<font color="#339966">A good read by Dave Feschuk, I recommend reading the whole thing for the full context but here's the salacious part:</font></p> "The officials do a great job, but they're not going to see everything ... So you've got to learn how to protect yourself.</p> Protect oneself how?</p> "It's mean, dirty and low-down and y'all already think I'm crazy," said Mitchell. "I don't want to read in the paper the next day, `Mitchell tells `em to ...'"</p> ... "Terry didn't hit him hard ... You ain't got to hit `em hard. All you've got to do is graze `em ... Just tap `em. Just ring the little bells," said Mitchell. "And Karl Malone just dropped. He was screaming, `Ahh! He hit me in the balls! He hit me in the balls!'</p> "The next pick Karl Malone set ... he kept those arms in. I'm telling you, there's things you can do." ...</p> ..."I tell my players," he said, "to play by the rules."</p> Implicit in the rulebook, of course, is that the refs can't call what they can't see, no matter how much the other guy writhes in agony. www.thestar.com/Sports/article/273853</p>
