.comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}

Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, February 14, 2011

High Schooler Shatters Backboard on Game-Ending Dunk

(By Jonathon M. Seidl, The Blaze) - This is West Salem High School (Oregon) Sophomore Alex Ross. He can dunk. Very hard.

Near the end of his team’s Friday night loss to North Salem High School, Ross decided to put an exclamation point on the game. While North Salem was trying to run out the clock, one of Ross’s teammates stole the ball and tried to score a last-second layup. When that didn’t work, Ross took the rebound and slammed it through the hoop, shattering the backboard and causing glass to rain down on the players:


0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home