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Five fouls and you're out!
Carmen is a great dribbler, but she gets thrown out of every game for too many fouls.
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Soccer show off
Gina tries to be the star of the soccer team at her new school, but her teammates do not like her showoff moves.
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Literature of the Anthropocene: Hunting Books
The killing of Cecil the lion in 2015 revived passionate debate on trophy hunting in Africa. This article examines the mentoring contributions to this debate made from the 1930s to the present by three prominent hunter-writers: E. Hemingway, R. Ruark, and W. Smith. The Anthropocene has been marked by vestigial atavistic hunting practices that these three writers enacted themselves and dramatized in their fiction, offering role models for hunters and hunter-writers. They have ennobled a controversial vision of sportsmanship in an era that can no longer afford it, and with it they have helped to perpetuate a failed colonial model of white life, ignoring native peoples’ lives in favor of itinerant hunters.
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Bravo, Mia!
Mia's chances of skating in regionals are threatened by a family crisis, but she determines to face the possibility that she won't get to compete with determination and grace.
Edwardian Spy Literature and the Ethos of Sportsmanship: The Sport of Spying
Hitchner examines the difference between optimistic and pessimistic spy stories of early spy literature and discusses the two genres of fiction focused on spies. Many critics refer to all fiction about spies during this period as \"spy fiction\" or some variant but during the Edwardian period, there were actually two genres of fiction focused on spies: spy stories, which featured British spies operating in foreign territory, and counterspy stories, which featured patriotic heroes striving to expose and thwart foreign spies, preventing foreign invasion. The counterspy story, by far the more common of the two genres during the period, was essentially a variant on the invasion story, recounting as it did the enemy's \"secret preparations\" for invasion. It is this genre that gives Edwardian spy fiction its reputation for the paranoia already described. By contrast, the narratives that centered on British spy heroes tended to encourage understanding across national and cultural boundaries, despite dealing with the same serious subjects as the counterspy novel. A comparison of these genres reveals a contemporary divide in the question of Britain's response to foreign threats: counterspy and invasion literature advocated a stance of suspicion, even paranoia, while spy literature advocated meeting these threats with the English virtues of cleverness, courage, and honorable competition, best represented by the tradition of sportsmanship.
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Benched
Nine-year-old Ben learns some lessons in self-control and sportsmanship when his behavior on the soccer field gets him sent to the bench.
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Johnson Jones Hooper's \Dog and Gun\: A Forgotten Sporting Classic
[...] because his single book-length contribution to the genre did not appear until 1856, late in his career and just before the fire-eating sectionalism which would soon consume all of his authorial energies, Dog and Gun is often treated as the belated afterthought of a once-gifted writer who had squandered his best talents in the political skirmishes that so often attracted his pen.
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I could be a one-man relay
Since Danny has super speed, he is overconfident in his running ability--will he learn in time that relay racing is about teamwork as well as speed?
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Benchwarmers
Told in two voices, Jeff stands by his teammate, Andi, who fights to get on the sixth-grade soccer team and then must face opponents who target her for being a girl.
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