Wilt Chamberlain

Wilt Chamberlain

By Truman Robbins

Wilt Norman Chamberlain was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had nine people in his family. In his young years he wasn’t interested in basketball, he was interested in track and other sports. He was very good at track. Basketball was cool in Philadelphia so he eventually turned to the sport.

          He was 6 feet 11 inches going into high school. In high school he played for the Overbrook Panthers. He had a very big advantage over most of the kids because he was so tall.

          In college he went to and played for KU. He played until his junior year and was mad about his junior year so he didn’t play his senior year. The NBA at the time didn’t allow players who didn’t play four years in high school so he joined the Harlem Globetrotters.

          He then joined the NBA and he played for the Warriors. It was originally in Philadelphia and then they changed to San Francisco. He played there 1959-1965. He then played for the Philadelphia Sixers 1965-1968.  He then played for the Los Angeles Lakers 1968-1973. He gained a few NBA records in his year including a scoring champion, and all time top rebounder.

          He signed a coaching job with the San Diego Conquistadors after his NBA career. Wilt Chamberlain died October 12, 1999 from congestive heart failure. Wilt Chamberlain was a big legend.

History of Snowboarding

Snowboarding began when an engineer from Muskegon, Michigan, named Sherman Poppen, invented a toy for his daugther. He tied to skis together and attached a rope to the end so she would have control. This beought the idea of the "Snurfer". He manufactured the idea and sold about a million snurfers over the next decade.

He started snurfing competitions and attracted enthusiasts from all over the country. One of these was Tom Sims. He was a devotee of skateboarding. He crafted a snowboard in 8th grade and got the idea. He started making commercial snowboards in the 70's and started the idea.

Around this same time Jake Burton Carpenter impressed a crowd at a snurfing competition by making his own binding that attached his feet to his board. That same year he founded Burton Snowboards. He did not sell very many snowboards until later on. People thought that they were too expenisive at $38.

During the 1970s and 1980s as snowboarding became more popular. Creators came up with new mechanisms and designs that turned into todays snowboards.

In 1982 the first National Snowboard race was held near Woodstock, Vermont, at Suicide Six.

In 1983 the first World Championship halfpipe competition was held at Soda Springs, California. Tom Sims organized it.

Today Snowboarding has become very popular and their are many tournaments all over the world. Snowboarding is an olympic sport and also is in the X-games. Terrain parks are a huge hit for snowboarding and there are terrain parks in many of the alpine ski resorts now.

                                        

Is Blogging Journalism?

I disagree with this article. I think that blogging definitely can be a part of journalism. Blogging is a great way to learn about journalism. It starts you off on how to do journalism. You express your opinions and feelings while you are blogging and it can teach you how to write articles and things like in a newspaper.

You can cover important articles and ideas on your blogs. It is practically the exactsame thing as being a writer for a newspaper. It just isn't as public and not as many people share their views and ideas on it. People say that it isn't a part of journalism, but I believe that it is. It can help you a lot and peole have a lot of things to say and they can say it on their blog.

Shaun White

 Shaun White was born September 3, 1986, in San Diego, California. Shaun White had 2 open heart surgeries before the age of 1. He grew up in a family of 5 people: Mom, dad, brother, sister. He started skiing at 4 years old.

At 6 years old his mom made an attempt to put him on a snowboard so he would slow down, but this made him only want to go faster. His mom told him to do what his brother did on a snowboard and he became better and faster.

At age 7 he entered his first competition and took first place. He placed just outside of 10th in the nation. His mom sent homemade videos to Burton. They were impressed and offered him a sponsorship deal atage 7. With the support of Burton, he became pro at age 13.

He became a pro skateboarder at the age of 17. In 2003 he became the first athlete ever to compete and medal in both the Summer and Winter X Games in two different sports.In 2007 he won the overall title and prestigious honor of Action Sports Tour Champion thanks to his impressive skills in skateboarding vert.

Between skateboarding and snowboarding Shaun now holds 16 X Games medals, and a record 10 of them are gold. He has won 2 gold medals. One gold medal in the 2006 winter olympics. And another inthe 2010 winter olympics.

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