Creative Writing: Men's 12U Basketball Tournament
First we look at a Men’s 12U basketball tournament. The overall feel was, for a lack of better words, boring. Even the “close games” (within 10 points) left me wondering where I was and if this was sports. No excitement. Not even from the players. It was like watching these kids do a job. Our job was to play like this, win or lose. Either way, it was less exciting than SCSU basketball games.. and that’s saying something. The only organization that I saw was the tournament board, which was typed out and had the teams, brackets, etc. No programs, shirts or anything else saying where or what this was. One of the other funnier things I saw was the amount of spectators, most likely parents, who brought lawn and camping chairs to the event. They
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I think that was the epitome of what this event was. “Just going through the movements.” Being an athletic trainer, you know I realized there was no athletic trainer to be found, or any medical staff for that matter. Coaches were probably the first responders. A concessions stand was at least set up. Coaches, who wore different colored polos and nothing that said anything about their teams, were concerned about mingling with other coaches and officials in the pre-game. No announcers. Games were played in the SCSU field house and were officiated by officials who do this and high school basketball. Overall, the games were not that entertaining, lacked defense, and was just, “meh”. Also, as far as demographics, the players were about split; 60% white and possibly 40% African American. However, African American parents lacked in attendance; most of the spectators were white. I have a few suspicions why, but we’ll save that for a bit …show more content…
In a critique, Leon Kamin terrorizes and disposes of, what I would argue, borderline racist comments coming from Jon Entine. Entine cites archaic scientific structure claiming the anatomy of African Americans causes them to be more prolific at sports. Well, even though he believes motivation does have a role, Kamin is against political correctness, to put this bluntly. Kamin makes some outlandish claims, from saying Africans had to just gather food, while hunting was required in colder European climates. This, therefor, makes Europeans smarter over centuries of perfection and cunning skills. Through diligence and common sense, I’m going to infer that Africans were still able to hunt. To conclude this critique, he ends with caution; “White men may can’t jump”, however “Black men can’t think”, has a flip
I think that was the epitome of what this event was. “Just going through the movements.” Being an athletic trainer, you know I realized there was no athletic trainer to be found, or any medical staff for that matter. Coaches were probably the first responders. A concessions stand was at least set up. Coaches, who wore different colored polos and nothing that said anything about their teams, were concerned about mingling with other coaches and officials in the pre-game. No announcers. Games were played in the SCSU field house and were officiated by officials who do this and high school basketball. Overall, the games were not that entertaining, lacked defense, and was just, “meh”. Also, as far as demographics, the players were about split; 60% white and possibly 40% African American. However, African American parents lacked in attendance; most of the spectators were white. I have a few suspicions why, but we’ll save that for a bit …show more content…
In a critique, Leon Kamin terrorizes and disposes of, what I would argue, borderline racist comments coming from Jon Entine. Entine cites archaic scientific structure claiming the anatomy of African Americans causes them to be more prolific at sports. Well, even though he believes motivation does have a role, Kamin is against political correctness, to put this bluntly. Kamin makes some outlandish claims, from saying Africans had to just gather food, while hunting was required in colder European climates. This, therefor, makes Europeans smarter over centuries of perfection and cunning skills. Through diligence and common sense, I’m going to infer that Africans were still able to hunt. To conclude this critique, he ends with caution; “White men may can’t jump”, however “Black men can’t think”, has a flip