1. Choose a sport to research: (Football, Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, etc.)
Basketball
2. Identify your favorite team or athlete for your sport. Search the Internet and find a picture of mascot or photo of the athlete. Save the image to your student folder. Make a new folder called “Sports Exploration” in your student folder to save all of your files for this project. (10 points)
3. Find the most recent rankings for one team or athlete. Include a list of the top 5 teams or athletes for your sport.
Top teams right now:
1. Milwaukee Bucks
2. Los Angeles Lakers
3. Boston Celtics
4. Toronto Raptors
5. Denver Nuggets
Base your rankings from an official ranking for your sport (like Hollinger Power Rankings). Not your opinion. (20 points)
Where I got the rankings
Provide a summary of one team or athlete’s season performance. The summary should include the following:
Milwaukee Bucks
1. Wins, losses (5 points)
47 wins, 8 losses
2. Did the team make playoffs? If there are no playoffs, name the major tournaments that your team or athlete competed in? (10 points)
They have competed in the NBA championship and won in 1971.
3. Who won the top prize or top tournament for your sport last year? (5 points)
Toronto Raptors
5. List three important rules for your sport. (10 points)
No traveling, ball must stay in bounds, cannot kick the ball.
6. List three examples of jargon for your sport and explain what they mean in words non-sport followers could understand. (10 points)
Airball: When a shot is made and the basketball completely misses the basketball hoop, the ball doesn't even touch the rim, a complete miss.
Bank shot: When a basket is made by bouncing the ball off the backboard and into the hoop.
Assist: When a player passes the ball to someone who scores after the pass.
7. What is an example of sports cliché associated with your sport or athlete? What is another way you could say it without using a cliché? (10 points)
"It's raining threes!" You could say that someone is making a lot of three pointers instead.
8. Name an athlete who is a legend for setting records for your sport? Provide a brief biography about the athlete: Kobe Bryant
• birth place
Philadelphia, PA, USA
• school attended
Lower Merion High School in Pennsylvania
• teams played for
Charlotte hornets drafted him but traded him to the Los Angeles Lakers
• records set
Bryant is still the youngest player ever to start an NBA game.
He scored the most points in a single game of the modern NBA era.
He has also scored more points, more free-throws, and made more turnovers than any other guard in history (he was dethroned by LeBron James for his point record this year).
He scored the most points ever in a single arena.
Post all of these answers on a blog titled: Sports exploration activity
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