Track meet

It was the most extravagant display of showboating that Rock had ever seen.
He was covering a track meet for the paper at Scott Field in Little Rock, and watched from the press box as a boy approached the final turn of the 800-meter run with a lead of nearly 150 meters. The boy looked back to the field far behind, then casually slowed to a stop. He began to chat with one of the pole vaulters. He picked up a basketball from the infield and dribbled it on the track. As the rest of the runners closed in on him, he passed the basketball to one of the vaulters thirty feet away, who drove for a layup at a goal which suddenly appeared where the vault pit had been.
"Give him the assist!" someone in the press box shouted. Laughter reined.
The boy began running again just as the field passed him and retook the lead in the middle of the turn.