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Beckett Ratliff returned from an ankle and put up 24.8 points.
The ledger, after nine seasons: 11,989 yards, 175 scores. There was a 1,834-yard year in there. This is not it. He has done it in three buildings.
He is thirty, out of Osaka, Japan. Ask anybody: he is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful. He was a late bloomer who did not start a game until he was a college senior. He dug graves for a summer and says it was the best job he ever had, once.
The club is 9-4. Barney Grit is in year seven of it.
He refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer, and always has.