A 17-year-old Mormon was an unlikely selection as a guest speaker for a Catholic school's eighth-grade commencement ceremony, but students and parents at St. Sabina Academy in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood said the choice was a slam dunk. Jabari Parker is Chicago's latest shining star of high school basketball, having been pictured last month on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which called him “the best high school player since LeBron James.” The Rev. Michael Pflegersaid Parker was not chosen because he's a star athlete, but “because he's a star person.”
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.