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	City League Basketball Diaries Volume 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Many people who follow basketball already knew who I was but after the interview a couple months ago I sort of reached a broader audience.
		I mean when we weren't playing basketball or in educational sessions I was in there going at it with anyone in NBA Live 2004.
		Basketball and School is like basically my job now just constant hours and hours day in and day out.
	d77088.u23.simplenet.com /bball2.html (3969 words)

	Joe Maller: Basketball Diaries
		As I was gathering up past biographies, I decided to include the bio from my old high school basketball program.
		Every once in a while, basketball is the subject of my anxiety dreams.
		John Molle - The only mention I could find was that John played for the University of Hawaii Basketball team, and was mentioned as one of the "bad boys" for getting suspended in 1995, there was no mention of what he was suspended for.
	www.joemaller.com /basketball.shtml (1478 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Basketball Diaries
		The one big problem with The Basketball Diaries is simply that we've seen it all before—the high school student who's a whiz at sports or scholastics, but wastes his talents, allowing himself to be drawn into the drug culture.
		In The Basketball Diaries, he gives a dynamic performance as the disintegrating Jim Carroll, particularly in his depiction of the character's degeneration into total heroin addiction.
		The Basketball Diaries is not a particularly great film, suffering from familiarity and uneven direction, and lacking a proper temporal context.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/basketballdiaries.php (1088 words)

	The Thresher Online: `Basketball Diaries' tells of an artist's sordid youth (September 8, 1995)
		The Basketball Diaries is a vivid biographical movie based on Jim Carroll's cathartic diaries, completed when he was only 17.
		We watch Jim disintegrate from a handsome, well-muscled high school senior and All-American High School Basketball Team hopeful into a chalky-lipped, emaciated and bruised dropout who ends up so desparate that he has to prostitute himself to middle-aged men in order to earn enough money to be able to afford his next high.
		The Basketball Diaries may have a great soundtrack, with songs like the Doors' "Riders on the Storm," and P.J. Harvey's "Down By the Water," but the well-chosen songs are some of the only places where any upbeatness lurks in this film.
	www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/83/950908/AE/Story02.html (684 words)

	RollingStone.com: The Basketball Diaries Review
		In Diaries, he gets his first starring role and slam-dunks the sucker to victory even when Bryan Golubuff's conventional script and Scott Kalvert's glossy direction threaten to turn a stinging true story into a TV-ish I Was a Teen-age Junkie.
		Jim robs old ladies, fights, stumbles onto the court in a stoned daze, gets expelled, loses his chance at a basketball career, hustles "old queers" in public toilets to feed his habit and weeps when his mother (an overemphatic Lorraine Bracco) locks him out of their apartment and her life.
		Nothing so structured happens in the diaries, which are a series of brilliant fragments with little patience for sentiment, self-pity and cautionary drug messages.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/movie/_/afl/imdb/pageid/rs.ReviewsMovieArchive/pageregion/mainRegion/id/5949199 (554 words)

	The Jim Carroll Website: Books: The Basketball Diaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1995 TheBasketball Diaries was adapted to film by director Scott Kalvert, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the role of Carroll.
		The 1987 Faber and Faber edition (not shown) is available only in the UK; it reprints The Basketball Diaries and prose works from The Book of Nods in one paperback volume.
		The Basketball Diaries is also available as an audio book, read by Carroll.
	www.catholicboy.com /catholicboy.com-asp/bd1.asp (313 words)

	What It Iz: Jimi's Basketball Diaries
		Cleveland is tired of having a losing basketball team, and they are relying on James to revitalize the franchise as well as the local economy.
		The thing is, during basketball season, I feel like I'm throwing free-throws in the bedroom.
		This was our first basketball date, and I can't decide what I liked more: the intense match-up or rubbing her booty as she leaned forward on the edge of her seat.
	www.africana.com /columns/izrael/ls20031119bballdiaries.asp (997 words)

	basketball diaries
		So we lost the first game, and the second game was about to start, and man we were playing some big people not height wise, but weight wise I thought this should be easy, because I had a short fat guy guarding me, but I was wrong.
		I loved the experience, because a lose in basketball is always a lesson.
		Yes basketball season for high school is over, and its time to play some street ball to futher better my skills.
	basketballdaries.blogspot.com (1135 words)

	Basketball Diaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Based on a true story of teenage boys during their high school years, this film portrays the unfortunate side of drug usage and battling the addiction.
		Jim, a basketball star heading for the big leagues discovers the effects of using drugs.
		His future as a big league basketball star was over and overrun by drugs.
	www.louisville.edu /~mlbenh01/basketballdiaries.html (186 words)

	The Basketball Diaries : Movie Tie-In Edition \| Stylegala
		The book "The Basketball Diaries" by Jim Carroll is about the life of Jim Carroll as a High School basketball player and a heroin attic.
		Jim Carroll was clearly a gifted writer, and his diary brings the New York City streets of the mid-60's to life.
		His vivid descriptions of growing up as a street wise kid on the mean streets of the city clearly paint a picture of the period.
	www.stylegala.com /store/0140249990/The_Basketball_Diaries.html (445 words)

	The Basketball Diaries . Tucson Weekly . 06-22-95
		The Basketball Diaries is the story of a young man's downward spiral into addiction, and how he hurt a lot of people along the way.
		What saves The Basketball Diaries from becoming unwatchable is the intensely watchable Leonard DiCaprio, an actor with so much raw talent it's thoroughly tempting to wonder what kind of movie this would be with a three-dimensional script.
		This leaves The Basketball Diaries less a character study than a gritty late-night lark in the same category as films like The Bad Lieutenant or Killing Zoe--other pictures in which the protagonist spends most of his time in a stupor.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/b/basketballdiariesthe_f.html (898 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: The Basketball Diaries
		At least this was the impression given by media crusade, inspired by the series of school shootings in late 1990s America, for which the young perpetrators had allegedly found inspiration in violent films from Hollywood.
		The latter proves to be his undoing - his basketball skills quickly vanish, he leaves school and home and is soon forced to leave on the street where he commits various crimes and sells his body in order to pay for his heroin habit.
		While the former dealt with the dark world of heroin addiction with much more details and style than THE BASKETBALL DIARIES, the latter was much more convincing in the depiction of modern teenager's alienation from society.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-4/basketball-diaries.htm (565 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: The Basketball Diaries
		And so "The Basketball Diaries" informs us in great detail that if you get strung out on drugs, you are likely to find yourself living desperately on the streets, peddling a body that looks less and less like a good buy.
		As the movie opens, Jim (Leonardo DiCaprio) is on the basketball team at St. Vitus High School in New York, where a perverted priest salivates while spanking naughty students with a big paddle and the rest of the class watches.
		The student manager of the basketball team steals from the lockers of the opposing team, and the favorite off-court pastime is experimenting with inhalants and pills.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19950421/REVIEWS/504210301/1023 (672 words)

	The Basketball Diaries (John's Book Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a coming-of-age story, composed of excerpts from Jim Carroll's diary, written during his young adulthood on the streets of New York City.
		The earlier entries are crude, but extremely funny -- Carroll and his basketball teammates are constantly getting into trouble of one kind or another as they move through the seedier side of mid-60's NYC.
		The later entries are sadder, and much less funny; Carroll's small heroin habit becomes a full-fledged addiction and he resorts to increasingly desperate measures to find the money to buy drugs.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/basketballdiaries.html (117 words)

	The Basketball Diaries
		I was schooled on basketball in Buddy’s driveway.
		His driveway was behind his house at 2403 Prairie Creek and the basketball goal was hung over the garage door.
		I liked playing there because the goal was lower than it was in the gym and we could cut loose and play to win because we were among friends.
	jameyland.com /things/remember/basketball (426 words)

	Review: The Basketball Diaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Such is the case with The Basketball Diaries, film maker Scott Kalvert's updating of Jim Caroll's autobiographical novel.
		Jimmy Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a star basketball player on his New York City Catholic school team.
		Films like with The Basketball Diaries, which paint a stark, ugly portrait of drug abuse, are rare.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/basketball.html (451 words)

	Online Games - Basketball Diaries The Basketball Diaries - Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussion, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Basketball Diaries - Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussion, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Photos, Showtimes, Link to Official Site, Fan Sites The main problem with "The Basketball Diaries" is that viewers of the film are never certain as to read Jim Carrol's staggering memoirs, "Basketball Diaries " you will know that he
		The Basketball Diaries was an extremely fun book to read Overall The Basketball Diaries has great stories of sex and drugs but most of us could easily have the same
		Basketball Diaries: The Real Rip City You know that Zach Randolph scores at will under the basket and that Damon Stoudamire has one of the quickest steps in the league.
	basketball.jovalas.net /basketballKS843.htm (595 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Basketball Diaries
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		At the outset, DiCaprio's Carroll is part of a mischievous quartet of boys, three of whom form the nucleus of the St. Vitus basketball team, the hottest Catholic hoopsters in GothamGotham.
		Early on for example, the boysspeak about Wilt Chamberlain as the greatest basketball player around, but later toss around terms like "skinhead." Most cars on view are of a certain vintage but songs lean toward a modern sound.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117903660?categoryid=31&cs=1 (782 words)

	WARRIORS: Warriors Basketball Camp Diaries
		I was so excited to come to Warriors Basketball Camp this year.
		We all stand in a square around the basketball court.
		We were both glad we were at camp, not because we were playing basketball, but that we are learning some new skills.
	www.nba.com /warriors/community/Mikes_Camp_Diary.html (910 words)

	OFFOFFOFF theater review JIM CARROLL'S THE BASKETBALL DIARIES play by Pascal Ulli with Pascal Ulli
		Swiss actor Pascal Ulli successfully adapts Jim Carroll's "The Basketball Diaries," bringing the author's tale of his misspent teen years to life on the stage.
		As a book, "The Basketball Diaries" is an engrossing, colorful read as Carroll's flair for language blooms on every page.
		Ulli, "The Basketball Diaries" is a vivid, gripping, long hard look at what happens when one becomes addicted to heroin.
	www.offoffoff.com /theater/2001/basketballdiaries.php3 (458 words)

	The Basketball Diaries Summary & Essays - Jim Carroll
		Tell a friend about The Basketball Diaries eNotes with summary, essays, analysis, and more.
		Carroll claimed that the diaries were written at the time in which the events related took place.
		Carroll’s gritty diary was explicit; it took readers inside the real world of drug addiction, male prostitution, and crime in 1960s New York.
	www.enotes.com /basketball-diaries (261 words)

	The Basketball Diaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A talented young poet and basketball player on the school's team ; jim was involved in drugs which destroyed all his hopes of becoming a professional basketball player.
		Jim started doing heroin with his friends, got kicked off the basketball team and his dreams of joining the nba were shattered.
		He even got kicked out of his own house and was forced to live on the streets of New York City.
	www.angelfire.com /al/showbuzz/leobasket.html (154 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Basketball Diaries at Epinions.com
		Ah, but nonetheless, this does not make the book bad at all- The Basketball Diaries is definitely good, and definitely recommendable, but somehow its a strange experience because of its structure.
		The Basketball Diaries seems to play out like a novelistic Thirteen to me, but its a hell of a lot better, while not a perfect book (the zone-outs kinda lower my opinion).
		Thirteen seems to speak thats it characters are the ideal teenagers, and the Basketball Diaries simply preaches that this is the life in that area, in that zone of time, and that indeed makes things much more likable for a teenager like myself.
	www.epinions.com /content_128782012036 (629 words)

	Leonardo DiCaprio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This bleak, pitch-fl drama based on the true high-school exploits of poet/drug addict/schoolyard basketball player Jim Carroll, (based on his auto-biographical book of the same title) was directed by Scott Kalvert, co-stars former rapper (Marky-) Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L. Jackson and Bruno Kirby, Jr., with Leo in the lead role as Carroll.
		Shot for a low budget on the streets of New York, the film has a gritty, stark feel aided by its equally gritty subject matter.
		Drawn by his love for roles that take him to one edge or another of the human condition-in-extremis, playing Jim Carroll gave Leo an open field in which to run free… and, once again, run he does.
	www.leonardodicaprio.com /leonardo/movies/basket.html (176 words)

	yoco :: College Basketball \|\| Diaries
		Featured are Dean Oliver of Basketball on Paper and the Sonics, Daryl Morey of the Celtics, 82games.com, and others.
		There'd be entry requirements, of course, but we tend to think of ourselves as some of the brightest out there, so it'd be interesting to see our own take, collectively.
		Clearly if the NCAA wanted there to be actual substance to the declaration they would have banned such schools from participating in the post season at all.
	www.yocohoops.com /section/Diary (1052 words)

	Mellon Madness - PittsburghLIVE.com
		The NCAA men's basketball tournament is coming to Pittsburgh this weekend, and people from California, Massachusetts, Ohio, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Mississippi will be converging at the confluence to cheer on their teams.
		After the Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament is the event that has the most money bet on it in the United States.
		The Basketball Diaries (1995) is a dark look at a teenager's love for basketball and his fall into a confusing, disturbing life on the streets of New York.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/webspecials/s_60691.html (1215 words)

	The Basketball Diaries (1995)
		A good Catholic boy in the 1960s goes bad when he becomes involved in drugs and develops a heroin addiction.
		When he is kicked off the basketball team and out of his house he turns to a life on the streets.
		R - for graphic depiction of drug addiction with related strong violence, sexuality and language.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=8582 (85 words)

	Moviehole.net - The Basketball Diaries (DVD)
		Suddenly, their school grades take a turn for the worse, their performance on the court weakens and their financial status becomes almost non-existent, with the only spur pushing the troupe through the day, the motivation to steal and snag more greenbacks to support their new habit.
		It perceivably isn’t interested in pleasing the standard norms of the studio system, or playing hopscotch through an expected course [which might explain its lack of performance at the box office].
		“Diaries” isn’t the best film of its type, and some may find it a little too distributing to class under the ‘entertaining’ banner — but if anything it’s a solid picture.
	www.moviehole.net /reviews/920.html (416 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Basketball Diaries -- Scott Kalvert - DVD - Wide Screen
		Very loosely based on the memoir of the same name, The Basketball Diaries transposes the late '60s adolescence of writer/artist Jim Carroll to some unspecified time period at least 15 years later, further confusing the timeframe with three decades of rock music, some by Carroll himself.
		Jim (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his Catholic school chums are on the hottest basketball team in New York, but their friend Bobby (Michael Imperioli) languishes in the hospital with leukemia.
		Mark Wahlberg appears as one of Jim's basketball and drug buddies, while Carroll himself makes a memorable cameo as an addict who describes the almost Catholic rituals of shooting heroin.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=2ZW40SQW3S&ean=31398840329&FRM=0 (566 words)

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