There was another time when I covered a conference basketball tournament, and the team I was covering was facing one of those exciting situations. If she makes the second free throw, she ties up the game and we're going to overtime. But something strange happened at that point. The ball hit off the rim and fell into the hands of an unsuspecting teammate. Instinctively, she hurried the ball, granny style, toward the basket.
Ball tickles the twine.
Ref says it's good. Then there's the story a friend of mine tells about a coach who so desperately wanted to get tossed from a game that, he felt, was being controlled too much by the officials. As my friend tells it, the coach asked the ref if the two of them were dogs in another life and if he stole the ref's bone. Yes, folks, he got his ejection. And, no, the ref didn't take the bone.