Local kid lands ESPN No. 1 highlight

Wake Forest recruit Devin Thomas turned our night a little topsy-turvy. Playing in a conference championship game for Central Dauphin (Pa.) High School, he got it suspended midway through the third quarter by shattering a backboard. It's ESPN's No. 1 big play of the night.

 

You only cover us when someone destroys school property!

 

Terrible decision by ESPN. All this does is encourage more idiotic behavior by those who want their 15 seconds of fame.

 

But what idiotic behavior was on the video?

Seemed to me like a typical alley-oop dunk that just happened to shatter a backboard. Didn't really see anything premeditated or especially vicious in the dunk.

 

Are we going to have one of these threads every day? Seems only fair, since someone's local kid is a hero on ESPN every day of the week.

 

Get off my lawn!!!

 

I don't know that there was any. I guess my point is, rather than see if they can match this kid, 99 percent of high schoolers ought to practice their free throws or dribbling with their less-dominant hand. And I guess I don't see that as likely.

 

Made the Yahoo! sports blog.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/pennsylvania-star-devin-thomas-tears-down-backboard-suspends-141106548.html

This is by far the biggest thing to hit mid-PA since that young reporter at the Harrisburg paper nailed the story that was Joe Paterno's failure to act in the Sandusky case.

 

My feet were on ESPN during a Top 10 play back in 2006...can I start a thread about that?

 

You gotta be fucking kidding me, spike. Some of the threads started here, and you're going to call me on this?

 

I was playing off of TigerVols post...settle down shottie. I makes the funnies

 

It doesn't matter how well 99 percent of high school basketball players shoot free throws or dribble with their off hands. And I don't think this video being a highlight will have any effect on whether those kids practice those things or not, anyway.

Did that fuck you on deadlines, Shotglass?

And, regarding the ESPN highlight itself: Was the "You don't see that a lot in high school," directed at the alley-oop or the glass shattering?