He could have done almost anything other than what he did and it would have been better. Can't make a play on the ball? TACKLE THE GUY! What's the worst that happens, they get to try again from a yard closer?

Are you sure about that? Think about a similar situation - attaching balloons filled with helium to a weight on a scale. If you attach enough balloons to almost, but not quite, lift the weight off the ground, I'd think that the weight would read less than the original reading.

Totally agree - that coach should be embarrassed. Bostick made a good decision and executed it poorly - that happens sometimes. No one was going to feel worse than Bostick, and screaming and ranting at him served no purpose other than to let the coach vent.

Most good coaches would agree that the proper time to berate a player (if ever) is when they do something completely boneheaded or something they've been ordered not to do - taking a stupid unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for instance. Bostick was allowed to try to catch the ball if he could - he was actually right…

Your rewrite functionally says the same thing, but misses the tone of the original. The point that's being conveyed is that while Bostick could have clinched the game, many others had important parts in the collapse that just weren't as blatant - essentially that it's not fully his fault. Hence the author's use of…

That was the section that did it for me too - the point at which I went from thinking "gee, this is pathetic" to "wow... I really hope someone gets you mental help, and fast, because you are not in touch with reality."

Did every person responding (including the author) forget what site they're on, and that commenters here occasionally make jokes?

I generally don't read Kokatu, I got here through a link from one of the sister sites. I'm really happy I found this comment though, because this is incredibly fascinating. You seem to be a competent writer, but you also appear to have little to no grip on reality.

I think this was 100% the right call according to the rule book, but here's what I don't understand:

I hate that I have to star both of these comments... Yes it's absurd, and yes, it's just the NCAA being the NCAA.

Beethoven's 7th is fantastic, but for sheer blow-your-face-off intensity, I'd have to go with the last 2 minutes of his 9th Symphony (seriously - if you haven't heard it, go listen to it immediately). And yes I realize I'm probably going to sound like a classical music snob (I swear I'm not), but it's just that good.

Hah, so true about Jezebel - an incredible amount of their postings are so over the top that only total man haters could possibly agree with them. I'm a guy who considers myself extremely feminist-friendly and sympathetic, but a lot of the articles/comments on there make me furious - I've had the exact same Manchurian…

Damn, these responses are completely clueless. Do people really have this little sense of how to behave anymore? I'm not that old, and these replies make me feel like some 70 year old telling the kids to get off my lawn.

Posting this here because it's a day old, so it's the closest Kinja has to a direct message:

Huh? Is this some weird form of performance art? Are you actually the original poster? Your (or maybe you're?) reply makes no sense.

Boring? Strongly disagree! This is hilarious, whether he's trolling or not. The purpose of trolling is usually to anger people, not to give them joy, which is the proper emotion to have in response to this thread.

You're not being fair here - he's not saying that his niece is NAMED Paul, he's just saying she KNOWS Paul, and that Paul is a female in grade school. So he wouldn't have had any say at all in naming her. At least that's my read of the situation.

+1 Black box

Interesting - thanks, and sorry you got drugged. Obviously if someone is passed out (or in and out of consciousness) there's no mistaking that for a person capable of consent.

Never having seen someone get roofied, how does someone who has been roofied act? Is it obvious at the time? It seems from the story that something may have happened earlier in the night - is it possible that someone else put something in her drink, and then McDonald unknowingly had sex with someone unable to consent?…