Cover your eyes!

[ChuckElias]

Originally posted by NICK
By Fiba rules you are allowed to cancel your requested time-out anytime before the scorer's signal is sounded for such a request. If he was not allowed to do so it would be have been a mistake by the scorebench personnel.

Or Coach Brown didn't try to cancel it until after the signal. Maybe he didn't know you had to make the request before the signal.

[Robmoz]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
...we are considered the ugly Americans.

...Hey! I resemble that remark!

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally posted by Robmoz

...Hey! I resemble that remark!

That maybe so, but I resemble it more that you.

MTD, Sr.

[Nevadaref]

Originally posted by ChuckElias
BushRef's explanation is also exactly what I heard during commentary after the game on the radio.

On a completely different note, the US v Brazil women's soccer Gold Medal match is ready to start their OT period, except that none of the officials is on the field. OOPS!!

The delay was due to the fact that they switched referees.
The 2004Athens website result page has this at the bottom of the game:

NOTE: The referee PALMQVIST Jenny (SWE) was replaced by the 4th official FERREIRA-JAMES Dianne (GUY) in 91'

FIFA released a statement that the Chinese-looking gal, who is apparently Swedish, was dehydrated and could not continue. I have my suspicions however that she was removed for poor performance. This was merely a face-saving way of doing it.
We will know more in a few weeks, if her international badge is stripped.


[Edited by Nevadaref on Aug 28th, 2004 at 05:58 AM]

[JugglingReferee]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
I do now know on which network you guys saw the game, but my sons and I were watching it on the CBC and I was ticked off by the announcers' comments concerning the USA timeout with just under thirty seconds left in the game.

The announcers that that Larry Brown was trying to embarass the Spaniards. As officials, the two things we do not want to see is a team that is down by ten or more points and less that one minute fouling every chance it gets, just to prolong the game; we also do not want to see the team that is leading in this situation call a timeout.

BUT, Spain was fouling, the officials were calling the fouls, and the USA called the timeout to settle its own players and to discuss ball handling strategy. As an official I can accept the USA timeout under the circumstances of this game.

The one announcer went so far as to say that the timeout is the reason we are considered the ugly Americans.

MTD, Sr.

No offense meant, but with all the stuff that we have to deal with here when American broadcasters make mistakes regarding Canada, Canadian athletes, etc.... I think that a CBC mistake is not to be worried about.

Believe me, you'd have to hear alot worse, and for a lng time, to make things even.

[Edited by JugglingReferee on Aug 29th, 2004 at 08:40 PM]