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09-26-2006, 04:51 AM
By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com
Bad enough that Oklahoma president David Boren suggested that the result of the Sooners' 34-33 loss at Oregon be stricken from the record book. But the conspiracy theorists in Oklahoma are in high gear. The Tulsa World received an anonymous fax Tuesday revealing that Dave Cutaia, the referee who worked the game at Autzen Stadium, went to high school with Ducks head coach Mike Bellotti.
You have to admire their deviousness. Cutaia has been a Pac-10 official, the story said, since 1983. Bellotti has been a coach at Oregon since 1989 and the head coach since 1995. Yet they waited 18 seasons before they unleashed their plot.
Now showing at theaters throughout Norman: The Manchurian Back Judge.
If you want something to think about: Replay official Gordon Riese, who neglected to reverse the onside kick ruling that gave Oregon the ball, was the line judge on the Pac-10 crew for the 1982 Stanford-California game. You make one game-turning error in your career, it's a mistake. You make two, it's a trend.
Yeah, I went to Stanford, which just goes to prove a universal truth: When your team loses, your conspiracy theory is ludicrous. When my team loses, we need an investigation.
ESPN.com
Bad enough that Oklahoma president David Boren suggested that the result of the Sooners' 34-33 loss at Oregon be stricken from the record book. But the conspiracy theorists in Oklahoma are in high gear. The Tulsa World received an anonymous fax Tuesday revealing that Dave Cutaia, the referee who worked the game at Autzen Stadium, went to high school with Ducks head coach Mike Bellotti.
You have to admire their deviousness. Cutaia has been a Pac-10 official, the story said, since 1983. Bellotti has been a coach at Oregon since 1989 and the head coach since 1995. Yet they waited 18 seasons before they unleashed their plot.
Now showing at theaters throughout Norman: The Manchurian Back Judge.
If you want something to think about: Replay official Gordon Riese, who neglected to reverse the onside kick ruling that gave Oregon the ball, was the line judge on the Pac-10 crew for the 1982 Stanford-California game. You make one game-turning error in your career, it's a mistake. You make two, it's a trend.
Yeah, I went to Stanford, which just goes to prove a universal truth: When your team loses, your conspiracy theory is ludicrous. When my team loses, we need an investigation.