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Ray Meyer
NewMexiKen would be remiss to allow the death of basketball coach Ray Meyer at age 92 to pass without mentioning the time the DePaul coach dropped by our high school cafeteria to recruit a classmate. All these years later I can still remember the scene and how awestruck we all were — nudging each other and whispering. Meyer was already a legend, having coached basketball’s first big man, 6-10 George Mikan.
Our classmate went on to play for DePaul; at 6-10, he was the tallest player there since Mikan (1941-1945).
Also able to leap tall buildings in a single bound
A Missouri teen shattered Mike Powell’s world record by nearly a quarter-mile, but unfortunately this long jump was a bit wind-aided.
A tornado’s 150 mph winds blew Matt Suter, 19, wearing only his boxer shorts, clean out of his grandmother’s trailer home near Fordland and sent him flying into a grassy field — some 1,307 feet away, according to a National Weather Service GPS reading.
Except for getting briefly KO’d and cut on the scalp by a flying table lamp, Suter escaped remarkably unscathed.
As Tom Grazulis, a Vermont-based tornado researcher, told the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader: “I’ve never heard of anyone going that far in a tornado and surviving.”
