Referee Bad Call
Getty Images The King was not amused. The New York Rangers won Game 6 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the Ottawa Senators, 3-2, but it was a closer game in the end than goalie Henrik Lundqvist believed it should have been. That’s because with 38.4 seconds remaining, a scrum in his crease...
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So that’s two games in a row now that Real Salt Lake has been stung by referee’s decisions. Just days after the red-card ejections of both Fabian Espindola and Jamison Olave, RSL fell behind at FC Dallas last night on a questionable penalty kick call against defender Tony Beltran. Although the team fought back...
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David Hopper of 8CN sat in on the Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson conference call. Hopkins and Dawson will fight for the second time April 28 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Their first fight was ruled a no contest. Chad Dawson CD: “I think the last fight I didn’t get a lot of...
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Was it really a penalty? It’s the question football fans in Australia continue to ask nearly 48 hours after Brisbane Roar defeated Perth Glory 2-1 in the A-League Grand Final. The winning goal came just seconds before the death, when Besart Berisha buried a penalty after, in the eyes of referee Jarred Gillett, Berisha...
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Former middleweight champion Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor won a highly talked about unanimous decision over journeyman Caleb Truax last Friday night at the Beau Rivage Resort Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Showtime Boxing. Unfortunately for Jermain, the reason why many fight fans are talking about this fight is not because he won in such...
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Roar Rookie 0 Have your say This time it was an on-field controversy, as a contentious penalty decision marred the nation’s football finale, only adding to the recent off-field dramas that have rocked the A-League. While most will argue that the better team did win on the day and took home the coveted...
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Doug Collins became a tad lighter yesterday, as he was slapped with a $15k fine. The Sixers’ head coach made sure to apologize for his actions. From the Philly Daily News: “Monday afternoon, before the 76ers faced the New Jersey Nets, the NBA announced that Sixers coach Doug Collins was fined $15,000 for verbal...
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The response to last Tuesday’s column on the fight that broke out at a girls’ soccer practice was, in some ways, predictable. In other ways, not. I wasn’t surprised that it triggered an array of eyewitness examples of adults behaving badly at kids’ sporting events. As a coach, parent, referee and reporter, I’ve rarely...
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The quality of hockey in these playoffs has been off the charts, but the game’s separate set of rules for the last third of the regular season and the post-season has everyone holding the referees to an impossible standard. I’m not excusing the blatantly bad calls, or the missed calls we’ve seen, but I...
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