Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Understatement Of The Year
Conference USA said Monday that officials "exercised poor judgment" when they upheld a technical foul on Houston coach Tom Penders after he collapsed during a game against UAB last Saturday.The line between "poor judgement" and maliciousness is much finer than I thought.
Penders, a former Texas coach, passed out on the sideline late in the first half of Houston's 82-79 loss and was carried off the court on a stretcher and given oxygen. He returned to coach the second half.
Penders dropped to his knees, then fell face down. Officials called a technical foul on Penders, apparently thinking he was reacting to a foul call.
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