Spalding s first Women's Basketball Guide. Live Your Dreams Basketball may appear risky for many women because this requires lots of physical strength. This is also the major attraction why more and more women are getting hooked on this game. This will require you to take action and become responsible to help the team win. Basketball is a great way of involving children into sports and helping them develop their social skills. Basketball, as an indoor sport, could be played all the year round in school or local gym. All you need is just a ball, a hoop and a court. Parents understand that it is important to incorporate physical activity into their children s daily schedule. The NCAA is a single governing body that oversees around 1,200 voluntary college and university members comprising the association. These volunteers make rules to ensure a fair game among all intercollegiate athletics. Only active members, which are 1,006 among the 1,200 volunteers, are allowed to compete in tournaments. In 1991, the Jordan-led Bulls won three straight world championships. He won Olympic gold in the next year before he retired. When he returned to NBA, the team won three consecutive titles. Also enshrined in 2009 is David Robinson born August 6, 1965. He was known as The Admiral at the US Naval Academy. There are many personalities who emerged from this field and eventually became famous media figures. There are some players who were casted on film and TV productions. Many players were also given good spots at commercials and as endorsers to many popular products. There is really no escaping the bug that this widely viewed sports has created all over the globe. This starts the game when a referee throws a ball into the air and one player from each team jumps to tip the ball to his/her respective teammates. Furthermore, on each half of the court is a three-point line. Within such line is the key consisting of free-throw line and free throw lane sometimes called the paint.