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Feb 27, 2009

"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." --Harriet Woods

A Rare Act of Sportsmanship

"The coach never considered any other option. No matter that his high school basketball team had ridden a bus two and a half hours to get to Milwaukee, then waited another hour past game time to play. Didn't matter that the game was close, or that this was a chance to beat a big city team. Something else was on Dave Rohlman's mind when he asked for a volunteer to shoot two free throws awarded his team on a technical foul in the second quarter. His senior captain raised his hand, ready to go to the line as he had many times before. Only this time it was different."You realize you're going to miss them, don't you?" Rohlman said." So begins this heartwarming real-life story of a team that demonstrated how some things in life are more important than winning.