Verzbicas Cures the LeBron Blues
You’ve probably heard by now that a certain Illinois high school senior became the 5th American high school student to ever run a sub-4:00 mile.
His name is Lukas Verzbicas and he’ll be running for Oregon (surprise!) next year.
There was a heavy weight of expectation on Verzbicas after he’d broken the American high school record in the two-mile a week earlier at the Prefontaine Classic.
Running under nasty conditions, he pulled it off in 3:59.71.
ESPN’s Jeff McGregor waxes poetic about how Lukas Verzbicas is the antidote to LeBron James.
LeBron James as we know him is the four-color quarterly report of our disappointments and therefore a very precise instrument for calibrating my own cynicism.
Turns out the antidote to all of which is Lukas Verzbicas.
It is very much worth the read.