Man Bites Dog

Here's the kind of story you don't hear every day.

Tulsa and SMU are battling it out for the Western Athletic Conference men's golf championship. After 54 holes, the two teams are tied, which requires a sudden-death playoff to settle the issue. The problem is, Tulsa has a plane to catch and finals the next day. That flight is the last of the day, so it's either play the playoff or get back in time for the tests.

Tulsa's coach, Bill Brogden, chose the tests. After two players out of five from each team had teed off, Brogden pulled the plug and Tulsa left for the airport.

Brogden and the SMU coach, Jay Loar, talked it over briefly and had agreed to simply call it a draw and have each team be co-champions, but the WAC official overruled and declared SMU the winner by forfeit. Tulsa plans to appeal that ruling.

Tulsa's players and their parents were a little baffled and even upset at first, but eventually saw it the coach's way.

Rick Reilly in Sports Illustrated had a very funny commentary on this.