When you have a foul to give and you’re up by two, the last thing you do is let a good shooter get off a three point shot. The fans, the owners, the coaches and the players know this. More importantly, the officials know this. In fact, the league has come up with rules designed [...]

Leave it to David Stern to throw the first “You Have to be Kidding me!” wet blanket on an otherwise great start to NBA playoffs. Kenyon Martin’s foul on Nowitski is available everywhere to see, and the more you watch it, the more you have you wonder what goes into the NBA play review process [...]

Ah Spring, that special time of year when the air smells of blooming flowers, the days get longer and warmer, and the NBA referees get back to their business of wrecking playoff games. Last night in Boston, they did so first by bouncing Ray Allen with two ticky-tack calls in the final two minutes of [...]

Don’t be mislead by the ‘exciting’ finish, this game was a series of blown calls and attempts to fix them with even worse calls. Starting with this missed clipping call on the 1oo yard interception for touchdown and ending with the inexplicable ‘non-review’, the second half was a manufactured comeback and orchestrated result.  Here’s a [...]

While is was unlikely to change the outcome of the game, the pass interference call in the end zone against the Charger’s Eric Weddle on a 45 yard Hail Mary from Ben Roethlisberger violates every unwritten rule in the book. The Steelers were up by 10 at the time, and with 9 minutes to go [...]

I could not believe my eyes as I watched this. The Chargers first got robbed on a pick play that tied the game when Reggie Wayne freed up Anthony Gonzalez as the first half ended. But the real jam job occured in the beginning of the 4th quarter where a sequence of unbelievably horrendous calls cost the Chargers 3 points and [...]