[il-talk] FW: audible ball update

[Brian Sumner]

Thank you for sharing this with me and i am happy for this guy to do it.

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Deborah Kent Stein via IL-Talk <
il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

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> From: Anne W. Emerick [mailto:aemerick at ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2018 3:16 PM
> To: Deborah Kent Stein <dkent5817 at att.net>
> Subject: Re: audible ball update
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> Wow! and WOW!
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> I had no idea.
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> Keep updated on how he does in the big leagues!
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> From: Deborah Kent Stein
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> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2018 1:06 PM
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> To: jannamarystein at gmail.com
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> Cc: 'Anne W. Emerick'
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> Subject: FW: audible ball update
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> From: Michael Bullis [mailto:bullis.michael at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2018 11:18 AM
> To: mbullis at imagemd.org
> Subject: audible ball update
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> For those of you who particularly find April 1st an important date, I
> offer this.
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> AP Wire Service
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> 10:21 AM, April 1, 2018
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> Date-line Boston
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> Blind Hoop Shooter
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> When Mark Danford heard that Fred Newman had shot 20,371 free throws
> without a miss and that 88 in  a row blindfolded it sounded like a
> challenge.  Everyone in basketball knows the mystery of shooting free
> throws.  Really good college or nba players seldom shoot better than 75
> percent while others, not necessarily good at dribbling or blocking, can
> shoot without missing over and over again, thousands in a row.
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> Advocates have been arguing for the past twenty years that the National
> Basketball Association should allow for a designated free throw shooter so
> people like Shaquille O’Neil wouldn’t regularly have to embarrass
> themselves.  The NBA has always refused, that is, until Mark Dunford came
> along.  You see, Mark is blind and he’s one of the world’s best free throw
> shooters, ranked 2nd in the world with 14,321 in a row.  But, because he’s
> blind and there isn’t yet an audible basketball that’s regulation weight
> and size, he can’t be on a team.  But, man, can he shoot.
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> For years the NBA wouldn’t listen, so finally, Mark sued the NBA for
> violating the American’s with Disabilities Act.  Yes, that’s right.  He
> argued in federal court, in a case that went all the way to the Supreme
> Court that the NBA had an obligation to provide him with the reasonable
> accommodation of being a designated free throw shooter.
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> In a nine to zero decision, the NBA lost, an tonight, after twenty two
> years of trying, on April 1st, 2018, Mark Dunford will play in his first
> NBA game between Boston and Milwaukee.
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> Mark says, “Some people thought this was just a joke, but, tonight they’ll
> see the truth.  This date will always live in my memory and I’m so glad
> it’s an easy date to remember.  I can’t wait to shoot that first free
> throw.”
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> So, basketball fans, whether blind or sighted, take heart, you too might
> remember this date as well for its significance to free throw shooters and
> nonfree throw shooters alike.
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