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Message: [QUOTE="CamrnCrz1974, post: 3112058, member: 1052"] Mechelle Voepel has covered women's basketball since 1984. She joined ESPN.com in 1996 as a women’s college and pro basketball writer. In addition, she has covered both the Summer and Winter Olympics, the Women's World Cup soccer tournament, and several professional golf major tournaments. She has attended over 20 straight Women’s Basketball Final Fours. But her questioning whether something was a flagrant foul (specifically wondering if the foul was intentional) and your brief meeting with her a couple of years ago form the basis for your opinion that she is both not a fan of Katie Lou Samuelson and not a fan of UConn? As an aside, I have heard Rebecca Lobo, Kara Lawson, Debbie Antonelli, Doris Burke, etc. (among WCBB analysts/commentators) and Jeff Van Gundy, Doris Burke, Marc Jackson, etc. (among NBA analysts/commentators) question flagrant fouls and wondering if they were intentional. I did not conclude that there was any inherent bias against the player who was the recipient of the flagrant foul. As an aside, calling fouls in basketball has an objective component (the respective rulebooks of the NBA, NBA, MBB, WBB, etc.) as well as the subjective component by the individual official or the officiating team for that game. If it were completely open and obvious, coaches (and players) would not be so irate about calls that went against them. Heck, I was discussing figure skating in a similar manner. IJS has a points system for values of base elements and technical requirements. But even then, was the triple Lutz off an inside or outside edge? What was the caller's vantage point? And why is there so much variance in the PCS (program components) scores? There will always be an element of subjectivity, even with objective standards, because people see and interpret things differently? As a second aside, I do have a bias, because Mechelle Voepel is a friend of mine whom I see in person 2-3 times per year and with whom I communicate on a weekly basis. [/QUOTE]

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