Download or read book Hustling or Hooping written by Bernard Jamar Haynes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kalif Brown is an inspiring basketball star, who has what it takes to make it to the NBA. Hes a high school senior with big dreams. But his off the court lifestyle of drugs and guns, may land him in jail or dead. Growing up in a drug infested neighborhood filled with junkies, and criminals, doesnt make his situation any better. And like most young black men and women hes living in a single parent home with his mother. He doesnt have a father figure; therefore he turns to a local dealer to fill that image of a father. Kalif must make a choice. Will it be Hustling or Hooping? And he must make this decision fast because his dreams and life may depend on it. Many young inner city athletes and those not into sports, deal with the pressures of everyday life. And many find it hard to deal with especially if they dont have anyone to talk to. Hustling or Hooping may be a fictional book, but there is a Kalif Brown in every urban city in the U.S. Many young black men grow up fatherless, and turn to the streets for a family. The out come is usually negative. But many do make it out of their situations. This book is highly recommended for any young man, or woman who is growing up in a negative environment, and feels as though he or she cannot make that change for the good. This book can be a tool, to make that negative situation a positive one. But also this book reveals the consequences of not making that change for the better.
Download or read book The Hustle written by Doug Merlino and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiment was dreamed up by two fathers, one white, one black. What would happen, they wondered, if they mixed white players from an elite Seattle private school - famous for alums such as Microsoft's Bill Gates - and black kids from the inner city on a basketball team? Wouldn't exposure to privilege give the black kids a chance at better opportunities? Wouldn't it open the eyes of the white kids to a different side of life? The 1986 season would be the laboratory. Out in the real world, hip-hop was going mainstream, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson ruled the NBA, and Ronald Reagan was president. In Seattle, the team's season unfolded like a perfectly scripted sports movie: the ragtag group of boys became friends and gelled together to win the league championship. The experiment was deemed a success. But was it? How did crossing lines of class, race, and wealth affect the lives of these ten boys? Two decades later, Doug Merlino, who played on the team, returned to find his teammates. His search ranges from a prison cell to a hedge fund office, street corners to a shack in rural Oregon, a Pentecostal church to the records of a brutal murder. The result is a complex, gripping, and, at times, unsettling story. An instant classic in the vein of Michael Apted's Up series, The Hustle tells the stories of ten teammates set before a background of sweeping social and economic change, capturing the ways race, money, and opportunity shape our lives. A tale both personal and public, The Hustle is the story a disparate group of men finding - or not finding - a place in America
Download or read book The Everything Kids Basketball Book 3rd Edition written by Bob Schaller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the game of basketball providing information on the rules and the game's history, and describing playing techniques, skills, and related games.
Download or read book There s Always This Year written by Hanif Abdurraqib and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America “Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jump shot,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.” There’s Always This Year is a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus—whether it’s basketball, or music, or performance—Hanif Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.
Download or read book Classified Spelling A Simple Arrangement of Words for Beginners Etc written by Joseph Brown (Principal of Newington House School, Islington.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through the Hoop 1979 written by Tema Okun and published by The Institute for Southern Studies. This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Hoop To arc a jump shot through the orange rim . . . to tap in a rebound . . . putting the ball through the hoop represents a transcendent moment in basketball for player, team, and crowd. Such a moment exists in every sport. But to enjoy it, fans and athletes alike are often forced through other kinds of hoops. Sports can be violent, lonely, poetic, painful, uplifting. It can breed fitness or injury, sufficiency or dependence, pride or prejudice, friendship or hostility. When does the discipline of sport become dangerous obedience? When does self-mastery become self-aggrandizement? When does athletic activity cease to be empowering for the participants and fans to become an exercise of power over us? Answers to such questions are hard to find. Sports, unlike most topics previously addressed in special issues of Southern Exposure — labor, women, folk life, health, prisons — has never had a network of informed progressives working outside the established channels, posing critical questions, offering insightful direction for our thinking and doing. Trusted commentators and friends who know where they stand and why with regard to other central aspects of our culture shy away from giving serious thought to sport. As a result, many of us are left with personal confusions brought on by alternating experiences of frustration and fulfillment: How do we talk about a subject that on the one hand can be so easily criticized for abuses and on the other hand remains so compelling? How do we effectively criticize the sports establishment that manages ACC basketball or NFL football when we find ourselves glued to the set at playoff time?
Download or read book Classified spelling written by Joseph Brown (schoolmaster.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forever My Brother written by Isaiah Bealer and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forever My Brother showcases the lives of four black male youth growing up in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. Although, they have no blood relations, the bond they share on and off the court gives them a lifestyle of brotherhood that they hold close to their heart. Nevertheless, the challenges and pressures that come from sports, the streets and the politics of everyday life put a test to their brotherhood. The question for Malachi, T.C., Rob and J.B. is can they stay true to the loyalty they have to each other while still pursuing their own best personal interests.
Download or read book Plight a Story for the Next Generation written by Shon Diaz and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is intended to reach anyone who is or has gone through a hard time in life. The word “plight” is a noun that means a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation; something that if you live life long enough you will eventually face. The important thing to know when facing an unfortunate situation is that you have two choices, either let it get the best of you or find a way to overcome it. Hopefully this story helps you make the right choice when you face your plight.
Download or read book Hoop Roots written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, this book tells of the author's love for a game he can no longer play.
Download or read book To the Hoop written by Ira Berkow and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful book—not just for basketball fans but for everyone."—Earvin "Magic" Johnson A good reporter can pick up a pen and chronicle the game of basketball, from its X’s and O’s to its personalities. A great reporter can put down the pen and pick up the rock. Ira Berkow has been many things in his life—a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a respected columnist, and a passionate sports fan. He also knows how to thread a pass into the paint. In this wildly entertaining chronicle of his life as both a devotee and gym rat, Berkow writes with good humor and piercing insight about talking strategy with Walt Frazier, running the court with Oscar Robertson, and seeing the game from the inside. From his youth, playing on the courts in Chicago in the ‘40’s and ‘50’s to growing older and using the wisdom he’s gained to school players half his age, Berkow retains a competitive spirit, and a deep love of hoops. This moving tale of love for the game, for his friends and family, and for life itself is a must-read for anyone who wants the ball when the game is on the line. "An extraordinary look into the art of pickup basketball. Who would have guessed that, along with his writing talents, Ira knows how to play the game!"—Bill Bradley "Ira Berkow is one of the best sportswriters around, so it is no surprise that his basketball odyssey is one of the best sports books of this or any other year."—George Plimpton
Download or read book Blast Furnace and Steel Plant written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meet Me at the Barbershop written by Rashi Dildy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet me at the barbershop is a coming of age story about four best friends. Recently graduating high school, they learn what like is really about outside of their collective comfort zones. Friendship and brotherhood was easy and effortless in high school, now in the real world, they have a bit of a challenge on their hands. Can they handle it? or are they destined to be old high school buddies?
Download or read book Routledge s Every Man s Cyclopedia of Biography History Geography General Information Law Spelling Abbreviations Synonyms Pseudonyms Etc written by Arnold Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hoop Dreams Deflated written by Yani and published by Anitbeet Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2017-08-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a crack-whore for a mother, it’s no wonder that life for Davion and his younger sister Janaya, was everything but a crystal stair. Left in a dirty house by themselves with only the roaches to look after them as their tummies rumbled, the two anxiously await their mother to return with food for them to eat. Seeing LeBron James play in one of his first NBA games awakened Davion’s passion for the sport, but hearing his baby sister’s tearful pleas for something to eat makes him vow to become a super star athlete, so he and his sister would never again see days like the ones they were currently living. While salvaging slices of bread from a moldy loaf in the refrigerator, the two manage to make jelly sandwiches, only for the electric to be turned off. They are now alone in the dark, cold and hungry. A phone call placed to their father leads to their rescue and Davion and Janaya are placed in his custody. His mother’s dope fiend habits wreak havoc in his young life, causing him to get into countless fights while losing all respect for the woman he now only refers to as Joselyn. But a heated confrontation between the two leads to a startling revelation that it was his father who turned Joselyn onto coke and created her habit that ultimately led to her overdose, with Janaya and Davion being the ones to find her. The respect, love and admiration Davion once had for the man he affectionately referred to as Pops, quickly diminishes after that dreadful day, and tragedy seems to make itself right at home in their lives. Holding on to his hoop dreams, Davion works hard at perfecting his craft with his sister following in his footsteps. But with tragedy striking around them constantly, the dream begins to slowly slip from his grip. Davion soon learns that everyone is not who they seem as he suspects his step-mother played a part in a murder that nearly destroys the family. Through Davion’s eyes, he tells his story down to the final seconds of his fourth quarter when it’s too late for him to realize that his suspicions were misplaced… as was his trust.
Download or read book A Grammar of American Surnames written by Amos M. Judson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merriam Webster s Crossword Puzzle Dictionary written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The solution for crossword puzzle lovers, with complete word lists and easy-to-use organization. Comprehensive coverage. 300,000 answer words grouped alphabetically and by letter count.
