Guides: The Syntax of Sports: Basketball

Literary Sentences

Reindeer Games
By Sherman Alexie, An Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, pp. 135-49 (2007)
Summer 65
By Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries (1978)
My Losing Season (Excerpt)
By Pat Conroy, My Losing Season (2002)

Poetic Sentences

Ex-Basketball Player
by John Updike, from Collected Poems 1953-1993
Fast Break
by Edward Hirsch, from Wild Gratitude (1950).
AM Radio
by Jesse Graves, from Basin Ghosts (Texas Review Press: 2014)
Loony Bin Basketball
by Mary Karr, Poetry (December 2012)
At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School
By Sherman Alexie, in The Business of Fancydancing (1992).
Foul Shots: A Clinic
By William Matthews, in Rising and Falling (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1979). Available from the Poetry Foundation.
In Memory of the Utah Stars
By William Matthews, in Rising and Falling (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1979). Available from the Poetry Foundation.
Slam, Dunk, & Hook
By Yusef Komunyakaa, in Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (2001)
Victory
By Sherman Alexie, Prairie Schooner (Winter 2015), available from Poets

Spoken Sentences

TedTalk: WorkLife with Adam Grant
By Adam Grant (March, 2018)
Bringing Moneyball to the NBA
With Frances Frei, Harvard Business Review (September 9, 2016)
Ref, You Suck!
Against the Rules (April 2, 2019)

Books

The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate GV 885.52 .P67 H341
Publication Date: 2009
Shattering the Glass by Pamela Grundy; Susan Shackelford
Call Number: Shapiro Undergraduate — Basement: GV 886 .G781 2005
Publication Date: 2007
The Last Shot by Darcy Frey
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate GV 885.73 .N4 F741 1994
Publication Date: 1994
Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano; Arturo Torres (Illustrator); Reggie Miller (Foreword by)
Call Number: Not currently available at the U of M Library
Publication Date: 2017

Journalistic Sentences

Shoot the Moon
by Susan Orlean. Originally published in The New Yorker (March 22, 1993)
How David Beats Goliath
by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker (May 11, 2009)
The Misunderstood Genius of Russell Westbrook
By Sam Anderson, in The New York Times Magazine (Feb.1, 2017)
A Tragedy too Easy to Ignore: Everyone Loses Because the Bullets Keep Flying
by Mitch Album, Detroit Free Press (November 21, 2008)
Free To Go
By Mina Kimes, ESPN The Magazine (October 30, 2014)
Eyes of the Storm
When Tennessee's whirlwind of a coach, Pat Summitt, hits you with her steely gaze, you get a dose of the intensity that has carried the Lady Vols to five NCAA titles
By Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated (March 2, 1998)
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Organizations
by Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code, (2017)
[Chapter 4: Search for "page 48"]
How Far Can Becky Hammon Go in the N.B.A.?
By Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker (April 16, 2018)
Dropping Dimes
by Chloe N. Clark, Bull (April 9, 2018)
A Man-Child in Lotusland
By Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker (May 20, 2002)
Lost Soul
by Chris Ballard, Sports Illustrated (2017)
Basketball in Tibet: A Sport's Unlikely Ascent
by Louie Lazar, The Atlantic (January/February 2019)
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
Call Number: BF 431 .C69 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Michelin restaurants and fabulous wines: Inside the secret team dinners that have built the Spurs' dynasty
By Baxter Holmes, ESPN (July 25, 2020)
The Highest Court in the Land
By Stanley Kay, Sports Illustrated (July 25, 2020)
Jerrod Mustaf Is a Community Hero, Has Anyone Ever Googled Him?
By Jon Wertheim, Sports Illustrated (April 17, 2019)

Judicial Sentences

Obannon v. NCAA
802 F.3d 1049 (9th Cir. 2015), cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 277, 196 L. Ed. 2d 33 (2016), and cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 277, 196 L. Ed. 2d 33 (2016)
Haywood v. National Basketball Association
401 U.S. 1204 (1971)
Arbegast v. Board of Education
65 N.Y. 2d 161 (N.Y. 1985)
Brotherson v. Professional Basketball Club
604 F.Supp.2d 1276 (W.D. Wash. 2009)
Terry v. State Athletic Com’n
873 A.2d 19 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2005)
Amos v. Commissioner
86 T.C.M. 663 (2003)
Flood v. Kuhn
407 U.S. 258 (1972).
Radovich v. National Football League
407 U.S. 258 (1972)
Gonyo v. Drake University
U.S. District Court, 837 F. Supp. 989 (1993)

The Syntax of Sports: Basketball

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