Rory
Somebody had taped a copy of the school paper to the locker room door, and I knew before I even got close enough to read the headline that it wasn't going to be about me.
**STERLING STANDARD: HOW THORNEBRIDGE'S CAPTAIN BUILT A CHAMPIONSHIP CULTURE.** Jarvis's face took up half the front page, mid-celebration, jersey untucked, the exact photo I'd have expected from a paper that had clearly decided its captain made better copy than anyone else on the roster. Guys were already crowded around it when I walked in, ribbing him, someone calling him a "media mogul" in a tone that suggested this wasn't the first time this exact joke had been made about a Sterling this season.
Jarvis took the teasing in stride, easy and unbothered, the way he took most things that weren't actually about me a
