A Heart Warmer
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
Any fellow diehard NPR listeners out there may have heard a brief summary of the story about an autistic teenage basketball team manager whom the recently coach allowed to play with only four minutes to go, after the game was already won for the team.
I won’t spoil the ending, if you didn’t hear it. But I’ll say that the radio summary, sweet as it was, was nothing compared to this actual footage, sent later to Paul by a friend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBYPaNc57Ik&search=autistic%20basketball%20pl (this link is to a video segment)
