Portland State senior guard Melvin Jones was featured on NBC's The Today Show on Friday morning. He was the subject of a regular feature called “American Story with Bob Dotson.” Dotson was in town earlier in January to interview Melvin, his family and their unique story.
    
Jones had already been featured on the front page of the Seattle Times and in the Portland Tribune for his inspiring story. Jones has risen up from a high school student on a path to failure to an Academic All-Conference level student at Portland State while excelling in the sport of basketball. He has done so with the assistance of his adoptive mother, Jennifer Annable, former high school coach, Kasey Poirrer, and their family.

Melvin Jones' inspiring story originally appeared one year ago on www.GoViks.com.

Here is a link to the GoViks.com story from February 2010.

The Seattle Times worked on the story over the course of the past year and ran it last Thanksgiving.

Here is the link to the Seattle Times story on Melvin Jones.

The Today Show brought Melvin Jones' story to a national audience.

The Today Show American Story which ran on February 4

The Vikings play in a Big Sky Conference basketball game on Saturday at Northern Colorado. Jones is the Vikings' starting point guard, averaging 11.3 points, 2.4 assists and has made a season-high 52 three-point field goals. PSU is 11-11 this season.