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- verb Present participle of
officiate . Serving in an official capacity or serving as an official at a contest.
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- noun the act of umpiring
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Examples
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No obvious bias in officiating, and the two teams both played excellent defense.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Duke vs. Butler Post-Game Open Thread 2010
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In American sports fans (and players) have very high expectations of fairness and accuracy, not because of anything inherent in the American culture but probably because the officiating is usually fair and accurate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right: 2010
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In American sports fans (and players) have very high expectations of fairness and accuracy, not because of anything inherent in the American culture but probably because the officiating is usually fair and accurate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right: 2010
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While I think NBA officiating is terrible, I don't quite subscribe to the conspiracy theory yet.
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Their intent of raising the level of instruction, raising the level of officiating, is probably good.
NBA, NCAA joining forces to make mark in youth summer hoops 2008
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The most difficult thing for players to understand about officiating is how when you're playing defense on the perimeter and you barely touch a guy and a foul is called and then you drive to the basket and get hammered and there is no call.
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The game is remembered for controversial officiating from the German referee Markus Merk, who awarded a penalty kick after a foul called against Onyewu.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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In soccer, bad officiating is so common as to truly be part of the game, and while we boo and hiss the missed calls we don’t feel that our expectations have somehow been violated.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right: 2010
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But I really dislike soccer: the officiating is typically biased or incompetent or both; the floptastic players roll around like they’ve been shot until a colored card comes out, which apparently has some sort of healing properties; and since the scoring is so low, outcomes are more likely to be decided by a single questionable call.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right: 2010
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Where you and I agree completely on is the absolute atrociousness in officiating.
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