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When they first met four years ago, Kenyon Murray was straight with Demetrius Harper right from the start.
Murray, the former Iowa basketball star, was coach of the Prairie freshman basketball team. Harper, in only his second year in the College Community school district after being expelled from McKinley Middle School with two weeks to go in the seventh grade, was trying out for the team.
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Hard to believe, but we are two-thirds of the way through the 2012 high school football season. I usually hold off until this point of the season before peering into the foggy crystal ball that is prognosticating for the football postseason.
The reason is simple. By the sixth week of the season you have a pretty good hold on what each team possesses and what the final three weeks should bring.
That's the way it usually works.
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The math seems so simple, but it's not.
Not when you're talking about the middle schools and high schools in the Cedar Rapids Community School district. Not when you're trying to find a simple or workable solution that would help the high schools and their teams.
There are six middle schools and three high schools in the district, so at first blush you'd think it would be easy. Two middle schools would feed each high school and that would be that.
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Snippets of sports items from near and far ...
I have a gracious invitation this week to play golf at the home course of Zach Johnson over at Elmcrest Country Club. Going into Sunday’s final day of the Ryder Cup, it appeared I’d be playing the course of a Ryder Cup champion.
But, no, Team Europe stormed back from a two-day deficit of 10-6 and retained the Ryder Cup. Some may view it as a colossal American collapse, and to an extent it was, but Europeans made incredible shots and unbelievable putts time after time.
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The Kennedy Cougars were playing for more than just themselves Monday when they captured the Class 4A district golf title at Elmcrest Country Club.
They were playing for Drew Wall, their courageous teammate who has been battling cancer for five years and has already lost the lower part of his right leg to the disease.
The Cougars wore special purple shirts with the initials "D.W." on the front and "Drew" on the back. They also wore a purple ribbon on their caps, with purple chosen because it's symbolic of the fight against cancer.
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