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Ever seen an eighth-grader break a backboard?

That’s exactly what Millwood’s Mandrell Dean did in junior high.

The footage is here, in a video I recorded with Oklahoman sports editor Mike Sherman, who covered Mandrell as a high school beat writer in the early 1990s.

We talk about Dean, his legacy, and his son, Heritage Hall’s Quintaz Struble.

 

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• ANGIE on Jan 30, 2012 @ 10:44 pm
  THIS ARTICLE BOUGHT TEAR TO MY EYES AND IS VERY TOUCHING. I KNEW MANDRELL AND HE WAS A AWESOME FOOTBALL PLAYER. I HAVE SO MUCH RESPECT TO HIS MOTHER AND FAMILY MEMEBER FOR RASING HIM TO KEEP GOING AND NEVER GIVE UP. QUINTAZ I DO NOT KNOW YOU BUT CONTINUE TO KEEP GOD FIRST ANDY EVERYTHING ELSE WILL FALL IN PLACE....... RIP MANDRELL AND GOOD LUCK QUINTAZ ON YOU FUTURE ENDEAVORS........

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