{"id":6063,"date":"2013-08-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/index.php\/2013\/08\/22\/student-sinks-half-court-shot-to-win-free-tuition\/"},"modified":"2013-08-22T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T06:00:00","slug":"student-sinks-half-court-shot-to-win-free-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/22\/student-sinks-half-court-shot-to-win-free-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Student sinks half court shot to win free tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"\"-\n

With College tuition going up every year, any kind of financial support is greatly appreciated.\u00a0 Ball State University offers one Freshman every year a chance to win free tuition for their first year\u2026The only catch is that they have to make a near-impossible half-court basketball shot!\u00a0 The University has been doing this for a few years now, but nobody has successfully made the shot.\u00a0 Markus Burden now has 11,084 (which is how much his tuition is) reasons to be excited now after he became the first student to sink the half-court shot!\u00a0 An emotional Burton called his mother to tell her the exciting news, as she was equally pleased.\u00a0 The whole crowd went crazy when he sunk the shot\u2026take a look!\u00a0<\/span>J<\/span><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_lIprm5f1O4<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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Have a great day, and let the good news be yours,<\/p>\n

Jeremy<\/p>\n

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Reference: http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/blogs\/abc-blogs\/ball-state-freshman-sinks-half-court-shot-free-155533237.html?vp=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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