For many of us, we have played our final competitive game. We will be thinking about our Glory Days!
For the next two days, we are going to play some simple backyard basketball games.
Shoot until you miss: Simply shoot the ball with friends until you miss. When you miss a shot, the player who gets the rebound passes you the ball for a lay-up. Once you take the lay-up, pass the ball to the next shooter. Low stress, lots of fun.
HORSE:
A great rap!
Lyrics
[Hook x3]
They’re playing basketball
We love that basketball
They’re playing basketball
We love that basketball
[Verse 1]
(Now rapping basketball — Number 1, Kurtis Blow)
Basketball is my favorite sport
I like the way they dribble up and down the court
Just like I’m the king on the microphone
So is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop
My favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick-and-roll,
I like the give-and-go
Cause it’s basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow [Hook]
They’re playing basketball We love that basketball
They’re playing basketball
We love that basketball
[Verse 2]
I used to go to dinner, then take the girl
To see Tiny play against Earl The Pearl
And Wilt, Big O, and Jerry West Play
basketball at it’s very best
Basketball has always been my thing
I like Magic, Bird, and Bernard King
And number 33, my man Kareem
Is the center on my starting team
(To the hoop, y’all, watch out, watch out In yo’ face, now here comes the rest)
[Verse 3]
Clyde, Rick Barry, and Pistol Pete
Now these players could never be beat
Isiah, and Iceman too
Just give ’em the ball, and then you chalk up two
Dantley and Wilkins are on the scene
And Ralph Sampson is really mean
Bill Russell didn’t take no junk
And Darryl Dawkins got a monster dunk
[Verse 4]
Tell me, were you in the joint
The night Wilt scored 100 points?
Or when Celtics won titles back-to-back
And didn’t give nobody no kind of slack?
Or when Dr. J shook the whole damn team
With moves that came right out of a dream?
Or when Willis Reed stood so tall
Playing D with desire?
It’s basketball!
[Hook x2]
They’re playing basketball
We love that basketball
They’re playing basketball
We love that basketball
Rucker was the thing. (Kobe @ Rucker)
I had to prove myself every time I step.
Call me the Doctor! That’s empowering.
UMass – The dunk was prohibited.
ABA Virginia Squires. Guys would not touch him. There was too much respect.
ABA
Guns “a league of guys on the edge” He started to make the entire country look at the ABA.
Magic “You did not know what he was going to do.”
The ability to create moves we had never seen.
Vietnam War: The climate of the country was to challenge. It’s to challenge authority. Huge Afro and Goatee.
Kurtis Blow
Dr. J & Sneaker
Darryl Dawkins
1973 went to NJ Nets.
1st black males where white father’s said.”
I did not want to be Dr. J off the court.
5 seasons, 3 scoring title, 3 MVPs, 2 titles
NBA “Dr. J legitimized
Howard Cosell
ABA Erving was sold to the 76ers
Team game won – Blazers
Bill Walton 1977 MVP
He become a more rounded player. A personal evolution.
Dr. Chapstick
Wife
1980 Erving tried to win it all by himself
81 up 3-1 lose to Boston.
Age 32 and frustrated. We had been to the finals and awfully close. Center Moses Malone.
1983 Title
6 series victorious in 3, defeated in 3
Hey I am Doc
Larry was cimplaining to the refs, up 38 – 6. I felt like he as going to hit me. It was uncharacteristic of me. I want you to take it down. Julius made it a point to clear the air.
It found expression on the basketball court. One black sneaker, one white sneaker. On the court his arrogance came out. Parents divorced at 3, did not know his father. He accepted every responsibility. I do things the right way, that is it.
Younger brother, Marvin. Marvin complained about pain. He had Lupus. His 16 year old brother died. The thing I thought about most was my father had died, my brother had died, I can’t waste my life.
Retire: Thomas Edison of basketball. He brought it to a national stage. He built a sport. Jordan, that is all Dr. J did. There were things I did that nobody had done before. Innovation needs to be recognized.
The great cultural impact on our lives. Dr. J was a founding father of modern day basketball. The way he conducted himself as an athlete,
“You can sense there is a decency. It will be true until the day he died.”
Only non center to score He likened himself as a painter.
April 3oth, 2018: Game 1 of the Boston Celtics & Philadelphia 76ers.
Let’s Goooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Research, students will use the ENTIRE PERIOD to research this amazing sports rivalry.
ESPN Sports Century 43/50 The Century’s Greatest Athletes
Dr. J’s Best plays
Larry Bird /Dr. J Fight!
Dancing with the Stars: Athletes Cast (spring-2018)
This unit will be completed during the final weeks of the school year. It is a great way to see how athletes can help TV shows attract audiences and followers.
Dancers start when very young 2, 3
Jennie Finch (Softball, cat claw)
Johnny Damon (baseball):
Josh Norman (Football):
Disney: Cartoon and comical. OK.
Casey at the Bat
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to the hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, “If only Casey could but get a whack at that—
We’d put up even money now, with Casey at the bat.”
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a hoodoo, while the latter was a cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey getting to the bat.
But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much despisèd, tore the cover off the ball;
And when the dust had lifted, and men saw what had occurred,
There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.
Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.
There was ease in Casey’s manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile lit Casey’s face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt ‘twas Casey at the bat.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt;
Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip,
Defiance flashed in Casey’s eye, a sneer curled Casey’s lip.
And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air,
And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped—
“That ain’t my style,” said Casey. “Strike one!” the umpire said.
From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore;
“Kill him! Kill the umpire!” shouted someone on the stand;
And it’s likely they’d have killed him had not Casey raised his hand.
With a smile of Christian charity great Casey’s visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on;
He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the dun sphere flew;
But Casey still ignored it and the umpire said, “Strike two!”
“Fraud!” cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered “Fraud!”
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn’t let that ball go by again.
The sneer is gone from Casey’s lip, his teeth are clenched in hate,
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate;
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey’s blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out.
This is part of our baseball unit. As I started to think about this lesson, I googled “Youth Baseball Discussion Questions.”
A few things that came up: Youthbaseballtalk topic was CRAZY
101 Baseball Questions to Debate
USA TODAY ARTICLE: New Hampshire youth baseball coaches planned to ‘bean’ league’s lone girl to intimidate her into leaving Wicked Local
Different from, but as disturbing as the intentional walk in Little to get to a cancer survivor.
Sports Illustrated: Out of Control Parents Excerpts
–Following a Little League game in Sacramento in April 1999, a man who was coaching his son’s team beat up the manager of the opposing team. The assailant, who had been ejected by a 16-year-old umpire for verbally disrupting the game, was convicted of felony assault and sentenced to 180 days of work furlough.
–A Tamaqua, Pa., policeman was convicted of corruption of a minor and solicitation to commit simple assault for giving $2 to a 10-year-old Little League pitcher to hit a batter with a fastball last August.
–A youth baseball coach in Hollywood, Fla., was arrested for aggravated battery on July 12, almost a month after he broke an umpire’s jaw with a punch during a Police Athletic League game for high school players. The umpire was throwing the coach out of the game when he was struck. The coach plans to plead not guilty.
The most serious problem facing the myriad organized youth sports leagues, however, involves a landmark case in which the Illinois Supreme Court is expected to decide later this year whether children’s leagues can be held financially responsible for injuries resulting from adult violence at their games. The case grew out of a grotesque incident 10 years ago in which John Hills, the father-coach of a Little League player in the Chicago suburb of Lemont, complained to umpires that a rival coach, 16-year-old George Loy Jr. of suburban Bridgeview, was loudly making calls before the umpires themselves could make them. By the third inning Loy’s father, George Sr., also a Bridgeview coach, was baiting Hills, calling him a “four-eyed mother—-er” and promising to “get him after the game.”
After the sixth inning, as Hills bent over to pick up his scorebook, George Loy Sr. jumped him from behind, punching and kicking him as he drove him to the ground, and then circled the prostrate figure, looking for places to kick him again. George Jr. soon joined his father in pummeling Hills. Finally, George Sr.’s brother, Bridgeview manager Ted Loy, joined in the thuggery, kicking Hills between 10 and 15 times, witnesses said. Lemont’s third-base coach, Harry Keeler, interceded and helped Hills to his feet and was hit himself. Then the Loys launched one last attack on Hills. George Sr. stepped in and dropped Hills with a right to the face that broke his nose, while George Jr. smashed Hills’s left knee with an aluminum bat.
Hills did not wake up until he was in intensive care. Along with the broken nose, he suffered fractured ribs, a bruised kidney, a concussion, a scratched cornea and the injured knee, which still ails him. A plumber by trade, he returned to work only this year (2000).
The Loy brothers were arrested, charged with battery and sentenced to supervision and 40 hours of community service. Hills sued all three Loys, the Bridgeview Little League Association and the Justice Willow Springs Little League, which sponsored the tournament and owned the field. After a two-week trial in which 19 witnesses described what had happened, a default judgment was entered against the Loys, who never responded to the service of legal papers. (Nor would they comment for this article.) A Chicago jury awarded Hills and his wife a total of $757,710, finding not only the Loys but also the two Little League associations liable for the damages. The Little League groups, whose insurance would pay their share of the award, appealed, but the three-judge Appellate Court in Chicago upheld the jury’s judgment.
Journey or the “Last Lecture”
Discussion
Last lecture Speech outline (time based on 1:44:08 google video)
(1:44) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7zzQpvoYcQ
0 – 8:20 Speaker introduction – excellent to give background for the impact Randy has had on his school and profession. Not necessarily important to show the kids. Very good. Good to show EA sports guy! Ask how many students have played / used the Sims gam
Introduction (8:20 – 11:15)
Elephant in the room – not in denial
Push-ups (10:10)
What we are not talking about.
My childhood dreams (11:15 – 38:50)
Overview of childhood dreams (11:15 – 13:20)
Zero gravity (13:20 – 16:32)
Playing in the NFL (16:33 – 20:25)
World Book Encyclopedia (20:25 – 21:20)
Captain Kirk (21:20 – 23:35)
Stuffed Animals (23:40 – 25:30)
Disney Imagineer (25:30 – 38:50)
Enabling the dreams of others (38:50 – 1:03:00)
Tom and Star Wars (38:50 – 40:30)
Building Virtual Worlds – 1st assignment – Raise the bar (40:40 – 43:50)
Campus wide presentation – synergy (45:20 – 52:30)
Dream Fulfillment Factory ETC – 2 years masters program (53:50 – 1:00:25)
Alice computer program – infinitely scalable – professional legacy (1:00:25 – 1:03:00)
Lessons Learned (1:03:00 – 1:23:44)
Role of parents, mentors, students – select one person and thank them
Dad (1:03:43 – 1:04:40)
Mom – Paint the bedroom (1:04:40 – 1:05:00)
Andy van Dam (1:06:20 – 1:08:40)
Katlin Kelleher (1:08 – 1:09:57)
President Cohen (1:09:57 – 1:10:25)
Tigger vs. Eeyore (1:10:25)
Never lose childlike wonder (1:10:40)
Help others (1:10:45 – 11:11:38)
Loyalty is a two-way street (1:12:15 – 1:13:30)
Syl – best advice ever “When it comes to men…” (1:13:30 – 1:14:30)
Never Give Up (1:14:30 –
Get a feedback group and listen to it (1:21:30)
Show Gratitude (1:22:55)
Don’t complain, just work harder (1:22:13)
Important Advice – Be good at something, it makes you valuable. (1:22:20)
Find the best in everybody – just keep waiting
Be prepared – luck is where opportunity meets preparation
Today’s Talk – the head fake (1:23:00)
Boston has a great sports history with many exciting game 7s.
2024 Bruins defeat Toronto Maple Leafs 2 – 1 in Overtime. The Maple Leafs have not beaten the Bruins since 1959. Bruins would have been the 1st team in the history of major sports to lose 2 consecutive series after being ahead 3 – 1.
2018 1st Round: Boston Bruins score 4 goals in the final period to defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 7 – 4 to move on.