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Midnight basketball is an initiative which developed in the 1990s to curb inner-city crime in the United States by keeping urban youth off the streets and engaging them with alternatives to drugs and crime. It was founded by G. Van Standifer in the late 1980s.
Midnight leagues are a series of initiatives in the United States, starting in the 1990s with midnight basketball and expanding into other sports, notably association football, where vulnerable urban youth could assemble during the night, and keep themselves off the streets while engaging with sports alternatives to drugs and crime.
The Nike Elite Youth Basketball League, [1] [2] also known as Nike EYBL, or simply EYBL, is a basketball circuit for teams of players aged 17 and under. The circuit was founded in 2010 [3] and is composed of AAU travel teams. [4] Both boys and girls play in the EYBL in their respective categories.
A major player in the Triangle youth basketball scene has pleaded guilty in a nearly $600,000 charity fraud scheme. Dwayne Moorer West, 60, of Fuquay-Varina, faces up to 20 years in prison for ...
In 1897, the AAU held its first national men's basketball championship. The winner was the 23rd Street YMCA from New York City. The first AAU women's basketball tournament was held in April 1926 at the Los Angeles Athletics Club. The Pasadena Athletic & Country Club Flying Rings were crowned the champions.
The foundation officially launches Saturday on World Basketball Day, and with that launch, Dončić, a native of Slovenia, will release the findings of a study the foundation commissioned on youth ...
Willis had said that he wrote the song in Vancouver, British Columbia [17] and, through his publicist, that he did not write "Y.M.C.A." as a gay anthem, [18] but rather as a reflection of the fun activities that urban black youth experienced at YMCA, such as basketball and swimming.
North Carolina’s Caleb Love (2) chest bumps R.J. Davis (4) after a three point basket by Davis during the second half against Brown on Friday, November 12, 2021 at the Smith Center in Chapel ...