The suit, filed in Connecticut Superior Court in Stamford, contends that the league's behavior violated the Title IX prohibition of sex discrimination in education, a law normally applied to address imbalances in high school and college athletics.
It came from Green Bay, which lost to Seattle on Monday on the most controversial call made by a replacement referee, and it came from the coaches who saw their wallets lightened by the league for their behavior toward the officials Sunday.
It is hard to condense all the pugnacious behavior, league-mandated suspensions, venomous talk and late-game drama that are the Knicks versus the Miami Heat into one neat package.
For now, though, the league office deemed their behavior acceptable.
Most real sports leagues have rules against behavior that incites violence.
By Ian Frazier We are not yet satisfied with the league's handling of behaviors that so clearly go against our own company culture and moral code.
"We are not yet satisfied with the league's handling of behaviors that so clearly go against our own company culture and moral code.
"We are not yet satisfied with the league's handling of behaviors that so clearly go against our own company culture and moral code," the company said in a statement.
He said sideline rage is still enough of a problem that he has to be careful to assign thick-skinned, experienced umpires to certain leagues notorious for unruly behavior.
There are days when, as John Muir wrote in 1894, the heat seems "to flow… We are not yet satisfied with the league's handling of behaviors that so clearly go against our own company culture and moral code.
