This is damn heart warming stuff.
Be sure to check out the video.
update: For the record, I don’t believe I ever nailed six 3-pointers in a row. Though I’m pretty sure I once nailed 6 Phi Sig Sigs during a Greek Week marked by keg-fueled debauchery, a killer tan, and extraordinarly elevated biorhythms.
Which isn’t really the same thing, I realize…but, well, it was just begging to be said.
Friggen English majors. I’d be lucky to nail one girl who was at some point in her life in college without paying for the privilege.
Bastard.
Saw this on ESPN a couple of days ago. That kid rocks and the fans in the stands are even more fun to watch as he guns.
Awesome-tism is the right name for the post though… just to address the topic.
Hey Jeffie I need to get my 2 minute Howard Dean hate fix, who’s serving it up today?
Heh – “french” is my word to submit.
[I’m going to bronze this one: “How to turn a heart-warming story about an autistic basketball player into a vile, unnecessary partisan hatefest, because hell, that’s ALL I HAVE IN MY LIFE,” by predictably fake-named lefty troll.
Congrats! – ed]
They’ve been saying on local news shows that the kid’s been getting offers for movie deals. That’s nice, but I think I’d rather see a movie about your Greek Week.
God works in mysterious ways.
Drunkenly whacking it while thinking about a Phi Sig does not, technically, constitute nailing her. Even if you do it six times in a row, which I will admit is reasonably impressive.
TW: love. Sticky, sticky love.
Does that beat four fem lesbians in one night? At the same time?
Just askin’.
I clearly went to the wrong college.
Well, I wasn’t actually clear.
Oblivious, on the other hand….
I was going to say something serious about how autism leads to excessive focus and tells us about the psychological component … but how can I follow up all the randy geek talk now?
Dammit. I haven’t teared up like that since watching Jack Black and those little kids rockin’ out in School of Rock.
[I’m going to bronze this one: “How to turn a heart-warming story about an autistic basketball player into a vile, unnecessary partisan hatefest, because hell, that’s ALL I HAVE IN MY LIFE,†by predictably fake-named lefty troll.
Congrats! – ed]
Thanks Jeff, that means so much coming from the Internet’s # 1 Bush boot licker.
[ed – Yup, that’s me. I’m like a combo of Sean Hannity and Karl Rove. And I love the taste of a nice Texas boot. Now you tell me: How does Howard Zinn’s asshole taste?]
There is a sweetness in seeing people reap the rewards of that thing they’ve worked hard toward achieving. It’s something a bit sweeter to see a person who overcomes a natural obstacle in addition to the ordinary hurdles we all face …to achieve a breakthrough of success.
Like Stan Lee would say… Excelsior!
Ha Ha, welcome to last week douchebag.
I played HS basketball back when there was no 3 point shot. Sink it from anywhere inbounds and it still only counted as 2. But, it wouldn’t have mattered for me. I was put in for defense. If I had the ball in my hands further than 6 feet from the basket, and it left my hands, it had better go to another player. You know, those guys who could actually shoot.
There seems to be a lot of anger on both sides of pretty much every thread the last few days. Is the entire blogosphere experiencing PMS at the same time or soemthing? Even a thread like this with a nice storyline and people are jumping down each other’s throats like a shot of Jager within twenty feet of David Gregory…
That kid is a better shot than I ever was. What’s kind of sad is that the team is in the state playoffs and the kid’s back on the bench doing his managing thing. It would be something to see if he could carry his team all the way like Jimmy Chitwood in “Hoosiers”
Nope. I’ve just been linked by a lot of prominent left-leaning sites lately, and atop that wave of visitation floats the sea scum you’ve seen settling here in the comments.
I have managed, through a few friendships formed via IM, to set up actual, substantive debates b/t left and right that are relatively cordial; unfortunately, sites like Feministe and Talk Left weren’t involved in this latest round of linking. Instead, it’s been the left wing hit sites, whose commenters are insufferable boors with a greater appreciation for their own intellects than any empirical evaluation would allow.
They’ll be gone soon—the worst will step up the ad hominem until I ban them, and the rest will find that nobody is providing a talking point for a particular post of mine, and will simply move on to somebody else’s site where they are armed with the latest crafted bit of supposed “gotcha” memetics.
Until then, just enjoy their “tolerance” of the opinions of others, and their carefully articulated and well-argued rejoinders to the posts I’ve written (which, I’ll be honest, I don’t believe they bother to read; they simply follow a link from a site that has characterized what I’ve said in a particular way, then comment on that).
Mindless, swarming, smug, and objectively hostile—often without the slightest provocation.
RACIST!!!!!
In my club, nailing a Phi Sig only counts if you knock out her boyfriend first.
Good grief, Jeff, I sent this to you LAST WEEK. Great story, nonetheless.
I saw that story last week, and my second reaction, after the broad smile and a little welling up, was “Did they just say that little chukker jacked up 15 shots in four minutes?” Obviously, autism erases the conscience. Pass the ball, kids.
(Also, not to throw too much cold water on it, he didn’t hit six in a row)
Before I get all weepy-eyed, I need to know if this kid hates Bush.
BECAUSE OF THE AUT-OCRACY!
PUSH CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER OFF A CLIFF! LONG LIVE CHRISTOPHER REEVE!
Maybe this is mean, but doesn’t this story kind of redefine autism as “having a goofy look on one’s face but still being able to hit six three point shots in three minutes, manage a basketball team and talk to the press”? Bit more backstory would be more convincing. How exactly is he “disabled” again?
Mr. Goldstein, I trust you use the term “intellects” usely.
A bit TMI. Although, your luck probably had to do with the fact that universities tend to be overrun with guys who are over-earnest, hemp-wearing, not-afraid-to-cry, poetry-reading, effeminate liberals. No wonder the frat boys get all the action – they’re the only ones with any testosterone. Any coincidence that most of them tend to vote Republican?
Lysistrata  Phi Sigs, voting Republican… what the hell, as long as I get to screw somebody…
errr my understanding was phi sigs is a men’s fraternity.
Perhaps you were either a little Brokeback or REALLY drunk ?
Robert Spiers said,
Jason is referred to in the news story as a “high functioning autistic.” Autism is a spectrum disorder. Some autistics can hit 3-pointers. Some autistics just spin their arms incessantly and stare into space for hours at a time. Your question makes my point in the rest of the post that much more relevant.
Doinking the drunken frat girls is a conquest in the vein of Ghingas Kahn or Bode Miller, but come back when you’ve yodeled in the canyon with your hot English professor while she’s hanging naked from the gravity boots, slobbin’ your cock like it’s got the Super Lotto numbers in it.
Or when you’ve bowled a 300.
That’s all I’m sayin.
How does Howard Zinn’s asshole taste?
WTF? What the hell I’ll play with, Howard’s asshole doesn’t taste like chickenhawk since he actually fought in a war and killed a bunch of people unlike play warrior Commander Codpiece.
alppucino – you’re such a romantic.
I believe I shall swoon…
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Matt EsJeff said “Phi Sig Sigs” which is Phi Sigma Sigma, a sorority. You’re thinking of Phi Sigma Kappa (Phi Sigs for short), which is in fact a fraternity.
Just so you know.
Did I mention that Rod Dreher is from Louisiana?
I believe I shall swoon…
Hold on there Lysistrata, it’s only bowling. Hell, some dude named Cobb says it doesn’t even qualify as a sport.
You are the clever one, aren’t you?
Last game of the season, who WOULDN’T pass to the autistic guy? Not his lack of conscience, the issue is the class of the other players.
Still, you don’t make that many three pointers just by getting cooperation, seeing as I cannot make one with an empty court.
You are the clever one, aren’t you?
Clever and finely tuned to the needs of a woman.
Oh, and I can really chip and putt.
What a catch!!
alppucino – indeed. And let’s not forget your legendary modesty.
Alas, my humility is one of my most appealing traits and it prevents me from mentioning it.
Thanks.
Nicely put. We’re in the presence of genuine wit, here, boys and girls.
The hard candy shell on my brain is impervious to your mockery, I think.
Sheesh, I was a delta zeta in college, but I doubt anyone would be high-fiving me if I bragged about nailing 6 sigma nus during Rush week (I didn’t, but they were easy…I could have).
Such a double standard.
Especially the Sigma Nus at my school.
Oops, almost forgot.
LXA baby!
TW: hand – too easy.
Any mockery was very mild and affectionate in nature, so fret not.
In Ohio, affectionate mockery is considered foreplay. A word to the wise.
Now that I think of it, gravity boots are considered foreplay.
And that closes the circle.
I’ve been to Ohio. Once. I believe a harness was considered foreplay. Of course, the State Fair was on…
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