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Referee Ed Hightower is retiring, yall.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/tom-iz...inder-that-refs-are-human--too-225523060.html
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Tom Izzo talks with official Ed Hightower during Tuesday's game. (AP)
This was Hightower's final game in East Lansing. The 62-year-old is retiring after games this weekend at Nebraska and Iowa. Izzo wanted to acknowledge a good ref and a better man – a devoted husband and father, not to mention teacher, principal and now superintendent of public schools in downstate Illinois.
Izzo barely got the words of appreciation out though before his voice began cracking and he started choking up. When he was done, he flopped down on the bench nearly in tears. The emotion had overwhelmed him.
"Yeah, it did," Izzo said Friday.
That's my blacksploitation film era look-a-like ref, yall...