Just caught the latest episode of HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, and I was very excited to see a follow-up to the Kyle Lograsso story from almost two years ago.
Kyle is a boy all of six who has a golf swing identical to Tiger Woods'. He developed it from watching Woods on TV-- before he was two years old. That makes his story amazing enough, but there's more that's happened to this young boy that shows he is remarkable even beyond that.
This is amazing televison. Fifteen of the most incredible minutes you'll ever experience. This is why I love TV-- and is also why I chose Real Sports as one of my top 10 TV shows of 2006. (And it would have also been in the top in 2007 had I done a list that year.)
The show is always cream of the crop-- and I say this as someone who doesn't follow sports hardly at all. This is just plain, great television. I watched the original story four times before I finally deleted it from the DVR, and the follow-up story this episode brought tears to my eyes the exact same way it did back then.
You owe it to yourself to check it out. It airs over a dozen times in the next ten days, or you should also be able to check it out on HBO OnDemand.
I tried finding a video clip on YouTube, Hulu, and HBO.com and found clips of the show in general pretty rare. But I did run across a low-quality video from the first airing that you can watch below.
And now that you cheated and watched this story on your computer instead of on TV, watch the follow-up story at home-- or do it at someone else's home who has HBO.
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