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It didnt take Peppers long to begin thinking about 2008-09. By the time Crossville returned to its locker room following the championship game, Peppers was already pondering what was ahead.Weve got a good nucleus coming back and a good group of [junior varsity] and junior high players, he said. Winning this thing is a good way to motivate the players in the offseason. Im looking forward to getting started right now.BIG SHOT: Peppers marveled at the 3-pointer Final Four MVP Thacker made to tie the championship game at 51-all with 1:33 remaining. Thacker, who made the game-winning layup with two seconds left in a state semifinal victory over Aliceville, sank the 3 from the left corner.I dont know how she did it with the girl in her face, but she got the ball off from the corner and tied the ballgame, he said.
Tiny school makes Hoosiers-like return to state hoops tourney
This year's North River Mustangs pose with the North River Redskins team of 1966, the last team from the school to go to state until this year.Photo by Christina RagerNorth River High School is surrounded by a white picket fence.Photo by Valerie BoisenNorth River senior Jeff Oliver prepares to inbounds the ball. Although his heel is against the side wall, the toe of his sneaker rests on the out-of-bounds line, an infraction that officials don't call because of the tiny gym.Photo by Valerie BoisenThis picture shows the tiny stands, the spectators' proximity to the court (mere inches off) and the pillars that can be so problematic. The North River player in the foreground is Loren Pickering. A photo of the whole student body of the K-12 district.A photo of the whole student body of the K-12 district.
Howard the possum stirs up a lot of human feelings
Readers of the ongoing saga of Howard the possum in Gardening Fool columns have responded with several heartfelt stories of their own. Others have written to reiterate that it is we humans who have overrun wildlife's territory, not the other way around, so we should learn to live together peacefully. To date, no new feedback involving firearms or recipes for possum stew have arrived on my desk. At least one reader has warned that possum attacks on my garden chickens are inevitable. When that happens, he writes, I won't be such a bleeding heart for Howard and his relatives. As it turns out, however, more than a few of you have a soft spot for the wild things. Mariana Greene .
Cabral, Claros lead Braves in win
The San Vicente Braves stole a win from the Trinity Christian Crusaders 48-42 in yesterday's Independent Interscholastic Athletic Association of Guam Middle School Boys' Basketball League game at Trinity Christian School. The much-improved Crusaders (3-5) depended on point guard Michael Castro to run the offense along with Joshua Sebastian and Mark Panlilo but the Braves (2-5-1) stuck to their game plan. They kept the score close in the first half behind guards Neal Taitano and Christian Claros, feeding the ball in the key to center Luis Cabral and took a 19-17 lead at the half. .
In theaters now
After a chance subway platform meeting, a young woman (Erin Fisher) from Atlanta spends a day with a Brooklyn depressive (Chris Lankenau) in this reportedly refreshing and convincing "mumblecore" movie from New York writer-director Aaron Katz. ("Mumblecore" is a word coined to refer to a recent spate of low-budget, home-grown, and often improvisational movies that typically focus on insecure, artistically inclined young people.) 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Tickets: $7, or $5 for museum members. Visit brooksmuseum.org or call 544-6208. Roving Mars: The in-depth IMAX adventure follows the "careers" of Spirit and Opportunity, NASA's robotic Exploration Rovers, from their development to their manufacture to their six-month, 10,000-mile-per-hour flight through cold space to their landing and deployment on the surface of Mars, where they searched for evidence of past and present life and gathered information to help pave the way for future visits by man.
Smart road funding still finds detours
Every spring, the orange-barrel rat maze is erected. The lanes and roads close down just in time to delay and frustrate drivers in the few pleasant driving months we get here. Come November, the barrels come down and the rock salt comes out. This routine comes full circle again the following spring. Couple all that with an urban area heavy with truck traffic that moves just as fast or faster than the cars. Is it any wonder road rage and aggressive driving are out of hand here? What type of resident or out-of-state tourist would plan his or her vacation for such an area? Revamp the road funding system, but address all causes and effects of the equation, not just who gets the most money. Oscar Zamora
Warren Hidden road tax Another way to determine whether Michigan is an attractive state in which to do business and live in is to see what happens when, as they say, "the rubber meets the road." Recent articles have revealed that our road infrastructure has neither a sufficient revenue stream nor an efficient allocation formula to meet the needs of a state we are trying to sell to new employers.
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