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Time in that sense is the referee at every Olympic event, the ghost in the machine, as fickle a third party as in the Shakespeare sonnets. Biathletes begin their runs, like every amateur timing himself at home, the minute the second hand hits 00:00, and pay for missing shots...
BU Coach Jack Parker may be a college hockey guru, but he's certainly no referee.
Case #1. After picking up a ten-minute misconduct penalty at 10:17 of the third period, sophomore forward Spencer Meany lived up to his name by hanging his stick over the edge of the penalty box and taunting the referee.
The net, however, careened into a visibly annoyed referee, taking him off his feet.
The Cornell game was a heart-breaker. Harvard played some of the worst soccer it had played all season, yet lost to the eventual Ivy champion only after the referee awarded the Big Red a controversial penalty kick in the waning moments of the game. As a result, Harvard lost...