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...take him up on the offer - though he would surely make his opinion heard regardless - is Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, arguably the loudest ref critic on the planet. And though it's early in Johnson's tenure, Cuban is encouraged. "The biggest challenge the officiating group had was lack of experience in managing high-stress professionals," Cuban writes in an e-mail. "To say [Johnson] has that part mastered is an understatement." In addition to bringing on Johnson, the NBA has changed its management structure, separating referee oversight from its general basketball operations and dedicating a specific person...
...only goals of the game occurred in the first half, where the Terriers outshot the Crimson 7 to 5. BU goalkeeper Kim Kastuk was too much for the Crimson to handle as she recorded five saves in the shutout. Captain Kylie Stone notched three saves, but the lack of offense kept Harvard from capturing the win. “They did a really good job of protecting [their goalie],” Caples said about the Terrier defense. “They weren’t giving us second chance opportunities.” “[Kastuk] had some...
...stretch of the imagination believe that the Crimson played well before the break. Giving up 118 yards rushing and two touchdowns to a single guy in one half is not exactly what we’d call dominating the competition, but the Tigers were surely helped by a lack of consistency from the officiating crew. The entire complexion of the game would’ve been different without that missed call.Numerous times the officials handed the Tigers a first down on what should have been second or third and short, and once the back judge—standing nearly...
...PBHA. Toby N. Romer ’94, for example, is now the headmaster of Brighton High School, where he worked as an after-school tutor his freshman year. Many panelists warned that they were wary of a Harvard degree when screening applicants. Romer said he worried about a lack of ability to connect theory and practice. “I look for people with an ability to function in imperfect situations,” he said. Sarah M. Link ’01 spoke of the necessity to maintain optimism in a job where salaries are small and thank...
...Obama campaign after McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.“A MANLY MAN”Government Professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 explained the presidential race in terms of his book “Manliness,” which mourns the lack of manliness in a “gender neutral” society.“The race between McCain and Obama is the classic match-up between a manly man and a sensitive man,” Mansfield said. He added that McCain’s ‘manliness?...