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Last Shot

A Final Four Mystery

by John Feinstein

Setting

New Orleans, Louisiana

NCAA Mens Basketball Final Four

Characters

Stevie Thomas

  • Main character
  • 1 of 2 winners of USBWA writing contest
  • Wins a trip to write at the Final Four
  • Hates Duke, but loves Chip Graber from Minnesota State
  • From Pennsylvania

Susan Carol Anderson

  • Other winner of contest
  • Loves Duke
  • From North Carolina
  • Basically spends the whole time with Stevie

Chip Graber

  • Star point gaurd for Minnesota State
  • Stevie's favorite player
  • Playing in the Final Four
  • Player who gets blackmailed

Professor Whiting

  • Professor of Ethics and Morals (ironically)
  • Blackmails Chip Graber
  • Mysterious, becomes dangerous

Plot

Stevie and Susan Carol both win a writing contest

and get to go down to the Final Four to write articles,

interview people, get interviewed, and have a good time.

Stevie and Susan Carol go out to interview

players and coaches on each team after their

practices to get stories started. As they walk around

the arena, Stevie overhears a conversation between

Chip Graber and Professor Whiting...

...Professor Whiting tells Chip that he must win the

first game, but purposely lose the championship game.

If not, he threatens to get all of his teams wins stripped

and his dad, the coach, fired.

Susan and Stevie knew they had to do

something about it without people

knowing right away. So after sneaking

around hotels and making up story after

story, they find Chip in his room and

try to get the whole story out of him.

Chip tells them everything and agrees to help them

do something about it, so he helps them find the old

Dean of his school, Dean Wojenski, to make sure

Professor Whiting doesn't do anything to his grades to

where he can't play...again.

But then they soon find out that Dean

Wojenski and Whiting are in on it

together and corner all 3 of them in

a hotel room and threaten them so they

don't say anything.

One of the "bad guys", Steve Jergensen, ended up being the hero when he found where the 3 were and got them out of there and back to the Superdome for the championship game that Graber was in.

The whole game agaisnt Duke Chip didn't know if he should

try to win it or not, but Stevie and Susan convinced him to and

led a comeback to tie the game at 80, got a steal with 3 seconds

left, and hit a halfcourt shot at the buzzer.

The blackmailers, including the Duke president

Earl Koheen, were arrested and Stevie and Susan

became heroes with a little help from Chip.

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