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"Hockey and baseball," I told him

Testen frowned, like I had failed an easy test

"Not basketball?"

"Just pickup," I told him

"Well, you play sports you learn aboutthat can happen is the best Josie Bloom, not our best player by any means, he’s the one that carried us in the final Seventeen points, eleven rebounds, four steals, including a big one at the end He said before the opening tip he was dedicating the game to Elizabeth Jack--I think Beth’s death hit him the hardest--he was our best player, and he said the saa double-and triple-teaht didn’t help So, to answer your question, I don’t know I just don’t know

"I’ll tell you one thing, though," Testen said "Linking what those kids achieved, linking their great triuic as Beth’s ood tie the subject, I decided

"Tell me about the players," I said "Where are they now?"

Testen seeraph

"Like I said earlier, they weren’t that special" He was giving his practiced speech again "It was only what they did that made them special In many ways they were just typical kids ent on to lead typical lives"

He pointed to the boy in thea basketball

"Jack Barrett went on to becoovernor--you know that Before politics he was adeals"

His fingerhair that must have been pulled into a ponytail in order for hi a convenience store, assaulting the cashier, and stealing her car He’s noorking on his fa the line of basketball players, referring to each of them in turn

"Dave Peterson, or I should say, Doctor David Peterson, is an opto out of Mankato Nick Axelrod owns and operates Nick’s, a family restaurant here in Victoria Brian Reif works as an auto mechanic"

Ah, ain and I wondered if he always sighed at this part of the presentation

"We lost Tony Porter just a while ago," he said "He was there for the thirtieth reunion of the teahed some more, and pointed at the last of the Seven