Last Shot (2011)
“THEY HADN’T GONE VERY FAR back down the locker room hallway when they were stopped by a gaggle of security people. Stevie looked intently for the guy in the charcoal gray suit, wanting to get a better look at his face, but he didn’t see him.
Someone with a walkie-talkie faced the assembled media and announced that the locker room would be open in three minutes, “at precisely two-thirty. Student-athletes will be available for thirty minutes after that.”
“Does that count?” Susan Carol asked.
“Huh...?”
“In the ‘student-athlete’ count.”
His story! How was he supposed to write a “Gee, isn’t it cool to be here” story when they’d just stumbled onto the scandal of the year?
“I nearly forgot—I still have to write a story,” he told Susan Carol.
“But what about Graber and that man?” she asked.
“Listen, neither one of us is sure what we just heard or what we should do about it,” he said. “How about giving me an hour to write something and then we can decide what to do next?”MoreLess
Someone with a walkie-talkie faced the assembled media and announced that the locker room would be open in three minutes, “at precisely two-thirty. Student-athletes will be available for thirty minutes after that.”
“Does that count?” Susan Carol asked.
“Huh...?”
“In the ‘student-athlete’ count.”
His story! How was he supposed to write a “Gee, isn’t it cool to be here” story when they’d just stumbled onto the scandal of the year?
“I nearly forgot—I still have to write a story,” he told Susan Carol.
“But what about Graber and that man?” she asked.
“Listen, neither one of us is sure what we just heard or what we should do about it,” he said. “How about giving me an hour to write something and then we can decide what to do next?”MoreLess
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