But they were not quite talking about the refs, or not just talking about the refs.
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Looks like there will also be some chicks dressed as refs ... if refs wore striped bathing suits.
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The video refs are, in essence, a limited form of instant replay, issuing rulings from their video monitor that the on-the-field refs might have missed.
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"Trump tried to work the refs, and some of the refs responded," she said, while stressing she never accepted any offer from the billionaire, chalking it up to a simple ethical choice.
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Hate to see the refs lose this one for them!
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Coaches trying not to get fined for blasting the refs?
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He shouted at the refs after the halftime buzzer sounded.
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The refs ruled it a touchback in the long run.
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Knowing what the refs will let you get away with.
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But as he was doing so, the refs were conferring.
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Plumlee tried to flex the one advantage that he, and, in fact, nearly the entire league has over DeMarcus, which is that is he universally loathed by refs, all refs, at all levels of competition.
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They have indicated, as the refs, that they can be worked.
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WALLACE: What was the business side of yelling at the refs?
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It's very different and some refs don't even call for it.
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In their view, there was beauty in the fallibility of refs.
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Some refs simply "have it" and it's apparent that Todd does.
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The refs were too privy to buy his cute little dive.
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The refs went to their cards and declared Medina the winner.
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Maybe we should give the Big 12 refs a break here.
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But amid the pregame fervor, team officials huddled with the refs.
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The refs are, for some reason, not privy to DeAndre's gigantic travel.
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Eye doctors in Louisiana are offering free vision exams for refs (Fox2).
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New FIFA President Gianni Infantino is interested in refs using instant replays.
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Instead, the refs did not review the play, and the Vikings won.
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" Watters defended Republicans attacking the special counsel as just "working the refs.
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But working the refs is one of the sports world's oldest professions.
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And like all new refs, he's looking to earn the players' respect.
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Rather than stop, Crabtree said he's going to persuade the refs of what he's actually doing—pulling your iPhone out of your shoe and showing the gif of Kenny Powers to assuage refs is the hot new TD celebration.
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The refs only saw Smith's retaliation and gave him a 15-yard penalty.
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You don't win a big game and then still complain to the refs.
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He hurls expletives at refs and other players and no one at all.
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Doesn't seem like the refs had much hand in anything, to be fair.
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Working the refs is often effective, even at the risk of a backlash.
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There were certain things you notice with refs, with head checks or whatever.
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Businesses, of course, appeal property assessments as routinely as coaches work the refs.
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Basketball fans think the refs have it in for their team, their stars.
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But many Chiefs fans have a different take: They are blaming the refs.
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Hire former refs who think they know how to hire , train and manage.
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The scuffle behind the net mounted as refs struggled to separate the combatants.
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The refs had to make a decision and they made the right one.
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Coaches and refs have been enemies for as long as time has existed.
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You don't start complaining about the refs before the game is even done.
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Not totally, although encouraging refs to just take one guy more often would help.
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Ultimately, the refs got control ... and Austin ended up winning the game 18-14.
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Everyone basically called the game over—including the commentators—but the refs saw otherwise.
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Al Riveron continues to blindly side with his refs and the current status quo.
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"The refs were totally biased against us!" is nothing if not a conspiracy theory.
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Probably not ... but the pin -- and the refs -- didn't do the league any favors.
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They did only in the sense that refs call out a boxer who's cheating.
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Now, a certain level of working the refs is inevitable in a democratic system.
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The ones whistling while they work are REFS, who use whistles on the field.
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He said Wednesday that he would not "argue with the refs" about debate rules.
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What's particularly annoying is after the non-explanation explanation, you know what refs do?
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We gave the animators total license to come up with the characters from the refs.
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The refs will be calling him for the 3-seconds in the paint all day.
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By 2016 it was obsolete, and campaigns were focused on working the refs on Twitter.
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CUBAN: The refs were pitiful tonight and I don&apost care if I get fined.
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Take a look y'all: The people in this line were mumbling about "biased" refs, too.
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"Refs are in the pocket of the NBA" came from the top of the stands.
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" Asked for a reason behind the free-throw margin, Wall said, "Just ask the refs.
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Officials say McCarthy went on a "verbal tirade" -- using inappropriate language to rip the refs.
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Their aim is clear: game the refs and rig the system in their own favor.
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"They'll see how ridiculous it is once they make the refs call it," Sherman said.
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Some facts for you this Thursday: - REFS are Brooklyn-based duo Richard Saunders and Zachary Andrew.
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Another time, Pollard got ejected from a high school basketball game for yelling at the refs.
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Simhon tries to tell the refs on Jordan ... but he's only given a tech -- no ejection!!
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" As for whether he'd be okay with robots replaces refs, he added, "I would love that.
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Refs flagged Ole Miss linebacker DeMarquis Gates for a non-contact foul, however, on the play.
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And Scott was making the point that now top basketball players are screaming at refs, right?
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But that's for the refs to make a decision and they have to make quick calls.
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"My thing is, if you yell at the refs, you should get a technical," he said.
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You're not allowed to bother the refs, and you can't bother the players during time-outs.
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They turn cooking into a speed sport, a recreational activity for gawking fans and armchair refs.
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"I think the refs came into this game and everyone was on a tight leash," he said.
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If you think NBA refs are bad, just wait 'til you get a load of this guy.
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As it stands, refs could be getting placement wrong by several yards when a punt goes out.
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CUBAN: The business -- OK, the business -- there was no good business reason for yelling at the refs.
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"When you are a young guy, I think the refs kind of shrug you off," he said.
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At least King found out who snitched on him to the refs: Darn you, Nickell Robey-Coleman.
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Aren't you supposed to want your favorite to win by any means necessary — including working the refs?
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Too Short was awesome -- saying the Warriors didn't just beat the Cavs, they also beat the refs!
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The refs hit Anderson with the foul and New Orleans coach Alvin Gentry was none too pleased.
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Do you like dunks, precision offense, and an entire team whining at the refs for 48 minutes?
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Did NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell do enough when it was clear the refs had made a mistake?
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We sure as heck don't pay to watch refs throw flags, derail drives and mumble about sportsmanship.
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Then it was time for the real reason everybody was watching the Super Bowl — the refs ... Wait.
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"Most people would go down and complain to the refs about the facemask," said cornerback Richard Sherman.
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The coach, Monte Harrison, was furious -- claiming the refs were trash and pulled his team off the court.
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Had the refs ruled Parks stepped out of bounds, it could have had huge ramifications on the game.
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The focus will remain on the selected player doing everything from talking to refs to tying his shoes.
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She also liked the kids meal, a pork scratching, the physio, the refs' kits and the keeper's top.
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Fox rules man Mike Peirera said that the refs should not have given Central Michigan the untimed down.
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The refs need to be better, especially on the big plays where everyone in the rink is watching.
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This is called working the refs, and it turns out Zuckerberg is a terrifically easy ref to work.
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And when you play that way for a long time, the refs let you get away with it.
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Two different refs might view the same incident differently but that doesn't necessarily mean one of them is wrong.
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" And the song features LL Cool J rapping the line, "If the refs get political, dribble like Bob Dole.
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Footage captured by the school district shows a man -- identified as McCarthy -- following the refs and yelling at them.
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The presence of refs teaches players to believe that they are not responsible for playing fair, only for winning.
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The refs ruled it good, and immediately signaled that they'd review the shot, but they allowed play to continue.
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Complaining about refs, about injuries that altered the course of several series, and especially about all the damn blowouts.
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Except, the refs did not call it, and in a mad scramble Jackie Young picked up the loose ball.
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In fact, Joshua said he's concerned about "tricky" judges and refs who will tip the fight in Wilder's favor.
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The Boston superstar was cracked on a screenplay ... and when no whistle came -- he went IN on the refs.
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After the game, the NCAA issued a statement confirming what everybody saw, that the refs blew the crucial call.
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Refs were even worse than they are now which, I suspect, is the real reason they allow 10 fouls.
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The first was against Louisville and was fairly subtle: But the trip against Florida State's Xavier Rathan-Mayes on Thursday was far more obvious and malicious: I don't really care that Allen yells at refs or plays hard—I would yell at refs, too, if I played—but damn, dude, stop tripping people.
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The refs restored order as Thompson made his way back to the locker room after receiving a flagrant-2 call.
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Dean and McCarthy are arguably the most popular refs in the game, while Goddard is fairly well-respected as well.
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That three-four minute saga, I'm watching the refs, I'm watching different players, I'm watching the bench, I'm watching fans.
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This is a real problem, and it's critical that people positioned to work the refs be vigilant about any slippage.
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Most refs don't touch the "double signal" but when you're Carl damn Cheffers, you do whatever the hell you want.
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Instead, the team comes back to tie the score, at least until those stupid (literal) Nazi refs disallow the goal.
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"The refs screwed up," Rivers said, undeterred by the league fine for publicly criticizing game officials that is surely coming.
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"Working the refs is part of the job," she said, adding that she is "absolutely not" biased against any candidate.
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Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything.
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They've made a decades-long grassroots effort out of hassling journalists about it — "working the refs," in the apt phrase.
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Cuban felt the refs did his team dirty and ultimately blamed the officials for the Mavericks ultimately losing the game.
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"We can't blame it on the refs, we can't blame it on each other," Celtics guard Avery Bradley told reporters.
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Both teams will take the court shackled in losing streaks, and both believe the NBA refs are partly to blame.
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The NFL world agreed with the refs while also noting that it may have been too close to definitively know.
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John Higgins was announced Thursday as one of 10 Final Four refs — marking his seventh time working college basketball's signature event.
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The only people who get mad about that dunk are refs and (probably) Coach K. Let's get rid of that call.
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I fear now that if ultimate lets refs take all the power, the sport will lose one of its core values.
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After I told the refs, I told security, the Dallas security, told both of them and again, he said it again.
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No, it's not P.C., but your coach, players and bench are allowed to berate the refs in only one language. 6.
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Many observers claim the refs should "let them play" and not influence the outcome of a close game by calling penalties.
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Refs waved off a potential game-tying 3-pointer at the regulation buzzer, citing an issue with the game clock's operation.
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Successful refs are keen psychologists, who understand why people fight and provide the oversight needed for them to do it fairly.
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They still have challenges, but refs can ask the booth for help on plays if they feel compelled to do so.
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"With plays like that the refs are looking at every little thing, if your hands are in the air," LeVert said.
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And they did not get discouraged when Trump tried to work the refs and accused them of being biased toward Clinton.
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While Jones may have a case against Porter's presence on the field, he should probably leave the refs out of this.
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The headset tunes out external stimulation: the broadcast really places you courtside, providing close-up views of the players, refs, and fans.
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The contenders "try to work the refs and complain and hope they will get it a little easier next time," Wallace said.
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Both campaigns have been furiously working the refs in an effort to set the bar against which their candidate will be judged.
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Winner's passes out in the grease trap from neglect leaving the refs with no choice but to pat Sonic on the ass.
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Arguments that the absence of fully empowered refs slows the game down and allows boring haggling between players are wrong and shortsighted.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," Moore wrote.
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No wonder he is the face of Celebrity Refs, a Twitter account dedicated to highlighting officials' apparent taste for the eye-catching.
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As he did, his mouthpiece flew toward the bench, and the refs whistled him for the technical that they overturned moments later.
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"This is the way in which the Republican Party's working of the refs for the past 20 years has worked," Fallon said.
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The former is a real menace; the latter is a bad-faith attempt to work the refs and preserve a partisan advantage.
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The Refs decided there was no continuation on the play, and Harden, knowing that the silent wheel gets no grease, complained a little.
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It would also be nice to avoid a court full of self-aware killer robot refs hell-bent on taking over the world.
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Thank God for that, because there's nothing worse than watching a game-winning shot get waved off because refs screwed up the call.
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ISU fans love to boo the refs at Hilton Coliseum, and with a good geographic draw, they were out in force in Chicago.
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The Resilient File System (ReFS), as the name implies, is meant to provide an extra level of data availability, resilience and fault-tolerance.
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All the players in attendance, regardless of being cast as Scottish or British, get so fired up that they turn on the refs.
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That witness tells us KD complained to the refs at one point but the fans were not removed or disciplined in any way.
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But after calling the match "abandoned," the refs tricked the protestors into leaving, only to start the game back up thirty minutes later.
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But there were also some noticeably soft calls on which fans and players alike would have preferred the refs to swallow their whistles.
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He didn't mention OANN on Wednesday, but he seemed to be working the refs by slamming Fox for interviewing a Democratic party spokeswoman.
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"I feel bad for the refs on that one because they&aposll probably get a write-up on that or something," James said.
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And also for rushing the court and making his own baskets, and just generally being a huge nuisance for the players and refs.
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And, don't get me wrong: he does flop, and It's cool as hell because Officer Krupke-ass refs getting fooled is funny and fun.
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Chalk that up maybe—just maybe—to the accumulated 50 penalties that the refs called and a healthy dose of penalty box shit talk.
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They want you to hang back, complain to the refs and complain because they're gonna come down and knock a three in your face.
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Eastern Michigan for two extra periods in front of, like, seven people, but the refs completely swallowed their whistles and let the possession continue.
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There's this weird thing that happens where the refs, in terms of their union organization, they don't want their judgment called into question publicly.
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"Every president complains about his media coverage, and I think working over the refs can be helpful at times," said Republican strategist Alex Conant.
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Thomas, of course, had to know he was going to draw a flag for violating a well-established rule: don't be touching the refs.
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The truth of the matter, however, is that Conor McGregor played a major role in the origin story of one of MMA's best refs.
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This led to a remarkable exchange, captured on ESPN live mics, as the refs reviewed a foul by Fowles on Ogwumike for potential flagrancy.
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"Big" John McCarthy, the OG of MMA refs and former LAPD officer, was the third man in the cage for Diaz's fight against Silva.
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The refs issued a Flagrant 1, and Jeff Van Gundy came in with the hottest of takes, saying that there was no flagrant warranted.
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Smart -- who's no stranger to beefin' with officials -- gave the refs an earful after fouling out, pointing and yelling his frustrations over the call.
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Here's the deal ... Cuban went CRAZY on the refs and the league over a goaltending call in the final seconds of a Mavericks vs.
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During the game, he was garrulous, talking to players and refs, wandering onto the court as if he were a coach, or an owner.
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But when Warren celebrated by aggressively clapping in Butler&aposs face, the refs whistled him for taunting and threw him out of the game.
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After the game, the NCAA admitted that the refs blew the call, saying it should have been ruled goaltending and two points for Northwestern.
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The NBA announced the next day that the refs had acted correctly on all aspects of the review and the final ruling on the play.
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There is still fighting allowed, but they restricted the amount and the type and the refs get involved a lot more than they used to.
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They want you to hang back, complain to the refs and complain because they&aposre gonna come down and knock a three in your face.
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Especially for me, because I feel like I don't get the benefit of the doubt most of the time, especially throughout the game with refs.
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Resilient File System (ReFS) will be enabled by default, providing more resilience against data corruption, and optimization for handling large data volumes and auto-correcting.
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What constitutes fair intervention and can liberals work the refs without falling into the conservative trap of objecting to all scrutiny of their favored candidates?
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer vendors, no women anything," he wrote in March 2002.
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You saw that by the end of the game, the refs were dripping sweat, and at practice, everyone can shoot threes and handle the ball.
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Mistakes still are made because, well, pro basketball games are played by brilliant, fast, quick-jumping human beings and even the best refs miss stuff.
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"Listen, the refs are going to call the game the way they see it, we're going to worry about playing hockey out there," he said.
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The refs gave St. Bonaventure a technical (see NCAA rulebook, pg 94, Article 8), and VCU made a free throw to tie the game up.
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Though refs should, in an ideal world, judge each incident on objective merit, the example of Suarez suggests there's only so much shit they can take.
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The rule is now so convoluted that refs have to not only quickly decipher whether a foul was committed, but exactly at what moment contact occurred.
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Cousins pleaded with the refs that it was inadvertent, but after a replay review, Cousins was given a flagrant-224 foul and sent to the showers.
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Already, Trump has sought to work the refs, suggesting Holt would be unfair to him and arguing that moderators shouldn't play the role of fact-checkers.
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Whether it's dealing with bad calls from refs or taking big leads in games and not letting up, he wants Oklahoma City to never stop fighting.
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I feel bad for the refs, who, for the most part, are company men in an industry that desperately wants to replace their jobs with automatons.
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What's clear from his report is that working the refs worked beyond conservatives' wildest dreams, and that we are all still paying the price for it.
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The players were seconds from tip-off at Chesapeake Energy Arena in OKC on Wednesday ... when the refs quickly sent everyone back to their locker-rooms.
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"If we want more exposure in this league and everything, we're going to have to get our refs on the same page as everybody," Harrison said.
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"Refs don't do their freaking job and now we lose a game, and we lose our goalie," Tortorella said in his brief postgame news conference Sunday.
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The GSW head coach received a technical foul for chirpin' the refs ... and then he decided to get his money's worth -- going BANANAS on the zebras.
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"Looked like a (3-pointer) to me but the refs thought otherwise, it is what it is," said Beal, who finished with a team-high 22 points.
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"Oh my god Scott Moir holding a beer screaming at the refs I love Canada I feel this country in my bones," one social media user tweeted.
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It's mass confusion, the refs are trying to figure out what happened, I'm not sure Hoy realized what he did, and I'm on the sideline going ballistic.
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PlayVS is a startup that has partnered with the NFHS to bring esports to the high school level, providing infrastructure around scheduling, refs, rules and state tournaments.
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First, it comes with ReFS (Resilient file system) to protect your data from corruption, which is especially important when you're handling large storage volumes on a server.
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Harrington was on his knees outside the crease when Marchand took a shot at the defenseless player -- before skating away before the refs could see what happened.
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As long as it's part of an effort at playing defense and you don't give it the full baseball swing windup, the refs typically let it go.
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Many refs would have immediately waved off the fight and had their hand in Fury's mouth looking for his gumshield by the time Fury actually got up.
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They turned the ball over, they forced bad shots, they desperately tried to draw fouls that they had no chance of getting the refs to bite on.
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It's that -- to borrow the above basketball metaphor -- he keeps guarding the other team more and more aggressively, daring the refs to call him for a foul.
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Charges of bias are here to stay — and I imagine we'll see many more Congressional hearings on the subject as lawmakers attempt to work the new refs.
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In part because players have learned that they really need to make sure the refs know they've been fouled, you see something like this on every play.
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The press and the refs might give him some problems, but the Blazer bigs—bless the bruised and sunken chest cavities where their hearts used to be—can't.
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""If in the middle of the game you're spending all your time arguing with the refs," Obama told the crowd, "then you're a loser and you shouldn't win.
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It seems as though when it comes to the biggest fight of the year, refs are desperate to not involve themselves in the outcome by taking a point.
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After all, in both sports, it doesn't matter who has the ball at the start – all that matters is who the refs see in control at the end.
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"It was probably 70% luck," a very bearded Edelman said ... admitting he tried to get Tom Brady to rush the next play so the refs couldn't review it!
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A number of high-profile refs were given last weekend off or handed lower league games to take charge of before jetting off to Spain last Saturday night.
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Working the refs — screaming about bias and unfair treatment, no matter how favorable the treatment actually is — has been a consistent, long-term political strategy on the right.
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The NBA has hit Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with a $500,000 fine for publicly blasting NBA refs in the wake of a controversial call in a Feb.
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But what is more likely to happen in such a scenario is that the refs hold their whistles somewhat, not wanting to make the game unwatchable or unplayable.
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According to D. Orlando Ledbetter of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Coleman said the refs told him that the ball was tipped, which meant it was not pass interference.
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Matt Barnes is sounding off on everything from NBA fighting, to the NBA refs sucking, to calling Austin Rivers an arrogant punk ... and he doesn't care who knows it.
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Hockey is the most fun sport to watch because it's reckless, there are a bunch of fights and even the REFS are badasses who don't take anyone's sh*t.
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About time NFL's going to start putting computer chips in footballs in some games next season, so finally the refs can stop guessing (badly) where to place the ball.
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After Sunday's 30-20 win over the Cardinals ... the Panthers star QB complained about the refs ... saying he didn't "feel safe" after hits he thought shoulda been flagged ... weren't.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," he wrote in the 2002 piece for National Review.
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A controversial Euro step by James Harden during Saturday night's Houston Rockets - Utah Jazz game has fans torn as to whether or not refs should have called it traveling.
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Welp, it looks like the frustrated commentary turned into a shouting match down below, because eyewitnesses tell us Marlon let the refs have it and then some, cussing included.
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That means people like Jones getting psyched over the Olympics, Taylor Swift beefing publicly with Kanye and Kim, and Steph Curry's wife ripping the refs during the NBA Finals.
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Clearly, the refs aren't out to "protect" Lin — as they are with the stars ... It is reasonable to wonder if Lin's race (mainly) and other more minor factors (his vehement Christianity plus his Harvard grad status) don't all combine to make him somewhat of an outsider in the NBA fraternity ... which the refs' calls reflect ... — William M. Palmer in Boston, reacting to an article about accusations of racism leveled against N.B.A. referees.
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Harden is befuddled, seeing as, well, everyone asks refs for fouls, and he just got SHOVED, which is probably not something that happens to him, a grown man, very often.
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What's happened is they've vacillated back and forth and, to use a recent metaphor, there's a little bit of a James Harden action going on here, of working the refs.
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ReFS can detect when data's screwed up on a mirrored hard drive and then use another non-corrupt backup to automatically fix the bad one, ensuring your data's always undamaged.
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McCarthy was allegedly pissed off at the referees after his stepson's Notre Dame Academy lost to Pulaski High on Tuesday night ... and followed the refs as they left the court.
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And it has useful innovations that make the game more fun and transparent (a "three-point-line" for conversions, safer kick returns, mic'ed up refs, sideline reporters with team access).
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And even if the issues that come up at your Super Bowl gathering are what the refs would call out of bounds, the best defense is always a good offense.
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New Orleans Saints fans clearly felt they were screwed again in the playoffs ... throwing trash at the refs at the Superdome after another pass interference call didn't go their way.
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So, then, why is everyone, from the refs on the court, the players on the floor, the announcers, and even elements of the crowd, acting like that shot didn't go down?
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It's been a horrible game for Cincinnati, they're losing to division rivals at home in the playoffs and running out of time, and they think they're getting screwed by the refs.
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An attempt to work the refs a bit so when the next spending debate comes up Trump has set the floor of what he wants to see spent on the wall?
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One thing I would say on the tech front that I feel very strongly about based on our conversation over the last 45 minutes, this idea of working the refs, right?
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When the final bell rings and the pugilists return to their handlers, you turn to the refs to see who won, only to discover there's no way to score the fight.
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Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey committed a seemingly obvious pass interference penalty against the Houston Texans' DeAndre Hopkins, but the refs did not call it, even after a challenge and review.
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Houston head coach Bill O'Brien couldn't challenge the play because the refs had blown it dead: "If you want to talk about (challenges), let's go back to that one," O'Brien said.
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Where's the guy I watch out there, swinging his ass into defenders to create fouls, tricking refs and completely not giving a shit when the world give him heat for it.
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The refs appear to have, like, completely missed that Dudley was not, in fact, harmlessly taken down by the pure momentum of the play, but rather an action of pure malice.
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While outrage campaigns intended to work the refs and appeal to fears of appearing partisan may work with lawmakers or companies in Silicon Valley, the youth climate movement appears wholly unmoved.
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Duke had called off the dogs and were just playing the clock out and, sure, Brooks could have just left the ball to the refs instead of shooting it, but he didn't.
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Before we go on, though, a fact that's little-known to those who aren't hardcore sports fans: Many college basketball refs only earn part-time livings by blowing whistles and calling fouls.
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The conservatives have worked the media refs for years and we see that in the way that they bend over backwards towards any kind of implicit conservative criticism of their... I agree.
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"Of course, we can't resolve every problem that comes up, but let's see if we can give the refs a hand on the key situations without interrupting play too much," Infantino said.
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Ex-Green Bay star Nick Collins says the Lions have nobody to blame but themselves -- not even garbage refs -- for their loss to the Packers ... telling TMZ Sports Detroit just blew it!!!
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I thought it was funny that some journalists were killing Kyle Lowry for playing terrible, which he was, calling his game garbage, but then also getting on me for getting on the refs.
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"Facebook continues to fall victim to the right wing's work the refs gambit and remains way too willing to do counterproductive, and even sometimes strange, things to mollify right-wing critics," Carusone said.
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"The refs were trying to break it up, and it felt like there was a couple sucker punches thrown, and I got one there quick and then reacted a little emotionally," Hathaway said.
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His frequent criticisms of NBA refs have cost him a small fortune — as of February 2018, the NBA had fined him close to $2.6 million for his comments and antics over the years.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer vendors, no women anything," he wrote in March 2002, a stance he defended in several other columns.
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Texas A&M needed to hit all of its shots, hope for unforced turnovers, hope the refs didn't get whistle-happy when it was on defense and get a friendly whistle on offense.
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In Games 5 and 6, it appeared the refs caught on to the sneaky, veteran tricks that he uses to draw foul calls, including one play where he dragged Iman Shumpert to the ground.
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For the fourth time, YouTube channel Bad Lip Reading has thrown together a hilarious compilation of football players, coaches and refs talking about Tom Brady's hairy ankles and other nonsensical, un-football related things.
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And to deal with the problem which doesn't occur in normal MMA: that of unconscious bodies getting in the way of further fighting, the refs will just drag limp fighters out by an arm.
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The number of replays a ref can ask for isn't capped, because everyone would be pissed if the refs used up their challenges early and were therefore unable to reverse a critical late call.
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At another point in the clip, it looks like he circled back and confronted the refs directly at the scoring table, and did some intense finger-pointing and chastising before having to be restrained.
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It may be that some cynical politicians are just looking to work the refs harder in a game they are already winning (drawing attention away from the more unsavory things happening in online political media).
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The NBA refs are on the hot seat right now, with some fans thinking they handed a gift game to the Golden State Warriors in the first run of the Western Conference semifinals against Houston.
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Making matters worse, the refs had to review the play to make sure he got the shot off in time, which he did, but they could not go back in and review the no-call.
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Herb Dean's one of the more respected refs in MMA -- but UFC fighter Sabah Homasi says he F'd up BAD during his UFC 218 scrap ... and there should be hell to pay for his actions.
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With the score tied and less than two minutes remaining, many believe that the Saints would have advanced to the Super Bowl to play the Patriots had the refs made the call against Robey-Coleman.
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With refs we are taught, and learn to practice, the ethic that a foul that isn't called is a good play, and that an intentional foul that helps the team win is a good foul.
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He compared the grousing about unfair questions that some candidates engage in (and was especially prevalent during last year's crowded GOP primary debates) to coaches "working the refs" in hopes of getting favorable calls later.
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The refs screwed up the Cavs-Warriors game so bad last night, the league should allow the teams to replay the final 60 seconds of the game ... seriously -- according to former NBA ref Tim Donaghy.
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In this case, Donaghy is honing in on that late 4th quarter foul involving Kevin Durant and LeBron James -- when two refs disagreed on who was at fault ... was it a charge or a block.
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He also failed an NFL drug test and was fined multiple times for abusing the refs -- including the infamous water bottle incident in 2000, when he squirted water at an official and was fined $40,000.
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Sam asked for character refs and I probably sent them over 30 photos for the main animated characters (A4, Tommy Octo the Octopus Drummer, the Pearl Lion door guy based on that famous Berlin doorman, etc).
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Although having a medically trained person readily available can be too costly for many schools, an A.E.D. costs only about $1,000 and can be used to save anyone — coaches, refs and spectators as well as athletes.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," Moore wrote in National Review column in March 2002 that was unearthed Monday by CNN's KFile.
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In sports bars you get the occasional shout-out or chastisement directed at refs and players, but here people were just hurling out their thoughts and feelings willy-nilly; it was like an audible Twitter feed.
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His name is Ted Rath -- and he went viral during the 2018 season thanks to a highlight reel showing him constantly pulling McVay toward the bench so he wouldn't get run over by players and refs.
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Inside is a regulation ring, which he installed years ago so he could hone his own footwork, and that of the many refs he mentored during a 35-year career (there are slides of them, too).
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In a video captured from the lower bowl of the stadium ... you can see people in the stands firing various items at the refs as they were running off the field into the locker room. pic.twitter.
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There's been talk for years that the way to fix bad calls is to have robot or computer refs take the court over (seems terrifying), but when we got Gobert out he said all that ain't necessary.
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One popular theory is that Republicans have successfully "worked the refs" and led the press to become paranoid about exhibiting liberal bias to the extent that the bend over backward and display bias in the opposite direction.
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You try to play this game with integrity until the end of the whistle and when the refs want to take over the game and make it their own platform there's nothing you can do about it.
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It ended up being a tight contest, so there's greater scrutiny on things like this and some of the contact in pass coverage that was permitted, but ultimately, no, the refs did not cost Dallas the game.
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Of course, Beckham went off to the media after the Giants lost to the Vikings Monday night -- complaining about how he's become unfairly targeted by the refs after getting hit for unsportsmanlike conduct in the 2nd half.
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FYI, to say Brown is "fiery" is a tremendous understatement -- during the show, he unloaded full-throated nuclear verbal attacks at players, refs and his own coaches ... and many have criticized him for being way too aggressive.
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He may never reach Sheed's nigh-unbreakable record of 41 technical fouls in 2000-01, but Cousins has cemented his status among the best of all time when it comes to getting T'd up by the refs.
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If you missed it ... the refs on "Monday Night Football" were as bad as they've been all season -- throwing flags for two questionable illegal hands to the face fouls that helped lift the Packers to a win.
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What began as a process with walkie talkies and stopwatches has since evolved to 360 degree HD cameras and an off site control center, where refs can consult directly with officiating experts every time a review is initiated.
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The conversation in the air was one of fear, but not the usual "man we're gonna get roughed up by the refs" fear of a team that did not want to slog through another series against LeBron James.
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Butler said after the game that he had never heard of the penalty and that the Cowboys "had to beat the stripes" in order to beat Green Bay, the implication being that the refs cost Dallas the game.
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In "Uncut Gems," Sandler as Ratner even assures a menacing creditor that the Celtics are a lock because the refs, and by extension the league, prefer Boston to win — a conspiratorial cliché the league has been fighting forever.
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That's hard to do, and Trump won't be able to pull it off on the fly, which is why he has recently been working the refs to explain that debate moderators should let him get away with lying.
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They were even gonna assign one parent a week to patrol all the other parents to, and this is true, hand them a lollipop if they were getting too loud or hostile toward players, coaches, refs, nearby squirrels, etc.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," Moore wrote in a National Review Online column in March 2002 that was unearthed last week by CNN's KFile.
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There's a lot of trash talk in this clip too -- Miller says a bunch of AJ's wins (from early in his career) were "given to him" by corrupt refs who would stop fights early to ensure a Joshua victory.
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Either the refs allow such contact to become normalized, hurting the timing and flow of Detroit's offense, or they blow the whistle and allow the Pistons the choice of Drummond free throws or taking the ball on the side.
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He told Fox's Erin Andrews that the referees told him Coleman was in the area of the ball, so it was not PI. "[The refs] felt like the play arrived at the same time the ball did," Payton said.
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Those with experience of playing professionally are genuinely well placed to make good refs, not only because of their athleticism and practical knowledge but also because of the authority they derive from having come from within the world of football.
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I know this will bring out the puck-over-glass defenders who don't ever want to rely on a referee's judgement, but that ship has sailed—we ask the refs to use their judgement on 90 percent of penalties already.
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Dwight fusses about his role to anyone who will listen, insists on hideous post touches (and mopes if he doesn't get them), HATES playing with guards who might be better than he is, and complains to the refs non-stop.
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I didn't know if it crossed the line or not, but, when I saw the replay, I thought they might call it our way, but it was not the way the refs saw it, so you just go on with life.
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"Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," he wrote in a 2002 column for the conservative National Review, recently unearthed by CNN's Andrew Kaczynski and Paul LeBlanc.
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In the XFL, refs brought out the chains to measure first downs so many times, the beloved men in front of me, aka my best friends on earth, started cheering for the chains to be brought out after every play.
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After Cam Newton used his postgame press conference last week as a bully pulpit to inveigh against uncalled roughing the passer penalties, the football world deliberated over just how much Newton has been screwed over the refs the last few years.
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DeMarcus scored 55 points playing against Plumlee and Meyers Leonard, another big white fella DMC has some history with, then gave a spectacular postgame interview where he disparaged NBA refs in aggregate and denigrated his evening's matchup to anyone who would listen.
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" Infantino cited such positive feedback as a big reason why he wants to move forward to bringing the video refs to Russia next year: "We will use video refereeing at the 2018 World Cup because we've had nothing but positive feedback so far.
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These regular inspections appear to have contributed to some improvements: In 2007, a study by researchers from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania clearly showed that white refs called fouls on black players at a greater rate than on their white counterparts.
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HR had become "weaponized," they said; Googlers on both sides of the battle lines had become adept at working the refs—baiting colleagues into saying things that might violate the company's code of conduct, then going to human resources to report them.
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To summarize: this meant that the refs got the initial call wrong—their second missed shot-clock violation in the final 2:13 of play in a championship game—then compounded their error by failing to stop play and review it immediately.
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Despite a text message Wideman sent to another player saying he was only having a hearing because of "stupid refs and stupid media," cited by Bettman in responding to Wideman's first appeal, Oldham wrote that it did not represent intent to injure.
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Baldomero Toledo, who everybody calls Baldo—an unfortunate nickname as his hairline has thinned over time—told me that before PRO, refs would get together only twice a year, and when they did, they'd receive only infrequent and inconsistent messages from the league.
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The Grammy-winning crooner is a HUGE Saints fan (he was born and raised in New Orleans) -- and while he's usually a chill guy, his blood was BOILING when his team got screwed by the refs in the waning minutes of the game.
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Taiwanese player Tseng Wen-ting, sporting a statement ponytail for the ages, sees the argument breaking out and STREAKS down the court, his ponytail flapping behind him in the wind, and stands between them as the refs head over to break it up.
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After CR7 stormed the pitch and banged a quick goal in the 2nd half of Real Madrid's battle with Barcelona -- he was tripped up by Samuel Umtiti in a run a few minutes later and blew up at the refs for not penalizing the guy.
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The Raptors are in the midst of the best prolonged stretch in franchise history, yet fans continue to believe that the team's lack of exposure in the United States has motivated everybody—from refs, to the media, to the league itself—to write them off.
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Watch our man, with Harden-esque flourish, creating contact with a straggling Curry, who would find himself in foul trouble in the third quarter, followed by a knowing look transitioning into an extremely fake pain yell to really close the deal with the refs.
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Now, we do something called the Doing Business Index and that the week after the Doing Business Index comes out is my busiest week because all of these heads of state, ministers of finance are calling me, it's like yelling at the refs. Yeah.
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"As companies increasingly insert themselves into making inherently subjective judgment calls, politicians are going to work the refs, and they're also going to use those fights to draw attention," said Jesse Blumenthal, who heads tech and innovation policy for the Koch-funded group Stand Together.
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Spot reviews, because they often rely on conclusive evidence, do not succeed at high percentages (which is why they are the bane of Football Twitter's existence), but it appeared to be pretty conclusive that the ball was farther down the field than the refs had spotted it.
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This drew no flag because the refs decided that by the time of impact Jackson had "become a runner" and therefore could defend himself, though that's the sort of extremely imprecise and subjective determination that makes the whole "what is a catch?" process so maddening to viewers.
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However, replays showed that Kings forward DeMarcus Cousins tipped the preceding inbounds pass, so even though Ross jacked up his shot well before the final horn, the refs ruled after a lengthy review that the clock had not started upon the tip as it should have.
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There are some on the far right who I think are working the refs, kind of like James Harden in basketball, but for the most part, I think what happens is it comes from the base that there is some kind of monster plot against conservatives.
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Moir, who took home a gold medal earlier this week with partner Tessa Virtue — as the pair made headlines for their mysterious relationship status — showed up to root for Team Canada at the nail-biter of a gamer, and achieved "peak Canada" while drinking beer and heckling the refs.
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In an ending that neither team could quite believe, the Kings held on for a 411-99 win over the Toronto Raptors at Golden 1 Center, when refs ruled that Toronto's Terrence Ross could not have released a last-ditch 30-foot 3-pointer before the final buzzer.
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Whether it was the precariousness of Johnson being completely at Cantwell's mercy after so thoroughly posterizing him, or if Cantwell just appreciates a good old-fashioned piggy-back dunk, even if he's the dunkee, Cantwell held on to Johnson until refs were able to help wrangle him down.
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The cameras then cut away so we don't see the whole thing, so maybe it's understandable for the refs to think it was a throat swipe but also, Jesus Christ, can you believe this paragraph that is underneath a GIF of a beefy be-mulleted man sniffing his fingers?
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Take a look: The refs took away the technical after review, so that they wouldn't have to hear Cavs fans' shitty social media comments about the play or have to issue some kind of retroactive officiating reports for a bad call, which seems to be happening a lot nowadays.
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His team was up more than 20, but Leonelli charged up and down the bench, working the refs, shouting out "downhill" and "spacing" to his offense, and slicing the air with a celebratory fist pump and leg kick when a corner three found the bottom of the net.
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And if it has to be amateurs, then let it be the next iterations of Lonzo Ball and Malik Monk and Jonathan Isaac—players who can play the five-on-five game, but seem like they'd be twice as fun in a game without coaches or plays or refs.
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I do lament – I did a piece earlier this week about the day before Christmas and how there was just another annihilation in the stock market and more individual investors left, which makes it tougher for me to recommend any of these stocks because there are no refs in our game.
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A fun thing to consider when watching the NFL is how many rules require painstaking, almost scientific exactitude to enforce properly and how many others boil down to refs just winging it—when it comes to spotting a player down, for example, or judging where a punt sails out of bounds.
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Aides have already started working the refs, urging reporters and pundits to hold Clinton and Trump to the same standard, and her campaign is sure to flood the airwaves with surrogates ready to declare Trump's performance a disaster and shame media figures whom, in their opinion, are too soft on Trump.
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" The post also notes that the punishments were so severe because the refs followed the letter of the law, which is more strict for the junior game than the pros, according to chairman of the officials committee, Robert Sjöström: "This referee did very right when he noted everything that happened.
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When preparing for the Mayweather-McGregor debacle, we mentioned that too few boxers today know where to place their heads during tie-ups in order to begin freeing their hands, and too many refs are content to break fighters as soon as the clinch takes place, effectively killing the infight.
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There is some jovial chatting amongst the off-duty refs and much of the atmosphere feels like a reunion of old friends, but there is also a stern focus on the live-matches happening on the mat, and those less experienced are taking note from those ahead of them on the path.
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"It is what it is — if it's not a (pass interference) to the refs, it's not a P.I. I'm not here to make excuses to say it was a P.I." New England (143-2) drove 74 yards and had a first-and-goal at the 2-yard line and failed on four tries.
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So refs try to manage the game by allowing guys to get hacked on the arm or cross-checked in the back of the neck, but if a clearing attempt accidentally catches too much air then a team goes up 5-on-3 for a minute and probably scores because of it.
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If anything the vibrating madness around him—from the players, the coaches, the refs, the crowd, from Anthony Kiedis—made him play EVEN BETTER, because he was just so totally unconcerned with anything but the task at hand while everyone else was sitting there trying to figure out if Rondo SPIT ON CHRIS PAUL.
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So here's my verdict after just one quarter of play: The NBA got the mix pretty well in terms of giving attention-challenged fans (like me) a way to do something additional during the game without distracting them too much from the core task of rooting for their team and yelling at the refs.
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The ongoing talks between Zuckerberg and prominent conservatives have attracted the attention of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which conducts oversight on issues related to telecommunications and consumer protection and is "aware" of allegations that conservatives "are trying to work the refs" ahead of 2020, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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Whether or not Dez Bryant caught a pass in Green Bay turned out to be the most memorable officiating controversy of the 2014 playoffs, though that game never would have happened if the refs didn't mysteriously pick up a pass interference flag thrown in the fourth quarter against Dallas in their game the week before versus Detroit.
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In fact, if you closed your eyes and listened to the rantings of these two powerful men, it would be difficult to tell which man was talking, Trump or Moore: "Here's the rule change I propose: No more women refs, no women announcers, no women beer venders, no women anything," Moore wrote about March Madness a in National Review column in March 2002.
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Fizdale had a right to be upset at the refs for swallowing their whistles when Memphis had the ball—the Grizzlies went to the line 15 times, total—but there's nothing to say about Leonard, who put his head down and attacked defenders who are either too old, too slow, too big, too weak, or too impatient to hang with him.
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I think part of the legislation around the Professional and Amateur Sports Prohibition Act was that the marketplace is $65 billion now, it's not necessarily going to increase the state revenues — well, on the fantasy side — it's potentially sports betting ... Illegal gambling has always happened and in a way athletes and GMs and refs more recently have been pinched for it.
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A Washington Player Said The Team Gets Bad Calls Because Refs Hate Their Awful Name, Then Claimed To Have Forgotten Saying That A Few Days Later After a lopsided Washington loss to Carolina in late November, Jason Hatcher vented to the media about how he thought the referees were picking on his team because of a moral objection to the team's widely loathed slur of a nickname.
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Thankfully, ESPNFC reporter Iain Macintosh was on hand to capture the progression of this spectacular disaster: But then, as if Orient fans haven't been treated outright disrespectfully enough, the refs put back in the corner flags after the game was "abandoned" and resumed play: Orient ended up losing 3-1, with two goals coming within just two minutes of each other—before fans stormed the pitch.
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And yet it happened and kept happening, without a whistle from the refs—the one whistle that was blown for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Newton was offset by a Carolina penalty—or much in the way of comment from NBC's broadcasters until Cris Collinsworth wondered, late in the game, about whether all those helmet-to-helmet hits might have diminished Newton's capacity to lead a potential game-winning drive.
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Sports arguments have always been driven by conflicting versions of what happened, whether Michael Jordan's push-off on the Utah Jazz's Bryon Russell in Game 6 of the 1998 finals, or the infamous 2002 "tuck rule" game between the New England Patriots and the Oakland Raiders, which put Tom Brady on the path to his first Super Bowl when the refs overturned what was initially called a fumble.
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The refs were letting both teams play, but Cleveland seemed to be getting the lion's share of the calls in the first half—maybe because LeBron James has been particularly vocal about fouls and/or flagrant fouls that he feels don't go his way—so much so that when the Cavs were finally whistled with about nine minutes in the second quarter, the Toronto crowd let out a resounding Bronx cheer.
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J. Watt&aposs fiancee&apos in a headlineLeBron James gave the entire Ohio State football team new $350 Beats headphones, and it&aposs not an NCAA violation thanks to a loopholeMagic Johnson weighed in on the greatest of all time debate and said that with a few more championships, LeBron James will probably be &aposthe greatest that&aposs ever played&aposGolden State&aposs frustrations from its abysmal season came to a head as Steve Kerr got ejected for telling refs to &aposwake the f--- up&apos
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Read more:Cavs coach John Beilein is under fire after he says he accidentally called players &aposthugs&apos instead of &aposslugs&aposThe team the NBA world thought was on the verge of a fire sale is suddenly in the thick of the playoff raceZion Williamson nearly stayed at Duke, but his family talked him into going pro at the last momentGolden State&aposs frustrations from its abysmal season came to a head as Steve Kerr got ejected for telling refs to &aposwake the f--- up&apos
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Sonic Activity: Pizza Hut's pizza butt squirts all over DQ's blizzard universe after a street shortage of meth; a sick endurance match ends at last as Taco Bell's beef boys shit themselves all together at half court and have to be carried off in white rape vans, conceding to Arby's; the churches donate millions in worship money to pay off the refs so Chick-fil-A can represent the lord's light everlasting; the thought of what percentage of Americans' bodies are made of Wendy's brings her competitor to their knees.
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The calculus is just so straightforward, it's the most 2.83 points per possession play imaginable, that the idea that a rational LeBron would opt to... A. Pass out to one of his horrible teammates, B. try to isolate and shoot over JaVale from a stationary position, C. catch JaVale on a pump fake and draw contact, Thick Jimmy style, or D. just kind of, I don't know, openly travel, and dare the refs to call him on it, which would be a power move, but not, I suspect, a winning basketball play.
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Read more:Golden State&aposs frustrations from its abysmal season came to a head as Steve Kerr got ejected for telling refs to &aposwake the f--- up&aposTrae Young bamboozled Nuggets defenders with a fake behind-the-back pass turned nutmeg that dazzled NBA fansZion Williamson nearly stayed at Duke, but his family talked him into going pro at the last momentMagic Johnson weighed in on the greatest of all time debate and said that with a few more championships, LeBron James will probably be &aposthe greatest that&aposs ever played&apos
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Blake Griffin is barking at refs less frequently while proving nightly that worries about his physical demise remain premature; 31-year-old Chris Paul somehow looks like 23-year-old Chris Paul; J.J. Redick, who was the NBA's most accurate three-point marksman a season ago, is currently shooting an absurd 47.9 percent beyond the arc; DeAndre Jordan remains a 40-foot electric fence; and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute is eight-for-13 from the corners and suddenly has enough confidence to make these plays look routine: The Clippers are winning because they enter every game with more talent and continuity than the teams they're facing.
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