Lucky Teens Headed To Final Four On Mickey D’s Dime

 

Here’s a bit of pre-Final Four happiness. Remember Patrick Thibodeau, the Down Syndrome kid who played, and scored, for his high school basketball team? Well, he’ll be at the Final Four and you won’t.

Thibodeau and another Maine teen with a similar story (autistic team manager, scored 9 points in his team’s final game) have been sent to Detroit by a bunch of McDonald’s owners to see the Final Four up close and personal. Maybe it’s their way of making amends for the McLobster. Whatever the reason, it’s yet another reason for us to be jealous of kids with Down Syndrome and autism; they get all the lucky breaks.

 

Lucky Teens headed to final four on Micky D’s dime (Deadspin)

Hey buddy, can ya spare a dime?

 

Billionaires are special people. They’re smart too. You don’t become a billionaire by being stupid with money, which makes me wonder what Tom Hicks has up his sleeve. In case you haven’t heard, as part of an effort to renegotiate what it said is $515 million in loans related to the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars, Tom Hicks’ HSG did not make a quarterly interest-only payment that was due Tuesday.