Congratulations, County High Class of 2012, our thirteen-year marathon is over. Some of you may know I am a distance runner, part of an immensely successful cross-country and distance track program. We were fourth at the state cross-country championships, and we are the best senior boys team in the state. My involvement in athletics truly linked me with our school and granted me friends whom I will remember for a lifetime. One of the most important aspects of my time in high school was getting involved
States and Canada. When European settlers saw Native Americans playing the fast-paced and action-packed game, they decided to try it out for themselves. Over the years, lacrosse has grown into a sport that is played in all fifty states and over 150 countries. People of all ages can play the game both indoors and outdoors. Lacrosse played outdoors differs from lacrosse played indoors, and women have different rules and equipment than men. Although different ways of playing the game exist, the objective
The American game of basketball has traveled now, it’s played by more than 250 million people worldwide. Basketball originated in 1891 when future Presbyterian minister named James Naismith (1861-1939) was assigned to teach a P.E. class at Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) training school in Springfield, Massachusetts. The class had been noted for being disorderly, and Naismith was told to invent a new game to keep the young men occupied. Since it was winter and very cold outside, the game
audiences, which will help generate revenue. Commercial sport is something not all people are comfortable with or like. I think that it has its place within professional sports alone. But we are seeing it more and more at the college level with Div. 1 NCAA Men’s Basketball and Football. At an elite amateur level, like colligate sport, I think is where commercialization is a bad thing because it takes away from what amateur sport is really about which is participating in athletics while learning. However
Prefontaine”). Steve’s next level of competition started at “the University of Oregon where he trained under legendary coach Bill Bowerman” which was where he was given the nickname “Pre” (“Steve Prefontaine”). Pre “won three Division I NCAA Cross Country championships and four straight three-mile titles.” (“Steve Prefontaine”) During Pre’s experience at “the University of Oregon” he had developed his style of racing which was “aggressive front-running racing style, going out hard and not relinquishing
Step 3: Look in the Mirror with Someone Else’s Eyes “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” Dalai Lama Taking a moment to look at our lives as white people from the view point of an American of color is important to our talking about racial issues. We need to fully understand our racial identities from every view point. This idea is explored in a very interesting way in Spike Lee’s movie, Bamboozled: “African American producers like Lee are making films like Bamboozled