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Refs seeing Orange in UCONN Timeout Call

refpolice — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:26:31 +0000

With0:39 second to go in a ties game, Syracuse forward Rick Jackson grabbed an offensive rebound and drove to the basket and threw up a terrible shot, Connecticut rebounded. But the refs blew the whistle saying that Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim had called a timeout before Jackson put up the shot. Replays showed that he did in fact request a time out before the ball was released, but the timeout was not GRANTED until the ball was in the air, and you have to have possession of the ball to call a time out. It was almost as thought he official wanted to give the shot a chance to go in, and when it didn’t, he decided to blow the whistle and give it back to the Orange. This lead to Syracuse getting the ball back, and then scoring and winning the game. UCONN got screwed again second later when they fouled a poor shooter right away, but the refs sent the wrong guy to the line….a 75% shooter to the line, and the game was over. Connecticut reallt needs wins to make the tournament, and tonight’s jam job at Syracuse will not help.

Another Pick-6, another missed clipping Call

refpolice — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:15:18 +0000

Just as in last year Super Super Bowl, the game’s outcome hinged on a inception for a TD at a crucial situation in the game. Last night in Super Bowl between the Colt and the Saints, Peyton Manning was intercepted by Saints cornerback Tracey Porter with 3 plus minutes left in regulation as the Colt drove for the game-tying touchdown. Receiver Reggie Wayne appeared to give-up on the route, allowing Porter to step in and make the play. But what was overlooked was Peyton Manning getting pushed from behind as he tried to make a play on Porter. Even ESPN’s Bill Simmons agrees, ‘A clip is a clip’, and the refs missed this one, just they did last year in the Cardinal – Steelers Game. Now, manning didn’t exactly go all out in an effort to try and tackle Porter, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve the best opportunity to do so, and it looked like he was clearly interfered with.

Blue in Green Bay

refpolice — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:23:29 +0000

In an unfair ending to a great football game, Green Bay Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers was fouled on a play that ended the game. Fans across the country watched in surprise as the officials kept their hankies in their pockets as Karlos Dansby carried a Rodgers fumble in overtime into the end zone propelling the Cardinals into the next round of the NFL playoffs. Replays show a clear face mask penalty on Rodgers, but in a season where unprecedented efforts have been made to protect quarterbacks, this one went uncalled. Officiating is about consistency, and this non-call is about as inconsistent as you can get this year in the NFL.

Fall of Troy…..Again

refpolice — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:24:16 +0000

We’ve been wondering for a long time now ho much longer the NCAA can look the other way while the USC Trojan athletic department and AD Mike Garrett continue to thumb their nose at the them. First, Reggie Bush’s parent were living in a fancy condo pain for by a marketing agent who is now involved in a lawsuit against Reggie Bush. Apparently Reggie renegged on his part of the deal by signing a different again when he went to the NFL. Then there was the OJ Mayo situation, which by most account suggest he has been a ‘Pro’ since he was about 12 years old. You’d think the Mike Garrett and his staff might have done a little homework on this guy before recruiting him, but when the bank vault is open and the guard are all asleep, might as well be greedy. And now this. Wow, what a surprise. I mean who would have ever dreamed that Joe McKnight would be driving a car that was paid for by someone else? It really is a shocker, honestly. So, we really have no choice but ask the powers that be at the NCAA, What the f*** is taking so long? These guy are all dirty, so let’s declare Bush ineligible, rescind his Heisman, scrub him off the books, erase the 2004 nation Title, slap them with recruiting and Bowl restrictions for 3 years, require that Mike Garrett resign, fire Pete Carroll so we can all move on. The longer this lingers, the sillier the NCAA looks. I hear from a friend that the Water Polo team is also been flagrantly violating recruiting rules for years (they just won the National Championship again 2 weeks ago). Maybe Charlie Weiss was right when he suggested Pete Carroll was living with a grad student up in Malibu instead of where he was supposed to be living. Because that is the only explanation I can think of as to why he has let this mess get as big as it has.

Cuban to file complaint on review

refpolice — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:24:33 +0000

The Mavericks Eric Dampier was ejected in an overtime game last night against the Rockets after officials reviewed a flagrant foul called on Aaron Brooks. After 8 minutes, they tossed Dampier because it was his second technical in the game, and the Mavs went on to lose without their starting center. But the NBA rulebook states that only called flagrant 2 fouls are reviewable, and the foul on Brooks was ruled a flagrant 1. You think that refs would know this, but apprantly not. You’d also think that during the review period of 8 minutes, someone would have pointed it out, but that didn’t happen. Let’s see how the league handles it, could be interesting if they decide to replay the overtime period.

40 Minutes for Tim Donaghy Story

refpolice — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:15:16 +0000

CBS dedicated 40 minutes on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes news magazine to the Tim Donaghy interview. Donaghy has just been released from prison and now faces a life with no money, no family and handful of mobsters tracking him. But the interview was intriguing because of the way Donaghy described the fraternity of NBA officials and how the deal with certain players. It was this information, he alleges, he used to win 70% – 80% of the bets he placed on NBA games. He refuted the notion that he rigged games with his foul calling, and pointed to a 2007 game where he tossed San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich for arguing. He had money with the Spurs. His prime example was Allen Iverson, who had threatened an officials and received, according to Donaghy and his officiating colleagues, too a light fine and suspension from the league. So, they decided to mete out their own punishment by making Iverson’s life miserable on the court. Instead of his usual trips to the foul line, he got bumps, bruises and traveling calls. In the end, it was his bookie buddy that let it slip to a mob contact that he was taking bets from an NBA official. The mob naturally wanted in on the action and leaned on Donaghy before turning him in to the Feds. But the mob, the betting and the information he used to win those bets is only part of the story here. The real part is how believable he was in disclosing that NBA officials had players, coaches, GMs and owners they liked and ones they didn’t like and that they called games accordingly. He said that in games he wasn’t officiating, he’d call up one who was and ask how the games was going to be officiated, and then bet accordingly. In another detailed example, he detailed an incident where the Los Angeles Lakers had submitted a tape of 25 plays that they felt were erroneously officiated. The NBA agreed that 22 of the 25 plays indeed had been missed calls and that told officials to protect Kobe Bryant. Translation: bet the Lakers because Kobe is going to get to the line. The league telling officials how to officiate certain teams is bad enough, and the fact that Donaghy appeared so believable is even worse. the league now braces for the release of Donaghy’s book Personal Foul, due out shortly. I think David Stern would rather get a lump of coal in his stocking.

Open Letter to the SEC

refpolice — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:20:57 +0000

One of Bad-Officiating’s more dedicated members, David Jhaver, has penned the letter below to the SEC Commissioners Office:

Please take a minute to paste the link at the end of the letter into a new browser and and sign the petition.

Good morning,

I stopped watching the NBA because of fighting and poor officiating. I stopped watching MLB, because steroid-use (cheating) is widespread and happens to be illegal. I don’t watch the NHL, because hockey is sort of boring to me. I used to watch the NFL more often, but I’ve become obsessed with college football over the years, and that all started when I went to LSU in the early part of the decade.

I am now begging you: please do not further compromise the integrity of the most competitive football conference in the NCAA. Damage has been done, but apologies and admittance of wrong-doing can go a long way to un-taint the image that is clearly being drafted of the SEC by the national media. There is no way that anyone who is not in the bag for either the University of Florida or the University of Alabama is going to believe that something corrupt isn’t going on in our conference, and there are plenty of people from those aforementioned schools that know, in their hearts, that an injustice is currently being served.

Over the years, football has become America ’s pastime. The sport is especially huge in the southern part of the country and in the Midwestern part of the country. College football, in particular, offers its fans something more than the NFL does, in that the kids that play the game play for each other and for school pride. These kids are apparently being cheated out of glory, and that goes for the kids on the teams that are being given calls in order to allow them to advance.

Both Alabama and LSU were cheated on Saturday night. Every single person that has seen the replays from Patrick Peterson’s 4th quarter interception knows that BOTH of his feet were in-bounds while he had possession of the football, and this knowledge exists within those who support Alabama and who will adamantly insist that the missed call had little-to-nothing to do with the outcome of the ballgame. No one honestly believes this, though, and so a great contest was ruined.

If the SEC has purposely been setting-up a showdown between two undefeated teams in the Conference Championship, then the integrity of the conference, league, and game have been shamefully defiled. LSU has much vested interest in the success of the conference and of our football team, and we proudly stand in defiance of any agenda that the conference may have that includes ANY ballgames not being exclusively decided by the players on the field. If simply being a member of the conference isn’t enough, I’d say that having brought the conference two BCS National Championships should give us the credibility and honor that we deserve.

Please do not continue to ruin something that millions of students, teachers, families, and various other people from all walks of life feel so passionate for. Football is too important to the history and future of daily life in this country for the games to be fixed. The treason needs to immediately cease, and admittance of wrong-doing needs to be publicly addressed to ensure future viability of the conference in regards to public and, most importantly, personal perception. We, the SEC, are not a conference of liars and cheaters.

http://www.secsports.com/the_sec/

We, the SEC, are supposed to be a conference of integrity and sportsmanship.

Please Sign petition here:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bad-officiating_SEC/

Massive Soccer Scandal Brewing in Europe

refpolice — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:17:41 +0000

On the heels of an embarrassing blunder by officials in the Ireland – France qualifying game last month involving one of the sports biggest stars, Thierry Henri, the soccer world had been tossed on its ear again. FIFA is rocked by the pending betting & match-fixing charges being sought by German prosecutors. The charges allege that a syndicate of mob run online gambling outfits have conspired to rig match outcomes and gambling revenues across Europe. The alleged tactics, which include payment to a Yugoslavian cook for spiking players food with chemicals to make players sick, are beginning to become clear. A central figure in the investigation is a Croatian name Ante Sapina, who recently completed a jail sentence for a soccer match-fixing scandal from 2006. To make matters worse, FIFA recently held meetings in Johannesburg which were supposed to make public new officiating protocols and video replay for the 2010 World Cup. But the only thing accomplished at the meeting was the decision to do nothing and make no changes for the World Cup. Apparently in the soccer world, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

World Cup Disaster: No Luck for the Irish

refpolice — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:17:12 +0000

In extra time play in the World Cub qualifier with winner move-on and loser go home implications, French star Thierry Henry assisted the the game-winning goal right after using his left hand to prevent the ball from going over the end line. Video shows him deftly, and apparently out of the view of referees, tapping the ball back into play before flicking it with his right foot where a teammate score off a header. Fan across Europe and the rest of the world are outraged on how such an important and impactful play in the world biggest sporting event could go uncorrected. Lately soccer officials have come under scrutiny as the World Cup qualifiers are increasingly rife with poor judgement calls from referees, and, as in this case, just plain missed calls. This will and should stir debate on instant repplay being used in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Let’s hope the one in charge make the right decision, because soccer fans are an passionate bunch.

SEC Commissioner Fines Urban Meyer $30,000 for Criticizing SEC Refs

refpolice — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:14:48 +0000

SEC Commissioner Mike Slive is on his heels with this whole SEC officials disaster, and now he’s fighting back. After Florida Coach Urban Meyer whined about a late hit on his boyfriend Tim Tebow last week, Slive hit him with the fine. Since the money means nothing to Meyer, it seems obvious that Meyer was trying to deflect attention from the other SEC mess: Gator Brandon Spikes being caught on tape trying to gauge out a Mississippi players eyes during a pile-up in last Saturday’s game. Is this the WWA or the UFC? Meyer, decided to suspend Spike for half a game instead of a whole game (why not the whole season? It was pathetic to watch and he’d be thrown in jail if this happened on the streets). Another figure the SEC circus is Tennessee Coach Lane Kiffin, who has been disciplined twice already this season for complaining about bad officiating in the SEC. But this has gotten ugly for the whole SEC conference and disciplining coaches and officials is the last thing Mike Slive wants to be doing. But since his officiating crews can’t seem to get it right, that what he is stuck doing.