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NCAA Basketball Schedule in a Flash!

NCAA Basketball Schedule in a Flash! The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a round of 65 collegiate teams across the USA. These are clustered into 11 conferences and 1 independent cluster that have at least 8 teams to 13 at the most vying for the national championship. This is also known as the March Madness or the Big Dance as the elimination round is held during that month. The tournament is held in any hosting home team across the USA. To date, the national conference or tournament is the most prestigious sports event in the land. And most NBA...

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Discount Basketball Shoes

Discount Basketball Shoes Professional athletes know that the right basketball shoes can make or break their game. That’s why they’re careful in choosing the best quality shoes that provide optimum performance on the court. The ever-increasing demand for basketball shoes has created a huge supply of retailers. There are countless retail shops and Internet sellers that are ready to sell you a pair of basketball shoes, often at discount prices. Some of the stores will offer discount basketball shoes at markdowns of up to forty percent, making their offers very tempting to the average buyer. However, one must be careful...

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Basketball Accessories

Basketball Accessories Basketball fans nowadays need not limit themselves to availing only of caps and jerseys as their sign of loyalty to a certain team because there are already a wide range of accessories that they can get. These items are usually collectible items not only because of their prices but because they represent the all-star series of basketball teams. There is a special item for every special member of your family. While wristbands and headbands are the normal accessories one could find for a basketball lover, there are now pen sets, watches, pins, socks, school packs, and embroidered leather...

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Coaching Basketball Is Not Always Fun And Games

Coaching Basketball Is Not Always Fun And Games I wound up volunteering to coach basketball, a game I new nearly nothing about. Shortly after I wound up with the job, a parent approached me and asked what sort of coaching style I was going to use. After I managed to clear up the blank look on my face and stammer out some lame answer, I drove quickly to the privacy of my own home to avoid any more questions, and thus, not let my inexperience be known, for I knew after that question that I was in way over my...

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How Basketball Came To Be…

How Basketball Came To Be… In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a minister on the faculty of a college for YMCA professionals (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto an 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, so balls scored into the...

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Basketball and its Rules

Basketball and its Rules Basketball was invented in a pursuit for an indoor game, which would provide complete fitness. Dr James Naismith, a Canadian physical instructor, wrote down the basic rule for the game after initial rejection of many ideas, at a YMCA Training School. This game was officially played for the first time on January 20, 1892, in the YMCA Gymnasium, at Springfield College. Women began playing basketball in 1892, at Smith College, and different sets of rules were laid down for them. This is a team sport where two teams, consisting of nine members each, throw ball into...

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Six Tips For College Basketball Betting

Six Tips For College Basketball Betting In terms of sheer numbers, no sport matches the opportunity, intrigue, depth of quality, or endless variety involved with college basketball betting. Nearly every day of the week, from mid-November through March, bettors and sportsbooks match bankrolls on the hardwood fortunes of 235 teams in more than a dozen conferences. While number crunching and detailed analysis always are essential tools in college basketball betting, a degree of “art” compliments the “science” and is helpful, too. The successful bettor understands that subjective analysis of a number of other factors also must be considered. Let’s look...

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Getting to Know the Different Basketball Game Rules

Getting to Know the Different Basketball Game Rules All games follow certain rules in order for the game to be fair and properly executed. Rules are drafted these days by authorized people; particularly by the board that manages a certain authority on particular sports. As for the case of basketball game rules, they are drafted and finalized by people behind the game associations or leagues. For example, the NBA (National Basketball Association) has an executive committee that determines the rules for the game. For the international basketball games, the FIBA, or the Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur or simply as...

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Basketball: How the Game Started

Basketball: How the Game Started It all started with a child’s game that the inventor, Dr. James Naismith used to play outside his schoolhouse when he was younger. This game was called duck-on-a-rock, it aimed to knock the duck off the rock by tossing another rock against it. This then gave Dr. Naismith a concept of a game which he introduced to the students of YMCA Training School in 1891. Due to the cold weather, the trainees of the School for Christian Workers needed a game that could be played indoors and one that wouldn’t use much strength. He then...

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Ohio State Basketball Tickets – Is Osu Still A "football School?"

Ohio State Basketball Tickets – Is Osu Still A "football School?" Ohio State basketball tickets at one time gave fans the chance to see one of the most dominant programs in the United States. However, that was 40 years ago, and since then the Buckeyes have been largely known as a “football school”, and for good reason. The football team produced iconic figures such as Woody Hayes, Archie Griffin, Eddie George and even current coach Jim Tressel, all of whom significantly added to Buckeyes lore. Meanwhile, the basketball team has always been known as “good” but not “great”. They did...

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