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Joy Marie Burke (born November 7, 1990), also known by her Taiwanese name Pao Hsi-lo ( Chinese: 包喜樂 ), is a Taiwanese-American collegiate and professional basketball player. [1] Burke played college basketball for the Arizona State University. Following graduation she has played professionally overseas for the Hørsholm 79ers, Bendigo ...
Basketball was invented by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891. Within a few decades, the new game became popular throughout the United States as an indoor sport. The popularity spread overseas and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) was organized in 1932 in Geneva, Switzerland .
1972 Olympic men's basketball final. The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final was the last game of that year’s Olympic basketball tournament, and became one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With the ending mired in controversy, the Soviet Union defeated Team USA by one point, marking the latter's first ever loss in the event.
of such scrumptious summer joy. Marjorie Maddox is the author of 20 books, including "Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems," in which “Home Run” first appeared.
The inaugural Get Stuck On Sports Senior Basketball All-Star Game was held at Croswell-Lexington High School on Wednesday. Twenty-nine players (16 boys, 13 girls) from 17 area schools participated ...
Joel Hans Embiid ( / dʒoʊˈɛl ɛmˈbiːd / joh-EL em-BEED; [ 1][ 2] born 16 March 1994) is a Cameroonian-American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After one year of college basketball with the Kansas Jayhawks, he was drafted third overall by the 76ers in the 2014 NBA draft.
James Naismith. James Naismith ( NAY-smith; November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball. [1] [2] [3] After moving to the United States, he wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University ...
The Americans and the Spaniards met again in the 2012 gold medal game, with the U.S. again winning, although with the closest winning margin for the American team. The U.S. won again in 2016, defeating the Serbians in the gold medal game, a rematch of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Final, after eliminating the Spaniards, who settled for bronze.