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http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/29307099/

I don't know if anyone else has heard of this guy but he has one hell of an amazing story. Ken Mink is a retired 73 year old who tried out and managed to make it on to a college basketball team, enrolled as a full time student, and managed to make the entire team, hell almost the entire nation fall in love with him. But, there may not be a happy ending to this story :(.


Ken Mink's return to college basketball has turned sour — just like it did 53 years ago.

Mink was kicked off the Lees College (Ky.) team as a freshman in 1956 when he was accused of spraying the coach's office with shaving cream. He says he was wrongly blamed.

Now 73, Mink became a minor celebrity when he made the roster at Roane State, a junior college outside of Knoxville. When he made his debut in November, he was the oldest person to ever play college basketball.

A few months later, Mink has been ruled ineligible to play by the National Junior College Athletic Association because of what Mink calls "a total miscarriage of justice."

I think its ridiculous, according to his school he is eligible but the NJCAA will not let him play now; I bet that there is probably at least one jealous director who doesn't want to see this man finally reach his dream.

no special exceptions to the rules. he can rejoin the team next semester.

I saw him on Leno (I think it was Leno) a month or so ago. Seems like a nice enough guy. Funny story.

no special exceptions to the rules. he can rejoin the team next semester.

He meets the academic requirements thanks to the extra course he picked up though.

I see a family movie in the making

I see a family movie in the making

Me too, especially if he plays in the next game.

I see a family movie in the making

Somewhere in Hollywood, Ron Howard is dabbing the drool from his chin. :tongue:

Somewhere in Hollywood, Ron Howard is dabbing the drool from his chin. :tongue:

Who would play him though? Clint Eastwood?

Who would play him though? Clint Eastwood?

..............................:eek:

YES PLEASE YES!!!!

Who would play him though? Clint Eastwood?

That'd work. Alternatively, I could see James Cromwell (he's something like 6'8", according to an interview I saw with him on t.v.) in the lead.

He meets the academic requirements thanks to the extra course he picked up though.

NJCAA rules say you must be enrolled for 12 hours at the college you've chosen to participate at. the extra course he picked up was online and from a different college. The mistake was his college gave him poor advice.
section 4. G.
http://www.njcaa.org/njcaaforms/060607_2_pamphlet%202006.pdf

or page three toward the bottom.

What about Leslie Neilsen? They can make it a comedy called, "Old Balls Still Bounce".

:)

Well I take it the ball won't be the only thing dribbling on the courts...

Had to be done. *bows*

Well I take it the ball won't be the only thing dribbling on the courts...

Had to be done. *bows*

*Throws rotten tomato.*

*tries, and fails, to come up with a agerelated basketball joke*

I have to say, he's in pretty damn good shape for a septuagenarian.