HOOP SCOOP Official News letter of the FEBRUARY 4, 2012 METRO BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION VOLUME 21, NUMBER 8 From the Prez… Honor Roll Students See Info on Page 2. Coaches Work to Curb Fights By Kevin Wilkinson – MBA President MBA All-Star Team Selection Soon In last weeks Detroit News there was an article about the rise of violence in sports. It has become so The MBA All Star teams from each Division prevalent in the NBA, college and high schools that it will be selected soon. The games will be played on was a topic of discussion on ESPN’s College Game Saturday, March 3 at United. All three Divisions will Day show last month. It was pointed out that the fault be participating in these games. lies with players, coaches and officials. It was also The Blue division will start at 10:00 a.m.; the pointed out that the coaches are the ones who have to White at 12:00 noon and the Red at 2:00 p.m. We maintain control of their players. will have a PA announcer, lively music and three Saginaw Arthur Hills coach said that they spend very good basketball games. They are always very time during the week talking about sportsmanship and entertaining. We will announce who is on the teams if a confrontation arises to walk away from it. They in the February 18 Hoop Scoop actually talk about nobody leaving the bench if two I hope that everyone will come and support the guys get into a dispute on the floor. They have an players from your team who make the All Star team. assistant coach who is responsible for looking for There will be a small charge for the game. The fee potential trouble on the court during a game. will be $2 for those over 12 years old - children 12 Though I appreciate the fact that this coach is years old and younger get in for free. The $2 charge talking about these things with his players and trying to is good for all three games. avoid them, it is a shame that so much of his valuable We encourage all of the players in the Blue and time with his team has to be taken up with this kind of White Divisions to stay and watch the games to see conversation. What about the coach during the game what the next level will be like if they are moving up who could be coaching on the bench instead of next year. watching for a potentially bad situation. Is this not a Put the date on your calendar and plan to attend waste of resources? the 23rd Annual All-Star Games on March 3. Why is all of this necessary? I believe it can be traced to one major thing; lack of respect. We have See These Stories Inside lost it at all levels and if we don’t do something to get it back, we will eventually end up as a society of • Honor Roll Students Pg 2 anarchy and mob rule. • Pistons/MBA Alliance Fundraiser Pg 3 If our kids are not taught to be respectful at home, • Another Games at U-of-D Pg 3 how can we expect them to be respectful to their • Bulletin Board Pg 4 teachers, to the Police or to those they compete • Fun Day Results Pg 5 against? People are not born with a disrespect gene in • MBA Sponsors Pg 6 them. It is a learned behavior. We as adults have a Blue and White Division Game Stories of (See “PREZ SEZ” - Page 4) January 21 are attached to the Website Version of this Hoop Scoop. 02-04-12 Hoop Scoop – Page 2 Honor Roll and All Academic Team The MBA believes in the old fashioned way of The following instructions must be followed without doing things. We believe that we are all born with the exception: same inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That is where equality ends. We are not 1. You must email your information to Jim and Pansy all equal in ability to perform surgery, play an Bradley at: [email protected]. Only emails instrument, put a rocket on the moon or make the honor will be accepted. Please type “Honor Roll roll. We are not all equal in our ability to make a sports Students” in the subject line. If we get an email All-Star team, be accepted for college or speak multiple with no subject and we do not recognize the email languages. address we WILL NOT open it. No phone calls Just because we all do not possess the same talents please. or level of achievement does not mean that we should not recognize those who are achieving at a high level. I 2. This information must be in their hands no later have to explain this every year at this time, because we than February 20. are going to list our Honor Roll students and be selecting our All-Star teams in the next couple of 3. Your email must include the following weeks. information: We have been told in the past that we should not list a. Name of the student these kids and single out their achievements. Why? We b. School name and grade level have been told it is because for those who do not get c. Division in the MBA (Blue, White, Red) their names listed on the Honor Roll or make the All- d. MBA Team Name Star team that it can cause low self-esteem. I am not e. Specify if it is for the Honor Roll or the denying that someone can have a low self-esteem, but I All-Academic Team also believe that they do not have to accept that as a f. Grade point average way of life. The real world recognizes excellence. The MBA These instructions must be followed in order to also believes in recognizing excellence. Recognizing have your child in the Hoop Scoop on March 10 and the excellence should be for the purpose of congratulating MBA Yearbook. We will not be able to accept any those who achieve it. That is what we do. Nothing else. names after the February 20 deadline because of If your child has made the Honor Roll in their printing deadlines. It is your responsibility as a parent school during the first semester we want to recognize to get this information to Jim and Pansy. Please do not them. If your child has achieved a perfect 4.0 grade give this information to your coach and expect them to point average, or equivalent, we want to put them on the turn it in. You must do this directly. Even with these MBA All-Academic Team. Some schools do not use the clear instructions, we will have people call after traditional 4.0 system. For those who don’t, if the February 20 and ask for an exception. Please accept our student has worked at an A level in all of their classes apologies at this time and save the call. that is the same to us. It would be too difficult to verify this information Congratulations to those whose name will be appearing for every player so we will accept your word as an in the March 10 Hoop Scoop. honest person if your child has reached one of these levels. If your child made the Honor Roll or the MBA All-Academic Team, please read below how to report it. 02-04-12 Hoop Scoop – Page 3 Piston/MBA Alliance Fundraiser We had a great Fun Day last Saturday and the from the MBA Website. There is a link on the MBA Pistons crew had a lot to do with it. Hooper and his front page directly to the Pistons to order online. Go to Flight were awesome and Earl Curetin did a great job www.pistons/metro. with his speech to the kids. The Pistons also gave us We have a nice relationship with the Detroit Pistons some nice things to add to our prize table. They and they have helped us in many ways over the years. invested in us ahead of time and now it is our turn to We have never reciprocated to them. This is our chance help them realize a return on their investment. to do so. We have an obligation to sell as many tickets The nice thing about the Pistons return on as we can to show our appreciation to the Pistons for investment is they are willing to share a portion of it coming and making Fun Day a special time for the kids. with the MBA. We have the opportunity to purchase Please order tickets for yourself. Have your kids tell tickets to a Pistons game with the Milwaukee Bucks on their friends. Tell your co-workers about it and invite Friday, April 13. For every ticket that is purchased for them to come. Tell the people you go to church with or this game through the MBA, the Piston will give the the people in your mosque. My goal is for us to MBA $5. collectively sell 500 tickets for the Pistons. If we do Ticket prices are as follows: The Upper Bowl that it would net the MBA $2500 which we really need. tickets which normally sell for $30 are now only $20. Let’s have a great showing for this. It would be fun The Lower Bowl which is normally $45 is now only to see the kids wear their MBA uniforms and to see $35.