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We need more coaches like Rick Pitino!

Diagnosed with severe autism at age 2, Jason McElwain became his high school team’s manager. He had never played a single minute of high school competitive basketball. His coach put him in for the final 4 minutes, he scored 20 points.

@SaloShowcase @ross_hultman @AubreeHultman @dakotastate_wbb Awesome moment and shot, well deserved! Go Rangers!

There it is! @AubreeHultman hits 1,000 career points with a 3 ball from the parking lot! Extra special when a point guard who orchestrates the offense getting her teammates involved also reaches a scoring milestone! Congratulations Aubree! @dakotastate_wbb has a ⭐️ on the way!

What if the game winning shot... never came down? Exactly what happened to Mercy. Down 2 in the final seconds against Canandaigua. And the shot just died on the rim. Can't remember seeing a ball just stop. And not being stuck. Let alone in a buzzer beating situation.

High School Basketball Officials checking for untucked jerseys

Following Texas' loss at Kentucky, Sean Miller dropped an early candidate for soundbite of the year: "We have a virus called fouling... We will foul the living 💩 out of you... You describe the foul and the team that I'm coaching will commit it."

130 schools said no. He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway. Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami. He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed. So did FIU. So did FAU. So did everyone else. At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs. Not one FBS offer. His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path. Everyone told him to be “realistic.” “Know your place.” “Be grateful.” He didn’t listen. Because Mendoza understood something most people miss: The worst outcome isn’t failing. It’s never getting the chance to try. Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang. Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools. He took it. He arrived as the third-string quarterback. Spent a year on the scout team. Lost his first four starts. Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line. Still got up. Every time. Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him. So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes. He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history. People laughed. “Career suicide.” “Graveyard program.” “Nobody wins there.” One coach told him something different: “I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.” That was enough. Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football. His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years. Before every snap, he thought of her. “My mother is my why.” Indiana went 16–0. Beat six Top-10 teams. Won their first Big Ten title since 1945. Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns. Won the Heisman—first in school history. First Cuban-American to ever do it. Then came the title game. Miami. Near his hometown. Fourth-and-4. Season on the line. Quarterback draw. The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone. Game over. Indiana—national champions. The losingest program became the best team in America. All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end. Rankings don’t decide your ceiling. Gatekeepers don’t write your ending. Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point. Sometimes all you need is one shot… and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will. Don’t quit. Credit: Barclay Mullins

I have just invested into a racehorse and I’m very excited ! #MagicMillions

‼️Every coach and leader should listen to this. 📢The success Indiana has achieved has not been an accident. 💪This is a 45 second synopsis of how you become elite.

His net worth is over $20 BILLION 🤯

104-year-old World War II veteran Dominick Critelli played the national anthem on the saxophone at the Rangers-Islanders game Pretty special stuff 🇺🇸

11 Things people learn too late in life

@Pacesetterbball #10 Forest Lake girls in 4A only have one loss(7-1).

Minnesota State High School Coaches Association Top 10 Basketball teams for 12.22! pacesettersports.net/top-10-teams/

𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗘𝗗✍️ Welcome to South Dakota Mines, Kendal Damon! #TheHardrockLife

Teacher shares some of the best life advice you'll ever hear to his 5th-grade class on the last day of school

Adam Thielen “Coming Home” remix

In our final AAU post-season award here are the @PGHMinnesota Hard Hat All Stars including 1st-teamers @emma_hanson29 @kendaldamon5 @AudreySchmidtk5 @AnnaSmelser11 & @lstolzenberg27 See who else made the team! prepgirlshoops.com/2025/08/meet-t…

Congratulations to @kendaldamon5 of @FLGirlsHoops & @MNDiamondElite1 @TeamBuerman who has committed to D2 SD School of Mines @HardrockerWBB. Kendal is a big, versatile guard who plays with an edge, a top 75 prospect whose best basketball is yet to come. Congrats Kendal!

Congratulations to @MNDiamondElite1 Team Buerman 2026 @kendaldamon5 on your commitment to Division II @HardrockerWBB! @kyley_bachand @DivilbissMike @GMacHoops @JrAllStarBB