Sitting in his office at his Rye Brook, New York home the evening of October 2, Ted Sabato's phone buzzed with a text from a friend, asking if he'd seen Barstool Sports' most recent tweet.
Perplexed, Sabato said he hadn't. But with some urging from his buddy, he opened Twitter and pulled up the popular and controversial website's account. What he saw left him shaking his head in disbelief, as his youngest son, Aaron Sabato, often makes him do.
There, in a video originally tweeted out by North Carolina baseball, was Aaron, using every bit of his 6-foot-2, 230-pound frame to launch a ball off a tee at home plate and into the Chapel Hill sky.