Teaching Life Lessons on the Basketball Court
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Samuel L. Jackson plays the real-life coach of a high school basketball team in this solid, unsurprising sports drama.
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Richard Jefferson hasn't forgotten the lessons taught by his missionary parents. A couple of hours before a brawl between Indiana and Detroit gave the NBA a black eye last week, Jefferson quietly showed the charitable side of the league's players.
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When Penn Manor High School technology teacher Shawn Canady asked for volunteers to create interactive-learning games for first- graders, three of his students stood up.  When the task was completed hundreds of hours later, only one student was left standing: senior Rob Drummond.
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Butch van Breda Kolff, a happy-go-lucky nonconformist, coached more than 1,300 college, professional and high school basketball games.
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Ron Artest has some time off now to assess where his life and his career are going. He can get some help. He is only 25 and it&#39;s not as if he can&#39;t revive his career next season.
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Friday night&#39;s basketbrawl in Detroit was a shameful chapter in sports history but also a conflagration of many of modern society&#39;s common ailments -- hair-trigger tempers, misplaced hostility, me-firstism, emotional immaturity, incivility, lack of self
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Some coaches get so good at shading the truth they occasionally lose sight of it themselves. At some point, with some guys, it becomes an occupational hazard. Billy Donovan, to cite the latest example, talked so long and so longingly about coaching in the NBA someday that he stubbornly pursued the opportunity even after he knew deep down it wasn't what he wanted.
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Bill Self isn&#39;t wasting any time with a player who doesn&#39;t get a rebound, a stop, or commits too many silly fouls. Granted, this is practice, but Self has the luxury that few coaches do at this or any time of the season.
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By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Sep. 9--OK, kids. You've been sitting here in class for a couple of weeks, and we're hoping you might have learned something along the way.   Like you were really listening in school.   Right.   So, the time has come.
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Mike Baker considers what it takes to be an inspirational and unforgettable  teacher.
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After-school sports club are being launched to improve basic skills like throwing and catching.
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Before the on-court schooling begins, the NBA's rookie class of 2007 are being taught lessons in life beyond the hardcourt.
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CHICAGO -- Sometimes a first-quarter pep talk, a halftime speech, a postgame rant speaks volumes. Even in the NBA, where all that really counts is what takes place on the court, a few well-chosen, well-timed words can be particularly revealing. Those words can show how a player or coach truly feels about his team. That was the case during the ...
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Some game makers are trying to get players to expand their horizons by reflecting on news events in games
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Vin Baker's daily ritual is different these days. The New York Knicks center seeks cellular peace. He pulls out his cellphone, reaches out, and touches someone special. His phone is not just a communication device. It is his lifeline -- to his father.
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The Maryland coaching staff often selects certain clips to show their players specific moment to reinforce the importance of minding the small details.
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NBA NOTESA day before starring in the NBA&#39;s first China game, Yao Ming went back to school. All the way back. The 7-foot-6 center visited his old elementary school yesterday as part of an NBA-sponsored program to promote reading.