the west coast guru was pretty upset tonight about his bad beat in the indiana and SA. spurs game. It brought back a few nightmares of my own, but im over it now, and can finally laugh and tell you about them. While in college my roommate got in a little bit over his head and had to put his new motorcycle if he lost this bet. I remember back in the early eighties,(tells you how old i am) Ralph sampson and virginia was playing N.C. and worthy and co. it got down to the last ONE second of the game and N.C. was up by one and favored by two. Worthy got fouledas the clocked almost went out. My roommate needed both free throws to win the game. He got lucky, and worthy hit both free throws putting N.C. up by three with the one second left. He was running down the hall yelling and screaming that he had won and every buddy on the dorm hall was so happy for him.We were all laughing because we thaught carolinas coach would have worthy miss the second one on purpose and he would lose. Well virginia called time out, and came back on the court. Because at that time thier was no three pointers, the only way virginia could send the game to over-time would be to make a shot and get fouled. Well Dean smith after the time out had his guys go and sit down at half court. Some of you guys who had virginia remember the rest as the inbounder threw a full court pass to sampson at the rim who proceded to dunk the ball, really after the second, but the refs ran off the court and N.C. won the game by one. THAT IS A BAD BAD BEAT. My worst beat might be even better! about 5 years ago in the ncaa tournament, There was 3 seconds left with my team up by 4 and favored by two. My team calls a timeout and came back with the manager for the team to throw the ball in. I remember Dicky V. praising the coach for such a great jesture by getting the kid in the game for he was a senior and had never played a second in his career. He was a walk on turned manager and this was a special bond between him and the coach. He came to inbound the pass at the end line and could"nt get the ball in play, but did call a time out! during the time out Dicky V. was giving the coach props again, and the t.v. was showing his parents and family all standing up and clapping, they were so proud. He came back to the end line and you could see he was afraid just to throw the ball in. He finally threw the ball in off his teammates leg, it went off him to the other team and a player from the other team grabbed the ball and lofted a ball that banked in for a three. My poker friends who were at the table every once in a while tell guys when they think they got a bad beat in cards, that it will never compare to when the team manager gave me the bad beat in a college BB game. To this day i still can"t believe how a team manager could cost me money, but he sure did. ARROW
