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    Juice
    Juice
    Juice
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    Juice

    By Eric Walters

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    When a Division One coach comes to their smaller school to bring the football program up to contender status, Moose and the rest of the players on the team are pumped. Coach Barnes has new ideas and a vision for the future--nothing is too good for his players. With a new training regimen, everything seems to be on a winning track. But when Moose and others are offered steroids, tempers start to fray and the teammates have to decide whose side they are on. Juice is a compelling story about the pressures and temptations that are faced by many in the competitive world of high-school athletics.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2005
    ISBN9781554696536
    Juice
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    Eric Walters

    Eric Walters, a former elementary school teacher, is a bestselling children’s author in Canada. He is the founder of Creation of Hope, which provides care for orphans in the Makueni district of Kenya. His recent books include The Rule of Three series and Nothing to Fear.

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    • 2/5
      There are better books out there on similar topics. Look for Crackback by John Coy.
    • 5/5
      I am going to review Juiced. Juiced was written by Eric Walters. I chose to read this book because the cover and title made it seem interesting. I thought that it was a good book. It had a really good story. It was about this football star named Michael Monroe. His team wins the state championship. Then their coach retires so they get another one. He has changed everything it is nicer and better than before. But then the new head coach and the strength coach want him to take steroids and he does. Then he starts having anger problems and punches holes in his wall so he quits taking them. Then the coach and strength coach get arrested for trafficking steroids. They get their old coach back. Michael and his team volenteer to tell the cops about everything. The book did meet my expections but i wish it would have gone threw the rest of the season. But it was a good book.
    • 5/5
      When a division one coach comes to their smaller school to bring the football program up to contender status, Moose and the rest of the players on the team are pumped. Coach Barnes has new ideas and a vision for the future--nothing is too good for his players. With a new training regimen, everything seems to be on a winning track. But when Moose and others are offered steroids, tempers start to fray and the teammates have to decide whose side they are on. "Juice is a compelling story about the pressures and temptations that are faced by many in the competitive world of high school athletics

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    Juice - Eric Walters

    Threat

    Chapter One

    Everybody shut up and listen! Dave yelled.

    The huddle fell silent, but the noise of the crowd rolled out of the bleachers and washed across the field. I’d never heard a crowd so loud. Then again, I’d never played in front of this many people, or in this big a game. There were thousands and thousands of people, and everybody was yelling and screaming and cheering like crazy.

    I need everybody to focus! Dave said. Forget about the crowd, forget that this is the most important game any of us are probably ever going to play in. Forget about everything except what’s going to happen on this field in the next half a minute.

    Dave was the co-captain of the team. A senior and the strong safety, he called all of our defensive plays.

    I looked past him to the big scoreboard at the end of the stadium. There were thirty-one seconds left and we were up fourteen to twelve. That was good. The problem was that they had the ball on our twenty-seven yard line. The bigger problem was that all twelve of their points had come from their field goal kicker. The biggest problem was that he hadn’t missed from this distance all season.

    It was awful to think that we could lose even though we hadn’t let them get into our end zone to score a touchdown. We were going to lose to some scrawny little kid named Luigi, who couldn’t have weighed more than a 120 pounds. Some kid who’d never even seen a football game before his family moved here from Europe last summer. Maybe he still didn’t understand the game, but he could kick a football like nobody’s business. I’d heard that there were college scouts in the crowd who’d come from around the country just to see him play.

    Moose, are you listening? Dave barked.

    I startled back to reality. Of course I’m listening, I mumbled through my mouth guard.

    We’re going to blitz, Dave said.

    Who’s going to blitz? one of the corners asked.

    Everybody.

    What? somebody gasped. You’re joking, right?

    Does this seem like the time for a joke? I want everybody to blitz.

    But if we all blitz, then the quarterback just has to lob a little pass to a receiver and he’s gone for a touchdown.

    He’s not thinking about passing, Dave said. He’s going to take the snap, spin around and hand off to a back who is going to try to move the ball into the very center of the field to set up the winning field goal.

    How can you be so sure about that? the other corner asked.

    I’m not. What I am sure of is that we have to push them back or they’ll get a field goal. We have to gamble. If I’m right, we win. If I’m wrong, we lose—losing by one point or losing by five is still losing, Dave explained, and it all made perfect sense.

    And if you get your hands on the ball carrier, don’t tackle him to the ground. Hold him up and try to punch the ball free. Understand?

    Everybody grunted out agreement.

    Okay, break! Dave yelled.

    I started for the line. Everybody settled into their spots.

    Moose! Dave called out and I stopped. He walked up and put his mouth right by the ear hole of my helmet. They can’t double or triple you on this play. Drive straight and hard for the hole—the moose is on the loose.

    I smiled and nodded my head and he tapped me on the side of my helmet.

    He was right. All through the game I’d been having to battle two offensive linemen. They’d been double-teaming me on every play—except for the times I’d found myself battling through three men.

    That had been happening more and more throughout the season. In the beginning, nobody knew who I was, but as my sack total kept rising, I got more attention. Today all I’d managed was a few tackles, a couple of quarterback rushes and a shared sack. My arms were sore and my legs were heavy. It felt like I’d been running through water all day.

    I also felt like I was letting my teammates down. The Moose hadn’t been able to break loose all game. That could change with one play. Just one play.

    I stood over my spot and waited as the other team’s huddle broke and the players got into position. They looked confident, cocky. But why shouldn’t they? All they had to do was hold onto the ball and make the game-winning field goal.

    If Dave was right, they were going to hand off the ball to the back.

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