Cody Burk: A Short Story

Granger, Texas is a town that lives and breathes a passion for football. At Granger High School, there is a legacy dealt with the Cullen’s. Jake Cullen is forced to play football under the shadows of his older brother Wyatt and Troy Cullen. Wyatt won the state championship title for Granger High School and continued on to being a quarterback for the University of Texas. Troy became an NFL legend and began the legacy for his family and reputation. With such a successful family, Jake doesn’t feel so sure of being known as a Cullen. Instead, he’d like to be known as Jake Cullen, the great football star. He has time for other things too, like love. He has a crush on a cheerleader named Sara Rayburn. Throughout the story, his coach, Ray Jessup helps

In order to convince the reader about the dangers of high school football, Billinger shares the stories of former football players and the long range effects of them playing football. The story of former Permian player Joe Bob Bizzell showcases the effects and dangers of playing football in high school and beyond. Bizzell shares the fact that “he felt [the effects of football] in the mornings when he couldn’t bend over to tie his

There’s no doubt that concussions in football has become a major problem, not just for the professional athletes, but for kids of all ages from age 8 to 19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that concussion have doubled in the last decade and The American Academy of Pediatrics says that, “emergency room visits for concussions in children ages 8 to 13 years old has doubled, and concussions have risen 200 percent among teens ages 14 to 19 in the last decade” (Keith Dunlap, The Oakland Press). This shows that the seriousness of concussions is not just an issue at a pro level but an issue throughout all levels of play. The risk is definitely present when you play football but it shouldn’t stop parents from letting their children participate in the sport. Playing organized sports such as football isn’t just a place to get injured, it’s a place where your children can learn the importance of teamwork, sportsmanship, toughness, competitiveness, they learn succeed, and also they learn about failure. The parents who don’t allow their children to play sports don’t let their kids learn about these important lessons of organized sports. Football is also a way for kids to take their anger and struggles out in the game and help them express themselves. It can also be a way for kids in bad situations to get a way out, to try and reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

The novel begins with preseason football in the heat of a Texas summer. The players and coaches practice over 4 hours a day in 100-degree weather. The media is affecting every player pushing for a state championship and college scouts at every practice. The boys who gave completely of themselves for their sport are unique personalities. From dedicated quarterback Mike Winchell to Harvard-bound Brian Chavez to the inscrutable Ivory Christian, the team was full of young men who were singular human beings, each one bringing something special and indefinable to their group. And that's just scratching the very surface.The book recounts the tragic story of Boobie Miles, team’s star running back who had been highly recruited by all of the major programs. He is expected to attend and earn a scholarship to a large state college. The community

While searching through the round, grey tables and plastic, purple chairs, we came up on the football player, Ethan Jerkowski. Abby and I, McKenzie, inquired him about his favorite things about the new school; without a thought, he responded, “The football coaches.” Continuing the questionnaire, we pursued further by asking him why. “I like that they actually care about us, and that they want us to get better as a team and as an individual.”

Over six feet of shredded muscle was all Kenny needed to dominate on the football field and destroy his opponents. On the field, his hard work and determination paid off. Off the field, his life was a train wreck. He had the fame, the money and the allure that being a championship Shifter Football star granted, but it wasn't enough. All he wanted was the kind of intimate connection that always seemed to be out of his grasp. Right as he hit rock bottom, a chance encounter brings someone new into his life...

The dark side of football communicates racism and violence among players in the United States. In Steve Almond’s The Blind Spot section, Almond tells us about how African- American boys are treated in the football world. These boys are facing the harsh reality of living in a judgmental society where their qualities and intelligence are not recognized. However, their physical strengths and distressing events are what fans and coaches want to see from them in each game. Whatever the football players’ ethnic origins, no one can deny that they are exposed to sacrifice their bodies and put in risk their lives. Supporting this point, Almond points his curiosity about a group of young boys who come from an underprivileged community,

Brandon had always wanted to play football for his high school team. He had always been one of the slowest and smallest boys in his grade. While in 8th grade, he was introduced to performance enhancing drugs. He was sold on the fact that they would make him stronger, faster, and maybe give him a shot to make the high school football team. During his first year of taking the performance enhancing drug, Brandon had increased strength and self-pride. As others started to see his achievements they started asking how he had made such drastic changes in strength. His response was hard work and determination, but quickly people started to really question these drastic changes. His upcoming

Heads up! The ball sails through the air and hits Billy on the head. Billy realizes, in that moment, that he shouldn’t have risked it to play a sport in high school. Sports aren’t beneficial to kids. They add pressure to their already relatively stressful lives, they’re dangerous, and they affect all students--even the ones that don’t play the sport. In high school, kids shouldn’t feel like they need to play sports, they should avoid them.

Ever is a bright sixteen year old. Ever’s family, her sister, Riley, mom and dad and their dog, Buttercup are driving when suddenly Ever realizes she forgot her Pinecone Lake Cheerleading Camp sweater, if they do not turn back now, she will never get it back, so her dad makes a risky move to turn the car around before traffic hits. That's when all of a sudden a deer comes and stops right in the middle of the road. Her dad then makes a sudden move to swerve the car so he will not hit the deer. But with his decisions come consequences. when the swerve, they swerve into the ditch. Everyone besides Ever is taken into a better place. Ever survived but she was in pretty bad conditions.

One cold winter night, 3 teenage boys Josh, Cody, and Paul were walking in the Bayfield woods when they found a book, it's not like any other it was large and it looked like it had been stitched up. Josh picked it up he read the title “The trail of Audunda”. Quickly the book paged opened to page 1,025. There were four words he read them aloud “You will not wake.” Than all of a sudden there is a ghost that possess cody, but they don't know that till next week. The next day comes Cody has bite marks on his arms and bruises. He went back to school on monday, Mrs. Smith asked about his bruises, he says that he doesn't know what happend. Mrs. Smith is concerned. Lathe had homework and he had a vision about the trial

Children who participate in tackle football will be susceptible to minor injuries, such as concussions, abrasions, sprains, and strains of the extremities. Consequently, football accounts for more major and catastrophic injuries than any other sport. One story that grasped my attention was an ESPN segment on Outside the Lines, where stories range from sports and controversy issues off the field. The topic was Football at a Crossroads, which emphasized that children should not play tackle football until the age of 16. According to an USA Today article, “on November 6, 2011, Donnovan Hill was thirteen at the time of his injury as a member of the Lakewood (California) Black Lancers, a Pop Warner group” (Mihoces, 2013). When Donnovan Hill tackled

“I want to be sad, he says Can't you let me be sad? But i can't do that. Im not wired that way. (p.181) The humans that said this is Brewster and Cody. Cody is wanting to feel sad but Brewster can't let him. Brewster gets to feel sad for the both of them.

It was 5:00 pm on Halloween night and Jeff and his friend Ben were in the town of Tombstone. They come to a stop at a stop light. A car had come to a stop behind them. Jeff had glanced at a human built like a bear, tall, big chubby. He had a fox mask on. Jeff turned to tell Ben about it, but Ben was gone. Jeff looked over to the sidewalk, and back to where Ben was, and the fox guy was in the car with his head slanted, and had a knife to Jeff’s throat.

Today, radical misconception believe that they finally are in reach to dominate the world by intimidation, heresy, apostasy, and half-truths. They see Christians as not tolerant, arrogant, close minded, and out of modernism. These people are rejecting any type of moral values, saying that they have found understanding or have understood what religion truly is based on their reasoning, thoughts, feelings, and inclinations. However, your story fits perfectly in this scenario of hope to this dying world. The same way your parents and grandparents valued morality, peace, freedom, knowledge, human rights by not compromising the true Gospel and planting that seed on you. For this reason, your family is the perfect model by which