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Monday, February 23, 2009

SPORTSMANSHIP ALIVE AND WELL IN H.S. SPORTS



By now, I'm sure you've heard of the incident last week during a high school boys basketball game in Milwaukee.

A technical foul was issued when Milwaukee-Madison High School's Johntell Franklin joined his team on the bench. His name was not in the team's scorebook because his coach, Aaron Womack, did not expect him to be there. Franklin's mother had passed away earlier in the week, succumbing to cancer.

What follows gives hope to everyone that sportsmanship is alive and well in high school sports. DeKalb High School's Darius McNeal opted to take the foul shots awarded for the technical, then proceeded to miss them on purpose.

McNeal offered up shots that traveled two feet and rolled to the baseline.

"I did it for the guy who lost his mom," McNeal told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "It was the right thing to do."

ESPN did a feature on the sportsmanlike act. Check it out.

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