On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Carol S. White wrote: > Interesting article on the St. Paul Pioneer Press website! > Here is the URL: http://www.pioneerplanet.com/sports/docs/spts7.htm Wow, that sounds pretty harsh. It seems like they're penalizing the guy for not swallowing his whistle or calling matching minors in the third period of a tied game. Given the usual fan complaints that officials ought to call the same game in the third as in the first, penalizing an official for doing so doesn't send a good message. OTOH, I see the argument that the assistant refs should call the game the same way as the head ref, even if he doesn't agree with that style. One question about the Saturday night call, which the AR shouldn't have called because the ref saw the incident as well: can't the head ref overrule the assistant in that case? John Whelan, Cornell '91 [log in to unmask] http://www.amurgsval.org/joe/ Consider the alternative: http://slack.net/~whelan/cgi-bin/tbrw.cgi?kpairwise