This quote also mentions a game of basketball taking place. ... How the World benefits from the globalization of basketball The globalization of basketball benefits the US by bringing the best players from foreign countries to play in the NBA thus boosting the level of competition and making the game more interesting. ... The arrival of basketball has some very positive effects. ... Basketball provides a small break for those who are tired of soccer. ... I also added a transition paragraph before the basketball section. ...

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This quote also mentions a game of basketball taking place. ... How the World benefits from the globalization of basketball The globalization of basketball benefits the US by bringing the best players from foreign countries to play in the NBA thus boosting the level of competition and making the game more interesting. ... The arrival of basketball has some very positive effects. ... Basketball provides a small break for those who are tired of soccer. ... I also added a transition paragraph before the basketball section. ...

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However, "After his basketball days were over, he didn't have much else " (98). ... Likewise, Samuel believes he can take on the Tribal Cops of the reservation in a game of basketball. ... In order for him to compete, he feels that he must conform to their style of game in order to win. However, the game ends in defeat and Samuel was unable to win on his standards and skill alone. ... Samuel's son Thomas believes that "if [Samuel] could have drank his own swear after a basketball game and got drunk off the effort, maybe he would've stayed away from the real booze " (98). ...

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When people think of sports related to the United States, many people think of baseball, basketball, and American football. ... It is somewhat of a combination of basketball, soccer, and hockey. ... To this day, it is the largest crowd ever to attend a game. ... Paul and Gary were excellent athletes and did many amazing moves, such as the Air-Gait, lacrosse's version of basketball's slam dunk. ... They did not know anything about the origins of lacrosse, so their first idea was to play the game on roller skates, thus producing an action-packed game. ...

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The night that the game was replayed, it drew more attention than baseball's All-Star Game that was aired the same night. ... Athletes participate in sports for one reason - the love of the game. Within professional sports today, the love of the game has been lost. ... The American Basketball League was forced to fold after the television networks turned down all offers to broadcast the games. ... The women's basketball league was not offered any money, but had to offer to pay the networks to air their games. ...

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A football can be tossed around in an open yard without the need of a basketball goal between friends or also enjoyed gathered around a television on your buddy's couch. Football lends itself to bonding through the game experience as a fan as well. ... (Fountain, pg.194) America in the year 2014 is too diverse and complex to be defined by any one game. Certainly not by a game that relegates one half of the country to the sidelines and, even there, casts them in roles right out of a 1950s playbook Not by a game that, in many parts of America, is played by far fewer kids than soccer. Not b...

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Football players pound each other for about five months each year while playing one game per week. Basketball and baseball players play a much longer season then do football. ... Nevertheless, the professional basketball season lasts about the same amount of time as does baseball except they play eighty-two games throughout the country. ... However, not until the late 1970's did the grand old game really die. ... A beer costs five dollars and fifty cents at the game. ...

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Scandals and political control by gaming interests have led to backlashes which result in regulation and/or prohibition. ... People bet on things like a completed first pass-attempt by John Elway, the jersey number of the first person to score, the team to score the longest touchdown, and the total number of fumbles by both teams.The NCAA men's basketball tournament brought in millions of dollars this past season through gambling. ... Also, 4% admitted to wagering on their own games, and 3% changed the outcome of a game in which they participated (Saum 2). ... One in particular was at a...

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Despite the election of the country's first African American president, racial divisions still exist today. (Dunn). Recent reports, social media, and breaking news have been showing racism continues to thrive in America. Fed up with the law, Afro-Americans are protesting for their rights. Media's s...

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" By the year 2014, I see my husband and I working full time in the ministry. We will be pastors of one of the largest churches in the country. Our church will have an international outreach mission, which will have tremendous impact on people lives all over the world. Since charity starts at ho...

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"They came out with that the average football player is worth the amount of $120,000 for their big-time college and 265,000 for the average basketball player. ... When you are receiving no type of money during the season, but yet there is a video game that has you in it and is the top selling video game across the U.S. ...

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Where people in our society bet on certain players in the game, a lot like sponsors in the hunger games. ... In our society, families gather around a television to watch teams compete against each other, whether it be football, basketball or even wrestling. ...

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