Sports Report

Basketball

Basketball is a fantastic family sport, it can be enjoyed by many different people. Basketball is played inside and outside on a court that is 28 by 15m (approx 92 by 49feet) Most courts are made by wood.

Basketball was invented by a man named Dr. James Naismith. Dr. James Naismith was born in Canada in 1861, and lived long enough to see the game he invented for the first time. The first official game was played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20 1892.

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 foot (3m) high hoop (goal) under organized rules. The team with the most points at the end of the game is the winners.

Women’s basketball began in 1892. The only essential equipment needed in basketball is a basketball a court two referees a scoreboard and a Massive Crowd. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world.

Basketball has a lot of rules such as crosscourt, travel, hands foul, block, goal tending and lots more. In basketball if a player gets five fouls then they are sent off for the rest of the game. Basketball can become great job and many people get paid to play NBL or NBA (aka National Basketball America). Many People become famous by playing NBL and NBA just like Michael Jordan and Larry Bird and lots of other great players.

In basketball you have to dribble up and down the court you can not just carry it. Some of the better NBA dribblers are Allen Iverson, Steve Nash, Ray Allen and Dwayne Wade.
There are many many different teams and uniforms. Each team has a different uniform. People can buy good shoes and bad shoes. Some shoes look really cool and some just look bad and are uncomfortable.

There are different scoring opportunities like 3 pointers 2 pointers and even 1 pointer if you take a free-throw. At a basketball game it is good to have a crowd and the bigger the crowd is means the louder the stadium is. When Michael Jordan played there were always big crowds because he was a superstar.

Now to finish it off, Basketball is an amazing sport and I hope is becomes even bigger around the world.
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Tom Young

Technology-Soft Drink Can Cars

Week 1 term 3 2008 saw the introduction of the technology subject to the grades 5 and 6. Grade 5/6Z is attempting to build cars from soft drink cans. The process involved cutting the bottom off of eight cans to form the four wheels required for the cars and the attaching these wheels to wooden skewers before inserting them inside a drinking straw and finally inside another can that formed the body of the vehicle. The finalising of construction and then testing and modifying these vehicles will conclude over the next few weeks.