February-28th-2006, 11:11 AM
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2007 Stanley Cup Champs
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Autistic basketball player
This is pretty damned cool, and I hope it's not an elaborate hoax of some sort.
An autistic boy who worked as an assistant for a high school basketball team was allowed to play in the team's final game at the end of a blowout. He responded by scoring twenty points in the last four minutes.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/79325/scored_20_in_4_minutes/
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The player and crowd reactions at the end are fantastic.
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February-28th-2006, 11:30 AM
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Most Loved JC User 2009®
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No, this is real. There were stories about it everywhere over the weekend. Totally awesome. Great story.
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February-28th-2006, 11:31 AM
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swing high swing higher
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this can't be a hoax - this is as good as it gets. I don't watchg that much TV anymore - so I was glad you posted the link. I had heard about it - but this is the first time I was able to see it.
if it isaq hoax, I will lose faith in anything I see on TV.
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February-28th-2006, 11:46 AM
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Registered User
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That is a great story and I am glad to hear some corroboration.
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February-28th-2006, 11:53 AM
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Imagine All The People
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Very cool, and much more exciting than anything I saw in the Olympics.
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February-28th-2006, 11:56 AM
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Columnated ruins domino
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Don't have time to watch this now. Only ten minutes til Wapner.
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February-28th-2006, 12:00 PM
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Jon
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Beautiful. Would be difficult to believe if it were written fiction.
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February-28th-2006, 12:10 PM
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2007 Stanley Cup Champs
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Originally Posted by Noj
Beautiful. Would be difficult to believe if it were written fiction.
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Yeah, that was the reason for my initial skepticism.
We had a similiar case on my high school basketball team. The guy wasn't autistic, just supremely untalented, but he always hustled in practice and was generally a favorite among the players. We gave him the last five minutes of a blowout victory and he nearly blew the twenty-point lead that we had, commiting about five turnovers and four personal fouls. The coach actually had to take him out again.
Last I heard, the kid took up the drums, moved to Detroit and became a diehard Red Wings fan.
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February-28th-2006, 01:14 PM
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Most Loved JC User 2009®
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Originally Posted by mone peterson
Yeah, that was the reason for my initial skepticism.
We had a similiar case on my high school basketball team. The guy wasn't autistic, just supremely untalented, but he always hustled in practice and was generally a favorite among the players. We gave him the last five minutes of a blowout victory and he nearly blew the twenty-point lead that we had, commiting about five turnovers and four personal fouls. The coach actually had to take him out again.
Last I heard, the kid took up the drums, moved to Detroit and became a diehard Red Wings fan.
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Damn, I was just about to tee you up for a slam, but you beat me to it!
Impressed,
Larry
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February-28th-2006, 02:38 PM
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Quitting @ 10.4k
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I saw this story on the CBS evening news Friday night. They ran it on Thursday night, and they said that they got such an overwhelming response to the story that they decided to run it two nights in a row.
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March-1st-2006, 09:12 AM
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Registered User
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5 minutes to Wapner.
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March-1st-2006, 10:25 AM
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I'd love to see the clip, but, with my dialup, it'd probably take most of the rest of the day.
[I guess there are worse things than selling Red Wing shoes and being a drummer.  ]
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March-1st-2006, 04:10 PM
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Columnated ruins domino
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WAPNER!!!
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March-1st-2006, 04:21 PM
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The Bluegrass
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That's nothing. Burlington, Vt, has an autistic director of its premiere concert hall.
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March-2nd-2006, 09:11 AM
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Registered User
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Originally Posted by Gentle Giant
WAPNER!!!
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He's an excellent driver.
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March-4th-2006, 08:29 PM
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Registered User
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Location: VT
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The clip is pretty mindblowing...
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