backseat to their male counterparts.Two weeks later, I still think Michael Phelps settling for a silver medal deserved top

LAHAINA, Hawaii -- Chaminades 77-72 victory over Ralph Sampson and top-ranked Virginia in 1982 is widely considered the biggest upset in college basketball history, among the greatest in any sport.Unlike todays world of 24-hour sports networks, social media and smartphones, the game was played in relative obscurity.Fewer than 4,000 fans, officials, media and team members were inside Blaisdell Center that day. For those who were there, the memory of what happened on Dec. 23, 1982, left the kind of indelible mark that comes with witnessing history.Three of those people -- Silverswords point guard Mark Rodrigues, Washington Post sports writer Michael Wilbon and public address announcer Chuck Williams -- recall the events surrounding that game.---Rodrigues: The year before when we played them, we didnt get beaten too badly, so we were pretty confident, had a bit of cockiness. Everyone is a little bit cocky and we had the mentality that we could beat anyone.Few outside the team gave them much of a shot.Williams: It was really only the die-hard fans there because we probably should have been 40-point underdogs to Virginia. It was going to be a smash.---But the Silverswords had an advantage.Virginia was coming from Tokyo, where it beat Utah and Houston despite Sampson missing both games. He was still sick when the Cavaliers arrived in Hawaii.Wilbon: I was staying in the same Hyatt Regency as Virginia. Ralph was on my floor and with those circle towers, theres not much space between rooms and I could hear Ralph coughing and wheezing. I didnt think Ralph was going to play and there was opportunity for some drama.Wilbon already had a bit of drama while covering Maryland at the Aloha Bowl.Terps defensive back Bobby Gunderman fell and broke his arm on the way to the airport, then somehow ended up flying to Caracas, where he was detained for being a suspected drug dealer. Maryland receiver Mike Lewis also nearly drowned while swimming off Waikiki Beach.Wilbon: My boss, George Solomon, said `Youve already written too many pieces, take the night off. I said, Im not taking the night off. How many chances to see the No. 1 team play in an exotic situation, a different situation, Ralph Sampson already three-time player of the year? There was no way I was going to miss that.Wise decision.---Inside the locker room at Blaisdell, Silverswords coach Merv Lopes turned off the lights so the players could meditate, then went down the line.Williams: He says to Mark Wells: Mark, is this guy faster than you? No. Can he shoot better than you? No, coach. He goes all the way down the line to Tony Randolph who was going against Ralph Sampson, looked at him and said, `What can I say? Everyone got a laugh out of that.Rodrigues: The point is theyre only as good as you allow them to be. One of the things he always said was, if they take 40 steps, you take 41. He didnt say anything else but lets go give the people something to see.They did.----The Silverswords were the aggressors from the start, scoring six of the games first eight points. They swarmed Sampson whenever he touched the ball and had a game plan for getting him away from the basket on defense -- one that started with Randolph shooting jumpers over a team manager holding a broomstick at practice.Williams: In locker room, Merv said to Tony Randolph, you need to go out there and hit 15-foot jump shots to get that monster of a player out away from the basket. Tony hit five or six shots in a row from medium range and brought Ralph out, which opened things up for the other guys. That was the real key. If he was throwing bricks up there, 1 for 7 of something like that, Ralph would just plant himself underneath.---Chaminade continued to go at the Cavaliers and the game was tied 43-all at halftime, prompting a call from Wilbon to his desk.Wilbon: I said are you guys listening to this on the radio? If this stays close, save me some space, dont put the paper to bed. They said OK.Rodrigues: At that point, it just gave us more confidence.When Virginia scored the first seven points of the second half, it appeared the game would turn quickly. But the Silverswords answered with a 7-0 run of their own.Then Rodrigues found 6-foot guard Tim Dunham, who soared over the 7-foot-4 Sampson for an alley-oop dunk.Rodrigues: People said from that point on, you could see it on Virginias face that they knew they were in for a serious challenge.Williams: Sampson is running down the floor shaking his head, like hes saying I dont believe that. Timmy just went up, up, up ... slam! As Im announcing, I see this thing unfolding and as the ball goes through, Im saying Ti-iiiim Dunham!---Chaminade led by two with a minute left and Virginia had three chances to tie, missing all three. Virginias Othell Wilson was then called for a carrying violation and the Silverswords closed out the improbable victory by hitting three free throws.Wilbon: People were in disbelief. It wasnt like today. I dont remember people rushing the floor. It might have been chaotic then, but not by todays standards. You had the biggest upset in the history of college basketball and no one quite knew what to do.Williams: Richard Haenisch, I dont know he did it, he ended up sitting on the rim with a basketball in his hand. The celebration was crazy.Rodrigues: We went into the locker room and the fans were calling for us to come back. We came back out on the court, sat there for a while, celebrated and talked.---After the game, Wilbon waited to get Virginia coach Terry Holland before calling his desk.Wilbon: It must have been the local AP reporter who said: `Coach, is this the greatest upset of all-time? I remember almost looking down because this question is going to get us one and done. Hes going to answer angrily and walk off. And I remember there was no sound coming out and Terry Holland was shaking his head affirmatively, saying something to the effect of I think it is. I was like `Oh my god, oh my god, called the paper and asked are you guys listening. They were like, `Yeah, but we put the paper to bed. Ive never been angrier in my life, professionally because they put it to bed and the next morning there was nothing in my paper.Rodrigues: We didnt really realize how big it was until the next day. Thats when AP was calling, everyones sports department was calling, it was getting on CNN news, the local news and then you realize what really happened.Williams: They couldnt even pronounce the name of the school. They kept calling it, Chami-NADE, like lemonade.---The shockwaves of the upset took a while to reach the mainland, but continue to resonate today.Williams: It put Chaminade on the map, a little school 2,500 miles from the nearest land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.Rodrigues: They wanted to change the name of the school to Saint Louis-Honolulu, to have a more recognizable name in the title. They changed their mind after that game.Wilbon: Every day I get further away from it, I realize its the greatest upset in history. 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The Anahim Lake, B.C., native was stellar in making 39 saves in his home province and Lars Eller got credit for a bizarre short-handed winner as the Canadiens defeated the Canucks 4-1.A triumphant Olympics for the U.S. team -- especially all those golden female athletes -- has come with some nasty aftershocks, raising more potential questions about gender inequality.Lets start with Hope Solo, who was suspended for six months and effectively kicked off the national womens soccer team for some sore-loser comments in the wake of an excruciating defeat.Still to come, presumably: Ryan Lochte, a 12-time Olympic medalist who awaits his fate for making up a fanciful tale about an armed holdup during a night of drunken revelry not long after the swimming competition ended.If Lochtes punishment from USA Swimming or the U.S. Olympic Committee for a much-worse transgression isnt at least as harsh as the one Solo received, it would logically seem to follow that the old boys club has won out again.Or does it?Since the two cases are hardly apples to apples, lets use them more as a jumping-off point for a serious discussion about sexism in sports. The timing couldnt be better, coming on the heels of female athletes claiming 61 of the 121 U.S. medals in Rio -- including 27 of 46 golds.These kinds of cases are really important, said Ellen Staurowsky, a professor of sports management at Drexel University, who plans to talk about both Solo and Lochte in her upcoming classes. Working with future leaders who are going to move into the industry, they need to be contemplating what the moral issues are and they need to be developing a sense of their own moral compass.Solos punishment likely ends her long tenure with the national team. After a shootout loss to Sweden and no medal for the mighty American womens team, the goalkeeper lashed out at the winners, calling them a bunch of cowards for their defensive style of play.It was a silly, ridiculous statement, of course, but many male athletes have said far more outrageous things while feeling the sting of defeat.Further complicating matters, this was not a one-off for Solo, whos had plenty of run-ins with teammates and coaches over the years, not to mention a still-pending domestic assault case and a monthlong suspension last year for being in a team van when her husband was arrested on drunken-driving charges.Which brings us to Lochte, the new poster child for white male entitlement and ugly American behavior.After getting hammered with three of his teammates, there was an ill-fated stop at a gas station to relieve themselves. What happened next remains a point of contention, but no one can deny that Lochte initially concocted a version of events totally out of touch with reality: robbers posing as police, he said, pulled over the swimmers taxi, pointed a gun right at brave Ryans head, and robbed him of his wallet and money.Actually, Lochte and his teammates sparked the whole affair by urinating outside the station, followed by Lochte, accoording to two of his teammates, ripping down a sign like some out-of-control frat boy.dddddddddddd Armed security guards confronted the swimmers and made them pay for the damage, which Brazilian authorities say -- and the Americans deny -- also included the trashing of a locked restroom. In addition, there are differing accounts of whether the guards pointed guns at the swimmers, which would seem far out of line with the offense.No matter. It was Lochtes lies that turned this into an international incident, and prompted both USA Swimming and the USOC to say theyre considering possible sanctions. He already was dropped by four major sponsors, though he has since been picked up by another company and reportedly landed a gig on Dancing With The Stars. (Solo already did a stint on the show, it should be noted.)Amy Randel, a professor in the sports business program at San Diego State University, said Friday that Solos previous misconduct skews a direct comparison with Lochte, whose only known misstep before Rio was that horrific, short-lived reality TV show, What Would Ryan Lochte Do?There is research that shows that women who violate stereotyped behavioral norms face negative consequences for that behavior, while men are given a wider berth for their behaviors, Randel wrote in an email. But it is difficult to use that lens to interpret these two cases since there is more involved here than just these athletes behavior at the 2016 Olympics.Even so, these cases are at least a worthy conduit to keep us all firmly focused on gender equality, a debate I found myself in the midst of at these Olympics.A newspaper headline over one of my swimming stories created a bit of a kerfuffle on social media, drawing criticism from those who said it was yet another example of how the accomplishments of female athletes always take a backseat to their male counterparts.Two weeks later, I still think Michael Phelps settling for a silver medal deserved top billing over Katie Ledecky winning gold in world-record time -- he is, after all, a 23-time gold medalist -- but I can now understand why so many folks took it personally (even when I pointed out that AP didnt write the headline, and did write an entirely separate story focusing on Ledeckys amazing Olympic performance).This issue is far more important than two imperfect athletes or social media trolls.Its about ensuring the fair treatment of all those marvelous female athletes.After wowing us in Rio, they deserve nothing less.---Paul Newberry is a national writer for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry(at)ap.org or at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 . His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/paul-newberry . ' ' '