Posted on 05/04/2007 8:05:41 AM PDT by TimesWatch
Years after failing to secure Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor the right to golf at Augusta National Golf Club, the Times has now turned to the plight of multimillionaire NBA players who get bad foul calls.
The New York Times' quest for social justice knows no out-of-bounds, judging by the front-page placement Wednesday of "Study of N.B.A. Sees Racial Bias in Calling Fouls" by Alan Schwarz.
"An academic study of the National Basketball Association, whose playoffs continue tonight, suggests that a racial bias found in other parts of American society has existed on the basketball court as well.
"A coming paper by a University of Pennsylvania professor and a Cornell University graduate student says that, during the 13 seasons from 1991 through 2004, white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white players."
The Times has often embarrassed itself when venturing into the crossroads of social justice and sports -- most recently with its shoddy coverage of the Duke "rape" case. A more amusing instance was the paper's embarrassing and ultimately fruitless crusade against Augusta National Golf Club for not admitting women, led by then-Executive Editor Howell Raines.
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Well, maybe NBA will get “Instant Replay” challenges.........
What White players?
Unless the study actually looked at the film and attempted to classify each foul as “good call” or “bad call,” the study is just statistical masturbation.
Isn’t the NBA 99.9% black?
That might explain the alleged disparity in foul calls.
Another control to do is to have a multiracial panel of refs review tapes of randomly sampled fouls and have them decide whether the calls were legitimate or not.
Bill Lambeer, as well.
It’s even more worthless than that.
Games have 3 referees. In the event there’s a mix of white refs and black ones, you have no way of knowing who made any given foul call.
“the study is just statistical masturbation.”
Thank you!
gezzzzzzzzz if the clowns who did this “research” had actually WATCHED a game instead of just reading BOX SCORES;
they would know that the majority of NBA players are black and the overwhelming majority who are in the games are black!
Absolutely there's racial bias in the NBA. Just look at their players. How many Asians do you see? Equal opportunity employer...?
The NBA keeps no records of which official made which call.
This study only looks at the officiating team make-up, and says if it's 3-0 white, black playerss got X% of the fouls, if it's 2-1 white, black players got Y% of the fouls, etc. etc.
It's crap.
I think there’s a racial bias... Blacks outnumber whites 10:1 in the NBA. In the general population, that’s not true. It’s time to fire some black players and bring in less capable whites in the name of equality.
Charles Barkley said the people at Indiana College who did this study are jackasses.
I think he nailed it.
Yep, that was a fatal flaw in the study - they couldn't tell which of the three referees in a given crew made a particular call against a particular black or white player. The "researchers" simply made an assumption. This is what passes for research scholarship at our liberal indoctrination camps, er, I mean universities.
Ridiculous. People who have created the myth about whites being racist towards blacks, have to keep up the lies.
I don't even know what WNBA team he's coaching now, but I bet you those chicks could take the starting five of the Knicks to school.
It is hard to call foul when most the white players are on the bench.
I've used the NBA in arguments for years, observing that people so obsessed with workplace makeup reflecting that of the public were hypocrites if they didn't want to rebalance pro sports too.
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