Re: Ralph Nadar

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not one of Ralph's fans but I hope he can put some pressure on the NBA
to make refs accountable. Corruption is running rampant in Politics,
Government Agencies, and Sports. Baseball has it's Michelin Men using
steroids, we have crooked refs I believe.

DanF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dorine Pratt" <norine@pshift.com>
To: "Celts" <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: Ralph Nadar


> I just heard on the radio that Ralph Nadar has gone after the NBA for the
> officiating of the Laker/Kings game that gave the game to the Lakers - the
> specific issue the obvious foul by Kobie Bryant on Bibby - the elbow to
the
> nose.  We all saw that, but the officials ignored it, of course. I've
> personally written to the NBA twice this past season about the officiating
> and asked them to retrain all the officials and demand accounting from
them,
> that I've never seen it so bad.  At least now it's getting national
> attention.
>
> I don't know if the NBA wants a certain team to win - I guess these days
> it's easy to believe that corruption exists - but I do know that calls are
> made on some teams that never happened, over and over again, and vice
versa.
> I love pro basketball and whatever's wrong I hope they fix it.  Maybe this
> public exposure will do the trick - one can only hope!
>
> Dorine