Hustling Or Hooping

Author : Bernard Jamar Haynes
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463464525
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Doug Merlino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608193497
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Hanif Abdurraqib
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593448790
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Tema Okun
Publisher : The Institute for Southern Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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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?

Author : Jake Maddox
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496504941
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoop Hustle written by Jake Maddox and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian's hoop dreams are in jeopardy after his dad forces him to volunteer at the local senior center. Can his new friend at the center help him work hard and make varsity?

Author : Arnold Villiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Johnny Boateng
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459406060
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hustle written by Johnny Boateng and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Johnny Huttle -- nicknamed "Hustle" by his best friend, Rex -- comes from an inner-city neighbourhood, where the streets are tough and the street ball games are rougher. More than anything, Johnny wants to shine as the school's star basketball player. But the one thing standing in his way is his best friend, Rex, who outshines Johnny effortlessly at everything, on and off the court. This makes Johnny angry enough that his game and their friendship suffer. When Rex starts getting into trouble in the neighbourhood and is suspended from the team, Johnny has to put his jealously aside to help his friend -- and his basketball team at the championship.

Author : Shon Diaz
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728370329
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Bob Schaller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440591008
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Everything Kids' Basketball Book written by Bob Schaller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to the game of basketball, in simple text with illustrations, providing information on the rules and the game's history, and describing playing techniques, skills, and related games.

Author : Bob Schaller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1507204809
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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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.