strange for talking about this skill, but I am very good at shooting half-courters. It is one

hundred percent true; I love shooting unusual shots while playing basketball.

Well, the first time that I heard about it, my nerves rushed with adrenaline. One

chance at a half-court shot for a total of five hundred dollars, during half-time of the annual

Senior/Alumni Basketball Game. Now that is a lot of money for a high school student,

almost enough money to cry over. Anyway, I heard about this chance as I was eating my

tacos and nachos at the varsity football team lunch table. Andre Walters, our free safety,

first introduced me to this contest to win five hundred dollars. Not only did I become

ecstatic because of the contest, but also in anticipation of the day of the game. That very

afternoon, after school had let out, I strode to the basketball gym to warm-up with some

half-court shots. I began to practice right away because I did not play a spring sport. After

one bare miss... BOOM! I put it right through the hoop...BOOM!...BOOM!...I was firing

the money. Great. His bragging convinced about three hundred of the five hundred students

I stepped up, took the deepest of all breaths, ran and released... Quiet... the ball, as all of the

he proceeded to brag to everyone about me and to say how I was going to be the one to win

seemingly impossible shots. I took a quick break to go into the canteen and tell anyone I

how Kevin Rogers blew his one and only chance, and lost five hundred dollars because of his

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