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    Let Us Talk of Basketball!
    Let Us Talk of Basketball!
    Let Us Talk of Basketball!
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    Let Us Talk of Basketball!

    By John Janovy, Jr

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    In poetry, four sets of parents of a players on a high school girls team lament their daughters obsession with the sport; they end up with the conclusion that human beings are at their best when working in a group of five! If you have children in athletics, or have had, you need this book big time!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Janovy, Jr
    Release dateDec 14, 2013
    ISBN9781311743954
    Let Us Talk of Basketball!
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    John Janovy, Jr

    About the author:John Janovy, Jr. (PhD, University of Oklahoma, 1965) is the author of seventeen books and over ninety scientific papers and book chapters. These books range from textbooks to science fiction to essays on athletics. He is now retired, but when an active faculty member held the Paula and D. B. Varner Distinguished Professorship in Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interest is parasitology. He has been Director of UNL’s Cedar Point Biological Station, Interim Director of the University of Nebraska State Museum, Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences, and secretary-treasurer of the American Society of Parasitologists.His teaching experiences include large-enrollment freshman biology courses, Field Parasitology at the Cedar Point Biological Station, Invertebrate Zoology, Parasitology, Organismic Biology, and numerous honors seminars. He has supervised thirty-two graduate students, and approximately 50 undergraduate researchers, including ten Howard Hughes scholars.His honors include the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award, University Honors Program Master Lecturer, American Health Magazine book award (for Fields of Friendly Strife), State of Nebraska Pioneer Award, University of Nebraska Outstanding Research and Creativity Award, The Nature Conservancy Hero recognition, Nebraska Library Association Mari Sandoz Award, UNL Library Friend’s Hartley Burr Alexander Award, and the American Society of Parasitologists Clark P. Read Mentorship Award.

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      Let Us Talk of Basketball! - John Janovy, Jr

      Let us talk of basketball!

      Copyright ©1986 John Janovy, Jr.

      Smashwords Edition

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author’s copyrighted work. For information about this work, or permission to use this work, contact the author at jjparasite@hotmail.com.

      Note: this combination of sing-songy, Ogden Nash wannabe, doggerel was actually written in the middle 1980s and discovered while cleaning out some files. Regardless of the structure or quality of the poetry, the message about high school athletics is still valid.

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      ISBN: 9781311743954

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      Let us talk of basketball!

      The dapper parent cried

      And placed his coated elbow

      On the mantle there beside

      His glass of wine, amber white,

      Its legs inside the crystal glass

      Ran

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