Sentences with phrase «school basketball game lasts»
On average, a high school basketball game lasts about and hour and 15 minutes — but when one team is getting clobbered by 30 points or more, those minutes can seem an eternity.
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Last December, fights among fans of rival high school basketball teams in Rochester, N.Y. prompted a ban of spectators from games for a month.
Rashad Jones - Jennings, Arkansas - Little Rock The Trojans» 6» 8», 232 - pound forward was the No. 2 rebounder in junior college basketball last season, and after transferring to a four - year school he is still one of the chairmen of the boards: He was the country's No. 3 rebounder with 11.7 a game (while averaging 13.0 points), and he set a Sun Belt record with 30 rebounds in a Dec. 13 win over Arkansas - Pine Bluff.
In «Play the Man» a high - school basketball player aspires to a college scholarship, in «Elephant Doors», a production assistant on a game show moonlights as a stand - up comedian, and in the collection's last story, the immensely moving «Costello», a middle - aged plumbing supplies salesman comes to terms with the death of his wife.
In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday's school shooting at Douglas, the last thing on anyone's mind was the status of the girls basketball team's playoff game that was slated to tip off just over 24 hours after the terror that claimed the lives of 17 people in Parkland.