Comments on: Referee Joe DeRosa suspended for tossing ball to fan

By: Dave Carver

Dave Carver — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:17:19 +0000

I love Amway, how about a bottle of LOC sudsy soap to get your day started? Anyway, other than the angry, pyramid hating loser, it seems a bit much to suspend a ref for tossing a ball. If everyone could hear what some of these classless, dirtballs yell at these games, they are the ones that should be “suspended”.

By: mikeo

mikeo — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:18:44 +0000

The real classless part is that the ref tried to immediately alert security to get the guy kicked out.So instead of a playful back and forth, it showed his premeditated intent. Kinda like they call games.

By: ScottNY

ScottNY — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:27:04 +0000

So if the fan had a basketball with him like baseball fans bring gloves, and he threw it at the ref. What do you think would have happened? He deserved to get suspended. If the fan was going overboard with his heckling, then the ref should have alerted security.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:26:44 +0000

It certainly doesn’t help that the idiot headline writer over at MSNBC.com, which provides a link to this story wrote “Ref suspended for throwing ball at fan in Orlando” which sounds a lot more heinous than what actually occurred. Put the outrageous headline on the front to get people to read the story in the back…MSNBC is the new National Enquirer!

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 21 May 2010 00:54:11 +0000

Boy, Stern must really be desperate for things to do…suspending a ref for “tossing” a ball to a fan. If he “threw” it at him, that would be one thing but there must be some weird legislating going on in NYC and makes that a punishable offense. Maybe if they paid more attention to things that really matter, the NBA wouldn’t suck so bad.

By: CDS

CDS — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:40:43 +0000

Looks like Tex and the heckler have something in common…no class. This is sports post…not a rant. Tex must really hate the Magic as well…since their home court is Amway Arena.
Life is too short to be so angry.

By: Tex

Tex — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:51:13 +0000

Too bad the government hasn't suspended Amway from the MLM "game." After all, Amway has ripped off millions of people for several decades, to the tune of 10s of billions of dollars. Read about it on this website: http://thenetprofitgroup.yolasite.com and forward the information to everyone you know, so they don't get scammed. Amway is a scam, and here's why: Amway pays out as little money as they can get away with, so they support the higher level IBOs ripping off their downline via the tool scam. As a result, about 99% of IBOs operate at a net loss, while the top 1% make several TIMES more from their Amway tool scam than from the Amway products. This was made illegal in the UK in 2008, but our FTC is unable to pull their heads out of their butts to stop it here.

By: Tex

Tex — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:51:03 +0000