Archive for 2007

Even though Pitt was able to successfully complete their improbable upset over an inept West Virginia team and ruin their BCS Championshiop Game bid, anyone who saw it cannot ignore the disturbing way the game’s outcome kept getting extended. With Pitt leading and with the ball with 1:38 to go in the 3rd quarter, running [...]

Any time coaches and ADs in big division 1 conferences start openly questioning the integrity of college football officiating, it’s time to take note. That is because coaches know they’re going to get fined whether they are right or not about the officiating, but they speak out anyway. That’s because they’re right: college football officiating, particularly [...]

The Ohio State Buckeyes helped the Fighting Illinis by playing bad football on Saturday, but they didn’t get much help from the refereeing crew either. The crew refereeing the game made two mistakes, one that cost the Buckeyes 7 points, and one that may have cost them a takeaway. The 4th play from from scrimmage, [...]

I’m not sure what the MLB rulebook say about it, but Jacobs Field was the venue for a freak of nature-type scenario on Friday night, which allowed the Tribe to score the tying run, and eventually win the game taking a commanding 2-0 lead in the NLDS. Inexplicably, in the bottom of the eight inning [...]

Just when MLB umpiring can’t get any worse, tonight’s one game NL Wildcard playoff thriller was ruined by bad calls….Twice! The first time, the umpiring crew incorrectly ruled a homerun for the Rockies a double. Replays showed the ball taking a big, long bounce off a railing in the left center field bleachers. Then in the bottom of [...]

In a win for fans and players everywhere, MLB has finally taken a step, abeit a small one, in curtailing in the increasingly brazen and often outrageous behavior of MLB umpires. After a calculated and deliberate effort to bait Padres outfielder Milton Bradley with profanity on Sunday, the league has come down on Winters and the [...]