[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

There is a private school just across the state line in that State Up North. We officials referred to it as an outlaw school because it did not belong to the MichiganHSAA and therefore could do just about anything is pleased and its Prinicpal/Athletic Director could be (no wait, he was) a real horse's a$$ (wait, that is insulting to the horse my wife and I owned for the first 15 years we were married), but I digress.

Years and years ago, I was officiating a game in the school's Christmas Tournament between a school from Pennsylvania and a school of Indiana. Mid-way through the second quarter Team I's PG was CG while dribbling the ball at tjhe top of the key in their front court (I was T Table Side), when a whistle sounded from behind me in the direction of Team I's Bench. At the sound of the whistle all of Team P's players stopped and Team I's PG blew by his defender and I immediately blew the ball dead. I-HC immediately wanted to know why I blew the ball dead. I told him that a whistle from the stands sounded and that put Team P's players at a disadvantge. He then he tells me that the whistle sound was made by him (one finger from each hand in his mouth) to signal which play for his players to run and that he does it all of the time. My immediate response: WHACK!!!

MTD, Sr.