The good news: Mills has made the most out of his Shot Heard Round the Bluegrass. Jonathan Miller, The Recovering Politician (Twitter: @RecoveringPol), writes about the politics of sport and the sport of politics...and sometimes about bourbon. Jonathan has been elected twice as Kentucky's State Treasurer; practices as a crisis management attorney; authored three books on faith, public policy and crisis management; serves as a Contributor to The Daily Beast, played straight man on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; reached the final table of the World Series of Poker; and with his summer camp sweetheart, raised two remarkable twenty-something daughters. [3] Miles is known as the subject of one of the most memorable post-game interviews of the 2006–07 NBA season , where coach Jerry Sloan stated, "I don't care if … It’s a prestigious place in Kentucky history, but it’s not always easy living life after earning all the glory.Ahead of the 20-year anniversary of Mills’ epic shot, “I’ll be honest,” he said.
After playing 21 games during the 2006–07 NBA season, he was again assigned by the Jazz to the D-League, this time to the Idaho Stampede. As the session concluded, few major bills had passed both chambers; today, there still remains an impasse preventing passage of the biennial budget, the essential measure to keep state government running. Mills was shocked to discover that neither man was savoring his pending freedom; rather, they both shared a sense of impending hopelessness.
“If you fumble in football, you have to wait at least four plays to get back on the field. “I always speak without notes, but for the hearing, I typed up my remarks. There were many memorable moments along the Comeback Cats’ conquest to the top of college basketball, but none were more memorable then “The Shot Heard Round the Bluegrass.”
The Big Blue Nation will always revere Cameron Mills for that special shot he swished that spring day in 1998. It does, factually.
Mills spent the hours chatting in the chapel with two prisoners, each of whom was only weeks away from release after serving several years behind bars. View Cameron Mills’ profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Kentucky defeated Alabama 76-67. Russell Coleman, a former FBI agent and Mitch McConnell general counsel who serves as spokesman for the bi-partisan Still, the odds of final passage for House Bill 40 loomed as large as the Comeback Cats’ chances midway through the second half of the ’98 Duke game.
Cameron has 5 jobs listed on their profile. Recognizing that his local celebrity could help draw press attention for this important cause — and that his conservative bona fides could help persuade lawmakers concerned about appearing “soft on crime” — Harris asked Mills to testify before the Kentucky Senate Judiciary Committee on Mills admits that he was much more nervous in that Frankfort hearing room than when he launched his historic three-pointer. “Inmates deserve a second shot as well. “It’s intimidating in there, and I was a little uncomfortable being described as a ‘celebrity’…We were changing the law here, doing something actually good…Nothing as silly as throwing a ball in a basket.”In contrast to his self-critique, Mills’ presence had meaning. They felt that they’d be back in there soon…that they would need to engage in illegal activities, just to survive.”Mills was outraged: “We are a country of second chances. Politics in Frankfort has descended into threatened But in the midst of this polarized and paralyzed Frankfort came a small shot of deliverance this past week.