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Checking in with the A-11 offense and checking my list

By David Fleming
Page 2

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Christmas came early for me this year. In October, I got to spend a week at Piedmont High School, near Oakland, where the first thing that greets visitors is a poster on the principal's office wall -- just past the SAT reminders and the jazz band sign-ups -- that evokes Darwin's theory of evolution. The poster starts with a caveman-like figure who then slowly evolves into a full-blown Piedmont Highlander. It's the perfect image for a tiny school of 785 students that might have just unlocked t ...

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