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Carl Deuker

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A few more minutes, and I figure I can say goodnight to my parents and my sister, take a long shower, and climb into my bed.
I won’t sleep; I’ll go over the game play-by-play like I do after every game, reliving my good plays, my bad plays, my so-so plays. The sting of losing won’t go away, but at least I’ll be alone.
As my dad turns into our driveway, the VW’s headlights light up our porch. “Our f Read more of this blog post »
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Watched the Zeffirelli movie with Burton and Liz Taylor. He is clearly enjoying every minute, excellent performance. Liz mainly wears low cut dresses and leans forward. Play is not good, more like a skit from the 1950s. Uppity woman meets her match a ...more
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All (or almost all) Black cast . . . full of life, some modern songs, some liberties with the script--all of it worked for me.


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“Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.”
Carl Deuker, Gym Candy

“There was no anger in his voice, no disappointment even. It was as if he'd given up on me. He pulled his keys out of his pocket. "I should be going now. Merry Christmas, Nick”
Carl Deuker, Night Hoops

“I heard Coach Downs never started freshman," he told us. "Well that's not how it is with me. I play the best players, period. If you're a junior with three letters on your jacket, and you shave twice a day, and some smooth-faced freshman whips your ass in practice, then your collecting splinters while he's playing. Understood?
Coach Carlson”
Carl Deuker, Gym Candy

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
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“The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. In”
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“he turned and, leaning against the shop-front, watched Rieux approach. “Oh, Doctor, Doctor!” He could say no more. Rieux, too, couldn’t speak; he made a vague, understanding gesture. At this moment he suffered with Grand’s sorrow, and what filled his breast was the passionate indignation we feel when”
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