Referees @ MindSay

According to an upcoming paper by a University of Pennsylvania professor and a Cornell graduate student, white referees called fouls against black players at a higher rate than they did against white players.

Their study also found that black officials called fouls on white players more frequently than they did against blacks, but the disparity wasn't as great.

"We obviously discuss officiating and our feelings toward it," said Utah Jazz guard Derek Fisher, president of the NBA players' association. "But I don't ever recall it being a racially motivated type of conversation where we felt like there were certain guys that had it out for me or him or whoever just because of the color of our skin.

"I don't know that I've ever really felt that there was a racial component to officiating."

so every year for the past six or so years my family has come down to cincinnati for soccer tournaments on memorial weekend. and my brothers usually do decent they dont always make it to the finals but they occasionally make it to semi-finals. well this weekend my brother carl (the older of the two) didnt do so well, actually carl did awesome it was some of the other players on his team that didnt do so well, he lost two games and tied one. Well if his referees would have been better he would have won the game he tied...now im a soccer ref. and so are my brothers and we have been around this sport for 14 years when i first started playing at seven. and i have never seen a ref as bad as the one carl had...i mean he was such an ass he didnt call anything our way and the one goal the other team got shouldnt have counted because there was a handball by the player who shot the goal (those of you that dont know anything about soccer, you cant use your hands)...anyway this was carls last year of these tournements he will be going to college next year. my other brother paul...his refs sucked as well, except for the ref he had for the semi final game. paul lost one, tied one, and won one...so he went on to the semi finals, and won 1-0 very close game, and then he went on to the finals where the game was tied 0-0 even in over time so they had to have a shoot out where pauls team WON! first place! by a close 3-4 shoot out i didnt get to see the game but i was told it was awesome...im so pround of my brothers they did amazing regardless of the outcome.