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Eight Guys, Sixty-Four Wheels, One Basketball (Jon Hart, Skate City Press, October 1996) Reporting on the National Inline Basketball League (NIBBL) game. A lot of insights on the history and brave beginning of this exciting sport, created by NBA player Tom LaGarde
Ending NCAA's Abuse of Student Athletes Once and For All: It's Simple (Black Athlete Sports Network, 2002) Special reporting about basketball and football players in college and propose a workable solution to reduce alleged abuses in the system.
Euro: The New Currency of the NBA: The Foreign Invasion of the American Game (Dan McGraw, Village Voice, may 28-June 3, 2003) How the face of the NBA is shifting from an all-American game to a truly international game. Some insight on the phenomenon.
The Fall of the Shooting Stars (Ken Wood, SunNews, June 6, 2002) How two suburban basketball players ended up in prison
A Feckless Search for the Basketball Gene (Jonathan Marks, Op-Ed, New York Times on the Web, April 8, 2000) Author of "Human Biodiversity" discusses the issue if whether basketball talent is genetically inherited to arrive at very important conclusions about stereotypical branding.
A League of Their Own (Sam Quinones and Alan Mittelstaedt, LA Weekly, Feb 4-10, 2000) How a team of Oaxacan Busboys is redefining LA Basketball. An inspiring story of Mexican ethnic immigrants to Los Angeles and where Zeus Garcia and his "Rasa Unida" basketball team fame is legendary. Picture essay: Zeus Garcia and the Oaxaca Hoops (by Sam Quinones)
A New Meaning for Playground Basketball (by Preston Williams, Washington Post, February 24, 2003) Basketball ranking systems now spotlight even youngsters at a tender age. Some say there is a need for such a service. But some others disagree finding it excessive if not outright cruel. Kendal Marshall is rated the top 11-year old basketball player as chosen by "HoopScoop". But what are the repercussions on players at such an age?
Basketball Essays: Bebopping, Hip-Hopping and Slam Dunking: The Influence of African-American Endeavors in Music and Sports on Mainstream Culture Focuses on black basketball Essay by Gena Dagel Caponi Building Character With Basketball by Camilla Watson Logic in Basketball, Literacy in College by Art Sandler |
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