Were our soccer women robbed? Maybe, but where’s the tick-tock?

Journalism prof Ivor Shapiro, writing on the website of the Canadian Journalism Project, thinks news reports of the Canada-US women's football semi-final, fell short of the standard required to condemn the much maligned ref. Was the ref biased? Of course the Canadian players and supporters thought so, but for a reporter, the best way — the professional way — to address a conflict is not to add to the yelling and bawling but instead, to show the evidence. Where was the tick-tock — the chronological list of tough calls the ref made (or didn’t make) through the match, for and against the Canadians? Where were...