Ref in 'lateral game' a former Father Judge star
Jerry Magallanes and his crew were suspended by ACC for botching the call on Miamis game-winning kickoff return against Duke.
LEAVE IT to former Daily News high school sports writer Ted Silary to notice that the head referee in Miami's crazy "lateral game" win over Duke was Jerry Magallanes, a first-team All-City football player for Father Judge in 1981.
Miami used eight laterals on the game's final kickoff to score a touchdown that gave the Hurricanes a 30-27 victory.
On Sunday, the ACC suspended Magallanes and his crew - and the replay official - for not handling the play "appropriately."
The league said that after reviewing the play, the replay official should have seen that Miami's Mark Walton was down before he lateraled to a teammate.
And the ACC said the crew on the field missed an illegal block in the back by a Miami player.
In '81, Magallanes rushed for 1,388 yards and 22 touchdowns to help lead Judge to the Catholic League championship.
Caddy whacked
You always knew that Steve Williams, Tiger Woods' former caddy, could write a book.
Now he has.
It's titled "Out of the Rough" and chronicles the 13 years (1999-2011) he caddied for Woods.
As in the past, Williams is a bit critical of Tiger. Yawn.
In excerpts published on Sunday, Williams writes that he felt like a "slave" at times.
"One thing that really (hissed) me off was how he would flippantly toss a club in the general direction of the bag, expecting me to go over and pick it up," Williams wrote. "I felt uneasy about bending down to pick up his discarded club - it was like I was his slave. The other thing that disgusted me was his habit of spitting at the hole if he missed a putt."
Poor Steve.
What we didn't see in the excerpts - perhaps it is elsewhere in the book - is the amount of money Williams got for his cut of Tiger's winnings over those 13 years, an estimated $8.8 million.
Hardly slave wages.