> Due to popular demand, I will regularly post the
> results of my basketball games. Here's the season
> so far:(We are M.A., or Marin Academy)
>
> MA 60, Athenian 43, I scored 15 on 6-8 shooting
> Windsor 60, MA-40, I scored 8.
> MA 53?, Rio Lindo 27? I think... I scored two,
> but didn't play a lot due to the horribleness of
> the other team.
>
> *These next three were against schools literally
> ten times bigger than us, in a tournament.
>
> Some team 65? MA 45? I got 11.
> San Leandro 67? MA 43. I got 2. We got spanked.
> San Lorenzo 63? MA 39. I got five, and we played
> them even for the first half, 25-25. then we got
> spanked.
>
> Much better, playing teams that are our skill
> level.
>
> MA 40, El Molino, or Elmo, 32. We were better,
> especially after the tournament, and we should
> have beaten them by more. I got 6, should have
> gotten more...
>
> More on thursday night, after the first game of
> another tournament, this time against teams that
> we can beat. Hooray.
>
> Finchplucker #12
>

You're not going to believe this, but I went to a middle school basketball game last night and it was the first one I'd seen in decades. When I was teaching, I always got stuck in the concession stand and couldn't see the action. Anyway, my granddaughter is a cheerleader and I more or less had to go. But I enjoyed it more than I expected to.

A strange thing happened. About halfway through the fourth quarter of the girls' game, my wife turned to me and said, "Did you notice that number 21 only has one hand?" Sure enough. She had a left arm and a wrist,but no hand. The strange thing was that I had been watching her all through the game. She was small, but moved quickly and scored several long shots. She took rebounds away from much taller girls, and stole the ball repeatedly. But I hadn't noticed the missing hand. It was almost like she hadn't noticed it either.
Howard