Vet has heart attack during tourney
 

He's doing much better now, but here's the story.

:eek: Wow. Dedicated...but not very smart. He stayed on the court after he realized he was having a heart issue because he didn't want to be a distraction. Lucky he survived. Good for him, but I certainly wouldn't reccommend that as a standard procedure.

"Even so, it was effective. Among the many people who never noticed he had left the game was one of the officials with whom he was working, he said."

What?!!? How can an official not notice that one of your partners has left and been replaced by someone else? Game awareness of a -4 on a scale of 1 to 10. :(

I'm hoping the author took a little poetic license here. I'm pretty sure I would've noticed he left. Maybe not that he was sick, but definitely that he left.

I'm glad to hear he's doing better. Great guy.

Twins?

My kind of investigative, deep reporting.....
 

"As a basketball official, John Shoppe is hard to miss when he’s on the court, as he often blows his whistle during a game."

Glad he's ok though!