Painting the Black
“But I did think that they’d reached a sort of truce. If she spoke in class, he didn’t laugh or talk or sneer. On her part, she’d put out another issue of the Viper. I went through it word by word, expecting some new dig at Josh, but there was nothing there.
Then came the football scholarship fiasco.
The first week of February Josh started getting real tense. His eyes were always in the distance, and he hardly spoke. When he did talk, it was always the same. “Three schools are looking at me,” he... said again and again, “but it all depends on what other guys do.” Then he’d bite his lip. “If we’d made the state tournament, if they could have seen me against the best, I’d have a lock on it.”
Letter-of-intent day came and his phone didn’t ring. And it didn’t ring the next day either. Not Washington State, not San Jose State, not Nevada-Reno. Sunday afternoon we were back at the diamonds throwing the ball. I could feel his anger in the speed of his fastball. “The coach at San Jose says I can walk on,”MoreLess
Then came the football scholarship fiasco.
The first week of February Josh started getting real tense. His eyes were always in the distance, and he hardly spoke. When he did talk, it was always the same. “Three schools are looking at me,” he... said again and again, “but it all depends on what other guys do.” Then he’d bite his lip. “If we’d made the state tournament, if they could have seen me against the best, I’d have a lock on it.”
Letter-of-intent day came and his phone didn’t ring. And it didn’t ring the next day either. Not Washington State, not San Jose State, not Nevada-Reno. Sunday afternoon we were back at the diamonds throwing the ball. I could feel his anger in the speed of his fastball. “The coach at San Jose says I can walk on,”MoreLess
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