Kevin Young
Kevin Young
Kevin Youngis an American poet and teacher of poetry. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and received his Master of Fine Arts from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group the Dark Room Collective. He is heavily influenced by the poets Langston Hughes, John Berryman, and Emily Dickinson and by the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 November 1970
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We are on scholarship to play basketball. We're not on scholarship to go to journalism school and write papers. We're here to play basketball. It's like a job. You have a choice. You can either quit or keep playing and I hope everybody keeps playing.
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We're ecstatic to have it. It's a great opportunity. We feel very confident we can put on as good of a state tournament that has ever been held.
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But you never really know until they get into the game.
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He told me I needed to make a decision whether I wanted to be on the team or not and I made a decision. I really had to just sit down and think about it, but I told him I wanted to be here.
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It was a bad night for us. It was definitely us. You can look at the statistics.
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I've never seen him miss that one. Maybe he should have just laid it up, but he was pumped up and he wanted to make a big play.
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That is going to be the big one. Jones is good, but he's a sophomore. That's a spot where things can go really well or really bad.
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It's nice, but I don't think it will be that big of a deal. The kids are excited, though.
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This design works with that site. It assumes that development would still take place.
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He's maturing and getting better every week. We have a lot of young players on this team. I couldn't be more pleased with how they have progressed.
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You've got ups and down, and you can go from here to dead low. We're more together now. Whether we win or lose, it's just the way we play together that everybody likes.