Michigan vs. the Boys

Me? Rating a sports book 5 stars? Okay, it's happened before with Running With Lions by Julian Winters. And the All For the Game trilogy by Nora Sakavic. So I guess I do tend to like sports books if they have a good cast of characters. Michigan vs the Boys proved that point.

A big deal of the book focuses on the boys' team hating the fact that Michigan joined their team (after her team was cut for budgetary reasons). Which was unfortunate because she's a really good player, but because she's a girl, she's automatically seen as inferior in most of the boys' eyes. Like they keep saying that women are more ‘emotional and prone to rages' or whatever but who's out trashing the streets when their favourite sports team loses? Who gets upset when a girl tells him “No”?

That really riled me up and annoyed me to high heaven. I attended an all-girls' school from Gr. R to Gr. 12 so the only time I had to deal with boys in the classroom was in Drama (Gr.10 – 12). And even then I only liked 2 of them and either would sit by them or sit by the girls. I know for a fact that if my parents put me in a co-ed school I would be in the principal's office at least once a week for fighting with the boys. I just had no patience for them! One reason why I never dated in high school (another because I was too busy reading to find time for a relationship