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Anybody seen this?

Exit · 2006-02-26 13:59:59

I'm not a basketball fan, but this is all over the news on this side of the world, so I thought I'd share. http://youtube.com/watch?v=UBYPaNc57Ik&search=Autistic%20basketball Simply amazing, and a real life Roy of the Rovers stuff.

26-02-2006 2:59pm

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I'm not a basketball fan, but this is all over the news on this side of the world, so I thought I'd share.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UBYPaNc57Ik&search=Autistic%20basketball

Simply amazing, and a real life Roy of the Rovers stuff.

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#2 26-02-2006 3:09pm

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Wow!
Never actually mentioned if his team won though

Still, an amazing story.

(perhaps the type the US media love to show instead of other highschoolers getting killed in Iraq....)

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#3 26-02-2006 5:13pm

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omg... Thats amazing..
Fair play to him.. Thats all I can say.. WOW!!

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#4 26-02-2006 7:55pm

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Man that is sweet.

When i was played over in America one summer, there was this guy that used to work in the hall were we played who was in the special olympics some years back and he would shoot the lights out when ever he played.

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#5 15-03-2006 4:58pm

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CBS aired this clip 2 nights in a row because they were inundated (spelling) with requests for it to be shown again.

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