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01/10/2008
Strength of Schedule
A few weeks ago I wrote about basketball season my junior year in high school, when we were 19-1 and headed to the tournament and the wheels came off. You might want to go back and read that first. I’ll wait.
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12/14/2007
The Needle and the Damage Done
Lots about steroids and performance enhancing substances this week. Anyone who thinks this is a problem only for professional sports is kidding themselves.
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12/06/2007
Turning the Spark into a Fire
I love what the Santa Rita football team did this year. Flash back to a year ago. They were a team adrift- without leadership, maturity, and wins. They were the team everyone wanted for their homecoming opponent, the sure win.
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11/08/2007
Tales from the Bus
Playing on the road. Before you ever get involved in sports, it sounds intriguing. You and your teammates, getting on the bus, traveling to another school to take them on, and then the ride home after your victory. That, perhaps would be the best part.
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11/01/2007
The Coach
There was something so simple about that night. I’m not entirely certain, mostly because of all the ambient noise, but I think I heard Jeff Scurran’s son telling him that they should make a movie about this someday.
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10/17/2007
The Dating Game
Getting recruited is stressful. You’re (hopefully) going to spend the next four, maybe five years playing your heart out for a school, and a coach. Add to that the importance of completing your education- and finding the right fit is critical.
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10/09/2007
Goodbye, Coach
My high school football coach passed away last week, after battling a brain tumor that was diagnosed in April. I suspect not a day goes by that I don’t remember him, or think about the lessons I learned while playing for him.
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09/26/2007
It’s in the Moment
The desperation last shot clanged off the rim, a little short and wide right. It was over. What was supposed to be a dream season ended in tears and frustration in the first round of the district playoffs.
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09/12/2007
See What You Hit
Buffalo Bills backup tight end Kevin Everett lies in a hospital this week, his family hoping and praying that he’ll walk again. Not that he’ll play football again. That he’ll walk again.
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09/05/2007
You Gotta Show Up
I know this is a high school sports website, but there’s a lesson in Michigan’s loss to Appalachian State for all of us- and it’s not just that it’s pronounced Apple-ahchin, not Apple-aychin.
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09/28/2007
Friday night scores
Empire 45 - Globe 7
Sunnyside 41 - Tucson 0
Mountain View 21 - Salpointe 16
Marana 21 - Desert View 6
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08/29/2007
Is it worth it?
My junior year in college, I blew out my left knee in our first game. Torn medial collateral and meniscus. My season and - though I didn’t know it at the time- my career was over.
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08/17/2007
For Love of the Game
The phrase, 'for love of the game' clearly has both feet firmly on the ground in relation to high school athletics.
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08/20/2007
Why?
My playing days are long-since behind me. I’m ok with that.
Tucson Proves That There’s Talent In The Desert
Here in Tucson Arizona the Nike team SPARQ challenge rolled in to Pima community college to conduct a football combine for local high school players.
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