Necessary Roughness

…but the Giants’ D wins the game, 17-14.
Great Super Bowl, unlike some. Congratulations to both teams.
What a mess with one second left.

The third week of the basketball season, I refereed three consecutive games, including the late girls’ basketball game. That turned out to be a good game. The score was pretty good for 7th and 8th grade girls, 32-30. It was probably the best game I officiated this season, with great athletic aggression but without the [...]

The AP reports that Oscar Pistorious, a double-amputee sprinter, cannot participate in the Beijing Olympics because his prosthetics give him an advantage over other runners.
It’s a cool world where this can actually happen. “We can rebuild him. We have the technology…”
Should he run in Beijing? No, of course not, any more than if [...]

The other trainer and I were joined by our boss at a minor league hockey game; HAL has season tickets. The Phoenix Roadrunners dominated the Bakersfield Condors, 4-0.
I was rather surprised to see Bakersfield shots on goal in the high forties while Phoenix was in the high thirties. Bakersfield didn”t catch any breaks, and when [...]

I got to watch the first half of the BCS Championship game while laying over in San Francisco, so I was pretty happy at the start and shaking my head as the game went on.
LSU’s first touchdown drive was a bit of a gift, buoyed by a phantom late hit penalty but made worse by [...]