article “the black community already has enough basketball players” Earvin Magic, is talks about how important is to attend to college. The author tells us that basketball players should focus on their career like lawyers, doctor, and teachers. It is important because basketball is considered as a wealthy sport. Basketball is a hard sport to get into you most have skills to be available to play so it is hard to get into a basketball group. Magic says that going to college could be hard, but if people believed in themselves, they could be successful.

She received much criticism but celebrated her freedom. At the time, many people still performed very structured dances, like ballroom dancing, yet many dances whites performed originated from African Americans, like the Charleston and Jazz. They modified the Charleston to fit their ‘standards’. Many of African American dances seemed

You need good chemistry if you want to be successful in NBA. College helps increase a great of learning and gives the player a good idea of what NBA might be like but with better learning facets. College is a privilege use it as much as possible don’t just waste it. It’s better than NBA where it’s all about money and for show, where college is all about the game of basketball. There are so many bad habits 18 year olds have that the NBA doesn’t want to have in their league college helps breaks those bad habits so the player becomes more of a successful

Lynette Woodard was born on August 12, 1959. To her mother and father in Wichita Kansas. She instantly became interested in Basketball when she was a young girl, this is because of her older brother who would make her practice her shots with a stuffed sock. As Lynette grew older, she started to realize that men and women were not treated fairly, but her fondness of basketball was growing stronger. She practiced nonstop, even though people told her she would never make a team.

For some reason all the teachers at that school were Caucasian. The teachers had mediocre expectations and hardly pushed the students for success. This is very different from Palm Springs High School where the teachers help to push students to

Also, the NBA is more advertised on TV compared to the WNBA. The NBA has many commercials that show the dunks and all of the things that don’t happen in the WNBA. For example, there was a commercial made in 2012 that shows a shot from the opposite foul line and at the end of the commercial said “watch the NBA and watch this happen”. The WNBA produced a commercial that demonstrated all of the skills that are shown in the WNBA like setting up plays (DuBois). Jeff Pearlman, an author at Sports Illustrated stated, “When the 2009 five-game championship series between Phoenix and Indiana averaged 548,000 viewers.

“We can’t get over basketball rivalries, or ‘the people in Harlan are snoots and the people in Evarts, look down their nose at us,’,” Daniel Howard said while explaining his experiences with sport rivalries. Although the rivalry most known in Harlan County weren’t through college football, it still supports the argument that rivalries and competitiveness in this area

“Basketball Wives: LA” season 4 is bound to get more complicated and more intense as the ladies try to deal with the layers of lies and drama, plus newcomer that will stir things up some more. On Sunday, Basketball Wives: LA aired the first episode for season 4. Although Malaysia Pargo, Draya Michele, Jackie Christie, and Brandi Maxiell are still there, they have to deal with newcomers Meghan James, Patrice Curry and Shaunie O’Neal, Christian Today reveals.

After seemingly never ending dwindling scores, the NCAA decided to shorten the shot clock to speed up positions and thus create more. Looking at the different leagues around the country, the shock clock is one of the most diversified rules there is. Teams go from high school level where in some states the shot clock is non-existent to the NBA where there is 24 seconds to shoot. " In an effort to speed up the pace of the game and curtail the number of 45-42 final scores..." (Local).

The cultural issue in Eddie-Female Coach is Eddie a women with a loud mouth that knows her stuff about basketball. The Knicks owner Wild Bill has a contest to be an honorary coach and only get out the game the fans don’t like that. Wild Bill has a crazy idea to make her head coach since the fans love Ed, her could payer less then another, and she know her stuff. All the fans, the Knicks team, and players make fun of the idea of a women coach in the NBA.