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NBA: more education on flagrants may be needed

After preseason lessons and season-long dialogue with team officials, the man in charge of discipline for the NBA believes players should have an understanding of the league's flagrant foul rules.

'Rougher' than NBA, college hoops trying to adjust

- College basketball is steaming toward a crossroads. A game once built on speed, passing and quick movement has become bogged down by ever-bigger players focused on physical play.

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Is this the world's dirtiest female footballer?
Source: Telegraph

Elizabeth Lambert, a female footballer from the University of New Mexico, has been suspended from the team indefinitely after being caught on video committing a series of violent fouls.

Welcome to the Softer, Gentler NBA

Today's NBA players are soft, and if you don't believe me, just check the history.

Study: White refs call more fouls on blacks
Source: Fox Sports

...An academic study of NBA officiating found that white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white players...

NBA Finals: The Champs, the Refs, the Complainers, Time Machines, and Those Other Guys

The Miami Heat are the NBA champs, like it or not. Like it or not, when a team achieves something great, something that compounds all their hard work and dedication, you shouldn't snivel in the corner about people blowing whistles.

From an NBA Fan: Two Reasons the World Cup is Better than the NBA Finals

As an American following the World Cup closely for the first time and as usual watching the NBA Finals, I'm struck by a couple of differences that make the World Cup more fun to watch.

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