Game Changers: Play Makers By Mike Lupica

I am reading Swagger by Carl Deuker and I finished the book. This book is about Jonas Dolan, a 17-year old basketball player that has moved to Seattle to start a new life. Not only does he have a spot on his new team, but he also needs to grind in the offseason to impress a coach that wants to give him a scholarship. When a new coach takes over coaching his high school team, Jonas starts playing well with the guys on his team. The new coach’s style of play is a lot like Jonas’, and the team started to enjoy spending time with the team. As everyone started getting comfortable with the new coach and new playing techniques, Coach Hartwell started getting too comfortable around the boys. He served them beer at a hotel they were staying at, and

At this camp Danny’s friends are all in different groups, leaving him all alone. To make matters worse for Danny, all of the kids in his group are a lot bigger, faster, and skilled more than he is. This makes Danny start to regret coming to this camp. At the beginning of camp nothing is going right for Danny. His coach doesn't like him, his friends aren’t with him, and a boy named Rasheed Hill, whose team got beat by Danny’s team in the championship game

Ben was very confident about playing against Chase, he knew that he was the best player in town. What did Chase have on him? Unfortunately, Ben found out the hard way. According to Ben, "Chase made Ben look like a fool on the court. " Chase made shot, after shot, after shot, it seemed as if he never missed!

Boy21, written by Matthew Quick is a book about a kid named Finley that has a love for basketball. He has played the game ever since his mothers murdering and he would do anything to play basketball. But, then something drastic changes him forever. A boy by the name of Russ Washington comes to his city to live with his grandparents. Russ is a nationally recruited basketball but he was no interest after the murdering of his parents. Finley’s job is to look after Russ and to persuade him to play basketball again. But, there is one catch. Russ plays the same position as Finley and wears the same number. That would mean that Finley would be the odd one out. Finley still helps Russ knowing what it feels like to have a loved one murdered. Because

Once alone, Ben considers what his options were regarding telling his loved ones, in specific, his family. Of this Ben discloses that, “...bringing [his family] Doc’s news would break the fragile symmetry of [their] lives” (Crutcher 6). Upon realizing this, Ben leaves the hospital and goes for a run. Running, as well as football, become a coping mechanism for Ben throughout the novel.

Over the summer Ben's team played in a baseball tournament, his team was not very good and were losing most of their games in this tournament, and this particular one too. With runners on first and second ben went into into the game as a relief pitcher. On the first pitch the batter hit the ball into right field and the right fielder, Cameron Manning. Cameron fired the ball to second base where the shortstop tagged the runner that came from first out. Everyone was cheering when Trevor, the shortstop, and JJ, the catcher,

Throughout the story, we see how Ben adjusts and changes his goals, whether it be with his grades or his goals in sports. In the beginning, Ben’s only goal was to go to the state to run cross country. However, after being

He plays until it gets dark and starts as soon as the sun comes up. His mom dyes and he doesn’t tell anyone. So he’s living on his own, stealing things to get by. One day he decides he needs a new pair of sneakers for the season and goes to the Footlocker on the other side of town. When he try’s to steal them he gets caught. This forces him to either go to a group home, or get adopted right away. The Lawton’s adopted him. They are very nice but Jayson isn’t accepting them like he should. He starts off hating his new school and his new teammates. Soon he gets along with them and meets a friend named Zoe. Zoe is really nice even when Jayson is mean. Soon Jayson and Zoe are dating and Jayson finds out that Zoe’s parents want her to be perfect. A couple of weeks later Jayson over hears Zoe’s mom talking about how Jayson is a thief and a drug dealer. The thief part was right but the drugs were not. Zoe didn’t talk to him again. This made Jayson focus on basketball just so he didn’t think about Zoe. He won the league championship against his old team in the final

Let’s fast forward into the season opener… the South Caldwell Spartans are facing the West Caldwell Warriors, game 1 on the road to the ring. As usual our team was getting shafted for the color of skin some of our players had. The team basically had to fight this battle by ourselves because our coach was a white, cocky, racist sorry excuse for a man. An example of the shafty-ness of this game… 1 and 10 for the spartans on their own 2 yard line, we go to our go to play. Austin takes a straight snap and takes off it’s basically a 1 on 11 situation but Austin always came through big for his team. He gets the snap and breaks all 11 of the opposing teams ankle and breaks off for a 98 yard touchdown, but after the play was over and Austin was jogging back to the sideline and there was an extremely late hit on him. He wasn’t expecting the cheap hit so he

The woods might have not have been the best place but at least Ben still had someone who made him food. Ben’s family did not survive sadly but he did because he showed that determination to stay

Marc Bekoff claims that “play is serious business” because it allows the animals to try out different ways of doing things again and again in a safe place where mistakes are not a big deal. Animals don’t really play the way children do; life is much too serious for them. They need to learn to be stealthy, smart and strong.

In the essay “The Believing Game” by Peter Elbow, he discusses the concepts of taking the emotion out of arguments and using logic by seeing another person’s opinion or ideology through their eyes. Elbow uses “The Doubting Game” as his counter-argument in the essay and speaks of how most humans are naturally conditioned to over-analyze any argument that is presented before them. Elbow, while making some insightful points to the way humans think, presents his essay with too much emotion and bias. Morality is not considered in his essay and Elbow is not presenting the realistic way most people think or argue.

The Player’s Passion Everybody knows that in order to put on a show, you must have actors. Okay, so there could be (and probably are) plays out there that do not require actors, but for the most part you need people to act as the characters in your play. The Player’s Passion by Joseph Roach takes an in depth look on how acting works and what drives people to want to act.

his new life, as for the whole play Ben has been trying to leave Willy

This episode starts off with Ben and his roommates, Danny and Tucker, in the kitchen after what seems like a long night dealing with Emma. Throughout the episode, Ben’s