SPORTS Feel Good Story Of The Year... Read This Even If You Don't Like Sports
It's the way we all dream it: it's your senior year in high school. You've been involved with your high school basketball team all year because you were the "Team Manager" (giving players towels or water, doing laundry... that sort of thing). It's the final home game of your high school career, so your coach lets you actually suit up. You sit on the bench in uniform the entire game against a divisional foe for the division championship--which turns out to be a blow-out in your team's favor. As such, with four minutes left to play in the game, the coach actually decides to put you in! You're in the game! Now's your chance to shine! You can't wait to take that first shot and, when you do, you miss the basket completely by about six feet. But you will not waiver... you've got resolve and determination... so when the ball comes to you again you shoot a three and hit it. You take another three and hit that, too! Now you're in the zone and you start raining threes... and the crowd is going absolutely insane! Cheerleaders are jumping up and down... the crowd is ready to explode every time you touch the ball... you realize that a mother of another player actually had a picture of your face printed onto a cardboard cutout and she passed out dozens of them, so an entire section of the stands is holding up masks of YOUR FACE! You! The Team Manager! And, as the game ends, the stands empty and the crowd carries you off with all kinds of congratulations, praise, and hugs. When the dust settles you've scored 20 points in less than four minutes--hitting six threes and a seventh shot with your foot on the line.
Sounds like a pretty good story, doesn't it? Something right out of Hollywood. It's actually something right out of Rochester, New York... and the "you" is high school senior Jason McElwain. If you haven't seen video of this story, the best place I've seen for it is here. The CBS story is pretty good. If nothing else, it's worth seeing the video just to see the crowd going absolutely bananas! Everyone in the stands jumps at the same time whenever he makes a basket.

Oh, by the way, Jason McElwain--the "you" from the story--is autistic. Read his story again.