The Game

Game Day I woke up thinking, It's game day. I was as nervous as a mouse surrounded by a cat. My 13-year-old baseball team was playing the team that won the championship two years in a row. I kind of thought we all were nervous because if we lost that meant we go home and nobody wanted to go home. Since I was awake early in the morning I thought I should do my daily routine of stretching and eating my oatmeal and salad. Since our game was later that day like a night game I just did a few sit ups…

This game of basketball meant everything to Junior. He was going to prove that he could do anything. The rejection from his Indigenous culture, wasn’t going to stop him from playing a great game. The crowd becomes represented as many mixed emotions, each section providing Junior with a different feeling. The support from his Mom and Dad, the love from Penelope, the rejection from Reardan, and the desperation and anger from Rowdy, all created the setting of the game. It is here that Junior’s…

Stephen Gostkowski and he gained many more points than my backup kicker did. Next, was week one, Thursday night football which was the Panthers VS Broncos, that game gained me quite a bit of points considering that I still have more games to get points on Sunday. The Broncos are my favorite NFL team and they played the Panthers in game one, week one so of course I wanted the Broncos to win. The only problem was I had the Panthers defense on my team so I cheered for the Broncos, and I hoped…

**BASICS** The game is set in an old victorian house which is haunted. A standard party will consist of five players (Though this number could be changed by the player). The characters will be randomly generated, and they will all have different stats/traits/characteristics. Some of them will be male, other female, some will be stronger, faster and they will all have different personalities (I'll explain this later) which will affect the experience. Tou can control one character at a time and…

Most teams have a post game meeting about that night and the day or week after. Like most teams we have a post game dance celebration over the win and the week. After dancing and walking to the locker room, my teammate Jeremy puts on the funniest phase from one the best cartoons from the 1990’s. That best cartoon the one and only Spongebob Squarepants. What we do is the signature victory screech. We started doing the victory screech during the sophomore football season. Two of my teammates and I…

One of my earliest memories is of my friends and me, age nine, in the woods, holding tree branches and pretending to fight monsters. We called it the Maze Game: each person chose a rock, leaf, or some other token to be their figure, and placed it in a labyrinth made of twigs. Each person would alternate between acting as the narrator, the in-game characters, and the enemies. Because we were homeschooled, we had the opportunity to devote time to such shenanigans; we made our own fun out of…

Our daily wiffle ball game was about to start. There was a wiffle ball game every evening behind the apartment complex I lived in. The game was played in a luscious green grass field with a monstrous hill in left field. The usual squad was myself, Ricky, Justin, Michael, Jonathon, Latrell, and occasionally Greg but his parents usually make him stay inside and play monopoly or some other dumb board game. Our teams were always different from the last game. This time I was teamed up with Ricky and…

Violent video games have been blamed for increases in bullying, aggression, and even school shootings. Many believe that these games desensitize players to violence, reward players for simulating violence, and teach them that violence is an acceptable way to resolve conflicts. On the other hand, video game supporters argue that a vast majority of the research on the topic is deeply flawed and that no fundamental relationships have been found between video games and social violence. They see…

The Final Game It was sunny San Diego, California. The grass was cut perfectly and that was the moment I knew it was our time! Mmmm... It was the day after Thanksgiving and was time to play in the semi-finals where everything mattered. My coach said, “ You know what ladies, this is our time. Let’s show California what Broomfield soccer team got! Now huddle up.” Our captain, Zoey said, “ Play your hearts out we got this! Blast on 3!” “ 1, 2,3 Blast!” everyone screamed. The whistle blew and…

I was playing my last game for the season for February 2015. Fortunately we – the Elephants won the game. I went to the basement, where everybody was gathered. All the basketball players got their pictures and after they got their upward basketballs. Then we got to eat a snack and everybody left. As I walked down the crumbled sidewalk, I started to dribble the ball that they gave me. “Stop dribbling the ball, you’re going to drop it in the road” demandingly said my Wendy who is my mom. But I…