Winter sports season is heating up throughout the Lehigh Valley and one of the great things about working as a Patch Local Editor is covering varsity level contests. Yet, as I sit courtside, keeping notes and tabulating box scores, I hear the voices and calls coming from the stands. A majority of those voices and calls consist of positive cheering for the players on both benches. But the ones that stand out, the ones making my spine cringe and stomach churn, are hurled toward the men and women dressed in black and white stripes blowing a whistle. The first basketball game of the season, a …