Austistic "Rudy" Scores Twenty Points In Four Minutes

Unbelievable. The kid was a team manager. He never played varsity basketball before.

After heaving up an airball and blowing a layup, he drained six three-point shots in the last three minutes of the game.

It's... almost not believable. Why the hell did the coach even put him in, as he was just the team manager and had never actually played? Why put him in with so much on the line?

And then... how improbable is it the kid just begins sinking three pointers like it's going out of style?

Bush just met with this kid (soon to a Major Motion Picture, and God bless him), and of course AP choses to run some bizarre-looking pictures of the meeting.

Correction: My original headline claimed that he had broken a tie by doing this and thus won the sectional finals. I misread the story; they team did seem to win the finals, but in a later game, not due to this kid's improbable heroics.

I guess the coach put him in because the game was either in-hand or not critical.

Still, a hell of a story.

posted by Ace at 03:40 PM

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