We had to use our quickness. Being the point guard, I had to distribute the ball to all the players but also look for my open shot.

I was so looking forward to my senior year. I felt like I had a lot to prove and I wanted that state championship. I didn't think I was going to make it here. When I got the invitation from McDonald's in the mail, I ran around the house, screaming.

Since last year, the team and I have wanted to come back here, and now we're happy to have another chance. We're going to go out and work really hard this next week and . . . I'm going as far as to guarantee a victory.

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

We have Jason Wilcox, Rob Edwards and Jamie Burns all fit again so we have three left-sided players who could slot in.