Best basketball player biography of mahatma gandhi
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Gandhi's experiments with sports
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Long before Nelson Mandela embraced rugby to unite South Africans, Mahatma Gandhi opted for football during his time in the Rainbow Nation to help Indians in South Africa and marginalized non-white natives to achieve equal rights from the British rule.
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Published : Oct 2, 2020, 7:59 PM IST
|Updated : Nov 18, 2020, 6:49 AM IST
Hyderabad: Looking at his identical image as a bespectacled frail man wearing a white dhoti and walking with a stick in hand, it is difficult to accept the fact that Mahatma Gandhi was a passionate advokat of sports. There is no evidence of Gandhi taking the field to play sports but noted historian Ramchandra Guha's 2008 write-up (Gandhi: did he spin more than khadi?) for Wisden Almanack based on the 1948 interview of Gandhi's only surviving sister, given to American reporter Louis Fischer, who wrote the most comprehensive biography of the great Indian man, re
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Growing up in Indiana, basketball was my first love.
Whether it was watching Larry Bird highlights, shooting hoops in my gravel driveway, or find the nearest pick-up game, I loved the game and thought that someday I would grow up to be a “coach.”
I was incredibly lucky in the fact that growing up in Muncie in the late 80’s, I got to watch some amazing basketball, highlighted bygd an amazing coach…
Rick Majerus.
This guy was always known for doing things his way, and getting the most out of his players.
And as a coach, what more can you ask for?
Every person who reads this blog is a coach of some sort.
Maybe you “coach” athletes…
…maybe you “coach” personal training clients…
…and maybe, the only person you “coach” is yourself.
With the passing of Coach Majerus, it’s gotten me thinking quite a bit about what makes a great coach.
What are
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