INTERNATIONAL BASKETBALL DIRECTORY
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Basketball Magazine Articles / Basketball Essays
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Great basketball articles to keep you better informed
Best-Pickup Basketball Player in America (Tomothy Harper, The Atlantic)
Great story of a 51-year old Allan Dalton from Boston who continues to play pick-up basketball everywhere he goes despite his professional real estate career.
Eight Guys, Sixty-Four Wheels, One Basketball (Jon Hart, Skate City Press, October 1996)
Reporting on the National Inline Basketball League (NIBBL) game. A lot of insights on the history and brave beginning of this exciting sport, created by NBA player Tom LaGarde
The Fall of the Shooting Stars (Ken Wood, SunNews, June 6, 2002)
How two suburban basketball players ended up in prison
A Feckless Search for the Basketball Gene (Jonathan Marks, Op-Ed, New York Times on the Web, April 8, 2000)
Author of "Human Biodiversity" discusses the issue if whether basketball talent is genetically inherited to arrive at very important conclusions about stereotypical branding.
Just the Facts, Ma'am (Jeff Meron, Sports Jones, June 7, 2000)
High media coverage has put a lot of focus on professional basketball players and their run-ins with the law. Article says this is hype more than hard fact as NBA player have a much lower arrest rate than American men in general.
A League of Their Own (Sam Quinones and Alan Mittelstaedt, LA Weekly, Feb 4-10, 2000)
How a team of Oaxacan Busboys is redefining LA Basketball. An inspiring story of Mexican ethnic immigrants to Los Angeles and where Zeus Garcia and his "Rasa Unida" basketball team fame is legendary.
Picture essay: Zeus Garcia and the Oaxaca Hoops (by Sam Quinones)
The Other Side of the Rock (by Judy Polumbaum, SportJones, Aug 24, 2001)
Revealing article about the popularity and peculiarities of basketball as practiced in China
Basketball Essays:
Bebopping, Hip-Hopping and Slam Dunking:
The Influence of African-American Endeavors in Music and Sports on Mainstream Culture
Focuses on black basketball Essay by Gena Dagel Caponi
Building Character With Basketball by Camilla Watson
Logic in Basketball, Literacy in College by Art Sandler
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