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In The Shadow Of A Giant

By Eric Adelson

Monday, October 13, 2008

The microphone doesn't work. Tomorrow is the biggest game of his life, which means tonight is the biggest speech of his life, and the microphone doesn't work. Ronnie Peacock, head football coach of the Rogers High Mounties, paces around the musty field house, tapping and blowing and shaking and checking and tapping again. Nothing. He has prepared all week for tonight. Make that all season. Actually, make that all his life. He had his players write letters to their mamas. He asked the dads to d ...

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