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Brenton Baker took a knee to end the most difficult road game of the season for the Mon Valley Warriors. 6-0 was a record that had seemed impossible just a few short years before, when the team went winless for two straight seasons. The Cougars proved to be a tougher defense than the other teams the Warriors had faced. They double-teamed Ryan Crawford all night, and managed to hold him to one catch and no touchdowns for the first time that season. But their efforts were in vain, because their st

Just a quick note to say I love that Billy's love of mechanics is still alive and well. From helping Dustin fix his motor bike in high school, to pronouncing Jake's car dead like Dr. McCoy giving Kirk the bad news, Billy has inherited his dad's "Mr. Fix-It" abilities.

That might just be my favorite joke of the whole story. And I'm just imagining what happens when the Wildcats play the Wild Cats for feline supremacy.

The season was speeding by for the Mon Valley High School football team. In the first four weeks of the season they had already defeated the Leopards, the Wildcats, the Tigers, and the Wild Cats. A win on the last Friday of the month at homecoming against the Lions would put the Warriors in prime position in their division, setting up a showdown with Central Catholic for first place at the end of the season. Brenton Baker was proving himself able to back up his confidence with excellence on the

The plot thickens!

Ryan's still not over what happened at band camp... twice.

We'll see how it works out!

Trouble is definitely brewing.

Brenton Baker scanned the field in front of him, looking for an open target. He spied Ryan Crawford making a break for it across the middle of the field, leaving Jerome Watkins, the freshman linebacker, in the dust. He released a perfect spiral toward where Ryan was running. Crawford made the catch and streaked down the field into the end zone. “Nice play, Crawford,” Brenton said. The last practice before their first game of the season had gone as perfectly as Brenton had hoped it woul

W.A.R. was a war at times! I think Dustin's line, "The guards are gone but the prison is still running" is very true. You can heal from trauma, but that doesn't mean it doesn't still impact you.

Thanks! To the kids, Mr. Reilly is almost a force of nature. But he's a young man with his own baggage and life outside of being the band director.

I got a lot of inspiration from Eminem's "Headlights" for this chapter. Why keep fighting a war that neither side wants to continue?

Every three-way scene I've written has ended in disaster and regret for the characters. Like real life...

Andrew is auditioning to take over Nick Jenkins' role as chief blabbermouth.

Kyle is good for Jake. (But then, Ryan was good for Jake too and we know how that turned out...)