A major one-shot sports celebrity (no pun intended), especially here in "Blogsburg," is former Virginia Tech basketball forward Les Henson. His unusual feat was grabbing a rebound and flinging the ball 89'3" to score in the last second of the game against Florida State University.
The "Henson Heave," done right-handed even though Henson usually shot left-handed, at the time (January 1980) was the longest field goal ever scored in college basketball. In 1985, however, Bruce Morris of Marshall University exceeded that record with an 89'10" shot.
Henson's incredible heave was the more dramatic of the two because it happened in the last seconds of the second half and won a tied game.
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