N.B.A. Hires Former Ref to Evaluate Other Referees
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The N.B.A. hired a 28-year veteran referee to evaluate the leagueâs officiating crew chiefs.
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Referees will be able to use television replays to review flagrant fouls and player altercations from the start of the 2007-08 season, the NBA said Wednesday.
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NBA referee Joey Crawford was reinstated to the officiating staff Monday after being suspended for an episode involving nine-times All-Star Tim Duncan.
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The National Basketball Association said on Friday it is cooperating with an FBI investigation into whether an NBA referee was betting on games he officiated.
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International soccer&#39;s governing body said Wednesday it plans to boost training for the referees who will handle matches at the 2006 World Cup.
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The German referee at the centre of the football match-fixing scandal that has shocked Germany says he is about to name colleagues and players who also took bribes.
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Before taking the head coaching job with the New Orleans Saints, Sean Payton called an old friend for advice.
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A doctor has provided referees with a perfect excuse for dodgy offside decisions.
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Joe Gibbs and the Redskins are the only team to have a referee on staff to, among other things, help review replay challenges during games.
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Phil Johnson was a candidate for the Nuggets&#39; coaching job in 2002, when it went to Jeff Bzdelik. Now that Bzdelik is gone, maybe the Nuggets are having second thoughts.
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Gymnastics officials are urgently  considering introducing independent judges after a spate of  scoring controversies marred the competition at the Athens  Olympics.
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BUCHAREST, Nov 21  Romanian soccer officials are targeting four coaches as possible replacements for Anghel Iordanescu, who resigned on Friday after coming under fire for the side's draw with Armenia ...
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The NBA has entered into a new five-year collective bargaining agreement with the National Basketball Referees Association (NBRA), thus eliminating the possibility of having replacement officials work the upcoming season.
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A former supervisor of NFL officials sued the league in federal court Friday, claiming he was unfairly fired after some referees lodged false complaints that he was racially biased.
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BERLIN: German referee Robert Hoyzer, who has admitted match-fixing, said on Monday he had first-hand experience of wrongdoing by other referees he has implicated in the scandal.
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Long before word recently broke that white referees in the National Basketball Association were calling fouls at a higher rate on black athletes than on white athletes, and long before studies found racial disparities in how black and white applicants get called for job interviews, researchers no...
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As commissioner of the world&#39;s second most popular sport, David Stern makes frequent references to No. 1. Which is why you can safely assume that Le Commish, as part of his punishment deliberations