UPDATED: Vote Ellis Coleman each day for SportsNation Best of the Best

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08/07/2011


Ellis Coleman might not have won the Junior World Championships last week in Bucharest, Romania, but his electrifying three-point throw in his quarterfinal win over Iran's Mehdi Chooli Zeidvand has caught the attention of the mainstream media.

Coleman's "flying squirrel" also has been featured on Yahoo.com's main page for the past two days. The USA Wrestling video of the full match has been watched over 14,000 times, while the initial video posted by a YouTube user has been watched over 1.3 million times already.

After being talked about by dozens of wrestling and mixed martial arts message boards, Coleman's move, the flying squirrel, has caught the eye of ESPN.

After finishing with a bronze medal for the second time at the Junior World Championships, Coleman will be a guest on ESPN's First Take on Tuesday, August 2 at 11:20 a.m. Eastern Time.

UPDATE: Vote for Ellis Coleman as SportsNation's "Best of the Best" play on the poll on the left side of the page on the voting link above. Vote daily as the "opponent" changes for the daily winner. 

For a video of the quarterfinal match at the Junior Worlds, click the link above.