"Shoot It Coop!": Minoring and Defying the odds just to belong in the Game of Basketball

People talk about making their dreams become a reality. However, when the odds are added to the equation along with some red tape, many will let their dreams fall to the wayside. This is a story of T. E. Cooper, who defied the odds from graduating high school, college, and graduate school to playing college basketball and professionally in Europe by grinding through the U.S. minor league circuits to prove his worth. Even when coaches, college professors, and agents made his path difficult, ...