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D'Orso, Michael.
Eagle blue :
a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic Alaska /
Michael D'Orso.
New York :
Bloomsbury Pub..
323 p.
Prologue: Spring 2004 -- Pt. 1: Preseason. Dave ; Matt ; Paul ; First practice ; The school ; Dave and Diane ; Scrimmage -- Pt. 2: The season. New year ; Opener ; The road ; The Russians ; NIT ; Home stand ; Tanana ; Tok ; Payback -- Pt. 3: Postseason. Regionals ; State -- Epilogue: Spring 2005.
Follows the Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28-game season, from their first day of practice in late November to the Alaska State Championship Tournament in March. Author D'Orso climbs into the lives of these fourteen boys, their families, and their coach, shadowing them through an Arctic winter of fifty-below-zero temperatures and near-round-the-clock darkness as the Eagles criss-cross Alaska in pursuit of their--and their village's--dream....
20071001.
Fort Yukon Eagles (Basketball team.)
Basketball
Alaska.
Basketball players
Alaska.
Fort Yukon (Alaska.)