What's wrong with Ben?

Sunday, April 25, 2004

The day is March 27, but it might as well be Christmas morning. Ben Rushin sits patiently on the wooden bleachers inside Jackson High School's gymnasium. The rustic gym could have been a perfect setting for the movie "Hoosiers," a classic film about an overachieving high school basketball team riding hard work all the way to a championship.

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