the winning shot

Bryan Clay won the decathlon at the 2008 Olympics, and according to tradition will be called the "best athlete in the world," as past winners, such as Bruce Jenner, Dan O"Brien, and Jim Thorpe, have been. Forget using his success to go from a little known athlete, to becoming rich by using his new found fame for endorsements for various products, because Bryan Clay has more important missions in life. That doesn't necessarily mean that nobody will offer him big deals, or that he won't take any. It does mean, however, that Bryan Clay is more concerned with helping underprivileged students and s...

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... . So is there anything we can do to speed the game up to highlight our athletes, incentivize a physical style and putting a focus on rebounding and scoring? In the NBA the shot clock is 24 seconds long. So you have 24 seconds to have a shot attempt that at least hits the rim of the basket. Once the ball does, the time resets and you have another 24 seconds to formulate ... an attempt. So the ball goes out, the teams reset their strategies, and the wings shoot again, eventually. What if we only ... elimination tournament culminating in an East vs West Championship series. The issue has b...

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... of 1992 and Duke is back at it to win another championship. A huge win for duke is that four of 5 starters came back for this year. That gives duke the odds of winning the championship even more. When players like Christan Laettner, Bobby Hurley and Grant Hill are on a team together, it makes it really hard for their competitors to keep up with ... two were making them go in. That year the team makes it to the NCAA Tournament and has a perfect ride through. They go to the Final Four and move on to the NCAA Championship against Butler. The game was close the whole way through, which led ...

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... of Sport's Illustrated a record 50 times [6]. Perhaps Magic Johnson, arguably one of the greatest basketball players of all time, said it best: "there's Michael Jordan and then there is the rest of us." Michael Jordan is class personified. Since he stepped onto the scene by hitting the game winning shot to win the NCAA Championship in 1982, Michael Jordan has been a household name. He is ... the prime example of someone who has exceeded their potential, and has never stopped improving themselves ... , even if they're head and shoulders above all competition. He then showed the world a d...

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... increase amount of violence in video games creates many problems in children. Children see a large amount of violence when they play video games like fighting and killing, which are the goals for winning most video games. Children learn from what they see on these games and they are learning that violence is acceptable and they do not see any problems in imitating ... Normandy. It starts off with the United States soldiers being shipped onto the beach while being bombed and shot at by the German army. Then, as the soldiers approach and reach the beach, they begin to fire back at the Germa...

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... all of the hype behind the Cubs, they were beaten by the White Sox in one of the greatest baseball games of all time. Attendance for the first three games hovered in the 12,000-13,000 range and then shot to 23,000 for the fifth game of the series. It was game six, however, on the south side of Chicago that devastated the Cubs. The Cubs went into the 1907 season ... after such an upset. You can imagine the motivation and determination that the team had. They hoped to redeem themselves and they did. The pitching remained remarkable for the team and the fielding average was ... has taken ...

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... one of spirit, who quickly intrigued the audience, and captured there approval as he stood up for himself, and fought to establish what he believed in. Even though he was skinny, and couldn't even hold a gun, he somehow was winning the hearts of those around him, and the audience. This was most definitely ... one of his strengths. He was an educated man, yet that meant nothing to the small town of Shinbone, it was therefore necessary for him to also be ... experienced this, and had come to accept living in fear of gunslingers like Liberty Valance, and his men. This experience of living ...

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... , in 1961, it flopped at the box office. Despite the presence of three Hollywood Stars, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, and an Oscar winning director, the film barely broke even. Why did The Misfits fail to find its audience? In my opinion, this is due to the fact that it was not a typical Hollywood film; nor did it fit the usual roles played by the movie's stars, whom were otherwise ... box office gold. Marilyn Monroe was a sex symbol known for her roles as a dumb blonde in romantic comedies. And Clark Gable was known for his heroic roles as the debonair leading man. The Misfits, howev...

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... importance associated with each player making or missing their free-throws. If a player misses the free-throw, then the entire team runs. If a player makes the shot, then no one runs. The player now has the responsibility of the entire team in his mind as he takes the shot. Later in my life I had a chance to use the Principle of Transfer first-hand. When I was selected to run in ... through repeated activity in practice and then transferred to games. The athlete no longer needs to think and process the situation instead they simply "read and react". The most recent Super Bowl ended when ...

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