HOOP IT UP: TO THE ELITE, IT'S NOT JUST FUN AND GAMES RIM DUNKWEAR AIMS FOR BIGGER PRIZE.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Staff Writer For most of the 1,500 or so participants at Saturday's Hoop-It-Up 3- on-3 basketball tournament at Warner Center in Woodland Hills, the players were out to have a little fun, get some exercise and maybe win a small award plaque. Not Nick Sanderson Nick Sanderson is the current mayor of Pomona, New York. Nick is a member of the Village Community Party. Nick is also the President and CEO of Flaregas Corporation. On March 20, 2007, Sanderson defeated incumbent and longtime mayor Herbert Marshall in the village of Pomona mayoral . The 28-year-old former Bell-Jeff High of Burbank basketball star has made the elite Top Gun finals the past three years. He's hoping he and Rim Dunkwear teammates Keith Gibbs and David Humphreys David Humphreys may be:
"We play it off like we're all just here to be with good friends and have some competition," said Sanderson, now a counselor for troubled adolescents in Pasadena after playing at BYU BYU Brigham Young University BYU Bayou BYU Bob's Your Uncle BYU Bayreuth, Germany - Bindlacher Berg (Airport Code) BYU Beyond Your Understanding and briefly in the Continental Basketball Association This article is about the American CBA. For the CBA in China, see Chinese Basketball Association. The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) is a professional men's basketball league in the United States. . "But getting to the final is a big achievement because a lot of guys are pretty good out here. I'm confident that I can take anybody here on any given day. We know how to play, and I think I've gotten a certain amount of respect and a reputation. We're pretty motivated." Sanderson's Rim Dunkwear team lost its first game but rebounded with two victories to advance to today's playoff round. They need three more victories to reach the Top Gun final at 12:30 p.m. His teammates are both serious basketball players. Gibbs, 29, formerly played for Cal State Northridge before starting a career as a motion picture actor. Humphreys, 28, played for The Master's College History The Master's College was founded as Los Angeles Baptist Theological Seminary on May 25, 1927 to meet the need for a fundamental Baptist school on the West Coast. , and he's currently Canyon High's varsity basketball coach. Rim Dunkwear's road won't be an easy. Gibbs was limping after hurting his knee playing softball earlier in the week, the team has three players instead of four and last year's champion, Slim Jim Slim Jim is a brand of dry meat snack manufactured by ConAgra Foods, Inc. They are popular in the United States, due in part to their unique texture, salty taste and "hip" marketing. More than 500 million are produced annually in at least 20 varieties,. , also has returned. --Fletcher gets dunked: Ex-Birmingham High of Van Nuys basketball standout Stanley Fletcher made it the finals of Saturday's Hoop-It-Up slam-dunk contest but lost to Tyler Kerlin, 23, of San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . Fletcher, now a 20-year-old salesman living in Van Nuys, led Birmingham to the 1997 City Section 3A final before playing one season at Moorpark College. Six-foot-three and in excellent shape, he reeled off a variety of crowd-pleasing jams as the pool narrowed from 15 to five to two. However, Kerlin, at 6-feet the shortest dunker in the group, clinched the victory when he bounced the ball high in the air, grabbed it above the rim and reverse-dunked it. "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how I did it," said Kerlin, a fitness instructor who played basketball at Mira Costa JC in San Diego. "I guess the judges wanted to see more difficult dunks, and since I'm short I get more height off the ground. They like that." |
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