Being Over Confident In Sports

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While being confident in sports is common in most guys, being over confident can sometimes lead to their downfall. That is what happened to me and my little brother one early summer day. While playing basketball in an empty YMCA gym as we usually did, two old guys walked. They both looked like they were over 50 at least , with long grey beards, balding heads and wrinkly skin, they walked toward us and asked us to play the in a game. At first we were not very interested in playing against them because we assumed it would be an easy win for us . We quickly changed our minds when we were told we would receive ten dollars a piece if we beat them. The game was simple , first one to score five points wins the game. They game started off unsuspectingly

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