8th Grader's Amazing Basketball Shot
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Aaron Shutway, an 8th grader from Brecksville-Broadview Heights Middle School, makes an amazing half court shot to put his class in a frenzy.
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Zeke has a basketball jones. Sign him up for the pros! -via Bits and Pieces
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Rube Goldberg Basketball Shot
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At the 20th Annual Richard Opie Tournament at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, a the Pewaukee Longhorns battled the Wildcats in a close game of basketball.
With a tie game and seconds left in the fourth quarter of the final game of the championship, the Wildcats took one final shot from the other end of the court and … you’ll just have to see the shot for yourself!
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Where Is That (Tournament-Bound) School?
The NCAAA basketball tournament starts this week! The 64 teams are scheduled, but how familiar are you with the schools? Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks you to identify the state in which certain colleges (the ones that aren’t obvious from the name) are located. I scored 67%, which is below average for this quiz. Link
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A Rare Act of Sportsmanship
The Associated Press has an amazing and touching story of one basketball team’s rare act of sportsmanship. It happened during a high school basketball game between the DeKalb, Illinois Barbs and Milwaukee Madison. It was the third friendly meeting between the two teams, and both planned a pizza party afterwards. However, one player from Madison was dealing with a personal tragedy and the game itself was almost never played:
Hours earlier, the mother of Milwaukee Madison senior captain Johntel Franklin died at a local hospital. Carlitha Franklin had been in remission after a five-year fight with cervical cancer, but she began to hemorrhage that morning while Johntel was taking his college ACT exam.
Her son and several of his teammates were at the hospital late that afternoon when the decision was made to turn off the life-support system. Carlitha Franklin was just 39.
She was young and they were real close," said Milwaukee coach Aaron Womack Jr., who was at the hospital. "He was very distraught and it happened so suddenly he didn’t have time to grieve.
Womack was going to cancel the game, but Franklin told him he wanted the team to play. And play they did, even though the game started late and Milwaukee Madison dressed only eight players.
During the second quarter, Johntel came directly from the hospital to root his teammates on, and decided he wanted to play. This created a unique foul situation: not being on the pre roster and playing meant a technical foul and two free throws for the opposing them.
In a rare act of sportsmanship, the opposing team’s player deliberately missed the free throws, and this gave Franklin and the Madison players the inspiration to win the game
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Autistic Kid Plays High School Basketball
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Basketball Coach Who Won 100 - 0 Now Fired
Covenant school girls basketball coach Micah Grimes, whose team beat won 100 to 0 in a shut out ball game against a team from Dallas Academy, was fired Sunday for not apologizing for the win:
Grimes, who has been criticized for letting the game get so far out of hand, made it clear in the e-mail Sunday to the newspaper that he does not agree with his school’s assessment.
"In response to the statement posted on The Covenant School Web site, I do not agree with the apology or the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel embarrassed or ashamed," Grimes wrote on www.flightbasketball.com.
"We played the game as it was meant to be played. My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."
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Do you think that they should’ve invoked the Slaughter Rule? Do you think that Coach Grimes did the right thing by letting the other team lose so badly? Or was it unsportsmanlike conduct?
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