Imagine my surprise when the following post from Deadspin was called to my attention. Apparently, not only did a "couple of Ivy Leaguers" determine that white referees call a disproportionately high number of fouls on black NBA players, apparently Bob Fortune ('70) was Deadspin's poster child for the article. Why Bob, though, to represent the "white" NBA? Last I heard, Bob never even sniffed the NBA. As a matter of fact, no Lehigh player, white or otherwise, has even even made it to the NBA. Sure we've had a couple coaches (Pete Carril and Bob Hill) make NBA coaching staffs, but even arguably our best-ever player, Darren Queenan ('87) only made it to the CBA. Okay, so you could call it a case of white "racial profiling", right? Lehigh's filled with great white players that get favorable calls, is that the argument? Well, fast forward to the Lehigh Athletics Convocation , where two of our men's basketball players won awards,
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