Fran Fraschilla Bashes Pac-10 Refs, Says, 'I Wanted to Run Into a Bathroom and Throw Up'

Jayhawk Fan posted 3/7/2008 from sports.aol.com [flag]

Former Manhattan, St. John's and New Mexico head basketball coach Fran Fraschilla, now a college basketball commentator for ESPN, isn't usually the type to trash the officials. But last night's Stanford-UCLA debacle was too much for him: "There's one place left in my opinion where that still goes on, where the home team, or the team that's favored to win, gets the advantage. I hate to say it... [link]

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Pac-10 Officials Make Fran Fraschilla Want To Throw Up
Published 3/7/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... Fran Fraschila joined Mike Greenberg this morning in Mike & Mike and had this to say in response to last night's Pac-10 battle. ...

Morning Constitutional: Celebrating Fat Athletes
Published 3/7/2008 at The Sporting Blog
We're pleased to be presenting these posts from around the web. They're probably better than ours: > Fat Guys We Love | The Legend of Cecilio Guante Nice list, but no post about fat athletes is complete without mention of Da Meat Hook . > Fran Fraschilla Bashes Pac-10 Refs | FanHouse Warning: Pac-10 officiating can cause intense nausea. > Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Goes Crazy | Ball Don't Lie "Crazy" might be a bit of an overstatement (no chairs were thrown), but he did a fine job of getting himself ejected. > Tiger Woods Can Do Anything ...

One call gives UCLA a win and me nightmares of Trent Johnson
Published 3/7/2008 at The Dagger
... I hate to be the voice of dissent, but I've yet to encounter anyone (other than the official who made the call, and UCLA fans, of course), who believes what happened above was actually a foul. It actually made Fran Fraschilla ill. ...

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