Chapter+3

=**Chapter 3 – A Tough Practice 2**=


 * Slang: homes, scrappy game, p 13**
 * Idiom: on his back, p 12**
 * Clarify: executed, p11**
 * Shafts, p 11**
 * Maneuver, p 11**
 * Fluorescent, p 11**
 * Grimacing, p 11**


 * Summary:** During basketball practice the A-team (first string) played against the B-team (players who sat on the bench during real games.) Coach Yesutis yelled, sweated, ran up and down the court, ran his fingers thru his hair as he coached the boys during practice. When Linc was benched, he took off his shoe and checked his sore toe. The coach yelled at him and told him to get his shoe back on. Linc always tried his best and wondered why the coach was always on his back. The A-team finally won 47-32. James had played his best ever. As James and Linc walked home after practice, they snacked on cornnuts and talked about Monica. Flaco was waiting for Linc in the front yard. Linc’s father had given him Flaco when the parents separated when Linc was 7. Linc’s father lives in L.A. and he doesn’t see much of him; only gets letters and birthday cards. Linc’s mother had gotten home early and had started dinner. She told him that Tony had called. The rest of the evening Linc soaked his toe and had a quiet dinner with his mother. After dinner her new boyfriend, Roy called. Then they watched the video, “The Birds.”

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