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The humbling memories of a short rural basketball career

  • The author began playing basketball in 1974 while in high school, hoping for a strong career in the sport.
  • The author faced challenges as essential basketball skills like shooting and dribbling were lacking.
  • Not being a starter on the 'A' squad was a challenging experience for the author.
  • Fifty-One years later, the author finds more joy in interviewing farm families and writing stories than in basketball.
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The humbling memories of a short rural basketball career

When I am driving around rural North Dakota doing stories on agriculture, I often pass through small towns where I played high school basketball in the 1970s. Many of the high schools have formed cooperatives and some of them no longer exist, but the memories of riding the bus to those towns to play in their gyms still are pretty clear. Those memories are more humbling than good, which means that even though they don’t make me smile, they remind…

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West Central Tribune broke the news in on Monday, October 13, 2025.
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