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You're Never Too Old To Score: 73-Year-Old Ken Mink Gets Roanoke State Some Points

You're Never Too Old To Score: 73-Year-Old Ken Mink Gets Roanoke State Some Points

Remember Ken Mink? He’s that 73-year-old who’s playing on the Roane State Community College basketball team this season. Turns out he’s not that bad!

In Roane State’s winning game Monday against King’s College, Mink actually scored two points. Yahoo News has the play-by-play:

Mink entered the game with about 16 minutes left in the second half a...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: dude man i hope im that gud wen im 73!! go ken!!

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Still A Player: 73-Year-Old Ken Mink Joins Roane State Basketball Team

Still A Player: 73-Year-Old Ken Mink Joins Roane State Basketball Team

Gramps is getting in the action. Having joined the Roane State junior college team in Tennessee, Ken Mink has likely become one of the oldest people to ever play college basketball. At 73 years old he is a mere 50 years older (half a century?) than most of the other guys on the court.
 

The 6-foot, 190-pound baller is on the team’s roster as a s...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: All right Ken! You go! Have a great season of basketball at Roane.

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