My talk at the Basketball Hall of Fame last week was a thrill. I was there as part of the Champions of Character Education Series that I previously described. The auditorium was filled to capacity with 300 students and their teachers, representing middle schools and high schools from Springfield, Hartford, and Albany. The attendees were [...]
This book from 1928 reminds me of just how closely basketball was linked to spirituality, right up into the Great Depression and beyond. It also makes me realize (well, at least from Fig. 6) that the term “get your swerve on” might be a lot older than we first believed. It doesn’t get more fundamental [...]
Hmm … I think one modern day dunk from any number of current players would smash this apparatus to bits.
On May 7, 2008 at 10:00 a.m., I’ll be the featured guest speaker at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for their MVP’s of Character Education Series. Here’s what their website says about this program: The goal of this program is to offer teachers and students an opportunity to explore the relationship between healthy [...]
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