Forgive Avery Ingram for ignoring the "seeing is believing" idiom.

The Sheldon (Eugene, Ore.) High senior just concluded his prep wrestling career with 20 victories. That's impressing enough for any high school wrestler and even more remarkable when you consider Ingram has been blind since age 2.

Ingram's path to glory was chronicled in this feature in Oregon's Register-Guard. He can be seen in green recording one of his 20 career victories in the embedded video.

Despite a tumor in his eye that left him without his sight as a toddler, Ingram grew up learning kung fu before joining Sheldon's wrestling squad as a high school freshman.

“Avery did better than I could have ever expected,” Sheldon coach Elias Soto told The Register-Guard. “He came to wrestling as a freshman, and I thought he might be trying it out because that is what a lot of kids do at that age. That wasn’t the case with Avery.

"What makes wrestling unique is that it caters to people with disabilities, it measures your mental toughness and heart while other sports are so fixated on athletic ability," added Soto, who wrestled at nearby Churchill (Eugene, Ore.) High. "Wrestling was instantly a fit for Avery, something he could sink his teeth into and be successful."

After winning just four matches in his first two seasons on the Irish, Ingram earned six victories as a junior and 10 in the 145-pound division as a senior.

“I liked wrestling, but learning the moves was difficult,” Ingram told the paper, so he started researching the sport, borrowing books on technique from the library. His passion inspired his brothers Devon (two years older) and Tyler (two years younger) to join the team, and they would help explain their coach's instructions to Avery.

While state prep wrestling rules require opponents to maintain contact with blind competitors, according to The Register-Guard, Avery Ingram knows better than anybody that the disadvantages of being visually-impaired vastly outweigh that possible edge.

Let’s face it: Shaquille O’Neal is one big fellow. Now that he spends his days as a basketball analyst rather than a basketball athlete, he’s a little less agile than he used to be as well. Put those two factors together, and suffice it to say that it takes a lot to get Shaq Daddy up out of his seat once he initially sits down.

Well, now we know what hits that threshold: The game-winner you see above, as scored by Decatur (Ga.) Shiloh High, from nigh on half court.

As captured by Home Team Hoops, Shiloh guard Nate Mason Jr. drilled the game-winning three-pointer you see above to edge past Baltimore (Md.) St. Francis Academy, 55-54, at the 2013 Montverde Academy Invitational in Florida. Shaq was in attendance because Montverde is relatively close to his homebase at Isleworth outside Orlando.

The legendary big man got to see quite a game, with St. Francis taking a 54-52 lead with fewer than five seconds remaining in the game. Shiloh just had time to get the ball to Mason Jr,, who turned upcourt, raced to mid-court and then pulled off the near unimaginable teen feat of launching into a completely normal looking jump shot that sailed straight in from behind the midcourt line.

Seriously, watch that shot again. It’s as if Mason Jr. was pulling up from 15 feet. That may be the calmest midcourt game-winner anyone will ever see.

A Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association spokesman apologized for dubbing gymnastics "a girls' sport" after Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman scolded him on Twitter and other notable gymnasts voiced their displeasure.

Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman isn't happy with her home state's decision to eliminate boys' gymnastics -- Associated Press

“It’s a girls’ sport,” MIAA spokesman Paul Wetzel told The Boston Globe in the wake of the state organization's decision to drop boys' gymnastics from its list of sanctioned sports. “When was the last time you watched boys’ gymnastics? They don’t get on the cover of the Wheaties box. They don’t get the endorsements.”

That's when Raisman -- who appeared to be in line for her own Wheaties box after winning two gold medals and a bronze for the USA Women's Gymnastics Team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London -- took to Twitter to give Wetzel a piece of her mind, calling the MIAA spokesman's comments "extremely disappointing" and "ridiculous."

Extremely disappointing that boys gymnastics is being dropped by MIAA.This quote upsets me. boston.com/news/local/mas… twitter.com/Aly_Raisman/st…

— Alexandra Raisman (@Aly_Raisman) January 28, 2013

There is absolutely no such thing as a "girl sport" #ridiculous

— Alexandra Raisman (@Aly_Raisman) January 28, 2013

The Bay State's two highest-profile boys' gymnastics products also blasted the state association's 10-2 vote to eliminate males from officially competing in The Globe.

“I think it’s a travesty,” said Tim Daggett, a former West Springfield (Mass.) High standout who captured gold at the 1984 Olympics. “It’s an opportunity that isn’t going to be there for kids who really love the sport. To not be able to represent your high school in the sport you love, it’s very upsetting, without any question.”

One-time Braintree (Mass.) High star, 1976 Olympics bronze medalist and former USA Men's Gymnastics Team coach Peter Kormann added: “I think it’s a shame. I thought it was a poor decision. There’s nothing to be gained here.”

As a result, Wetzel publicly apologized in The Globe on Wednesday. “Sorry I said what I said. I was trying to make a point, and I put my foot in mouth.” Still, he claimed the MIAA is currently not considering reversing its decision.

No matter what happens next, the record will always show that for one day, Jonah Zahm was a member of the Phoenix Suns. In the process, he became the youngest member of the Suns in team history.

Of course, Zahm was only a member of the Suns in spirit. He never played in a game, yet he still may have had as big an impact on the Suns team as any new addition in recent times. That’s because just by being there, Zahm helped put everything in perspective.

As chronicled by the Arizona Republic, Zahm is a 12-year-old who suffers from a rare seizure condition called pyridoxine dependent epilepsy, which forces him to take 12-15 pills orally each day to limit his seizures. After two years waiting for his turn to get his wish as part of the Make-A-Wish program, Zahm flew from the Zahm family farm in Osco, Ill. to Phoenix to meet members of the Suns.

Yet the Suns had other ideas. Rather than just have Zahm meet team members in the locker room, Suns general manager Lance Blanks signed the middle schooler to the team, holding an official signing ceremony and a press conference where Zahm was even asked how he planned to defend Oklahoma City stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.

“Today is an exciting day in Suns basketball,” Blanks told the press assembled at the signing ceremony. “I have the honor of introducing what I think will be the greatest Sun for a day in history.”

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner in the contest for “creepiest high school coach in America." His name is Zachary Reeder, and if he is guilty of even part of what he is accused of, he is a deeply morally broken man.

As reported by the Los Angeles Times and the Irvine Daily Pilot, the 30-year-old Orange Cal. Resident and Irvine (Cal.) Beckman High baseball coach was arrested on charges of suspicion of lewd conduct with a child, possession and distribution of child pornography, and child annoyance. The charges he faces are connected to allegations that he set up a fake Facebook account of a young blond female to lure explicit photos of teenage boys.

The Daily Pilot reported that the coach used the fraudulent Facebook account to befriend teenage boys and then lure them into “catfish” relationships not unlike a lesser version of the scam which apparently snagged ex-Notre Dame superstar Manti Teo. First, he would connect with teenage boys on the social media site, slowly drawing their interest until they eventually felt comfortable exchanging nude photos with him.

The victims of Reeder’s alleged actions range in age but are reportedly as young as 14.

At this point there is no proof that Reeder distributed the photos beyond his own control, or that he made any physical contact with the teens he befriended online.

LeBron James popularized -- and perhaps even mythologized -- the ‘Chase Down’ block, where a player runs down a foe on a fastbreak in front of him and swats away what seems like a sure bucket. Now a player from from Milton (Ga.) Academy may have perfected the move.

As you can see in the clip above, Milton’s Justin Kornegay slapped away a lay up with a serious contender for block of the season with a massive ‘CD’ in a game against Atlanta-area rival Marrietta (Ga.) Walton High. The swat turned away an easy basket for Walton … and did so with some authority at that.

Milton rolled to a 74-53 victory in the game, pushing the Eagles to a 13-10 record. That’s not bad in the tough proving grounds of Georgia high school hoops, but much of the school’s 2012-13 campaign has been overshadowed by the September dismissal of legendary Milton coach David Boyd amidst scandalous recruiting allegations.

Now those ugly allegations and the entire Boyd era are in the past … much like any thoughts one Walton player may have had of an easy layup before Kornegay came rushing in behind him.

If you think it’s hard to bowl a decent game with a typical approach, what Whitney Foster does will blow you away; she bowls competitively with no hands.

As impossible as that may sound, every word of it is true. As featured in the Louisville Courier-Journal, Foster is a senior on the Louisville (Ky.) Manual High bowling team. She has recorded some of the state’s better scores this season -- she has bowled a 203 game during the 2012-13 campaign, which is better than one of the scores put up by the state’s individual runner-up in 2011-12 during her five game set. All of that is impressive, but it becomes even more awe inspiring when one learns that Foster is bowling without any hands.

Instead, the senior uses an elaborate set up to prepare and release a ball. First, she cradles a bowling bar in her right arm, trapped between her biceps and forearm. She releases the ball by bending forward and gyrating to create spin for it to travel down the lane. She has no other choice, because Foster was born with a rare genetic disorder called arthrogryposis, a condition which leaves her muscles and tendons underdeveloped and very frail.

“Anybody would look at her and say that she can’t bowl,” Manual coach Bob Hillerich told the Courier-Journal. “They’d say you need working hands and arms. But what she’s overcome, it’s just been amazing.”

Foster has to have a teammate place the ball in her arms -- she’s too weak to lift a 12-pound bowling ball -- but she can do everything else on her own. That’s important, because Foster is a teenager who has spent most of her life feeling ostracized from more healthy teens. Now, being part of a team and competing on her own has made an enormous difference.

“It was really cool that they didn’t judge me and that they made me feel like a part of the team,” Foster said of her teammates, who have welcomed her since she signed up for the team as a sophomore. “They made me want to be there.”

Believe it or not, Teen Wolf is returning to his high school to play basketball.

No, not that Teen Wolf -- not Michael J. Fox's 1985 version of Scott Howard, who might be the greatest basketball player in the history of American cinema -- but a Teen Wolf.

Tyler Hoechlin, who plays Derek Hale on the current MTV series, is hosting a celebrity basketball game at Santiago (Corona, Calif.) High, where he graduated in 2006. All proceeds will benefit the school's senior class.

The Los Angeles Times profiled Hoechlin during his junior year, when he was driving an H2 Hummer back and forth between gigs on the TV series "7th Heaven" and as a third baseman for Santiago's baseball team. According to his MaxPreps stats page, he batted .342 in 38 at-bats as a senior, totaling four RBI and zero home runs. He hit .400 as both a sophomore and junior, according to the L.A. Times and MaxPreps, respectively.