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KHQA/SUBWAY Superfan Shootout: WEST HANCOCK BOYS VS ELSBERRY
Posted: 01.30.2013 at 10:17 PM
Chris Duerr

Chris Duerr is KHQA's Sports Director.

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In the wake of their "Payson Epiphany" the Titans are the hottest boys team in the Tri States right now. But will that be enough to overcome Elsberry and 6'8" Super Sophomore Kenny Lesley on Saturday?

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KHQA/SUBWAY SUPERFAN SHOOTOUT: WEST HANCOCK BOYS VS ELSBERRY

SATURDAY 6:00PM

In building his team, Reno Pinkston leaves no cultural touchstone off limits.

Sure, like most coaches, the West Hancock Boss speaks fluent and frequent Wooden-ese.

But there is also amassed logic that ranges from great military thinkers to the classical philosophers themselves.

Among his favorite quotable passages: Aristotle's assertion That we are what we repeatedly do. And that excellence is not an act but a habit.

Which is why when his basketball team got into the uncharacteristically bad habit of displaying so most in-excellent traits in a loss to Payson Seymour, The Titan Skipper created his moment of epiphany for his team.

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