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Door-To-Door: Do we need independent refs?

By Marty Smith
ESPN.com

Thursday, February 22, 2007

For the past several days, every driver and owner and newspaper columnist present at the Daytona 500 has taken his or her stance regarding whether NASCAR got it right on the final lap Sunday. But a fan -- in the Orlando Airport john, no less -- posed a very interesting question to me Monday: Should NASCAR-employed officials even be making that call? Or might it be time for an outside officiating agency to call the shots? Hmmm. NFL referees are not full-time salaried employees of the league, ...

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