[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I will confine my games to jr. H.S., H.S., college, AAU and YBOA Nationals.

The latest flagrant foul that I called was just last Wednesday night with 2:10 left in the second half of a men's coll. jr. varsity game. It was a flagrant foul personal foul and the first contact or attempted contact flagrant foul on a player that I had called in 29 years of officiating women's or men's college basketball.

In 1998 I had a flagrant technical foul in a girls' H.S. varsity game when a A1 tried to punch B1 after I had called a common foul on B1.

I had one in the 1993 AAU Girls' 18U Nationals when a post player tried to use her elbow to knock her opponent's head off during the game. Since there was no contact it was a flagrant technical foul.

I had a flagrant technical foul in a boys' H.S. varsity game in 1986 when A1 tried to punch B1 after I had called a common foul on B1. In the H.S. varsity games of 1998 and 1986, A1's team was losing badly and was getting real frustrated.

In 1984 I had a flagrant technical foul in a boys' H.S. varsity game when A1 did punch B1 after B1 had fouled A1 in the act of shooting. To show you how things have changed in 20 years. In this game, tossed Team A's Head Coach for charging onto the court after me because I had tossed A1. While Team B was shooting its technical free throws, A1 hurled a basketball at me. I did not see it coming until the last minute and ducked just in time. I am only 5'-09" and A1 was 6'-05", 250 lbm, and was headed to the Univ. of Nebraska on a football scholarship and if that ball had hit me in the head I am sure that I would have been knocked out at the very least if not worse. The next day I went to the appropriate police jurisdiction to file a criminal complaint against A1. The police laughed in my face. Today, A1 would have left the gym in handcuffs.

Anything before 1984 is a foggy haze, come to think of it every thing is a foggy haze right now.

MTD, Sr.