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No answers for that..just crying to Jack about how I called him a Sally, and oh yeah, you got your degree from what school Marine? Sorry I called you a Sally Marine, you really are more of a Mary.
a quick poll--need some input
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No answers for that..just crying to Jack about how I called him a Sally, and oh yeah, you got your degree from what school Marine? Sorry I called you a Sally Marine, you really are more of a Mary.
9/11 - WTC worker Mike Pecoraro and a co-worker, who were in the basement of the North Tower, see "white smoke" begin to fill the room after a loud explosion and believes a bomb went off in the basement floors above him after he witnesses that the machine shop on Level C was totally destroyed and a 50 ton hydraulic press there was "gone," sees that the parking garage the floor above had been totally destroyed, and sees that both lobbies of the North and South Towers were heavily damaged too.
Keep crying about the name calling, while you name call in the same breath!:00x33 Do a little research and you would know I have felt this way long before Ptgard even came along. But then again, research and facts aren't exactly your strong point are they?
Come to think of it, you sort of remind me of someone Marine. Anyone remember this classic Marine posted of himself on here? Just be careful Ptgard, these guys go wayyyyyyy back if you know what I mean!:brows:
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166547&highlight=marine
Scott, can you please tell your boy to settle down?
Bush planned war with Iraq long before 9/11 attack
By DOUG THOMPSON
Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue
Jan 11, 2006, 08:32
President George W. Bush began planning a war with Iraq before he took office on January 20, 2001, and long before the 9/11 terrorist attacks gave him the excuse he needed to push American intelligence agencies to fabricate ?evidence? that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or plotted with Osama bin Laden to attack American.
Bush knew from the get-go that he wanted to invade Iraq. It was on his mind before the election and campaign aides say he was obsessed with ?getting Saddam.?
?We?d be on the campaign plane talking about domestic issues and he?d change the subject and start rattling on about what a great evil Saddam Hussein was and how if he won the election he?d finish what he father failed to do ? topple Hussein,? says campaign worker Jerry Caufield who worked for the administration one year before leaving.
Other tell similar stories. The terrorist attacks weren?t the reason Bush invaded Iraq. They provided the excuse.
?We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors,? Bush said in his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2001.
On January 21, Bush held his first meeting of the National Security Council in the White House. At that meeting he ordered the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to draw up plans for an invasion of Iraq as, he said, ?a contingency.?
On February 16, in a press conference with Mexican president Vicente Fox, Bush said:
?Saddam Hussein has got to understand that we expect him to conform to the agreement that he signed after Desert Storm. We will enforce the no-fly zone, both south and north. Our intention is to make sure that the world is as peaceful as possible. And we're going to watch very carefully as to whether or not he develops weapons of mass destruction, and if we catch him doing so we'll take the appropriate action.?
On February 23, in a press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush said:
?We spent a lot of time talking about our mutual interests in Iraq and the Persian Gulf, and from our perspective, as you know, I made the famous statement that our sanctions are like Swiss cheese. That means they're not very effective. And we're going to work together to figure out a way to make them more effective. But I think the Prime Minister and I both recognize that it is going to be important for us to build a consensus in the region to make the sanctions more effective. Colin Powell left today, after lunch, to move around the Middle East, collect thoughts and to listen, with a policy of strengthening our mission to make it clear to Saddam Hussein that he shall not terrorize his neighbors, and not develop weapons of mass destruction.?
On May 21, Bush spoke at the Naval Academy in Annapolis:
?Today, nearly one-third of our naval forces are forward-deployed overseas. The USS Constellation carrier battle group and its 10,000 sailors are plying the waters of the Persian Gulf, enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq. Another 3,800 sailors and Marines stand guard nearby with the Boxer amphibious ready group, deterring any mischief Saddam might contemplate.?
If anything, Osama bin Laden was a diversion from Bush?s obsession with Hussein, a problem that got in the way.
On September 11, 2001, as Air Force One headed out of Florida, Bush turned to chief of staff Andrew Card and said ?find out how soon we can be ready to go into Iraq.?
Card told him that preliminary reports pointed towards bin Laden and Afghanistan.
?Forget ****ing Afghanistan,? Bush responded. ?Hussein is behind this. I know it. We?re going into Iraq.?
Aides who overheard Bush?s outburst say Card hustled him away and talked for Bush for more than 30 minutes in private. After that, Bush talked more about bin Laden and less about Hussein.
But Saddam and Iraq remained Bush?s focus. In his 2002 State of the Union address, he returned to that theme:
?Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens -- leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children. This is a regime that agreed to international inspections -- then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world.?
Pentagon sources tell me Bush wanted to invade Iraq first, believing bin Laden was there, not Afghanistan, but Secretary of State Colin Powell convinced the President he needed the cover of widespread support of going into Afghanistan and going after bin Laden.
But Bush really didn?t care that much about bin laden. In March 2002 Bush said he was no longer concerned about bin Laden:
?We haven't heard from him in a long time,? Bush said in a White House press conference on March 13, 2002. ?I truly am not that concerned about him.?
In Bush?s mind, bin Laden had never been the issue. His set his sights on Hussein from day one and nothing ? not facts, not truth, not international law ? would stop him from doing what he planned to do all along: Invade Iraq and launch the most divisive war since Vietnam.
By DOUG THOMPSON
Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue
Jan 11, 2006, 08:32
President George W. Bush began planning a war with Iraq before he took office on January 20, 2001, and long before the 9/11 terrorist attacks gave him the excuse he needed to push American intelligence agencies to fabricate ?evidence? that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or plotted with Osama bin Laden to attack American.
Bush knew from the get-go that he wanted to invade Iraq. It was on his mind before the election and campaign aides say he was obsessed with ?getting Saddam.?
?We?d be on the campaign plane talking about domestic issues and he?d change the subject and start rattling on about what a great evil Saddam Hussein was and how if he won the election he?d finish what he father failed to do ? topple Hussein,? says campaign worker Jerry Caufield who worked for the administration one year before leaving.
Other tell similar stories. The terrorist attacks weren?t the reason Bush invaded Iraq. They provided the excuse.
?We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors,? Bush said in his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2001.
On January 21, Bush held his first meeting of the National Security Council in the White House. At that meeting he ordered the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to draw up plans for an invasion of Iraq as, he said, ?a contingency.?
On February 16, in a press conference with Mexican president Vicente Fox, Bush said:
?Saddam Hussein has got to understand that we expect him to conform to the agreement that he signed after Desert Storm. We will enforce the no-fly zone, both south and north. Our intention is to make sure that the world is as peaceful as possible. And we're going to watch very carefully as to whether or not he develops weapons of mass destruction, and if we catch him doing so we'll take the appropriate action.?
On February 23, in a press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush said:
?We spent a lot of time talking about our mutual interests in Iraq and the Persian Gulf, and from our perspective, as you know, I made the famous statement that our sanctions are like Swiss cheese. That means they're not very effective. And we're going to work together to figure out a way to make them more effective. But I think the Prime Minister and I both recognize that it is going to be important for us to build a consensus in the region to make the sanctions more effective. Colin Powell left today, after lunch, to move around the Middle East, collect thoughts and to listen, with a policy of strengthening our mission to make it clear to Saddam Hussein that he shall not terrorize his neighbors, and not develop weapons of mass destruction.?
On May 21, Bush spoke at the Naval Academy in Annapolis:
?Today, nearly one-third of our naval forces are forward-deployed overseas. The USS Constellation carrier battle group and its 10,000 sailors are plying the waters of the Persian Gulf, enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq. Another 3,800 sailors and Marines stand guard nearby with the Boxer amphibious ready group, deterring any mischief Saddam might contemplate.?
If anything, Osama bin Laden was a diversion from Bush?s obsession with Hussein, a problem that got in the way.
On September 11, 2001, as Air Force One headed out of Florida, Bush turned to chief of staff Andrew Card and said ?find out how soon we can be ready to go into Iraq.?
Card told him that preliminary reports pointed towards bin Laden and Afghanistan.
?Forget ****ing Afghanistan,? Bush responded. ?Hussein is behind this. I know it. We?re going into Iraq.?
Aides who overheard Bush?s outburst say Card hustled him away and talked for Bush for more than 30 minutes in private. After that, Bush talked more about bin Laden and less about Hussein.
But Saddam and Iraq remained Bush?s focus. In his 2002 State of the Union address, he returned to that theme:
?Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens -- leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children. This is a regime that agreed to international inspections -- then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world.?
Pentagon sources tell me Bush wanted to invade Iraq first, believing bin Laden was there, not Afghanistan, but Secretary of State Colin Powell convinced the President he needed the cover of widespread support of going into Afghanistan and going after bin Laden.
But Bush really didn?t care that much about bin laden. In March 2002 Bush said he was no longer concerned about bin Laden:
?We haven't heard from him in a long time,? Bush said in a White House press conference on March 13, 2002. ?I truly am not that concerned about him.?
In Bush?s mind, bin Laden had never been the issue. His set his sights on Hussein from day one and nothing ? not facts, not truth, not international law ? would stop him from doing what he planned to do all along: Invade Iraq and launch the most divisive war since Vietnam.
pt, I really think this is where the focus should be, forget everything else. There is eyewitness, irrefutable, physical evidence. That should be the focus.
hmmmmm...
hmmmmm...
President Bush's cousin, Jim Pierce, escaped death from the WTC thanks to a "schedule change" the night before.
"President Bush's cousin should have been in the World Trade Centre when it was attacked.
Jim Pierce, managing director of AON Corporations, had arranged a business conference on the 105th floor of the South Tower where its New York offices were based.
But his group was too large so they decided to move across the street to the Millennium Hotel."
hmmmmm...
President Bush's cousin, Jim Pierce, escaped death from the WTC thanks to a "schedule change" the night before.
"President Bush's cousin should have been in the World Trade Centre when it was attacked.
Jim Pierce, managing director of AON Corporations, had arranged a business conference on the 105th floor of the South Tower where its New York offices were based.
But his group was too large so they decided to move across the street to the Millennium Hotel."
damning Johnny U's #19
damning Johnny U's #19
the alphabet agencies had been following them for years, trained them in USA military flight schools, doesnt that just gall you, Marine??
then on 9-11, norad & cheney and rummy and #43 sat down and watched as thousands of innocent people died, tho the hijackers were phantoms and never boarded the planes as we all know ...
why do we know this, bc the airport security wont reveal the closed circuit tapes, just like the citgo and the pentagon would reveal nothing ...
so, then within hours these elaborate fictional backgrounds are concocted on these 19 box cutters and we find all sorts of things, luggage and terrorists maps, tho for years we knew they were trouble and allowed them to move in and out of the USA w/expired passports and when FBI agents such as John O'Neil tried to interfere, he was put in charge of security at the WTC and died on 9-11, his first day on the job ... HMMM ...
well, then, now these poor hijackers remains are found thru DNA evidence even tho they never appeared on any flight manifests until the story weavers realize they better add them months or years later ... then when fbi chief mueller states flatly "we have all 19 ID'd" a strange thing happens, about 9 give or take, are found alive, or dead in the past ...
HMMM
okay, i get it, Marine, love your take here???
does the whole thing sounds like an 8th grader made it up? or is it just me?
Revealed: the men with stolen identities
By David Harrison
Last Updated: 2:03am BST 23/09/2001
THEIR names were flashed around the world as suicide hijackers who carried out the attacks on America. But yesterday four innocent men told how their identities had been stolen by Osama bin Laden's teams to cover their tracks.
The men - all from Saudi Arabia - spoke of their shock at being mistakenly named by the FBI as suicide terrorists. None of the four was in the United States on September 11 and all are alive in their home country.
The Telegraph obtained the first interviews with the men since they learnt that they were on the FBI's list of hijackers who died in the crashes in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
All four said that they were "outraged" to be identified as terrorists. One has never been to America and another is a Saudi Airlines pilot who was on a training course in Tunisia at the time of the attacks.
Saudi Airlines said it was considering legal action against the FBI for seriously damaging its reputation and that of its pilots. The FBI released the list of 19 suicide terrorists three days after the attacks.
The statement said that the 19 "have been identified as hijackers aboard the four airliners". Photographs and personal details were published around the world with an appeal for "information about these individuals, even though they are presumed dead".
The Saudi Airlines pilot, Saeed Al-Ghamdi, 25, and Abdulaziz Al-Omari, an engineer from Riyadh, are furious that the hijackers' "personal details" - including name, place, date of birth and occupation - matched their own.
Mr Al-Ghamdi was named as a terrorist on the United Airlines flight that crashed in Pennsylvania - a plane said by some experts to have been heading for the White House.
He first knew that he was on the FBI's list when he was told by a colleague. Speaking from Tunisia, he said: "I was completely shocked. For the past 10 months I have been based in Tunis with 22 other pilots learning to fly an Airbus 320. The FBI provided no evidence of my presumed involvement in the attacks.
"You cannot imagine what it is like to be described as a terrorist - and a dead man - when you are innocent and alive." The airline was angry too. Officials brought Mr Al-Ghamdi back to Saudi Arabia last week for a 10-day holiday to avoid arrest or interrogation.
An official said: "We are consulting lawyers about what action to take to protect the reputation of our pilots." Mr Al-Ghamdi faced further embarrassment when CNN, the American television network, flashed a photograph of him around the world, naming him as a hijack suspect.
The FBI had published his personal details but with a photograph of somebody else, presumably a hijacker who had "stolen" his identity. CNN, however, showed a picture of the real Mr Al-Ghamdi.
He said that CNN had probably got the picture from the Flight Safety flying school he attended in Florida. CNN has since broadcast a clarification saying that the photograph may not be that of the accused.
Mr Al-Omari, who was accused of hijacking the American Airlines plane that smashed into the the World Trade Centre's north tower, said that he was at his desk at the Saudi telecommunications authority in Riyadh when the attacks took place.
He said: "I couldn't believe it when the FBI put me on their list. They gave my name and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber. I am here. I am alive. I have no idea how to fly a plane. I had nothing to do with this."
Mr Al-Omari said his passport was stolen when his apartment in Denver, Colorado, was burgled in 1995. He had been studying engineering at Denver University since 1993. He was given a new passport in Riyadh on December 31, 1995 and returned to America to resume his studies in January 1996. After graduating last year he returned to Riyadh to join the electricity authority and later moved to the telecommunications authority.
The other two men accused of being terrorists are Salem Al-Hamzi and Ahmed Al-Nami. Mr Al-Hamzi is 26 and had just returned to work at a petrochemical complex in the industrial eastern city of Yanbou after a holiday in Saudi Arabia when the hijackers struck. He was accused of hijacking the American Airlines Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon.
He said: "I have never been to the United States and have not been out of Saudi Arabia in the past two years." The FBI described him as 21 and said that his possible residences were Fort Lee or Wayne, both in New Jersey.
Mr Al-Nami, 33, from Riyadh, an administrative supervisor with Saudi Arabian Airlines, said that he was in Riyadh when the terrorists struck.
He said: "I'm still alive, as you can see. I was shocked to see my name mentioned by the American Justice Department. I had never even heard of Pennsylvania where the plane I was supposed to have hijacked."
He had never lost his passport and found it "very worrying" that his identity appeared to have been "stolen" and published by the FBI without any checks. The FBI had said his "possible residence" was Delray Beach in Florida.
Last night the FBI admitted that there was some doubt about the identities of some of the suspects. A spokesman said: "The identification process has been complicated by the fact that many Arabic family names are similar. It is also possible that the hijackers used false identities."
The spokesman declined to say whether the FBI would apologise but added: "If we have made mistakes then obviously that would be regrettable but this is a big and complicated investigation."
When the list was published Robert Mueller, the FBI director, said that it was "fairly confident" that the names were not aliases.
damning Johnny U's #19
the alphabet agencies had been following them for years, trained them in USA military flight schools, doesnt that just gall you, Marine??
then on 9-11, norad & cheney and rummy and #43 sat down and watched as thousands of innocent people died, tho the hijackers were phantoms and never boarded the planes as we all know ...
why do we know this, bc the airport security wont reveal the closed circuit tapes, just like the citgo and the pentagon would reveal nothing ...
so, then within hours these elaborate fictional backgrounds are concocted on these 19 box cutters and we find all sorts of things, luggage and terrorists maps, tho for years we knew they were trouble and allowed them to move in and out of the USA w/expired passports and when FBI agents such as John O'Neil tried to interfere, he was put in charge of security at the WTC and died on 9-11, his first day on the job ... HMMM ...
well, then, now these poor hijackers remains are found thru DNA evidence even tho they never appeared on any flight manifests until the story weavers realize they better add them months or years later ... then when fbi chief mueller states flatly "we have all 19 ID'd" a strange thing happens, about 9 give or take, are found alive, or dead in the past ...
HMMM
okay, i get it, Marine, love your take here???
does the whole thing sounds like an 8th grader made it up? or is it just me?
Revealed: the men with stolen identities
By David Harrison
Last Updated: 2:03am BST 23/09/2001
THEIR names were flashed around the world as suicide hijackers who carried out the attacks on America. But yesterday four innocent men told how their identities had been stolen by Osama bin Laden's teams to cover their tracks.
The men - all from Saudi Arabia - spoke of their shock at being mistakenly named by the FBI as suicide terrorists. None of the four was in the United States on September 11 and all are alive in their home country.
The Telegraph obtained the first interviews with the men since they learnt that they were on the FBI's list of hijackers who died in the crashes in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
All four said that they were "outraged" to be identified as terrorists. One has never been to America and another is a Saudi Airlines pilot who was on a training course in Tunisia at the time of the attacks.
Saudi Airlines said it was considering legal action against the FBI for seriously damaging its reputation and that of its pilots. The FBI released the list of 19 suicide terrorists three days after the attacks.
The statement said that the 19 "have been identified as hijackers aboard the four airliners". Photographs and personal details were published around the world with an appeal for "information about these individuals, even though they are presumed dead".
The Saudi Airlines pilot, Saeed Al-Ghamdi, 25, and Abdulaziz Al-Omari, an engineer from Riyadh, are furious that the hijackers' "personal details" - including name, place, date of birth and occupation - matched their own.
Mr Al-Ghamdi was named as a terrorist on the United Airlines flight that crashed in Pennsylvania - a plane said by some experts to have been heading for the White House.
He first knew that he was on the FBI's list when he was told by a colleague. Speaking from Tunisia, he said: "I was completely shocked. For the past 10 months I have been based in Tunis with 22 other pilots learning to fly an Airbus 320. The FBI provided no evidence of my presumed involvement in the attacks.
"You cannot imagine what it is like to be described as a terrorist - and a dead man - when you are innocent and alive." The airline was angry too. Officials brought Mr Al-Ghamdi back to Saudi Arabia last week for a 10-day holiday to avoid arrest or interrogation.
An official said: "We are consulting lawyers about what action to take to protect the reputation of our pilots." Mr Al-Ghamdi faced further embarrassment when CNN, the American television network, flashed a photograph of him around the world, naming him as a hijack suspect.
The FBI had published his personal details but with a photograph of somebody else, presumably a hijacker who had "stolen" his identity. CNN, however, showed a picture of the real Mr Al-Ghamdi.
He said that CNN had probably got the picture from the Flight Safety flying school he attended in Florida. CNN has since broadcast a clarification saying that the photograph may not be that of the accused.
Mr Al-Omari, who was accused of hijacking the American Airlines plane that smashed into the the World Trade Centre's north tower, said that he was at his desk at the Saudi telecommunications authority in Riyadh when the attacks took place.
He said: "I couldn't believe it when the FBI put me on their list. They gave my name and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber. I am here. I am alive. I have no idea how to fly a plane. I had nothing to do with this."
Mr Al-Omari said his passport was stolen when his apartment in Denver, Colorado, was burgled in 1995. He had been studying engineering at Denver University since 1993. He was given a new passport in Riyadh on December 31, 1995 and returned to America to resume his studies in January 1996. After graduating last year he returned to Riyadh to join the electricity authority and later moved to the telecommunications authority.
The other two men accused of being terrorists are Salem Al-Hamzi and Ahmed Al-Nami. Mr Al-Hamzi is 26 and had just returned to work at a petrochemical complex in the industrial eastern city of Yanbou after a holiday in Saudi Arabia when the hijackers struck. He was accused of hijacking the American Airlines Flight 77 that hit the Pentagon.
He said: "I have never been to the United States and have not been out of Saudi Arabia in the past two years." The FBI described him as 21 and said that his possible residences were Fort Lee or Wayne, both in New Jersey.
Mr Al-Nami, 33, from Riyadh, an administrative supervisor with Saudi Arabian Airlines, said that he was in Riyadh when the terrorists struck.
He said: "I'm still alive, as you can see. I was shocked to see my name mentioned by the American Justice Department. I had never even heard of Pennsylvania where the plane I was supposed to have hijacked."
He had never lost his passport and found it "very worrying" that his identity appeared to have been "stolen" and published by the FBI without any checks. The FBI had said his "possible residence" was Delray Beach in Florida.
Last night the FBI admitted that there was some doubt about the identities of some of the suspects. A spokesman said: "The identification process has been complicated by the fact that many Arabic family names are similar. It is also possible that the hijackers used false identities."
The spokesman declined to say whether the FBI would apologise but added: "If we have made mistakes then obviously that would be regrettable but this is a big and complicated investigation."
When the list was published Robert Mueller, the FBI director, said that it was "fairly confident" that the names were not aliases.
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you ignorant truthers think that George W would give two shits about his cousin and you use that as any kind of proof of a conspiracy .
Think about it nancyboy
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Simple
The planes crashed compromised the boilers in the basement and caused them to heat up and start spewing liguad gas, then Boom !
Conspriacy heresy ....
NancyBoy
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jabberhead
I thought at one time you were getting smarter, but I just realized you are stupider.
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just answer this chud
are you and jabberhead pigeontoed ?
that would explain alot
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Next you will be telling us how you replicated the 110 story towers out of Jenga pieces and threw a model airplane at them and they fell over.
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You didn't have to PAY to attend the USNA did you??????/
Barry Sanders
My article that I choice was about one of the most interesting sports player?s of our time. Barry Sanders arguably the best back ever to play the game of football. Barry is not one of those players who is just out there to make money, no he loves the game and is always trying his hardest when he is out there. In my paper there is allot interest information about Barry that not every one knows about him.
Barry Sanders was born July 16th, 1968 in Wichita, Kansas. He grew up in a family being one of eleven other children. When Barry was a kid he was considered to be too short to play football well at the college level. In fact, his 1,417 yards rushing in his senior year of high school wasn't enough to impress college recruiters. One recruiter told Barry's coach, "We don't need another midget." Only two colleges offered Barry a football scholarship. Barry accepted a scholarship from Oklahoma
State University and the rest is now history.
Here are some of Barrys career achievements that he has done in the short time he has played the game. Which has made him such the over achiever that he is. 1988, won the Heisman Trophy Award for best player in the nation. 1989, lead the NFC in rushing and was Rookie of the Year. 1992, became the Lions' All-Time leading rusher. 1994, rushed for the fourth best NFL season record of 1,883 yards and included a 237 yards in week 11 vs. Tampa Bay. In 1996, became the first player in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards in his first eight seasons, won the NFL rushing title, selected to the Pro Bowl for the eighth time and became the first player to rush for over 1,500 yards in three consecutive seasons.
Sanders continues adding to his extraordinary numbers on the field. He has run for 1,300 yards and now stands seventh among the NFL?s all-time rushers with 11,472, having surpassed Ottis Anderson, O.J. Simpson and John Riggins. He?s 128 yards behind Kansas City?s Marcus Allen, Sanders? boyhoodhero when he was growing up in Wichita, Kan., and Allen was a Los Angeles Raider. Next year, providing he keeps up this trend of 1,000-yard seasons, Sanders will pass Franco Harris (12,120), Jim Brown (12,312) and Tony Dorsett(12,739) and slide into third place behind Eric Dickerson (13,259) and Walter Payton (16,726). Sanders is the first player in league history to rush for at least 1,000 yards in eight straight seasons, and Thursday he was named to his eighth straight Pro Bowl. ?Anytime he touches the ball, it?s a highlight reel,? says Allen, now in his 15th NFL season. ?The player most fun to watch, and by far, the most dangerous player in the game today, is Barry Sanders. He is jus!
t remarkable. He is also, in my opinion, the guy everyone?s still trying to crack.? Mention any of this to Sanders, and you would expect him to be bemused, wearing the kind of bored look people get when they?re waiting in line at the grocery store. You?ve seen him being interviewed on TV, standing or sitting in that same spot in front of his locker, avoiding eye contact with the camera and speaking in that unhurried monotone. There has always been a kind of perceived uneasiness about him. But rattle off a few of the aforementioned tales of change?especially what his teammates and family have noticed about him lately?and he nods knowingly and begins, very un-Sanders like, by answering a question with a question. ?When I first came into the league, I was 20 years old,? he starts out saying. ?Now I?m 28. So wouldn?t you expect there to be some changes between 20 and 28?? Sure, you say. He continues. ?I know I?m more outgoing, especially publicly,? Sanders says. ?I don?t think any!
of my brothers or sisters, though, would ever term me as quiet or reserved. Whenever I become more comfortable with people, I get more open. And now, I just think I?m more comfortable outside of my own little environment and people can see more of me, more inside of the person. Before, I was a person who felt out of their element and was just kind of being, sitting back and watching everything. ?At home, they knew I wasn?t just this quiet and
reserved person, the way people thought I was here. It?s just a matter of comfort, that?s all it is. Even in the locker room, people that I?m not real close with I can laugh and joke. And now, I?m more prone to try to defend myself from attacks from Brett Perriman and Herman Moore.? Sanders starts cracking up. Get it? He has just made a joke. ?I can sit and talk with my oldest son for hours and hours. Barry and I could never do that. But the last time he called, he asked to talk tome. We talked for quite a while. Barry, he used to make me mad because he was just like his mother. Looks like her. Quiet like her. I wanted him to have something of me. But I wouldn?t let him be outgoing. ?Barry,? I said, ?you?ve got to be different.? Ask him. He?ll remember.??William Sanders, Barry?s father Peter Schaffer, one of Sanders? agents, lives in Denver. He belongs to a health club where Sanders and former Michigan receiver Mercury Hayes joined a pick up basketball game last year. Sanders!
, who?s 5-feet-8 and 203 pounds, wore a plain T-shirt and shorts. Hayes? shirt said?Michigan? on the front. The next day, a couple of Schaffer?s friends who played in the game sought him out. ?Hey, it was sure fun playing basketball with Mercury Hayes!? they said. Schaffer didn?t have the heart to tell them who the other guy was. Stories like that one are still as popular as they were in 1988 -- the year Sanders won the Heisman Trophy as a junior at Oklahoma State and turned down an invitation to the White House because he said he had to study. Or how about the time two years ago in Miami when Sanders spent the evening in the lounge at the Marriott? Think you?re onto some juicy gossip, right? Well, Sanders wasn?t attached to any bar stool. He and Steve Atwater of the Denver Broncos were in a corner, playing Pop-A-Shot basketball all night. Former Lions offensive tackle Lomas Brown has a good one, too. He can list the times Sanders has been over to his house for dinner, but you!
wouldn?t have known he was there. ?You know how it?s kids in one room, adults in another?? says Brown, who spent 11 years with the Lions before he signed with the Arizona Cardinals last February. ?Well, most of the time Barry would be with my kids, sitting on the floor playing a video game or eating off their plates watching a movie.? Sanders, who has one year left on a four-year, $17.2-million contract he signed in December 1993, still lives in the $175,000 house in Rochester Hills he bought in 1989 after the Lions made him their first-round draft pick. But back in Wichita, he moved his parents into a new 7,000-square-foot house three years ago. The white brick home, which sits on 11 acres with a private pond stocked with bass, crappie and catfish, replaces the three-bedroom, 850-square-foot home Barry and his 10 brothers and sisters grew up in. ?You do what?s right,? Sanders says with a shrug. Well, that includes everything from paying the college tuitions for his brothers!
and sisters to making sure his Nike contract still has a clause that says the company must supply his former high school football coach with 60 pairs of shoes a year. One person who knows Sanders best outside his family is Mark McCormick, a newspaper reporter at the Wichita Eagle. They grew up on the same street, Volutsia, on the city?s north side, and have been friends since McCormick got over the day Sanders beat him up in kindergarten. When Sanders was attending Oklahoma State, McCormick was studying journalism at the University of Kansas. He was on a tight budget and got sick, losing 30 pounds one semester. ?Dang, what?s going on with you?? Sanders asked. ?I?m in college,? McCormick replied. ?I?m starving.? Sanders wanted to help and offered his Pell Grant money, which McCormick refused. A few years later, after Sanders joined the Lions, he heard that McCormick was evicted from an apartment after getting his first job. He mailed him $500. ?I?m at the point now in our rel!
ationship that I can never repay him unless I give him a lung or a kidney,? McCormick says. ?And he still calls me all the time.? After rushing for 1,470 yards and breaking Billy Sims? single-season club record his rookie year, Sanders gave each of the Lions? offensive linemen a Rolex watch, valued at more than $10,000. On the back was the inscription: ?Thanks for a great ?89 season. Barry Sanders.? When center Kevin Glover came home one day last February, a box the size of a small refrigerator was sitting in the driveway near his garage. In it was a big-screen TV and a thank-you note from Sanders. ?It?s not expected, but he does it,? Glover says. The TV ?is something I?m going to cherish. When I retire, I plan on getting a plaque for it that will say, ?A gift from Barry Sanders.? ? All of this giving, all of this helping, and Sanders still turns down most of the endorsement offers that come his way, deals that could bring him an additional $4 million to $5 million a year, Sc!
haffer says. ?You can put $1 million in front of him that he turns down, but he?ll say yes to the Michigan state seat-belt patrol campaign,? Schaffer says. ?A lot of football players have tremendous egos. They like to see themselves on TV. Not Barry.? Sanders doesn?t decline everything, though. He has endorsement deals with more than a half-dozen companies, including many of the prized ones?Nike, McDonald?s, Cadillac, 7-Eleven, and, soon to be announced, Little Caesars. ?He needs to let himself take off,? Perriman says. ?He should be the Michael Jordan of football. He could be that. Playing
eight years, he knows he?s not going to be playing forever. I tell him, ?You better get what you deserve and what you can while you can.? He needs to be as large in commercials as he is a player.? But Sanders won?t. He is doing more, but he won?t do it all. ?I wish there were another way of doing it,? Sanders says of endorsements. ?I?m definitely more comfortable with the game being bigger than the person.? That has been Sanders? philosophy since the fourth grade. That year, in his first football game ever, the first time he touched the ball, he scored on a 70-yard sweep. The next Saturday, his coach tried him out on kickoffs. He ran the first one back for a touchdown. His father was there. ?It was 1977 and I was sitting in my ?63 Pontiac listening to Texas beat Oklahoma, 13-6,? William Sanders says. ?Must have run for three or four touchdowns that day.? In his first few years with the Lions, much was made about Sanders? upbringing, about the stern father and quiet mother, par!
ents who had their own distinct ways of raising their children. ?Growing up, the kids would get together and just kind of ask the question, ?How in the world did these two get together?? ? Barry says with a laugh. Barry was especially close to his mother?and still is. Shirley Sanders had children spanning three decades, beginning with Diane, born in 1959, and ending with Krista, the youngest of the eight girls, born in 1974. Shirley delivered Barry, No. 7 on the family?s roster, on July 16, 1968. His mother speaks in a soft voice and is bashful around strangers. ?I love it when he comes home,? she says. ?We sit and talk for hours. I miss him. I feel for him sometimes?all the attention he gets and doesn?t want.? When her husband pipes up and offers one of his gruff opinions (?I don?t like boys to be close to their mothers because it makes sissies out of them,? he says), Shirley smiles and rolls her eyes. Last month at the Sanders home in Wichita, Shirley spent part of the eveni!
ng in her kitchen listening to Christian music while her husband sat on his leather recliner watching a basketball game. Indiana was beating up Princeton. Shirley says she missed many of Barry?s football games when he was growing up, mainly because Friday night was reserved for choir practice at Paradise Baptist Church. Religion is a central theme of the Sanders family. One of the proudest moments in her life came when Barry sent $200,000 of his $2.1-million signing bonus to Paradise his rookie year. While Shirley is quiet and unassuming, her husband is anything but. William Sanders listens to Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura, smokesWhite Owl cigars and rarely leaves home without his Cleveland Browns jacket. His favorite college remains Oklahomabecause he listened to the Sooners broadcasts on the radio when he was growing up. He points out that he has collected only two autographs for himself through the years?Troy Aikman (because he played two seasons at Oklahoma) and Bernie Kosar!
(Cleveland). In 1994, William Sanders brought a football to Dallas, where the Cowboys were playing the Lions. When the teams were warming up, he was introduced to Emmitt Smith. Sanders asked if Smith could do him a favor and sign his football for a friend. ?He said he?d get me after the game,? William Sanders says, angry as he tells the story. As it turns out, the Lions won the game in overtime. When he asked Smith to sign the ball, he refused. ?My Barry would never do that,? Sanders says. Until this past summer, William Sanders was working six days a week as a freelance roofer and remodeler. Before that, he worked on the beef-kill line at a rendering plant, firing .22s into the skulls of cattle, among other jobs. ?Barry came into money in ?88,? William Sanders says, walking up the private drive that leads to their home. ?You know, we?ll be here four years on Memorial Day. I was never hung up on moving out of the ghetto just to say I moved out. Money can be a curse and a nigh!
tmare if you let it control you.? As nice as his new house is, William Sanders misses his old neighborhood. ?I bought that house (on Volutsia) for $8,200 in 1964,? he says. ?I paid it off in February 1984 -- $77.50 a month on a 20-year note.? In those days, sleeping arrangements were eight girls in one bedroom, three boys in another. William was the neighborhood?s master builder of bunk beds. And also, the chief disciplinarian. ?I remember in Barry?s senior year in high school he had on a pair of Converse All-Stars for basketball, ?William Sanders says. ?He came in one day and his shoes were untied. I told him if he ever comes in the house again with his shoes untied I?d break both his legs. ?I was such a sergeant over my kids. I felt I had to be.? Barry?s brother Byron, who played football at Northwestern, says, ?My father doesn?t realize that although we appear to be reserved, no one in the world can intimidate any of his children because of the way he was. He loved us, and !
that?s the difference.? Today, the children all grown and gone, William Sanders misses the full house. He?s planning a family reunion for next summer. ?Let me tell you how I feel about things now,? William Sanders says. ?God told Abraham that he was a blessing to many nations. Well, we?re thankful for the blessings of Barry. I remember I wanted one of my sons to go to Oklahoma so bad, so that I could go down in peace. Now, if Barry goes into the Hall of Fame, when he?s standing up there, on the steps in Canton, I can lay down right there and die.? ?I think a lot of things that I believe have changed, or I have just adjusted some. I think if that?s what you really want to do, then I think you should.
What the other players around the league think about him. You could call him the best running back, and there would be no real argument. But you could go even further: Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions might be, quite simply, the best player in the game. Were he to be judged only for the magic he creates with a hand off, his supremacy would end at his position. but Sanders has accomplished something remarkable, if not unprecedented, since the days of Jim Brown. The current of terror that begins to flow in the days and hours before a game usually emanates from vicious defenders and flows white-hot into the rattled psyches of the players who earn their pay with the ball in their hands. But alone among his offensive fellows, Sanders has reversed that current. Sanders has a whole breed of men best known for barking like dogs instead praying out loud. In a week of preparing for Sanders, says Chicago Bear linebacker Vinson Smith, "You have to not sleep for a couple of nights." Re!
ally? "Yes. Yes. ?And even during fitful dozing, says Minnesota Viking defensive tackle Henry Thomas, who usually dreams of sacks and motor cycles, "you sit up in the middle of the night hollering, 'Barry! Sanders!' "
Most people don?t just think Barry is a great football player they also think he is a great person too. Barry Sanders is simply the most exciting sports player to watch. Not to mention that he has a great personality and is a class act. This guy is so good at what he does it's scary and he doesn't even have a trace of ego in him. When Barry runs the ball he defies the laws of gravity and physics of a moving object. He makes moves that make your eyes pop out of their sockets and leave your mouth hanging wide open.
To me this report help my find out that Barry is more than just a good ball player he also is a good person that most people don?t see. Barry does not let all the money he earns get to his head he act like you and me. At the end of Barrys career he will probably own every single record there is. He is on the pace to do that with no problem. There is no doubt in my mind that Barry will be in the Hall of Fame with ease. To bad all the sports players are not like Barry if they were all the games you watch would be ten times better then what they are now.
My article that I choice was about one of the most interesting sports player?s of our time. Barry Sanders arguably the best back ever to play the game of football. Barry is not one of those players who is just out there to make money, no he loves the game and is always trying his hardest when he is out there. In my paper there is allot interest information about Barry that not every one knows about him.
Barry Sanders was born July 16th, 1968 in Wichita, Kansas. He grew up in a family being one of eleven other children. When Barry was a kid he was considered to be too short to play football well at the college level. In fact, his 1,417 yards rushing in his senior year of high school wasn't enough to impress college recruiters. One recruiter told Barry's coach, "We don't need another midget." Only two colleges offered Barry a football scholarship. Barry accepted a scholarship from Oklahoma
State University and the rest is now history.
Here are some of Barrys career achievements that he has done in the short time he has played the game. Which has made him such the over achiever that he is. 1988, won the Heisman Trophy Award for best player in the nation. 1989, lead the NFC in rushing and was Rookie of the Year. 1992, became the Lions' All-Time leading rusher. 1994, rushed for the fourth best NFL season record of 1,883 yards and included a 237 yards in week 11 vs. Tampa Bay. In 1996, became the first player in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards in his first eight seasons, won the NFL rushing title, selected to the Pro Bowl for the eighth time and became the first player to rush for over 1,500 yards in three consecutive seasons.
Sanders continues adding to his extraordinary numbers on the field. He has run for 1,300 yards and now stands seventh among the NFL?s all-time rushers with 11,472, having surpassed Ottis Anderson, O.J. Simpson and John Riggins. He?s 128 yards behind Kansas City?s Marcus Allen, Sanders? boyhoodhero when he was growing up in Wichita, Kan., and Allen was a Los Angeles Raider. Next year, providing he keeps up this trend of 1,000-yard seasons, Sanders will pass Franco Harris (12,120), Jim Brown (12,312) and Tony Dorsett(12,739) and slide into third place behind Eric Dickerson (13,259) and Walter Payton (16,726). Sanders is the first player in league history to rush for at least 1,000 yards in eight straight seasons, and Thursday he was named to his eighth straight Pro Bowl. ?Anytime he touches the ball, it?s a highlight reel,? says Allen, now in his 15th NFL season. ?The player most fun to watch, and by far, the most dangerous player in the game today, is Barry Sanders. He is jus!
t remarkable. He is also, in my opinion, the guy everyone?s still trying to crack.? Mention any of this to Sanders, and you would expect him to be bemused, wearing the kind of bored look people get when they?re waiting in line at the grocery store. You?ve seen him being interviewed on TV, standing or sitting in that same spot in front of his locker, avoiding eye contact with the camera and speaking in that unhurried monotone. There has always been a kind of perceived uneasiness about him. But rattle off a few of the aforementioned tales of change?especially what his teammates and family have noticed about him lately?and he nods knowingly and begins, very un-Sanders like, by answering a question with a question. ?When I first came into the league, I was 20 years old,? he starts out saying. ?Now I?m 28. So wouldn?t you expect there to be some changes between 20 and 28?? Sure, you say. He continues. ?I know I?m more outgoing, especially publicly,? Sanders says. ?I don?t think any!
of my brothers or sisters, though, would ever term me as quiet or reserved. Whenever I become more comfortable with people, I get more open. And now, I just think I?m more comfortable outside of my own little environment and people can see more of me, more inside of the person. Before, I was a person who felt out of their element and was just kind of being, sitting back and watching everything. ?At home, they knew I wasn?t just this quiet and
reserved person, the way people thought I was here. It?s just a matter of comfort, that?s all it is. Even in the locker room, people that I?m not real close with I can laugh and joke. And now, I?m more prone to try to defend myself from attacks from Brett Perriman and Herman Moore.? Sanders starts cracking up. Get it? He has just made a joke. ?I can sit and talk with my oldest son for hours and hours. Barry and I could never do that. But the last time he called, he asked to talk tome. We talked for quite a while. Barry, he used to make me mad because he was just like his mother. Looks like her. Quiet like her. I wanted him to have something of me. But I wouldn?t let him be outgoing. ?Barry,? I said, ?you?ve got to be different.? Ask him. He?ll remember.??William Sanders, Barry?s father Peter Schaffer, one of Sanders? agents, lives in Denver. He belongs to a health club where Sanders and former Michigan receiver Mercury Hayes joined a pick up basketball game last year. Sanders!
, who?s 5-feet-8 and 203 pounds, wore a plain T-shirt and shorts. Hayes? shirt said?Michigan? on the front. The next day, a couple of Schaffer?s friends who played in the game sought him out. ?Hey, it was sure fun playing basketball with Mercury Hayes!? they said. Schaffer didn?t have the heart to tell them who the other guy was. Stories like that one are still as popular as they were in 1988 -- the year Sanders won the Heisman Trophy as a junior at Oklahoma State and turned down an invitation to the White House because he said he had to study. Or how about the time two years ago in Miami when Sanders spent the evening in the lounge at the Marriott? Think you?re onto some juicy gossip, right? Well, Sanders wasn?t attached to any bar stool. He and Steve Atwater of the Denver Broncos were in a corner, playing Pop-A-Shot basketball all night. Former Lions offensive tackle Lomas Brown has a good one, too. He can list the times Sanders has been over to his house for dinner, but you!
wouldn?t have known he was there. ?You know how it?s kids in one room, adults in another?? says Brown, who spent 11 years with the Lions before he signed with the Arizona Cardinals last February. ?Well, most of the time Barry would be with my kids, sitting on the floor playing a video game or eating off their plates watching a movie.? Sanders, who has one year left on a four-year, $17.2-million contract he signed in December 1993, still lives in the $175,000 house in Rochester Hills he bought in 1989 after the Lions made him their first-round draft pick. But back in Wichita, he moved his parents into a new 7,000-square-foot house three years ago. The white brick home, which sits on 11 acres with a private pond stocked with bass, crappie and catfish, replaces the three-bedroom, 850-square-foot home Barry and his 10 brothers and sisters grew up in. ?You do what?s right,? Sanders says with a shrug. Well, that includes everything from paying the college tuitions for his brothers!
and sisters to making sure his Nike contract still has a clause that says the company must supply his former high school football coach with 60 pairs of shoes a year. One person who knows Sanders best outside his family is Mark McCormick, a newspaper reporter at the Wichita Eagle. They grew up on the same street, Volutsia, on the city?s north side, and have been friends since McCormick got over the day Sanders beat him up in kindergarten. When Sanders was attending Oklahoma State, McCormick was studying journalism at the University of Kansas. He was on a tight budget and got sick, losing 30 pounds one semester. ?Dang, what?s going on with you?? Sanders asked. ?I?m in college,? McCormick replied. ?I?m starving.? Sanders wanted to help and offered his Pell Grant money, which McCormick refused. A few years later, after Sanders joined the Lions, he heard that McCormick was evicted from an apartment after getting his first job. He mailed him $500. ?I?m at the point now in our rel!
ationship that I can never repay him unless I give him a lung or a kidney,? McCormick says. ?And he still calls me all the time.? After rushing for 1,470 yards and breaking Billy Sims? single-season club record his rookie year, Sanders gave each of the Lions? offensive linemen a Rolex watch, valued at more than $10,000. On the back was the inscription: ?Thanks for a great ?89 season. Barry Sanders.? When center Kevin Glover came home one day last February, a box the size of a small refrigerator was sitting in the driveway near his garage. In it was a big-screen TV and a thank-you note from Sanders. ?It?s not expected, but he does it,? Glover says. The TV ?is something I?m going to cherish. When I retire, I plan on getting a plaque for it that will say, ?A gift from Barry Sanders.? ? All of this giving, all of this helping, and Sanders still turns down most of the endorsement offers that come his way, deals that could bring him an additional $4 million to $5 million a year, Sc!
haffer says. ?You can put $1 million in front of him that he turns down, but he?ll say yes to the Michigan state seat-belt patrol campaign,? Schaffer says. ?A lot of football players have tremendous egos. They like to see themselves on TV. Not Barry.? Sanders doesn?t decline everything, though. He has endorsement deals with more than a half-dozen companies, including many of the prized ones?Nike, McDonald?s, Cadillac, 7-Eleven, and, soon to be announced, Little Caesars. ?He needs to let himself take off,? Perriman says. ?He should be the Michael Jordan of football. He could be that. Playing
eight years, he knows he?s not going to be playing forever. I tell him, ?You better get what you deserve and what you can while you can.? He needs to be as large in commercials as he is a player.? But Sanders won?t. He is doing more, but he won?t do it all. ?I wish there were another way of doing it,? Sanders says of endorsements. ?I?m definitely more comfortable with the game being bigger than the person.? That has been Sanders? philosophy since the fourth grade. That year, in his first football game ever, the first time he touched the ball, he scored on a 70-yard sweep. The next Saturday, his coach tried him out on kickoffs. He ran the first one back for a touchdown. His father was there. ?It was 1977 and I was sitting in my ?63 Pontiac listening to Texas beat Oklahoma, 13-6,? William Sanders says. ?Must have run for three or four touchdowns that day.? In his first few years with the Lions, much was made about Sanders? upbringing, about the stern father and quiet mother, par!
ents who had their own distinct ways of raising their children. ?Growing up, the kids would get together and just kind of ask the question, ?How in the world did these two get together?? ? Barry says with a laugh. Barry was especially close to his mother?and still is. Shirley Sanders had children spanning three decades, beginning with Diane, born in 1959, and ending with Krista, the youngest of the eight girls, born in 1974. Shirley delivered Barry, No. 7 on the family?s roster, on July 16, 1968. His mother speaks in a soft voice and is bashful around strangers. ?I love it when he comes home,? she says. ?We sit and talk for hours. I miss him. I feel for him sometimes?all the attention he gets and doesn?t want.? When her husband pipes up and offers one of his gruff opinions (?I don?t like boys to be close to their mothers because it makes sissies out of them,? he says), Shirley smiles and rolls her eyes. Last month at the Sanders home in Wichita, Shirley spent part of the eveni!
ng in her kitchen listening to Christian music while her husband sat on his leather recliner watching a basketball game. Indiana was beating up Princeton. Shirley says she missed many of Barry?s football games when he was growing up, mainly because Friday night was reserved for choir practice at Paradise Baptist Church. Religion is a central theme of the Sanders family. One of the proudest moments in her life came when Barry sent $200,000 of his $2.1-million signing bonus to Paradise his rookie year. While Shirley is quiet and unassuming, her husband is anything but. William Sanders listens to Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura, smokesWhite Owl cigars and rarely leaves home without his Cleveland Browns jacket. His favorite college remains Oklahomabecause he listened to the Sooners broadcasts on the radio when he was growing up. He points out that he has collected only two autographs for himself through the years?Troy Aikman (because he played two seasons at Oklahoma) and Bernie Kosar!
(Cleveland). In 1994, William Sanders brought a football to Dallas, where the Cowboys were playing the Lions. When the teams were warming up, he was introduced to Emmitt Smith. Sanders asked if Smith could do him a favor and sign his football for a friend. ?He said he?d get me after the game,? William Sanders says, angry as he tells the story. As it turns out, the Lions won the game in overtime. When he asked Smith to sign the ball, he refused. ?My Barry would never do that,? Sanders says. Until this past summer, William Sanders was working six days a week as a freelance roofer and remodeler. Before that, he worked on the beef-kill line at a rendering plant, firing .22s into the skulls of cattle, among other jobs. ?Barry came into money in ?88,? William Sanders says, walking up the private drive that leads to their home. ?You know, we?ll be here four years on Memorial Day. I was never hung up on moving out of the ghetto just to say I moved out. Money can be a curse and a nigh!
tmare if you let it control you.? As nice as his new house is, William Sanders misses his old neighborhood. ?I bought that house (on Volutsia) for $8,200 in 1964,? he says. ?I paid it off in February 1984 -- $77.50 a month on a 20-year note.? In those days, sleeping arrangements were eight girls in one bedroom, three boys in another. William was the neighborhood?s master builder of bunk beds. And also, the chief disciplinarian. ?I remember in Barry?s senior year in high school he had on a pair of Converse All-Stars for basketball, ?William Sanders says. ?He came in one day and his shoes were untied. I told him if he ever comes in the house again with his shoes untied I?d break both his legs. ?I was such a sergeant over my kids. I felt I had to be.? Barry?s brother Byron, who played football at Northwestern, says, ?My father doesn?t realize that although we appear to be reserved, no one in the world can intimidate any of his children because of the way he was. He loved us, and !
that?s the difference.? Today, the children all grown and gone, William Sanders misses the full house. He?s planning a family reunion for next summer. ?Let me tell you how I feel about things now,? William Sanders says. ?God told Abraham that he was a blessing to many nations. Well, we?re thankful for the blessings of Barry. I remember I wanted one of my sons to go to Oklahoma so bad, so that I could go down in peace. Now, if Barry goes into the Hall of Fame, when he?s standing up there, on the steps in Canton, I can lay down right there and die.? ?I think a lot of things that I believe have changed, or I have just adjusted some. I think if that?s what you really want to do, then I think you should.
What the other players around the league think about him. You could call him the best running back, and there would be no real argument. But you could go even further: Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions might be, quite simply, the best player in the game. Were he to be judged only for the magic he creates with a hand off, his supremacy would end at his position. but Sanders has accomplished something remarkable, if not unprecedented, since the days of Jim Brown. The current of terror that begins to flow in the days and hours before a game usually emanates from vicious defenders and flows white-hot into the rattled psyches of the players who earn their pay with the ball in their hands. But alone among his offensive fellows, Sanders has reversed that current. Sanders has a whole breed of men best known for barking like dogs instead praying out loud. In a week of preparing for Sanders, says Chicago Bear linebacker Vinson Smith, "You have to not sleep for a couple of nights." Re!
ally? "Yes. Yes. ?And even during fitful dozing, says Minnesota Viking defensive tackle Henry Thomas, who usually dreams of sacks and motor cycles, "you sit up in the middle of the night hollering, 'Barry! Sanders!' "
Most people don?t just think Barry is a great football player they also think he is a great person too. Barry Sanders is simply the most exciting sports player to watch. Not to mention that he has a great personality and is a class act. This guy is so good at what he does it's scary and he doesn't even have a trace of ego in him. When Barry runs the ball he defies the laws of gravity and physics of a moving object. He makes moves that make your eyes pop out of their sockets and leave your mouth hanging wide open.
To me this report help my find out that Barry is more than just a good ball player he also is a good person that most people don?t see. Barry does not let all the money he earns get to his head he act like you and me. At the end of Barrys career he will probably own every single record there is. He is on the pace to do that with no problem. There is no doubt in my mind that Barry will be in the Hall of Fame with ease. To bad all the sports players are not like Barry if they were all the games you watch would be ten times better then what they are now.
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Golf Swing
The Basics
The golf swing is sort of an awkward motion that can only be mastered in time and with practice. A person usually cannot pick up a golf club for the first time and swing it with perfection. One thing to remember is that there is not an ideal swing for everyone. A beginner or someone who already plays golf must develop his or her own swing from the basic fundamentals of golf. Even the pros that seem to play the game so well do not all have the same swing. Their swings have been transformed from their own experience and help from instructors or fellow competitors. The following tips should give you some helpful tips about the basics of the golf swing.
Without question the golf swing is one of the most important aspects about the game of golf. The golf swing can be divided into many categories but there are three main categories that stand out: the setup, the backswing, and the downswing. All of these aspects are equally important. Having the proper golf swing does not just increase your ability in the game, but also your enjoyment.
For the sake of time, the only aspect of the setup I will talk about is the grip. Start by standing and holding the club in your bottom hand (right hand), where the grip meets the shaft. The shaft should be at an angle where the club head is at your forehead, toward the sky, and the grip is at your waist. The club should be completely vertical. Touch the club in the fingers of your left hand and wrap your fingers around the grip. Next, lay the rest of your top left hand on the grip, so that the palm lightly touches the grip. Slide your bottom right hand toward your top hand, and keep the grip in your fingers until both hands touch. Either interlock your pinky finger and index finger, or have your pinky overlap your index finger. Hold the club as if you were holding an egg -- not too tight. Your hands will naturally squeeze tighter when they need to during the swing. The finished grip should be essentially with the fingers, rather than with the palms of your hands. Holding the club in your fingers will allow you to keep your arms extended during the swing, which will generate more clubhead speed.
Next I will describe the backswing. The backswing does not hit the golf ball, but this does not mean that executing a good backswing is not important. A good backswing will set the club in a position of power and control. Your body should feel like a coil, like a spring loading, getting ready to unwind. You can practice your backswing anywhere that you have enough space for a complete swing. First, start the backswing by sweeping the clubhead back smoothly. Keep the club low to the ground but do not come out of your posture, meaning, keep your spine angle the same. When swinging your club back, do not lose your balance. When your weight pressure presses down on your back foot, keep the pressure balanced to the inside of your foot. As you swing the club back and up, you should feel weight pressure build up in your back leg; this is the beginning of your body feeling like a tightening coil. Continue to move your clubhead up, tightening the coil. Be careful not to press too much weight pressure onto the front of your back foot as you will not be able to complete your shoulder turn and you will lose clubhead speed. Stay in your posture throughout the backswing by keeping the bend in your back leg throughout the entire backswing. Do not stand straight up with your body, but stay down so that you don't move your body position. And finally, allow your shoulders to turn smoothly until your front shoulder is behind the golf ball. You should now be at the top of your swing and fully coiled. Now you have just completed the backswing. The next step is to release this coiled motion into what is called the downswing.
The downswing is where you see the results of the setup and the backswing. This motion happens in less than a second and requires a powerful movement with your body in a sequence of detailed steps. The downswing begins from the ground upwards. Most your weight during the backswing is transferred to the inside of the back foot, just enough so that the heel of the front foot has come off the ground slightly. The first move in the downswing is to replace the heel from where it has been pulled off the ground during the backswing. During this motion, the knees shift parallel to each other to the right of the target. The hips will move forward as well. The upper body has not moved toward the target yet. This is the initial shift. As the lower body has just begun the shift, the club has reached the top of the backswing. As the shift is completed, the club now begins its journey to the ball. Since the lower body has shifted its weight toward the target slightly, the right shoulder has dropped a little. Lowering of the shoulder caused by the shift of the hip will allow the club and the player make a more efficient swing at the ball. Now you must rotate your hips towards the target. The faster you rotate your hips, the more power you can generate. The lower body should begin to slightly rotate before the upper body. As you hit the golf ball, the hips will open slightly before the shoulders. To finish off the downswing, keep rotating and swing through the ball until your hands finish high above your left shoulder.
This concludes my description on how to swing the golf club properly. After you have read this, I do not you to be able to perfect the golf swing, but nonetheless get a general idea of where to start. Like I said, the golf swing is not a natural motion for most people. The main things involved are time and practice with the basic fundamentals described in this paper. This paper is intended for every skill level. What I mean by skill level is whether you have just started, been playing for weeks, months, or even years, you can still gain helpful knowledge of the golf swing to help you better play and enjoy the game.
Submitted: 03.12.03
Flesch-Kincaid Score: 77.043406052963 ?
Word Count: 1101
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Golf Swing
The Basics
The golf swing is sort of an awkward motion that can only be mastered in time and with practice. A person usually cannot pick up a golf club for the first time and swing it with perfection. One thing to remember is that there is not an ideal swing for everyone. A beginner or someone who already plays golf must develop his or her own swing from the basic fundamentals of golf. Even the pros that seem to play the game so well do not all have the same swing. Their swings have been transformed from their own experience and help from instructors or fellow competitors. The following tips should give you some helpful tips about the basics of the golf swing.
Without question the golf swing is one of the most important aspects about the game of golf. The golf swing can be divided into many categories but there are three main categories that stand out: the setup, the backswing, and the downswing. All of these aspects are equally important. Having the proper golf swing does not just increase your ability in the game, but also your enjoyment.
For the sake of time, the only aspect of the setup I will talk about is the grip. Start by standing and holding the club in your bottom hand (right hand), where the grip meets the shaft. The shaft should be at an angle where the club head is at your forehead, toward the sky, and the grip is at your waist. The club should be completely vertical. Touch the club in the fingers of your left hand and wrap your fingers around the grip. Next, lay the rest of your top left hand on the grip, so that the palm lightly touches the grip. Slide your bottom right hand toward your top hand, and keep the grip in your fingers until both hands touch. Either interlock your pinky finger and index finger, or have your pinky overlap your index finger. Hold the club as if you were holding an egg -- not too tight. Your hands will naturally squeeze tighter when they need to during the swing. The finished grip should be essentially with the fingers, rather than with the palms of your hands. Holding the club in your fingers will allow you to keep your arms extended during the swing, which will generate more clubhead speed.
Next I will describe the backswing. The backswing does not hit the golf ball, but this does not mean that executing a good backswing is not important. A good backswing will set the club in a position of power and control. Your body should feel like a coil, like a spring loading, getting ready to unwind. You can practice your backswing anywhere that you have enough space for a complete swing. First, start the backswing by sweeping the clubhead back smoothly. Keep the club low to the ground but do not come out of your posture, meaning, keep your spine angle the same. When swinging your club back, do not lose your balance. When your weight pressure presses down on your back foot, keep the pressure balanced to the inside of your foot. As you swing the club back and up, you should feel weight pressure build up in your back leg; this is the beginning of your body feeling like a tightening coil. Continue to move your clubhead up, tightening the coil. Be careful not to press too much weight pressure onto the front of your back foot as you will not be able to complete your shoulder turn and you will lose clubhead speed. Stay in your posture throughout the backswing by keeping the bend in your back leg throughout the entire backswing. Do not stand straight up with your body, but stay down so that you don't move your body position. And finally, allow your shoulders to turn smoothly until your front shoulder is behind the golf ball. You should now be at the top of your swing and fully coiled. Now you have just completed the backswing. The next step is to release this coiled motion into what is called the downswing.
The downswing is where you see the results of the setup and the backswing. This motion happens in less than a second and requires a powerful movement with your body in a sequence of detailed steps. The downswing begins from the ground upwards. Most your weight during the backswing is transferred to the inside of the back foot, just enough so that the heel of the front foot has come off the ground slightly. The first move in the downswing is to replace the heel from where it has been pulled off the ground during the backswing. During this motion, the knees shift parallel to each other to the right of the target. The hips will move forward as well. The upper body has not moved toward the target yet. This is the initial shift. As the lower body has just begun the shift, the club has reached the top of the backswing. As the shift is completed, the club now begins its journey to the ball. Since the lower body has shifted its weight toward the target slightly, the right shoulder has dropped a little. Lowering of the shoulder caused by the shift of the hip will allow the club and the player make a more efficient swing at the ball. Now you must rotate your hips towards the target. The faster you rotate your hips, the more power you can generate. The lower body should begin to slightly rotate before the upper body. As you hit the golf ball, the hips will open slightly before the shoulders. To finish off the downswing, keep rotating and swing through the ball until your hands finish high above your left shoulder.
This concludes my description on how to swing the golf club properly. After you have read this, I do not you to be able to perfect the golf swing, but nonetheless get a general idea of where to start. Like I said, the golf swing is not a natural motion for most people. The main things involved are time and practice with the basic fundamentals described in this paper. This paper is intended for every skill level. What I mean by skill level is whether you have just started, been playing for weeks, months, or even years, you can still gain helpful knowledge of the golf swing to help you better play and enjoy the game.
Name: Farhan Afzal
Submitted: 07.12.05
Flesch-Kincaid Score: 81.534298687164 ?
Word Count: 966
"paksitan"
How to Play Cricket
Everybody knows that soccer is the most played game in the world but very few people know that the second most played game after soccer is cricket. Cricket had it origin in 700 A.D. Baseball was derive from cricket. The word cricket came from French word ?criquit?. Most of people who don?t know about cricket think cricket is very complicated game but it is not true. Cricket is a very simple game if one knows these simple rules.
If anyone wants to know how cricket is played he must first know some basics of cricket. Cricket ground is round with capacity of just under 100,000 with a playing area in between which is rectangular and is called pitch. On the both sides of pitch there are three wood sticks known as wickets, which are 28 inch long and 9 inch wide. In cricket, there are two teams with 11 players in each team. In each team usually there are five special batsman and there job is to attack the bowling attack of opposite team.. These batmen only bat and usually they don?t bowl. After 5 batsmen, there is wicket keeper. He is only a wicket keeper and batsman and he don?t bowl. After these 5 batsmen, there are 2 all rounders. In cricket all rounder is that player which also bat and also bowl. After all rounder, there are four specialist bowlers? .These bowlers with all rounders attack the batting of opposite team. In cricket, one bowler can only bowl 6 balls at one time and then another bowler bowl 6 balls. These 6 balls are known as one over so one bowler ball one over then another bowler bowl one over. Like this, it goes till 30 overs. There are three umpires in a cricket match. Two of umpires are in ground and third umpire is not in ground instead he is in special chamber in stadium watching all game on screen. And if ground umpires can?t solve any problem then they ask help to third umpire who watch replay and then decide. In cricket the decision of umpire is final no matter it is wrong or correct. In cricket, scoring points are called runs just as in soccer scoring points are goals
First, the captains of both teams come in ground with an umpire and do toss. The team who win the toss decides to bat first or bowl first. Suppose, that team decides to bat first so two players of batting team will go to ground and the whole bowling team will be in ground. Two batsmen will stand at opposite ends of pitch .One batsman will face the bowler and another will be at other end. Bowling team fielders will spread in whole ground according to captain?s order. The batting team will try it best to make as more runs it could make and bowling team will try to minimize runs. If batsman hit the ball and ball running on ground touches the boundary, it is considered four runs for batting side. If ball goes flying in air out side the boundary of ground without touching ground, it is consider six runs. The fielders of opposite team try to stop the ball reaching the boundary. If bowler bowls the ball and batsman misses the ball it hits the wickets or stumps, batsman is out. If one batsman is out then another batsman replaces him till all the 11 players are out. If batsman hits the ball in air and the fielder of opposite team catches, the ball before it touches the ground, batsman is consider out. There is a line known crease line on both side of pitch, which is 3 feet?s from wickets. If batsman is out of his crease line then fielder try to hit the wickets with ball. If ball hits the wicket and batsman is out of his crease line then he is out. Bowlers have to bowl in range of batsman that?s mean they cant bowl very wide from batsman .If they bowl wide ball then have to bowl again and batsman gets one run. When the bowler bowls, he can?t place his foot out side crease line. If the foot is out side crease line then that bowl is bowl again and batsman gets one run. This type of bowl is known as no ?ball.
There is two types of cricket, one is known as one day cricket or one day match and another is known as test cricket or test match. As compare to test match, one day match is more popular. In one day match both teams have only 300 balls to play. After 300 balls, the score of batting team is target for bowling team. If batting team is out before 300 balls its ok. But if batting team has players after 300 balls, it has to stop and it can?t play more than that. After 300 balls batting team, bowl and bowling team bat in same style. If it achieve the target in 300 balls it is winning team and if whole team is out before reaching target it loses.
After knowing the basic steps of cricket, no one can say cricket is a complicated game instead, it will feel a joy to watch a cricket match going on TV. Almost 29 countries of world play cricket out them ten countries only play test cricket. These ten countries go directly into world cup without playing qualifying round. The rest of countries have to play first a qualifying round to enter in world cup. Cricket world cup is held after every 5 years. The world best cricket teams are Pakistan, Australia, England and South Africa
Essay Grade: 5.00/5
(1 Grader)
Submitted: 07.12.05
Flesch-Kincaid Score: 81.534298687164 ?
Word Count: 966
"paksitan"
How to Play Cricket
Everybody knows that soccer is the most played game in the world but very few people know that the second most played game after soccer is cricket. Cricket had it origin in 700 A.D. Baseball was derive from cricket. The word cricket came from French word ?criquit?. Most of people who don?t know about cricket think cricket is very complicated game but it is not true. Cricket is a very simple game if one knows these simple rules.
If anyone wants to know how cricket is played he must first know some basics of cricket. Cricket ground is round with capacity of just under 100,000 with a playing area in between which is rectangular and is called pitch. On the both sides of pitch there are three wood sticks known as wickets, which are 28 inch long and 9 inch wide. In cricket, there are two teams with 11 players in each team. In each team usually there are five special batsman and there job is to attack the bowling attack of opposite team.. These batmen only bat and usually they don?t bowl. After 5 batsmen, there is wicket keeper. He is only a wicket keeper and batsman and he don?t bowl. After these 5 batsmen, there are 2 all rounders. In cricket all rounder is that player which also bat and also bowl. After all rounder, there are four specialist bowlers? .These bowlers with all rounders attack the batting of opposite team. In cricket, one bowler can only bowl 6 balls at one time and then another bowler bowl 6 balls. These 6 balls are known as one over so one bowler ball one over then another bowler bowl one over. Like this, it goes till 30 overs. There are three umpires in a cricket match. Two of umpires are in ground and third umpire is not in ground instead he is in special chamber in stadium watching all game on screen. And if ground umpires can?t solve any problem then they ask help to third umpire who watch replay and then decide. In cricket the decision of umpire is final no matter it is wrong or correct. In cricket, scoring points are called runs just as in soccer scoring points are goals
First, the captains of both teams come in ground with an umpire and do toss. The team who win the toss decides to bat first or bowl first. Suppose, that team decides to bat first so two players of batting team will go to ground and the whole bowling team will be in ground. Two batsmen will stand at opposite ends of pitch .One batsman will face the bowler and another will be at other end. Bowling team fielders will spread in whole ground according to captain?s order. The batting team will try it best to make as more runs it could make and bowling team will try to minimize runs. If batsman hit the ball and ball running on ground touches the boundary, it is considered four runs for batting side. If ball goes flying in air out side the boundary of ground without touching ground, it is consider six runs. The fielders of opposite team try to stop the ball reaching the boundary. If bowler bowls the ball and batsman misses the ball it hits the wickets or stumps, batsman is out. If one batsman is out then another batsman replaces him till all the 11 players are out. If batsman hits the ball in air and the fielder of opposite team catches, the ball before it touches the ground, batsman is consider out. There is a line known crease line on both side of pitch, which is 3 feet?s from wickets. If batsman is out of his crease line then fielder try to hit the wickets with ball. If ball hits the wicket and batsman is out of his crease line then he is out. Bowlers have to bowl in range of batsman that?s mean they cant bowl very wide from batsman .If they bowl wide ball then have to bowl again and batsman gets one run. When the bowler bowls, he can?t place his foot out side crease line. If the foot is out side crease line then that bowl is bowl again and batsman gets one run. This type of bowl is known as no ?ball.
There is two types of cricket, one is known as one day cricket or one day match and another is known as test cricket or test match. As compare to test match, one day match is more popular. In one day match both teams have only 300 balls to play. After 300 balls, the score of batting team is target for bowling team. If batting team is out before 300 balls its ok. But if batting team has players after 300 balls, it has to stop and it can?t play more than that. After 300 balls batting team, bowl and bowling team bat in same style. If it achieve the target in 300 balls it is winning team and if whole team is out before reaching target it loses.
After knowing the basic steps of cricket, no one can say cricket is a complicated game instead, it will feel a joy to watch a cricket match going on TV. Almost 29 countries of world play cricket out them ten countries only play test cricket. These ten countries go directly into world cup without playing qualifying round. The rest of countries have to play first a qualifying round to enter in world cup. Cricket world cup is held after every 5 years. The world best cricket teams are Pakistan, Australia, England and South Africa
Essay Grade: 5.00/5
(1 Grader)
Name: Anonymous
Submitted: 12.11.01
Flesch-Kincaid Score: 71.207322072072 ?
Word Count: 1002
"now"
Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame
To some, including myself, baseball is the greatest sport that has ever been played. It is a game played by two opposing teams made of multiple players, but only nine players per team play at the same time. To be part of one of the thirty teams that get to play professional baseball, a player has to play the game extremely well (www.baseballhalloffame.com). When a player plays the game better than most have played he gets rewarded, usually with lots of money in a big contract. Then there are those rare players, the 244 elite players of the game that have already been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Being inducted in the Hall of Fame is the utmost of baseball fame. The players listed are remembered forever. This brings me to my argument. Pete Rose should be allowed induction into the Hall of Fame.
Now, most of the baseball critics and brass do not want Pete Rose inducted. They claim that his illegal betting on baseball games should keep him out of the Hall of Fame. Almost all of the "highly questionable" evidence that Commissioner Bart Giamatti held was derived from former friends and associates of Rose. "Up to $30,000 per day", so some of Roses' "close" friends say. These former friends of Rose are Tommy Gioiosa, Donald Stenger, Mike Fry, and Paul Janszen. This evidence is what prompted the banishment from baseball of Pete Rose, which he signed. The evidence was enough for the Commissioner. In 1989, baseball's Commissioner Bart Giammati suspended Pete Rose from association with professional baseball for life for gambling (Reston 1997). Rose also spent five months in a minimum-security prison for tax evasion in 1990. He did not report cash money he accepted for signing baseballs and photographs at baseball card shows (Reston 1997). It is still to this day not proven that Rose 'did' bet on the baseball team that he was managing. Rose himself still holds true to his statement that he never bet on the game of baseball. Evidence is minimal and it has been over ten years, yet he is still ineligible to be voted into the Hall of Fame. If it was left up to his statistics, he should have been inducted years ago. There are a handful of the 244 elites that are in the Hall of Fame that did far worse things than gamble on the game of baseball or evade paying their taxes. For instance, the beloved Ty Cobb was a horrible racist and once admitted killing a man. One day while walking in Detroit, he stepped in freshly poured asphalt. Then a construction worker, named Fred Collins, who just happened to be black, yelled at him. Cobb responded by slapping Collins to the ground. Cobb was found guilty by the courts, and received a suspended sentence. Collins filed a civil suit, but settled out of court for $75. Ty Cobb had to deal with the law in one form or another many different times for striking black men (www.totalbaseball.com). The powers that run the baseball organization seem to turn their eyes, quite conveniently, away from any number of wife-beaters, and drug addict's everyday. They let known, proven criminals continue to play the game, but not Rose. There is no 'absolute proof' that Pete Rose did bet on baseball. So, why is it that a baseball player with so many of the greatest statistics is left out of the Hall of Fame? Pete Rose should be allowed induction into the Hall of Fame.
Many of the players that have made it to the highest level of the game, being inducted into the Hall of Fame, do not have even one tenth of the statistics that Pete Rose has (Gilbert 1994). Rose has more career hits than anyone who has ever played the game, 4,256 to be exact. Rose also played in 3,562 games (a major league record), was the 1963 Rookie of the Year, and in 1973 was the National Leagues Most Valuable Player. He holds the all-time league record for most at bats (14,053), the record for the most singles (3,315), and the record for most doubles (746). He also holds the all-time league record for most total career runs at 2,165. As you can see, Pete Rose more than fulfils the standards to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Pete Rose has also done something that no other player has had the ability or time to do. He has played over 500 games at each of five different positions (Sokolove 1992). His main stay appears to be first base (939 games), but when compared with the other positions played, it appears that he was just a great all around baseball player. He played 628 games at second base, 634 at third, 671 in left field, and 595 in right field. These are astronomical numbers compared to others that have played the game over time. Pete Rose is in a class all by himself.
Pete Rose also played professional baseball for more consecutive years than anyone else ever has. He played for a whopping 24 straight years, which is another all-time league record. These 24 years outdid even the great Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Rod Carew. Rose played major roles on the three championship years that he had. Rose and his teammates earned three World Series championships, whereas Ernie Banks, a member of the Hall of Fame, was never able to win one.
It may not be time to pardon Rose for his gambling or tax evasion. But, when baseball has a person that gave his heart and played like a true champion as Pete Rose did, how can we not induct him? It may not be time for the life long ban of Pete Rose and baseball to be lifted, but it sure is time for Pete Rose to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Submitted: 12.11.01
Flesch-Kincaid Score: 71.207322072072 ?
Word Count: 1002
"now"
Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame
To some, including myself, baseball is the greatest sport that has ever been played. It is a game played by two opposing teams made of multiple players, but only nine players per team play at the same time. To be part of one of the thirty teams that get to play professional baseball, a player has to play the game extremely well (www.baseballhalloffame.com). When a player plays the game better than most have played he gets rewarded, usually with lots of money in a big contract. Then there are those rare players, the 244 elite players of the game that have already been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Being inducted in the Hall of Fame is the utmost of baseball fame. The players listed are remembered forever. This brings me to my argument. Pete Rose should be allowed induction into the Hall of Fame.
Now, most of the baseball critics and brass do not want Pete Rose inducted. They claim that his illegal betting on baseball games should keep him out of the Hall of Fame. Almost all of the "highly questionable" evidence that Commissioner Bart Giamatti held was derived from former friends and associates of Rose. "Up to $30,000 per day", so some of Roses' "close" friends say. These former friends of Rose are Tommy Gioiosa, Donald Stenger, Mike Fry, and Paul Janszen. This evidence is what prompted the banishment from baseball of Pete Rose, which he signed. The evidence was enough for the Commissioner. In 1989, baseball's Commissioner Bart Giammati suspended Pete Rose from association with professional baseball for life for gambling (Reston 1997). Rose also spent five months in a minimum-security prison for tax evasion in 1990. He did not report cash money he accepted for signing baseballs and photographs at baseball card shows (Reston 1997). It is still to this day not proven that Rose 'did' bet on the baseball team that he was managing. Rose himself still holds true to his statement that he never bet on the game of baseball. Evidence is minimal and it has been over ten years, yet he is still ineligible to be voted into the Hall of Fame. If it was left up to his statistics, he should have been inducted years ago. There are a handful of the 244 elites that are in the Hall of Fame that did far worse things than gamble on the game of baseball or evade paying their taxes. For instance, the beloved Ty Cobb was a horrible racist and once admitted killing a man. One day while walking in Detroit, he stepped in freshly poured asphalt. Then a construction worker, named Fred Collins, who just happened to be black, yelled at him. Cobb responded by slapping Collins to the ground. Cobb was found guilty by the courts, and received a suspended sentence. Collins filed a civil suit, but settled out of court for $75. Ty Cobb had to deal with the law in one form or another many different times for striking black men (www.totalbaseball.com). The powers that run the baseball organization seem to turn their eyes, quite conveniently, away from any number of wife-beaters, and drug addict's everyday. They let known, proven criminals continue to play the game, but not Rose. There is no 'absolute proof' that Pete Rose did bet on baseball. So, why is it that a baseball player with so many of the greatest statistics is left out of the Hall of Fame? Pete Rose should be allowed induction into the Hall of Fame.
Many of the players that have made it to the highest level of the game, being inducted into the Hall of Fame, do not have even one tenth of the statistics that Pete Rose has (Gilbert 1994). Rose has more career hits than anyone who has ever played the game, 4,256 to be exact. Rose also played in 3,562 games (a major league record), was the 1963 Rookie of the Year, and in 1973 was the National Leagues Most Valuable Player. He holds the all-time league record for most at bats (14,053), the record for the most singles (3,315), and the record for most doubles (746). He also holds the all-time league record for most total career runs at 2,165. As you can see, Pete Rose more than fulfils the standards to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Pete Rose has also done something that no other player has had the ability or time to do. He has played over 500 games at each of five different positions (Sokolove 1992). His main stay appears to be first base (939 games), but when compared with the other positions played, it appears that he was just a great all around baseball player. He played 628 games at second base, 634 at third, 671 in left field, and 595 in right field. These are astronomical numbers compared to others that have played the game over time. Pete Rose is in a class all by himself.
Pete Rose also played professional baseball for more consecutive years than anyone else ever has. He played for a whopping 24 straight years, which is another all-time league record. These 24 years outdid even the great Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Rod Carew. Rose played major roles on the three championship years that he had. Rose and his teammates earned three World Series championships, whereas Ernie Banks, a member of the Hall of Fame, was never able to win one.
It may not be time to pardon Rose for his gambling or tax evasion. But, when baseball has a person that gave his heart and played like a true champion as Pete Rose did, how can we not induct him? It may not be time for the life long ban of Pete Rose and baseball to be lifted, but it sure is time for Pete Rose to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Name: Anonymous
Submitted: 08.28.01
Flesch-Kincaid Score: 61.297785230557 ?
Word Count: 2410
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Scuba Diving
Scuba diving is a sport in which you can lose yourself to the beauty of
the underwater world and escape gravity for a short time. You can wander
among kelp forests or swim with sleek noble sharks. You can find a
fortune in Spanish ducats or lose yourself in the beauty of the underwater
realm. Some may say though that diving is an extreme sport and that it is
too risky for anyone, it's just for the wild hooligans. Scuba Diving is
a safe and enjoyable hobby despite the small risk involved. Haven't you
ever wondered what it was like to swim with the fish? Or see why all of
those people would want to were all that funny looking gear and go under
the water?
The going below the water is little like being above the water.
While underwater there are forces and laws that dictate how your body will
respond to being under so much pressure. The first rule regarding the
pressure water puts on the air spaces in your body is Boyles Law. It says
that as the pressure increases on a given mass of gas the volume will
decrease. This rule explains the popping sensation you fell when you go
up in an air plain and the squeeze you feel as you go under water (The
Skin Divers Bible 37, 41). Another law is Dalton's law of partial
Pressure. It says that pressure of mixed gasses is equal to the pressure
exerted by the individual gas. So if a mixture of gas is say 5% carbon
dioxide then it would account for 5% of the total pressure of the gas,
because of this law the concentration of harmful gasses must be less when
you are under water otherwise you can be poisoned or experience the
effects of the gas that would only occur at a higher concentrati!
on at sea level (47). And the last major law that governs you while
underwater is Henry's law. It simply states that you can dissolve more of
a gas into a liquid at higher pressure and the opposite when you release
some of the pressure. It is like when you open a bottle of pop, the gas
and pop are pressurized to carbonate it and when you open the bottle
bubble's form, because the pressure isn't great enough to hold it in (48).
The first thing to consider when weighing the risk of Scuba diving
is how good is the instruction that you need to become certified to dive.
There are several major certification courses and most are recognized
world wide. The following is An overview of the kind of training you will
receive through the PADI Scuba diving certification course, most all
diving certification courses are similar in content and requirements for
certification. The first you learn is how to use and wear Scuba equipment
(PADI Open 50,108). Some of the other skills are that you should never
hold your breathe, how to operate the Scuba equipment, and proper
technique for entering the water all of these basic skills and several
other will be taught to the students by an instructor who has been trained
to teach the skills effectively and to determine wether you are competent
to Scuba dive. As you progress through the class you are taught in a
classroom setting for about half of the time and then the !
other half of the time is spent in a swimming pool where the students can
master the necessary skills for diving without having the pressure and
risk of being in the open water.
Near the end of the class the students begin to dive in the open
water with the instructor so that they become acclimated to being
underwater in conditions that are not as secure as say a swimming pool.
With the instructor along side the student the student's fears are quelled
and the student is safer, because if anything were to go wrong the
instructor would be right there to remedy the problem or to assist the
student to the surface. During the open water dives the student
demonstrates to the instructor that they can handle the conditions and
that the can perform the skills that they have been taught. Some of the
skills that would have been mastered at this point are. How to breath
from a buddies spare regulator, in the unlikely event that you should run
out of air and how to help your buddy if they run out of air. How to
clear water out of a flooded face mask (176). Then show that how to
disassemble and maintain the Scuba Equipment you use (246). Most
importantly yo!
u get time to look around and enjoy a realm that most people have never
before seen, and while you are underwater you can see it up close and
personal.
Even though the training to get certified as a Scuba diver is very
thorough there are a few risks that even the most seasoned diver runs
into. Some of the problems include decompression sickness, stress, the
squeeze, and the uncontrollable elements. The most common problem for
most divers is a pain in their ear, sinuses, or teeth. This phenomenon is
known as the squeeze, and it occurs as a result of the increased pressure
of the water pushing in on the tissue in air filled cavity such as the
middle ear and sinuses. This affect is caused Boyles law or that as the
pressure increases the volume decreases, so the lower volume pull at the
soft tissue causing pain (13-19). The pain caused by the squeeze can
often be excruciating, but it can easily be remedied by equalizing the
pressure in those airspaces. Equalizing can be done in several ways. The
first is closing your mouth while plugging your nose and then gently
blowing out. Another technique is that of closing your nos!
e and then swallowing or you can do it is by pushing your jaw forward and
then yawning or swallowing (The Ears). These work well but to avoid the
intense pain of getting the squeeze it is not recommended that you dive
while you have a cold or your sinuses blocked. One other type of the
squeeze is one that occurs when there is a air space under a tooth,
although this form is very rare to get when you do get it causes mind
numbing pain that can last until you can get to the dentist and have the
pressure relieved (PADI Open 13-19).
One of the biggest causes of death while Scuba diving is something
that could well be avoided, it's name is stress. In the years between
1976 and 1988 nine-teen percent of the deaths were directly linked to
stress and panic. Most inexperienced divers can become panicked, because
they do not recognize the symptoms of stress before they culminate into
full blown panic ("High Anxiety"). Stress comes in two major forms one
being physical stress and the other psychological stress. Physical stress
isn't a tough one to detect, it is simply when you are exerting yourself
at a higher level, when you are in harsh conditions such as being in cold
water, being sick, or any number of things that affect you physically.
Psychological stress on the other hand is not so easy to detect. It has
more subtle ways of sowing itself and can be caused by things that are
real ore that you have made up in your mind, such as thinking that the
weed touching your leg is actually the boggy monster tr!
ying to pull you down in tho the menacing depths of the water. Some
contributing factors to stress can be beliefs that a person holds or
attitudes that they have. No matter what the cause of the stress it can
lead you to a state in which your mental acuity and concentration are
diminished. This can be a deadly situation to be in if and when an
emergency arises. Stress can also lead to one of the major underwater
killers a panic attack. Panic can be triggered by anything and a persons
stress level is directly related to the likely hood that a person would
panic. When someone panics the begin to fixate on specific things and
stop thinking rationally, the person often reverts back to their primal
survival skills and abandons their good sense and training that could save
their life (PADI Rescue 7-10).
Although stress is one of the divers worst enemies it doesn't have
to cause accidents. Their are ways to detect stress, and when you know
you are under stress you have all the more power over yourself. You can
avoid stress and stressful situations, believe it or not, and some of the
ways this can be achieved is by diving within your experience level, keep
your training up to date, avoid situations you are unprepared for or
cannot handle, and lastly if it doesn't feel right don't do it (11-12).
Following those guidelines will keep you out of trouble, but if you do
feel yourself slipping into a panic situation STOP! and breath, think
about what you are doing, and then act ("High Anxiety"). With those tips
most people should never have a problem with panic.
Another problem that can affect anyone who dives is Decompression
Sickness or the bends. Decompression sickness is when the nitrogen in
your blood forms little bubbles, because the pressure you were under is no
longer strong enough to keep the nitrogen in your blood. Even though
anyone can get decompression sickness, very few people do if they follow
the tables that tell you how deep you can go and for how long.
Decompression sickness can also be brought on by flying too soon after
diving. Some of the signs of DCS (decompression sickness) are a blotchy
skin rash, favoring an arm or a leg, collapse, staggering, and
unconsciousness. There are also symptoms you could look for in yourself
such as dizziness, unusual fatigue, pain in the arms legs or trunk of the
body, and shortness of breath. There are several factors that can greatly
increase your susceptibility to DCS. One being anything that impairs your
bodies circulation of blood such as age, injuries or illness, dehyd!
ration, and alcohol. This occurs because less circulation means you body
isn't as effective at taking the extra nitrogen you absorb while diving
out of your blood stream. Another contributing factor is the amount of
fat you have in your body, because the fat cells are what the nitrogen
dissolves in. So, more fat means more nitrogen in your body which in turn
means more chance to get DCS (PADI Adventures 76-79).
Two other common risks while diving are dehydration and
overexertion. Dehydration can occur more quickly while underwater,
because you breath very dry air from the Scuba tank and your body makes
more urine, as a result of the pressure. If you haven't had enough water
to drink you may become dehydrated and then be more susceptible to
decompression sickness and you will have more stress on your body ("The
Dangers"). Overexertion is another harmful thing while you are
underwater, because you become tired, stressed, and breathing can become
labored. Those symptoms can culminate into a panic which is the last
thing you want to occur underwater (PADI Open 77,154).
Nitrogen narcosis is also a danger while diving, but is not
usually felt by begging divers, because it only starts affecting you at
about one hundred feet. Nitrogen narcosis is also known as rapture of the
depths, getting narked, and the martini affect. The last example explains
the affects nitrogen narcosis has one you. It says that diving to one
hundred feet is like having one martini and every thirty or so feet after
that is like having another martini. Nitrogen narcosis is also like
drinking in that each person is affected differently (PADI Adventures
73-75).
While diving you are bound to see many fish and animals, and who
wouldn't want to see them that is one of the biggest draws of diving.
Although the creatures you meet may look beautiful doesn't mean that they
won't hurt you if you touch them or attack if provoked. With few
exceptions all the animals that you meet underwater would rather not even
go close to you, but if you do make the creatures feel like they are being
attack they will usually fight back with painful and even deadly
consequences (PADI Adventures 208-211).
With all the mystic surrounding the sport of scuba diving many
people would never dream about taking a class to get certified, and those
people don't know what they are missing. Those people that would never
consider diving most likely have only seen the dangers and risks of
diving, but they have never really looked into the safety precaution and
quality of the instruction needed to go diving. I hope that anyone who
had previously decided against Scuba diving reconsider their choice,
because they are missing out on some awe inspiring views and spectacular
adventures. If you do nothing else in your lifetime at least take an
introductory class to Scuba diving. It may just show you how safe and
enjoyable the sport actually is.
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Scuba Diving
Scuba diving is a sport in which you can lose yourself to the beauty of
the underwater world and escape gravity for a short time. You can wander
among kelp forests or swim with sleek noble sharks. You can find a
fortune in Spanish ducats or lose yourself in the beauty of the underwater
realm. Some may say though that diving is an extreme sport and that it is
too risky for anyone, it's just for the wild hooligans. Scuba Diving is
a safe and enjoyable hobby despite the small risk involved. Haven't you
ever wondered what it was like to swim with the fish? Or see why all of
those people would want to were all that funny looking gear and go under
the water?
The going below the water is little like being above the water.
While underwater there are forces and laws that dictate how your body will
respond to being under so much pressure. The first rule regarding the
pressure water puts on the air spaces in your body is Boyles Law. It says
that as the pressure increases on a given mass of gas the volume will
decrease. This rule explains the popping sensation you fell when you go
up in an air plain and the squeeze you feel as you go under water (The
Skin Divers Bible 37, 41). Another law is Dalton's law of partial
Pressure. It says that pressure of mixed gasses is equal to the pressure
exerted by the individual gas. So if a mixture of gas is say 5% carbon
dioxide then it would account for 5% of the total pressure of the gas,
because of this law the concentration of harmful gasses must be less when
you are under water otherwise you can be poisoned or experience the
effects of the gas that would only occur at a higher concentrati!
on at sea level (47). And the last major law that governs you while
underwater is Henry's law. It simply states that you can dissolve more of
a gas into a liquid at higher pressure and the opposite when you release
some of the pressure. It is like when you open a bottle of pop, the gas
and pop are pressurized to carbonate it and when you open the bottle
bubble's form, because the pressure isn't great enough to hold it in (48).
The first thing to consider when weighing the risk of Scuba diving
is how good is the instruction that you need to become certified to dive.
There are several major certification courses and most are recognized
world wide. The following is An overview of the kind of training you will
receive through the PADI Scuba diving certification course, most all
diving certification courses are similar in content and requirements for
certification. The first you learn is how to use and wear Scuba equipment
(PADI Open 50,108). Some of the other skills are that you should never
hold your breathe, how to operate the Scuba equipment, and proper
technique for entering the water all of these basic skills and several
other will be taught to the students by an instructor who has been trained
to teach the skills effectively and to determine wether you are competent
to Scuba dive. As you progress through the class you are taught in a
classroom setting for about half of the time and then the !
other half of the time is spent in a swimming pool where the students can
master the necessary skills for diving without having the pressure and
risk of being in the open water.
Near the end of the class the students begin to dive in the open
water with the instructor so that they become acclimated to being
underwater in conditions that are not as secure as say a swimming pool.
With the instructor along side the student the student's fears are quelled
and the student is safer, because if anything were to go wrong the
instructor would be right there to remedy the problem or to assist the
student to the surface. During the open water dives the student
demonstrates to the instructor that they can handle the conditions and
that the can perform the skills that they have been taught. Some of the
skills that would have been mastered at this point are. How to breath
from a buddies spare regulator, in the unlikely event that you should run
out of air and how to help your buddy if they run out of air. How to
clear water out of a flooded face mask (176). Then show that how to
disassemble and maintain the Scuba Equipment you use (246). Most
importantly yo!
u get time to look around and enjoy a realm that most people have never
before seen, and while you are underwater you can see it up close and
personal.
Even though the training to get certified as a Scuba diver is very
thorough there are a few risks that even the most seasoned diver runs
into. Some of the problems include decompression sickness, stress, the
squeeze, and the uncontrollable elements. The most common problem for
most divers is a pain in their ear, sinuses, or teeth. This phenomenon is
known as the squeeze, and it occurs as a result of the increased pressure
of the water pushing in on the tissue in air filled cavity such as the
middle ear and sinuses. This affect is caused Boyles law or that as the
pressure increases the volume decreases, so the lower volume pull at the
soft tissue causing pain (13-19). The pain caused by the squeeze can
often be excruciating, but it can easily be remedied by equalizing the
pressure in those airspaces. Equalizing can be done in several ways. The
first is closing your mouth while plugging your nose and then gently
blowing out. Another technique is that of closing your nos!
e and then swallowing or you can do it is by pushing your jaw forward and
then yawning or swallowing (The Ears). These work well but to avoid the
intense pain of getting the squeeze it is not recommended that you dive
while you have a cold or your sinuses blocked. One other type of the
squeeze is one that occurs when there is a air space under a tooth,
although this form is very rare to get when you do get it causes mind
numbing pain that can last until you can get to the dentist and have the
pressure relieved (PADI Open 13-19).
One of the biggest causes of death while Scuba diving is something
that could well be avoided, it's name is stress. In the years between
1976 and 1988 nine-teen percent of the deaths were directly linked to
stress and panic. Most inexperienced divers can become panicked, because
they do not recognize the symptoms of stress before they culminate into
full blown panic ("High Anxiety"). Stress comes in two major forms one
being physical stress and the other psychological stress. Physical stress
isn't a tough one to detect, it is simply when you are exerting yourself
at a higher level, when you are in harsh conditions such as being in cold
water, being sick, or any number of things that affect you physically.
Psychological stress on the other hand is not so easy to detect. It has
more subtle ways of sowing itself and can be caused by things that are
real ore that you have made up in your mind, such as thinking that the
weed touching your leg is actually the boggy monster tr!
ying to pull you down in tho the menacing depths of the water. Some
contributing factors to stress can be beliefs that a person holds or
attitudes that they have. No matter what the cause of the stress it can
lead you to a state in which your mental acuity and concentration are
diminished. This can be a deadly situation to be in if and when an
emergency arises. Stress can also lead to one of the major underwater
killers a panic attack. Panic can be triggered by anything and a persons
stress level is directly related to the likely hood that a person would
panic. When someone panics the begin to fixate on specific things and
stop thinking rationally, the person often reverts back to their primal
survival skills and abandons their good sense and training that could save
their life (PADI Rescue 7-10).
Although stress is one of the divers worst enemies it doesn't have
to cause accidents. Their are ways to detect stress, and when you know
you are under stress you have all the more power over yourself. You can
avoid stress and stressful situations, believe it or not, and some of the
ways this can be achieved is by diving within your experience level, keep
your training up to date, avoid situations you are unprepared for or
cannot handle, and lastly if it doesn't feel right don't do it (11-12).
Following those guidelines will keep you out of trouble, but if you do
feel yourself slipping into a panic situation STOP! and breath, think
about what you are doing, and then act ("High Anxiety"). With those tips
most people should never have a problem with panic.
Another problem that can affect anyone who dives is Decompression
Sickness or the bends. Decompression sickness is when the nitrogen in
your blood forms little bubbles, because the pressure you were under is no
longer strong enough to keep the nitrogen in your blood. Even though
anyone can get decompression sickness, very few people do if they follow
the tables that tell you how deep you can go and for how long.
Decompression sickness can also be brought on by flying too soon after
diving. Some of the signs of DCS (decompression sickness) are a blotchy
skin rash, favoring an arm or a leg, collapse, staggering, and
unconsciousness. There are also symptoms you could look for in yourself
such as dizziness, unusual fatigue, pain in the arms legs or trunk of the
body, and shortness of breath. There are several factors that can greatly
increase your susceptibility to DCS. One being anything that impairs your
bodies circulation of blood such as age, injuries or illness, dehyd!
ration, and alcohol. This occurs because less circulation means you body
isn't as effective at taking the extra nitrogen you absorb while diving
out of your blood stream. Another contributing factor is the amount of
fat you have in your body, because the fat cells are what the nitrogen
dissolves in. So, more fat means more nitrogen in your body which in turn
means more chance to get DCS (PADI Adventures 76-79).
Two other common risks while diving are dehydration and
overexertion. Dehydration can occur more quickly while underwater,
because you breath very dry air from the Scuba tank and your body makes
more urine, as a result of the pressure. If you haven't had enough water
to drink you may become dehydrated and then be more susceptible to
decompression sickness and you will have more stress on your body ("The
Dangers"). Overexertion is another harmful thing while you are
underwater, because you become tired, stressed, and breathing can become
labored. Those symptoms can culminate into a panic which is the last
thing you want to occur underwater (PADI Open 77,154).
Nitrogen narcosis is also a danger while diving, but is not
usually felt by begging divers, because it only starts affecting you at
about one hundred feet. Nitrogen narcosis is also known as rapture of the
depths, getting narked, and the martini affect. The last example explains
the affects nitrogen narcosis has one you. It says that diving to one
hundred feet is like having one martini and every thirty or so feet after
that is like having another martini. Nitrogen narcosis is also like
drinking in that each person is affected differently (PADI Adventures
73-75).
While diving you are bound to see many fish and animals, and who
wouldn't want to see them that is one of the biggest draws of diving.
Although the creatures you meet may look beautiful doesn't mean that they
won't hurt you if you touch them or attack if provoked. With few
exceptions all the animals that you meet underwater would rather not even
go close to you, but if you do make the creatures feel like they are being
attack they will usually fight back with painful and even deadly
consequences (PADI Adventures 208-211).
With all the mystic surrounding the sport of scuba diving many
people would never dream about taking a class to get certified, and those
people don't know what they are missing. Those people that would never
consider diving most likely have only seen the dangers and risks of
diving, but they have never really looked into the safety precaution and
quality of the instruction needed to go diving. I hope that anyone who
had previously decided against Scuba diving reconsider their choice,
because they are missing out on some awe inspiring views and spectacular
adventures. If you do nothing else in your lifetime at least take an
introductory class to Scuba diving. It may just show you how safe and
enjoyable the sport actually is.
This essay is only for research purposes. If used, be sure to cite it properly!
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Name: Matthew Binet
Submitted: 03.28.05
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Word Count: 1302
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Slamball Facility
Concepts One Should Know When Building an Innovative Multi-purpose Slamball Facility
Table of Contents
Phase I
1. Purpose of Slamball
2. What is Slamball
3. History of Slamball
4. Details about the facility
5. Location of Slamball
6. Business plan
7. Investment plans
8. Demographic research
9. Marketing streams
10. Management team
11. Architect
12. Consultant
Phase II
1. ADA compliance
2. Storage space/loading dock
3. Maintenance
4. Employees
5. Training and locker rooms
6. Parking
7. Interior/exterior traffic flow
8. Security
9. Sponsors
10. Insurance
I want to bring a multi-purpose Slamball facility to Atlanta?s everyday athletes. I would like to attract college students, weekend warriors, and everyday athletes. Once I have attracted these people to my facility I will begin leagues and televised games.
Slamball is a high flying and high intensity game, which comprises elements of basketball and football. The athletic concepts are the same but applied to Slamball in a different manner. There are four players for each team on the court at all times, four separate trampolines on each side of the court, a fenced in court, and plenty of head gear and padding to go around. Slamball is meant to catch the viewer?s eye and give them an unmatched adrenaline rush.
Slamball was invented in Los Angeles, California by a man named Mason Gordon in 2002. It is presently being televised by Spike TV, and is produced by Tollins and Robbins of Hollywood, California. Slamball has been a raging success amongst teenagers and the fine athletes around the United States.
The facility will include two Slamball courts, one regular basketball court, a concession stand, a trophy room, two weight rooms, one training room, two locker rooms, a walking track, moveable stands for viewing, and offices for the employees.
The city of Atlanta is were I plan to spring Slamball. To be more exact I plan to have it inside the perimeter loop. In order for the multi-purpose facility to work it must be centralized within the city. Once the facility is centralized I should be able to attract the morning workers, teenagers, and the fine athletes of Atlanta.
The Slamball business plan will detail start up expenses, year one projected earnings, year one projected expenses, market analysis summary, targeted market segments, personal budget, investing options, and the interest rates for short term loans.
Investment options are rather slim for private facilities like the multi-purpose Slamball facility. Public funding is not an option for investment since it is not a state owned building. My venture will undertake private investors for its start up and continuous funding. I will attempt to receive funding in exchange for shares of the company. If that does not work than I will seek out loans from banking institutions.
Demographic research is the nuts and bolts of a successful business. In order for a business to be successful it must have a class or classes to which it caters too. The business must know the how long the drive is for it clients to their business. Slamball will research the clients within a 15, 30, 45, and 60 minute drive-time interval. Slamball will also attempt to learn the median income, disposable income, and total population of its selected classes. The demographic research will lead Slamball to good marketing opportunities.
Choosing the correct marketing streams will be what brings Slamball to the public eye. Slamball will attempt to reach teenage athletes, weekend warriors, and recreational gym users through television, radio, and print mediums.
A management team should be in place to oversee the development and the maintaining of the facility. The team should consist of an architect, consultant, head contractor, head plumber, head electrician, and the manager of the facility.
Picking an architect is an important and time consuming decision. Slamball will use an architect with plenty of experience and expertise in designing a multi-purpose facility.
A consultant will be an intricate part of making recreational and televised Slamball a success. I will get recommendations from Mason Gordon, the inventor of Slamball, as to who should be my consultant. I would expect that he or she will be a person with the same qualifications as the architect.
Being ADA compliant in a multi purpose facility can be a tricky undertaking. One must make sure that he or she has someone oversee the project to make sure all ADA standards are being met. The Slamball facility will place elevators and ramps inside the facility to allow the disabled to get to the second floor. We are not likely to concern ourselves with ADA standards when it comes to the Slamball court because it is not likely that people in wheelchairs will be jumping off trampolines.
Having storage space and loading decks are essential for Slamball to be efficient. The storage space must be able to house moveable seats, extra parts for the courts, and other facility necessities. A loading dock will be necessary because we will be moving the courts up to larger facilities for mass viewing if it catches on.
Slamball will have a variety of different employees. The ages will be diverse to compliment the age diversity of the client pool. There will be managers, wage employees, and a maintenance staff.
The maintenance staff will have to be able to repair and maintain the Slamball courts, and the other areas of the facility. They will have to take care of the inside and the outside of the facility.
In order to attract the top athletes of Atlanta the Slamball facility will spare no expense on the training room and locker rooms. The locker rooms will have nice bathrooms, showers, and every amenity available to the public. The training rooms will have whirlpools and other state of the art necessities for the athletes. During league games we will have a physical trainer on hand to deal with injuries.
Slamball will be located in the inside the loop, which makes parking a tricky situation. We will have a nominated area for the members of the facility, but parking for Slamball viewers is something that is under further review.
A facilities traffic flow is can be inviting for clients as well as a turn off. Slamball will make sure that machines are not to close to each other, because it would cause too much congestion. The parking areas of the facility will allow for easy ingress and egress.
The location of the Slamball facility will make for tight security. A lot of the events will take place at night, which calls for outside security. This will allow us to watch over the parking lots and walk patrons to their car. The games will be extremely competitive, which means inside security will be tight. Fights and arguments are likely to take place, and our security will nip that in the bud.
Slamball will seek out TV sponsors as well as local sponsors. We intend to hang up banners and pass out flyers for our sponsors.
Slamball will have waivers signed by all individuals who participate. We will also have general liability and vehicle insurance to cover the risk associated with the Slamball facility.
If Slamball?s development and management team follow these for mentioned steps than Slamball is likely to be a success in Atlanta. Developing and sustaining a business is an ongoing learning experience, and Slamball will make the necessary changes in order to excel.
This essay is only for research purposes. If used, be sure to cite it properly!
Submitted: 03.28.05
Flesch-Kincaid Score: 56.971681057306 ?
Word Count: 1302
"This site is hellacious and outstanding!!"
Slamball Facility
Concepts One Should Know When Building an Innovative Multi-purpose Slamball Facility
Table of Contents
Phase I
1. Purpose of Slamball
2. What is Slamball
3. History of Slamball
4. Details about the facility
5. Location of Slamball
6. Business plan
7. Investment plans
8. Demographic research
9. Marketing streams
10. Management team
11. Architect
12. Consultant
Phase II
1. ADA compliance
2. Storage space/loading dock
3. Maintenance
4. Employees
5. Training and locker rooms
6. Parking
7. Interior/exterior traffic flow
8. Security
9. Sponsors
10. Insurance
I want to bring a multi-purpose Slamball facility to Atlanta?s everyday athletes. I would like to attract college students, weekend warriors, and everyday athletes. Once I have attracted these people to my facility I will begin leagues and televised games.
Slamball is a high flying and high intensity game, which comprises elements of basketball and football. The athletic concepts are the same but applied to Slamball in a different manner. There are four players for each team on the court at all times, four separate trampolines on each side of the court, a fenced in court, and plenty of head gear and padding to go around. Slamball is meant to catch the viewer?s eye and give them an unmatched adrenaline rush.
Slamball was invented in Los Angeles, California by a man named Mason Gordon in 2002. It is presently being televised by Spike TV, and is produced by Tollins and Robbins of Hollywood, California. Slamball has been a raging success amongst teenagers and the fine athletes around the United States.
The facility will include two Slamball courts, one regular basketball court, a concession stand, a trophy room, two weight rooms, one training room, two locker rooms, a walking track, moveable stands for viewing, and offices for the employees.
The city of Atlanta is were I plan to spring Slamball. To be more exact I plan to have it inside the perimeter loop. In order for the multi-purpose facility to work it must be centralized within the city. Once the facility is centralized I should be able to attract the morning workers, teenagers, and the fine athletes of Atlanta.
The Slamball business plan will detail start up expenses, year one projected earnings, year one projected expenses, market analysis summary, targeted market segments, personal budget, investing options, and the interest rates for short term loans.
Investment options are rather slim for private facilities like the multi-purpose Slamball facility. Public funding is not an option for investment since it is not a state owned building. My venture will undertake private investors for its start up and continuous funding. I will attempt to receive funding in exchange for shares of the company. If that does not work than I will seek out loans from banking institutions.
Demographic research is the nuts and bolts of a successful business. In order for a business to be successful it must have a class or classes to which it caters too. The business must know the how long the drive is for it clients to their business. Slamball will research the clients within a 15, 30, 45, and 60 minute drive-time interval. Slamball will also attempt to learn the median income, disposable income, and total population of its selected classes. The demographic research will lead Slamball to good marketing opportunities.
Choosing the correct marketing streams will be what brings Slamball to the public eye. Slamball will attempt to reach teenage athletes, weekend warriors, and recreational gym users through television, radio, and print mediums.
A management team should be in place to oversee the development and the maintaining of the facility. The team should consist of an architect, consultant, head contractor, head plumber, head electrician, and the manager of the facility.
Picking an architect is an important and time consuming decision. Slamball will use an architect with plenty of experience and expertise in designing a multi-purpose facility.
A consultant will be an intricate part of making recreational and televised Slamball a success. I will get recommendations from Mason Gordon, the inventor of Slamball, as to who should be my consultant. I would expect that he or she will be a person with the same qualifications as the architect.
Being ADA compliant in a multi purpose facility can be a tricky undertaking. One must make sure that he or she has someone oversee the project to make sure all ADA standards are being met. The Slamball facility will place elevators and ramps inside the facility to allow the disabled to get to the second floor. We are not likely to concern ourselves with ADA standards when it comes to the Slamball court because it is not likely that people in wheelchairs will be jumping off trampolines.
Having storage space and loading decks are essential for Slamball to be efficient. The storage space must be able to house moveable seats, extra parts for the courts, and other facility necessities. A loading dock will be necessary because we will be moving the courts up to larger facilities for mass viewing if it catches on.
Slamball will have a variety of different employees. The ages will be diverse to compliment the age diversity of the client pool. There will be managers, wage employees, and a maintenance staff.
The maintenance staff will have to be able to repair and maintain the Slamball courts, and the other areas of the facility. They will have to take care of the inside and the outside of the facility.
In order to attract the top athletes of Atlanta the Slamball facility will spare no expense on the training room and locker rooms. The locker rooms will have nice bathrooms, showers, and every amenity available to the public. The training rooms will have whirlpools and other state of the art necessities for the athletes. During league games we will have a physical trainer on hand to deal with injuries.
Slamball will be located in the inside the loop, which makes parking a tricky situation. We will have a nominated area for the members of the facility, but parking for Slamball viewers is something that is under further review.
A facilities traffic flow is can be inviting for clients as well as a turn off. Slamball will make sure that machines are not to close to each other, because it would cause too much congestion. The parking areas of the facility will allow for easy ingress and egress.
The location of the Slamball facility will make for tight security. A lot of the events will take place at night, which calls for outside security. This will allow us to watch over the parking lots and walk patrons to their car. The games will be extremely competitive, which means inside security will be tight. Fights and arguments are likely to take place, and our security will nip that in the bud.
Slamball will seek out TV sponsors as well as local sponsors. We intend to hang up banners and pass out flyers for our sponsors.
Slamball will have waivers signed by all individuals who participate. We will also have general liability and vehicle insurance to cover the risk associated with the Slamball facility.
If Slamball?s development and management team follow these for mentioned steps than Slamball is likely to be a success in Atlanta. Developing and sustaining a business is an ongoing learning experience, and Slamball will make the necessary changes in order to excel.
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