College basketball lives for a game scheduled on CBS or ESPN (highly recruited high school players are more likely to go to a team that regularly gets national television exposure), and I'd even go far enough to say that television coverage has dictated the pace and feel of American football. Anyone who has attended a live football game knows how commercial time-outs slow the game and sometimes, at its most exciting moments, disrupt the flow of events. ... There are brief moments, spurts of violence when a player might get a red card and be ejected from the game, but fans can't expec...

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When someone thinks of young age, basketball and championship, they must be thinking of Kobe Bryant because the kid is a superstar, he has three championships and is only 24 years old and is an amazing basketball player. ... In 1993 he moved on to Lower Merion High School where he quickly emerged as the finest basketball player in the history of the school. Bryant was not content to just play high school basketball he also played in the Sunny Hill summer league one of the best amateur league in the country. ... In 1996 Bryant's Senior season he lead Lower Merion high School to the 4A ...

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Ken Carter takes the job as the high school basketball coach and vows to change the statistic for his basketball players with a contract to stay on the team. ... He says "I played basketball at Richmond 30 years ago" to show that he experienced what his basketball players faced as he had teammates "ended up in prison, some of them ended up dead (Coach Carter). ... As Carter has been through the educational system and the being on the basketball team, he knows that basketball is the only way to unify the basketball team to achieve greatness in school work and he is "the only...

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