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RASER Prompt #2
The Sports Gene
The author contrasts two very successful high jumpers, Stefan Holm and Donald Thomas. What
central or main idea is revealed by the contrast between these two jumpers and the very
different ways they achieved their success? Use your understanding of this contrast, as well as
your understanding of central or main ideas and supporting details, to summarize the passage
and state the overall central idea.
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On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.

Good colleges that take low gpa and not so good grades where would i look at freshman applications?

Brainliest asap!me : ) has anyone read the poem, no, love is not dead? ? i have a question about it .. : )