I don't remember you writing an article about how USC blatantly CHEATED at the end of the Notre Dame game a few years ago. Remember? When Leinart purposely threw the ball out of bounds to stop the clock, and the Bush PUSHED him into the endzone to score the game winning touchdown... The refs didn't call anything there, and I don't remember you saying that they were "lucky" to still be undefeated.
What does this have to do with anything? There's pretty conclusive evidence that Sloan was fouled on the play. So congrats, you got away with one.
Whether this particular sportswriter wrote about it when another team got away with a no-call to win a big game has nothing to do with this article. Just because he didn't point out that your crosstown rivals got lucky in a different game, in a different sport, three years ago, doesn't mean that you didn't get lucky against A&M.
I never said that "A&M was robbed of a win." I said that UCLA got lucky. And yes, if you blatantly foul the other team's shooter when you are up by two points in the closing seconds of a basketball game and nobody calls the foul, you got lucky.
I don't know whether Sloan would have made the free throws. I don't know whether A&M would have pushed UCLA to overtime. I don't know who would have won that game. All I know is that 1) Sloan was fouled; 2) If the foul was called, Sloan would have had a chance to tie the game; and 3) the foul wasn't called. Don't put different words in my mouth.
