One Wednesday night at Chicago Stadium, during a fan promotion at a Chicago Bulls-Miami Heat basketball game, a 23-year-old fan by the name of Don Calhoun from Bloomington, Illinois, had a once in a lifetime experience.

He was pulled from the bleachers to see if he could shoot a 79-foot shot (a shot that was launched from the opposite free throw line, three-quarters of the length of the basketball court). And Calhoun, who was picked from the crowd because he was wearing bright, yellow shoes, hit "nothing but net" and earned himself 1 million dollars. An interesting thing about the whole event was that Calhoun was about to shoot the ball like a typical basketball set shot. But he said that one of the cheerleaders told him it was best to throw it like a baseball pass, which is what he did. …