The Sheila Variations

My wife just asked why my eyes are red.

Me: "Um, hot sauce"
Her: "You had a South Beach pizza for lunch.'
Me: "..."
Her: "You've been watching sappy stuff on the internet again, haven't you!"
Me: "..."
Her: "Don't you ever work?"

I have been to some of the greatest and most exciting basketball games in history here in Indiana. I think that that ending would have topped them all. Great for him!

Rudy can take a running jump. Now THAT'S awesome.

I love everyone at that game.

that... was just incredible. that... just took away the bad day i was having this morning. that ... reminds me of how good people can be.

thank you

I saw that on the news last night. When the camera cut back to the anchors after the video footage, one of them was visibly choked up. She had to take a second to compose herself. It's hard to not be affected by that.

So amazing.

man oh man.

looks like i had hot sauce with lunch too.

Yeah, I nearly cried too. It was beautiful.

"I was hot as a pistol..." :-)
Wonderful clip - the crowd is phenomenal, and I love the way the picture shakes as the person filming gets carried away like everyone else.

That was (sniff) wonderful...

Six three-pointers in a row? Sounds like they should have put the kid in a hell of a lot sooner. Wow.

I'm glad I didn't watch that at work yesterday. I guess there's no shortage of hot sauce around.

Amazing.

How did the team do overall for the season?

Did the coach look at a losing record and drink himself into a stupor because he had a sniper on the bench the entire season?

As a mother of a teenage special needs son, I'm sitting here with tears streaming down my face. No, he's never made 6 3-point shots, but he is as well-loved by his classmates for who he is. There are a lot of wonderful kids out there.

Goodness me. Beautiful. You can't write stuff like that, well you can but then you'd be called sappy and sentimental and you'd have to go work for Disney.

Bawling -- just bawling.

I just linked to it Sheila. Unreal. The end is unbelievable. When everyone around the court begins to trample towards him, and the camera is shaking and there's a huge WOHOOO in the backround...

Honestly....this is a bit too much for me....

Mr Lion - ESPN ran a segment on SportsCenter, following up the local coverage. Turns out that the team was already up 20 points so they put the boy in for the last four minutes and change. He went 7-13 shooting overall, 6-10 on his three-pointers. Knowing that part of it made me grateful for the other team, who displayed great sportsmanship in letting the young man fire away.

Just watched this on another blog - and was happy to watch it again! This is the kind of clip that we all need to watch after all the regular news stories about how rotten people are to each other. I got so choked up the second they sent him out and the entire crowd started to scream. What a wonderful story!

Very moving.