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ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
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ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball ... aab-299889
Idaho State player's foul shot gets stuck on front rim
By Jeff Eisenberg
Of all the crazy bounces we've seen in basketball in recent years, few have been more bizarre than a free throw Idaho State's Kamil Gawrzydek attempted late in the second half of Tuesday night's 71-48 loss at Utah State.
Gawrzydek's first foul shot bounces high off the back rim, deadens on the front rim and remains stationary there for almost two seconds before finally falling through the hoop to the disbelief of everyone in attendance. It hung on the front rim long enough that a Utah State player underneath the hoop actually had time to wave his arms in an effort to generate a strong enough breeze to blow the ball out of the cylinder.
To get a better idea of what could have caused the ball to freeze on the front rim like somebody paused their DVR, I sent the YouTube clip to John Fontanella, a physics professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and author of the book "The Physics of Basketball."
Fontanella, a former NAIA All-American in the 1960s, compared it to a player possessing the ability to balance the ball on his index finger without spinning it first. He suggested a sticky substance on the ball or an air conditioning vent blowing straight down on the rim could have contributed, but noted that it's theoretically possible for the ball to remain stuck on the front rim interminably.
"There's absolutely no reason the ball couldn't actually do that if all the conditions were right because you have two round surfaces," Fontanella said. "As long as the middle of the ball is directly above the middle of the rim, theoretically it can stay there as long as it likes until it's disturbed by something. Maybe the conditions were just right."
It's difficult for Fontanella to quantify how unlikely it is for a basketball to balance on the front rim for that long, but he said he's only seen anything like it a couple times before at most.
"A chance in a million, I guess," Fontanella said. "It's like it rolled up to the top of a hill and just sat there. Eventually there was just enough of a disturbance, somebody stomped on the floor or a fan did something to shake it off the top."
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
I just happened across the front page of Yahoo before checking in here and I couldn't believe that was the front page story!!
Sweet!!
Sweet!!
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
Also made it to the Lakers board --
http://thelakersnation.com/forums/index ... n-the-rim/
To bad it's an empty crowd there.
http://thelakersnation.com/forums/index ... n-the-rim/
To bad it's an empty crowd there.
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
Thank goodness for the man who uploaded this!Aglicious wrote:I just happened across the front page of Yahoo before checking in here and I couldn't believe that was the front page story!!
Sweet!!
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
This video now has 2,415,126 views on youtube. Talk about publicity. Almost 2.5 million views.
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Lead on Yahoo headlines
The USU vs ISU game with the free throw getting stuck on the front of the rim is leading on the Yahoo website with a video clip and Al doing play by play and Wild Bill part of the action.
http://www.yahoo.com/
If it is not the lead image they always change you can use the arrow controls in the lower corners of the image to scroll and find it
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball ... aab-299889
http://www.yahoo.com/
If it is not the lead image they always change you can use the arrow controls in the lower corners of the image to scroll and find it
or
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball ... aab-299889
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Wow, the youtube video has 4 million views! Aglicious, do you get to share some of the ad revenues?
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
SuperiorBlueDiver wrote:This video now has 2,415,126 views on youtube. Talk about publicity. Almost 2.5 million views.
it is almost 4 million now. so that means 1.5 million views in 9 hours.
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That is awesome. It shows the power of the internet. You need to either stick a link in the bottom or take part in Youtube's revenue sharing program. Then again, I don't think you can "legally" make money because the video isn't something you filmed yourself. Nevertheless, great work!! Barnes should get in contact with you and have you put a link to the bookstore or something for that matter.
Btw, has this been anywhere on any of the sports shows in Utah? Not that it matters with 4,000,000 views.
Btw, has this been anywhere on any of the sports shows in Utah? Not that it matters with 4,000,000 views.
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
Aglicious, you should link this site to it and get it a little publicity.
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
I expect not. As usual, the national media gives more press to USU than the local media.JasonJensen wrote:That is awesome. It shows the power of the internet. You need to either stick a link in the bottom or take part in Youtube's revenue sharing program. Then again, I don't think you can "legally" make money because the video isn't something you filmed yourself. Nevertheless, great work!! Barnes should get in contact with you and have you put a link to the bookstore or something for that matter.
Btw, has this been anywhere on any of the sports shows in Utah? Not that it matters with 4,000,000 views.
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
I was at dinner last night with a buddy and his wife, and my friend brought up this "amazing" free throw, completely forgetting that I went to USU. He's a huge sports fan, and I found it amusing that this random guy in Chicago was talking about it. It has definitely gone viral.
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Will this help our chances for getting in MWC?
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Holy mother! This thing is out of control. 6.6M views now and 1,170 comments in 2.5 days basically.
You do NOT want to know what my email account looks like just from this.
I have about 20 "business deal" offers. At least 5 offers to buy my YouTube account (for what purpose I have no clue).I have requests from several media outlets, including ESPN, to obtain the footage.. LMAO. I've had requests like this before but not in this abundance.
You do NOT want to know what my email account looks like just from this.
I have about 20 "business deal" offers. At least 5 offers to buy my YouTube account (for what purpose I have no clue).I have requests from several media outlets, including ESPN, to obtain the footage.. LMAO. I've had requests like this before but not in this abundance.
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
Absolute insanity! On the evening of the 23rd, I told Dogie and Silentmaster at our family Christmas party about how this clip was getting a lot of views on YouTube, and at that point I think there had been about 14,000 views. To think that it has gone from that to now nearly 7 million views basically in the span of about 36 hours, is incredible. I was surprised that it had garnered thousands of views as of two days ago, never thinking it could reach millions of views, let alone so quickly. Crazy stuff.Aglicious wrote:Holy mother! This thing is out of control. 6.6M views now and 1,170 comments in 2.5 days basically.
You do NOT want to know what my email account looks like just from this.
I have about 20 "business deal" offers. At least 5 offers to buy my YouTube account (for what purpose I have no clue).I have requests from several media outlets, including ESPN, to obtain the footage.. LMAO. I've had requests like this before but not in this abundance.
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case.
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
The video is featured on the front page of Youtube.com! It's on the right side at the top of the Trending section!
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
Mother Gossner probably should be sending you a check too -- Gossner Foods has gotten 15 million views of the logo that's featured in the replay graphic.Aglicious wrote:Holy mother! This thing is out of control. 6.6M views now and 1,170 comments in 2.5 days basically.
You do NOT want to know what my email account looks like just from this.
I have about 20 "business deal" offers. At least 5 offers to buy my YouTube account (for what purpose I have no clue).I have requests from several media outlets, including ESPN, to obtain the footage.. LMAO. I've had requests like this before but not in this abundance.
Nobody here knows anything.
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The video is now number two of most views this week on YouTube of all videos on YouTube! Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/charts/videos_views?t=w
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It's now on MSN - but the poster is JOKEROOO
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We should flag that one as inappropriate.Aggiefan33 wrote:It's now on MSN - but the poster is JOKEROOO
Licious - you have been robbed of your content.
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Re: ISU Free Throw Front Page Story On Yahoo
The Gossner logo shows up 3 times if you watch the whole thing ... that's approaching 25 million views of their logo online (if people watch the whole thing.) That is more views than a Cache Valley business usually would have over a 25 year period. I don't know if it's turning into any revenue, but Gossners ought to send the kid a cheese gift basket ... after his eligibility runs out of course.