August / September 2008

At the end of the long driveway leading to Jerry Sloan’s home outside the small town of McLeansboro, Ill., is a lone basketball hoop, but don’t expect to find this former University of Evansville and Chicago Bulls star shooting around

It’s common for a kid to set up a neighborhood lemonade stand to earn some pocket change, but 15-year-old Roy Whetstine had much bigger aspirations before he even reached puberty. “When he was little,” says Roy’s mother, Brenda Whetstine, “he