Title: The Easter Battle
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
When I was a senior in high school, I played on the basketball team. And my basketball team was 27 and 5, 27 wins, 5 losses. We had a big rival. I was on the Cyprus Creek Cougars, and our biggest rivals were the Spring Lions. The Spring Lions had a player. It was very, very interesting. The player's name was Jack Worthington. His dad was Jack Worthington, Sr. He was the coach of the team. Jack Worthington was a really good player. He ended up playing, ah, at the University of Texas for a couple of years, ah, under Abe Lemons and then transferred to Oklahoma City. Jack Worthington's been in the news recently. I couldn't believe it when I saw this. He told everybody that he was the love child of John F. Kennedy. Did anyone ever see that?
That was the guy I used to play basketball with. I was watching TV and that came on, and I was like, Debbie, they said Jack Worthington. But that's kind of a common name. So I'm just sitting there. And then they showed a picture of him playing basketball at UT. It's like, That's Jack Worthington. That was the guy I used to guard. I used to play against him. And it's kind of weird. Didn't have anything to do with my story, but it was just Jack Worthington played for the Spring Lions.
Anyway, we won the first half of district. We went undefeated. Spring, our big rival, we beat Spring at their gym. But the next half of district, Spring beat us at Cyprus Creek's gym. And so they won the second half. We won the first half of district. They won the second half of district. We were a bi-district champs. And in those days only one team went to the playoffs from a district. So we had to have a district playoff. It was the biggest game that I had ever played in up to that point. My high school career was over if we had lost that game. And my coach, Norman Pasche, he prepared us so well for that bi - district playoff game to see who would go on and go into the di ...
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
When I was a senior in high school, I played on the basketball team. And my basketball team was 27 and 5, 27 wins, 5 losses. We had a big rival. I was on the Cyprus Creek Cougars, and our biggest rivals were the Spring Lions. The Spring Lions had a player. It was very, very interesting. The player's name was Jack Worthington. His dad was Jack Worthington, Sr. He was the coach of the team. Jack Worthington was a really good player. He ended up playing, ah, at the University of Texas for a couple of years, ah, under Abe Lemons and then transferred to Oklahoma City. Jack Worthington's been in the news recently. I couldn't believe it when I saw this. He told everybody that he was the love child of John F. Kennedy. Did anyone ever see that?
That was the guy I used to play basketball with. I was watching TV and that came on, and I was like, Debbie, they said Jack Worthington. But that's kind of a common name. So I'm just sitting there. And then they showed a picture of him playing basketball at UT. It's like, That's Jack Worthington. That was the guy I used to guard. I used to play against him. And it's kind of weird. Didn't have anything to do with my story, but it was just Jack Worthington played for the Spring Lions.
Anyway, we won the first half of district. We went undefeated. Spring, our big rival, we beat Spring at their gym. But the next half of district, Spring beat us at Cyprus Creek's gym. And so they won the second half. We won the first half of district. They won the second half of district. We were a bi-district champs. And in those days only one team went to the playoffs from a district. So we had to have a district playoff. It was the biggest game that I had ever played in up to that point. My high school career was over if we had lost that game. And my coach, Norman Pasche, he prepared us so well for that bi - district playoff game to see who would go on and go into the di ...
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