He still shows up referees, coaches, referees, and teammates (also: referees) in ways that often belie the charitable contributions he makes on the floor and within his community.
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If you don't want your kids to yell at referees, you shouldn't yell at referees.
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VAR: For the first time in World Cup history, referees will get an assist with video assistant referees, or VAR.
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So, too, do referees who lean on video replays instead of having the confidence to trust their own eyes, referees who can't keep insubordinate players in check, and referees who don't communicate smoothly with their fellow officials.
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Delays with review calls had grown shorter, and the communication between the referees and the video referees had improved, they said.
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"They [the assistant referees] need to read the situation as well," Mark Geiger, one of MLS's most experienced referees, chimed in.
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The first female NBA referees In 1997, Violet Palmer and Dee Kantner became the first women to serve as referees in the NBA.
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Kerr's only public personal excess is a tendency to berate referees, and the public doesn't care about that because they also loathe referees.
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This week, FIFA named the 27 referees and 48 assistant referees — all of them women — slated to work at the World Cup next summer.
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The system now being tested employs supplementary officials called video assistant referees to aid the current setup of a match referee and two assistant referees, called linesmen.
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The source of the money to pay for players and referees and administrators—to buy referees and players and administrators, to buy whole clubs—comes from betting fraud.
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Referees have somehow rationalized not doing their jobs as "letting the boys play," which results in referees improperly effecting outcomes through inaction instead of properly effecting outcomes through DOING THEIR JOBS.
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Referees Object to Public Scrutiny The National Basketball Referees Association asked the N.B.A. to stop issuing reports that analyze the accuracy of calls from the last two minutes of tight games.
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As NFL referees would say, "upon further review" … no.
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The video assistant role requires the most specialized training, according to several referees experienced with the system, while the on-field referees would primarily need practice communicating with the system in live settings.
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But the referees aren't entirely to blame for Detroit's struggles.
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Players said tournaments have referees to keep game play fair.
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Thirteen of the 31 referees in the WNBA are women.
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I'd watch the referees and think, I can do that.
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With video assistant referees (VAR) this should not be possible.
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Chandrasekhar overruled the referees and agreed to publish the paper.
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The referees at that point didn't think anything was wrong.
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Referees eventually separated the two and calmed things down momentarily.
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All of the referees in the first division are women.
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There's one N.C.A.A. team that just can't win: the referees.
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Spectators were limited to 100, and no referees were used.
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Spectators were limited to 100, and no referees were used.
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OLYMPIC BOXING All 36 referees and judges from Rio suspended.
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You don't have referees messing up your game for you.
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Envelopes to pay the referees and the pizza delivery guy.
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He pointed him out to the referees in disgusted disbelief.
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Now the absence of independent referees is America's own doing.
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Higgins is one of the top referees in the sport.
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The referees let the goal stand after reviewing the play.
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Referees are independent contractors hired by the conferences for their games.
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"The referees are no good," Bayaraa said, according to USA Today.
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Referees reviewed the play and determined it was a good goal.
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Both campaigns are trying to work the referees before the kickoff.
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"We've basically eliminated any of the referees, the gatekeepers," he said.
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Isn't it enough that we make referees responsible for fighter's lives?
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Portugal will reportedly allow foreign referees in the nation's top division.
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Jordan expressed his frustrations postgame, calling the officials "Foot Locker" referees.
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He later apologized, saying it was not nice for the referees.
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The top seven referees, the best of the bunch, missed only .
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Referees restored order, but not before Mullin was assessed a technical.
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Boselli had the temerity to claim the referees favored the Pats.
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And I think it keeps cards in the pockets of referees.
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"As referees, we're obsessive-compulsive," said Dave Gantar, an M.L.S. referee.
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During their training, the referees' threshold for V.A.R. intervention has evolved.
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But Webb has ordered the referees to prioritize accuracy over speed.
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The league has also recently expanded its measures to evaluate referees.
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The referees went to the scorer's table to review the sequence.
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Abuse from parents was directed toward referees — or their own children.
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Coaches instructed players, mumbled to assistants, and fumed at the referees.
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Ultimately, the referees agreed, giving the Chiefs the go-ahead score.
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Referees paused the game, and Wyche took an on-field microphone.
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Referees reviewed the play to see if he broke the plane.
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So it started to treat potential referees like potential draft picks.
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He also called out referees for giving him a yellow card.
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Still, the ruling by the referees was hard to put aside.
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It is likely that some referees will be accused of incompetence.
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Former World Cup final referee Pierluigi Collina, the chairman of FIFA's referees committee, said on Saturday that the system was a "very positive tool" to help referees make the right calls and took pressure off them.
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This penalty becomes a crutch for referees who don't want to call penalties late in games, so by getting rid of something that shouldn't warrant a power play, maybe referees will call actual penalties when they happen.
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Meanwhile, Anderson Varejao may have lost his good grace with the referees.
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After a review, the referees agreed, and the goal was waved off.
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Fans will just have to trust referees to make the right call.
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Because the Stars didn't gain possession, the referees didn't blow the whistle.
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When Brazil's constitutional referees attract such adulation, there is reason to worry.
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And 25 of the 63 referees in the G-League are women.
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"The referees are no good," an angered Bayaraa said through a translator.
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The concept of tapping out was new, and sometimes referees missed it.
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The game was stopped for several minutes as referees reviewed the play.
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Like good football referees, the best regulators keep out of the headlines.
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Of the 63 referees in the N.B.A. G League, 25 are women.
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The Spurs' Manu Ginobili said the referees' decisions were beside the point.
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"The body language of the referees was clearer" on Wednesday, Elleray said.
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He will oversee rule changes, training and evaluation of referees, and discipline.
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Referees felt Murray's clapping was an attempt to draw the defense offsides.
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The federation chooses from 36 judges and referees at the Rio Games.
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Embiid cursed the referees before ending his postgame press conference with reporters.
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But the two esteemed referees reviewing his paper rejected Parker's "radical" idea.
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Have they cleaned up their act with regard to how referees officiate?
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The headbands have been widely criticized by Florida coaches, players and referees.
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We know the referees and the Department of Player Safety will be.
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After one two-minute round, the Petchkasaem referees ruled it a draw.
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With the formation of PRO, Walton has changed the culture amongst referees.
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Referees make a decision fairly quickly, usually in less than 30 seconds.
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Kentucky Wildcats basketball fans threaten to kill referees when they don't win.
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He went his entire first season without referees calling him on it.
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Once again, an N.F.L. playoff game could be decided by the referees.
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In all, referees whistled five Jets for five false starts in Chicago.
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Twice, on potentially game-changing plays, the referees initially got it wrong.
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"The football players were sort of referees in the halls," Darrel said.
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Coaches, referees, cheerleaders, and others got pulled into the mayhem as well.
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Referees miss a pass interference call during the Saints-Rams NFC Championship.
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After a review, the referees called technicals on Rozier, Nance and Morris.
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Coaches want their teams to win; referees want all teams to lose.
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The first star: T.J. Luxmore – He's one of the league's newer referees.
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After a review by the referees, 0.7 seconds was put on the clock.
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They start appealing to their own referees, friends of theirs in the stands.
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Referees have a tough job, and are often the target of much ire.
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Card: Referees give these to players as warnings, especially after a serious foul.
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Referees ruled the clock started too soon and replayed the Wizards' final possession.
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The NLRB referees disputes between employers and employees and also supervises union elections.
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But one key element of a major sporting event would be missing: referees.
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Since few referees are equipped with theodolites, enforcing this rule has been hard.
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Fox pundits are openly biased, but CNN anchors still claim to be referees.
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"Saints fans would like to have an accountability for the referees," he said.
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Rugby, which uses video replay, demands that its players treat referees with respect.
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Had the referees played it right, Tampa Bay could have been 3-4.
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He received a technical in the fourth quarter for arguing with the referees.
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FIFA said referees could also intervene under the so-called three-step procedure.
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Cousins complains to the referees—a lot—but he's usually got a case.
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It was him against overly handsy opponents, incompetent referees, flawed teammates, restrictive coaches.
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But again, I respect the referees and the job they have to do.
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During the replay, the students were instructed to pretend to be the referees.
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There are no referees, so it's on you to count your own strokes.
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But what the right wants is not better, fairer, more scrupulous information referees.
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In 1997, the N.B.A. hired two female referees: Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer.
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Exposing that data, as the league now does, is intended to help referees.
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"It's up to referees, really, chair umpires, to make that call," he said.
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He has likewise chided himself publicly about his penchant for arguing with referees.
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Green's ejection occurred following two separate disputes with referees in the second period.
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"I spoke to coaches, referees, firemen, policemen about the most promising," he said.
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Their supporters note that the performances of the best referees are regularly outstanding.
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But referees will be there at the end, the tournament's only sure bet.
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The referees eventually credited the basket to Ginobili — but only for 2 points.
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She knows the game, so if the referees miss a call, she'll remind them.
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He compares himself to former referees who are now part of live game broadcasts.
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Rams players weren't complaining, even if they, too, knew the referees had missed it.
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Separated in pairs, the wrestlers squared off against one another, with referees watching closely.
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But of course, it's only a penalty if the referees decide to flag it.
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Institutions are, whether they like to acknowledge it or not, referees in this game.
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" He added: "I've had opportunities to argue with referees, but I don't do it.
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He said that at A.A.U. games, referees and other officials would wear orange shirts.
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"VAR cannot be blind, cannot ignore," said Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of FIFA's Referees Committee.
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No women's leagues have implemented VAR, and referees attended only four FIFA-organized seminars.
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But in that time, the league has only had a handful of female referees.
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Referees are responsible for much more than casual observers may give them credit for.
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Referees officiated premiership rugby matches in a specially designed kit that incorporated rainbow stripes.
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The controversy has sparked new interest in how referees are selected, trained and compensated.
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The NFL Referees Association said in a statement it expects Ellison to be cleared.
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There were no American referees on the field during the 2006 and 2010 tournaments.
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The start of soccer season in September is a critical time for retaining referees.
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On any given shift, they can be therapists, confidants, or even boxing-match referees.
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On Soccer Referees, the saying goes, do not want to be seen or heard.
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Most often, that has meant tirades against referees, soccer's governing bodies and, once, Unicef.
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Murray said referees told him his clap was too abrupt and not smooth enough.
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It is the reason there are referees on the court to police the action.
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Four solemn referees were brought in to scrutinize the clenched hands before each round.
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Bosses, parents and referees, for instance, are likely also more ruthless on less sleep.
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Busan prosecutors indicted two referees and a scout on charges of bribery last month.
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The call was the latest instance of NFL referees drawing scrutiny for questionable calls.
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It is also why referees are instructed to first give the bench a warning.
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There is some precedent for pundits to act as the referees in primary debates.
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"I don't know if we have enough referees to call all that," Bowles said.
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These institutions functioned like referees, calling out lies, fact-checking claims, and so on.
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Capitals fans posted videos of Crosby slashing other players when referees were looking elsewhere.
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N.F.L. results: The Los Angeles Rams (and the referees) beat the New Orleans Saints.
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Referees quickly ruled it a no goal, to the delight of the Boston crowd.
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Of those 19 fines, 11 were prompted by taunting other players and/or referees.
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What if Asian-Americans became the impartial referees of all disputes among other races?
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The referees reported both players for "aggression," which could have led to yearlong suspensions.
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That should make for great conversation — assuming the referees don't blow any more calls.
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Please let any referees in your life know so they can start practicing now.
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He had deceived referees on numerous occasions, and so they compensated by marking him out.
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Referees and video officials have consistently penalized handballs in the box at this World Cup.
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Currently, there are 70 full-time referees in the NBA, four of whom are women.
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Referees at sporting events are subject to reviews that check their decisions to within millimetres.
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Referees whistled Minnesota's Amir Coffey for a late foul to send Palmer to the line.
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All four referees missed it, marking another blown call in a postseason filled with them.
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Pub owners were often enlisted as referees and young boys paid to act as lookouts.
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It's basically a technical way of saying referees will get sick of the players' shit.
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And the brunt of this increasingly intense parental harassment is being felt by the referees.
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The history of American referees at World Cups was slim before his performances in Brazil.
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The NFL Referees Association, in a statement Wednesday, said it expects Ellison to be cleared.
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The league said it would use Hochuli's "proactive officiating" as an example to other referees.
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The referees did not call the pass interference call, although to many it looked obvious.
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The referees called foul, but nobody could hear them over the roar of the crowds.
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Do you believe there are mandates in place today with regard to how referees officiate?
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Post-round beatdown sends Johnson packing Chalk up another casualty for the game's armchair referees.
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After a challenge, referees huddle around a monitor and view a replay of the move.
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PRIDE Fighting Championships is blue gloves, 653-minute rounds, and referees handing out yellow cards.
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Imposing order is also occasionally hazardous, as the bizarre history of fighters assaulting referees suggests.
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"Simpson advised prospective students to "give plenty of notice to referees and brief them well.
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"The federation sanctions those who insult referees, even if it's a ridiculous sanction," Mante said.
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Referees have awarded penalties they had initially missed, or struck off decisions that were incorrect.
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FIFA have had a female only rule for referees in the women's game since 1995.
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If referees don't want to call penalties in the playoffs, this is a useful tactic.
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Referees huddle at the side wearing headphones and watching monitors, playing and replaying the replays.
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Remember, FIFA agreed very late to add video-assistant referees for the Women's World Cup.
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The fact that the referees helped the Rams, too, won't make them any less proud.
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A recent episode jumps off from the way athletes are getting more vicious toward referees.
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The referees decided the hit was worth a five-minute major and a game misconduct.
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However, the referees ruled that Warren's knee was down before the fumble, negating the touchdown.
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The referees stopped the game and allowed the Capitals to swarm Ovechkin on the ice.
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Quarterbacks are fragile, referees are fallible, advice can be dangerous and Gardner Minshew is forever.
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To maintain that level of engagement, the video assistant referees often narrate the game aloud.
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Its players were told they were too violent on the field, too intimidating to referees.
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The current impasse works for nobody: not for referees, not for players, not for fans.
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It's like announcing that from this point forward, referees will call penalties on both teams.
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On Sunday, defensive end Cameron Jordan suggested that the referees were biased against the Saints.
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But the referees ruled that a second remained on the clock and cleared the court.
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I'm also making referees available to the media after every game—regular season and playoffs.
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Don't you want to see these guys rate the league's worst coaches, referees and GMs?
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Prior to PRO, referees were on their own in terms of working out and staying match fit; no small task, considering that many referees run as much as some players during the course of each match, yet tend to skew older than the players.
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Goodell made sure to seek out Panthers executives, the Cardinals' owner, referees and each head coach.
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Whatever the case, after some deliberation the referees gave him his second technical and an ejection.
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The NBA Official Twitter account explained the call, saying the referees were checking on two things.
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I would expect to see video assistant referees from the FA Cup third round next season.
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No longer will the referees act as the all-seeing, all-knowing gods of the pitch.
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We are watching players compete in a rigged game with potentially mortal stakes and unreliable referees.
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George said he had repeatedly complained to the referees about Henderson's physical play during the game.
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And this fall, he has been sent to the stands several times after altercations with referees.
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Linde's referees might have been right to be concerned, but they were asking the wrong questions.
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"Maybe they (the referees) don't like us," joked Atkinson when asked about the eight Columbus penalties.
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Fair play is essential, hence the intense scrutiny applied to referees who make a wrong decision.
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Jesus Tomillero is only 21 and referees in the second division of the Andalusian regional league.
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Just the candidates debating the issues with the viewing public acting as the referees and commentators.
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Some N.B.A. teams now use the behavioral patterns Ball tracks to develop game plans around referees.
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Following the foul, Johnson and Simmons were entangled and had to be separated by the referees.
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Players chirped incessantly at the referees, signaling their annoyance in operatic facial contortions and hand motions.
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And as referees awarded more penalties, players took more dives over the course of a match.
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What other sport could play on without the competitors — or the referees — knowing the actual score?
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But the race referees rejected Kittel's claim that Cavendish had improperly veered in front of him.
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"A lot of referees couldn't even keep up with the pace of the game," Zarecky said.
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According to data shared by PRO, the referees have gotten better in the last few years.
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Unfortunately, nowadays, the lavish antics after a successful goal are often snuffed by party-pooping referees.
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Referees have wide discretion for many things, and Anderson fucked up by not deducting that point.
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This was of no concern to Mr.Trump, who complained about referees penalizing teams for excessive violence.
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In practice, there is frequently a live-and-let-live dynamic between referees and hyperactive coaches.
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Replays proved they were correct, and the N.H.L. later acknowledged the referees had made a mistake.
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The referees initially called the play a goal, but it was overturned after a video review.
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The referees had an off night, even forgetting which malefactor player had how many technical fouls.
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Last year, REF had 2,800 posts of interaction between referees and his office, according to Vaden.
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The idea was outlandish, and referees of the paper at The Astrophysical Journal initially rejected it.
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The majority of the mistakes, Pelechrinis said, were non-calls, when the referees swallowed their whistle.
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"Canelas is the only club in the league that does not have local referees," Madureira said.
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And on Tuesday, a number of football referees were even sacked as part of the move.
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The chips aren't used by referees to spot the ball, which is a bigger technological challenge.
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It doesn't appear that the ball was tipped, but perhaps live the referees thought it was.
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She said it wasn't until 2007 that she finally shared her "secret" with her fellow referees.
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Franklin says she was cursing at Kentucky head coach John Calipari, the referees, and even some players.
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Some suggested the creation of credible referees that could rigorously distill the strengths and weaknesses of research.
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Former SAFA executive member and head of referees Lindile Kika was suspended for six years in October.
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But there's a problem here too: You don't actually want the referees to strictly call the rulebook.
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Skill still matters, and the top referees in the top soccer leagues are, in many ways, celebrities.
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But Neymar is far from the only guilty party when it comes to trying to influence referees.
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Having tech companies become the referees of the public sphere, however, likely won't fix the nation's dialogue.
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Olympic referees and representatives of Yonex, which made the shuttles used in Rio, talked lovingly about them.
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The international referees spent a lot of time blowing their whistles, to the consternation of both sides.
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Local government will hire a promoter to recruit fighters, rent a ring, and get the referees together.
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Because then you will have more referees, more officials, your administrators can get into international sports federations.
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In the Laws of the Game, FIFA directs referees to run along a diagonal across the field.
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As always, most adhered to the time-honored tradition and assumed the referees to be at fault.
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Shoji surprised everyone by slithering out of Gracie's submission attempts, but was aided greatly by the referees.
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There is some truth to that, probably, but Wallace's complex went beyond his incessant badgering of referees.
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It's called Madden NFL, and it's a video game where fake referees make calls on fake football.
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There are no broadly respected, nonpartisan referees left to hold it to account for consistency or accuracy.
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As a result, the referees did not believe it was a goal at first, and play continued.
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What responsibility do fans, players, teams, referees and sports leagues have to address and remedy the problem?
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LeBron James committed a blatant travel on Wednesday against the Utah Jazz that the referees missed completely.
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In England, referees have been relying heavily on the VAR system feeding their verdicts through the radio.
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Kids dream of representing our country on the global stage as players, coaches, referees, executives or administrators.
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The fans were very much aware of the disparity in calls and let the referees know it.
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More importantly, referees know that, so they change how they call penalties on a team that's shorthanded.
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Referees ruled that Harrar was fouled on the shot, but also assessed the sophomore with a flagrant foul.
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Similarly, Neymar became used to Brazilian referees giving him a free kick for every minor contact and fall.
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Sometimes seasonal work, but a lot of people work at Best Buy, they're referees for something, like volleyball.
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At a coaching clinic 15 years ago, Triano asked NBA referees if goaltending applies on an inbounds pass.
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One day, such technology might even help sports referees make a decent call every once in a while.
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Bob Voulgaris built a reputation for his expertise on — and criticisms of — coaches' strategies and referees' individual tendencies.
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Thailand has gone too far, the promoters and even the referees try too hard to please the gamblers.
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As a tennis player, he was known for having the audacity to fight with chair umpires and referees.
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Wittman later brushed off the accusation, noting he didn't receive a technical foul with the referees in earshot.
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Then again, maybe the Predators were taking penalties but referees weren't using the same standard to call them.
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On the opposite end of the court, referees ruled that Butler fouled LaVine on a 3-point attempt.
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The N.B.A. folk wisdom is that the better the player, the more referees supposedly favor him with calls.
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There are rounds and rules and referees charged with protecting fighters rather than beating them with a switch.
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Much of the discussion about why referees do not call these flagrant fouls revolves around Lin's Asian background.
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At the final buzzer, as fans booed the referees, he walked off the court staring at the ground.
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A goal was not signaled on the ice, and the referees concluded after replay the score shouldn't count.
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Quick tried to re-enter the game, but the referees said that he had to miss one play.
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It will be a tough adjustment for Murray, the Cardinals, and the referees to find a middle ground.
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Criticism of referees and of VAR has been harsh, but the overall impact of both has been positive.
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"I have always shown great respect for the referees and my career supports me," Ndour wrote on Twitter.
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Are the referees giving players star treatment because of personal preference or is there something more to it?
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Third grade teacher Libby Bucher said she referees and coaches sports on the side to make ends meet.
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"If they're not sweating, I'm not doing my job," said Keeden Alred, 22, who often referees the matches.
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The referees often argued during the film sessions, but on this particular play, no one disputed Villarreal's confession.
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The decision comes as the league and officials negotiate on a new contract with the NFL Referees Association.
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Over time, we'd succeeded in delegitimizing the media altogether — all the normal guideposts were down, the referees discredited.
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At a political rally in Alabama on Friday, the president complained about referees penalizing teams for excessive violence.
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A torrent of verbal, and occasionally physical, abuse toward referees nationwide has disrupted the sidelines of youth sports.
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After a game last month, Barlow and two other referees needed an armed police escort to their cars.
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Speraw, Weber's assistant, said that the referees had spoken to the staff at halftime of the U.M.B.C. game.
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In front of three other referees, Barone said, the coach used a graphic, expletive-laced anti-gay slur.
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The score was nullified when the referees called a clipping penalty on Notre Dame defensive back Greg Davis.
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Broadus was horrified that the referees did nothing to stop Karl Von Hess from nearly killing his opponents.
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Saints Coach Sean Payton is still pleading his case to the referees and the fans are still booing.
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These latter institutions are referees as well, but their enforcement power operates not through law but through trust.
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"Those spring tournaments got rough, the referees were terrible and man, it was just the best," Budenholzer said.
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For Green, who is known to argue with referees all game, the decision could certainly alter his approach.
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The referees may have been trying to ease the tension in a game that has gotten very chippy.
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For now, she will watch the playoffs carefully to see if Lin gets any calls from the referees.
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While every hockey fan yells at referees, few believe the officiating system itself is operating in bad faith.
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Like referees or umpires, he said, there is nothing to be gained from becoming part of the debate.
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According to Adam Kilgore of The Washington Post, fans were throwing trash on the field at the referees.
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The Rockets called a timeout and argued about the play, but the referees ruled the dunk a miss.
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A former match official, he, like most referees, spent his entire career doing his best to go unnoticed.
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The problem was the referees, upon review, deemed the whistle inadvertent, because Finney-Smith did not commit goaltending.
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"I admire the physicality of the Premier League, but the referees have to protect the players," Guardiola said.
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Morey was about to head into a meeting with Vandeweghe and Monty McCutchen, who supervises the league's referees.
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Absent that status, referees must align themselves with a conference (or more) and create their own busy schedules.
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His older brother, Tony, is an N.F.L. official, and his younger brother, Michael, referees lower-division college basketball.
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Start doing it this way, and referees would be able to call normal penalties on shorthanded teams again.
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However, one key difference to note between the two is that amateur competitors often participate free of charge in hopes of eventually landing a paid professional career, while referees seemingly commit for the duration of their time unpaid, and only top-tiered referees are funded with small stipends for travel expenses.
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How long before he gets the full Suarez treatment and suffers from a complete dearth of goodwill from referees?
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In terms of career options after football, there are remarkably few retired players who go on to become referees.
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Goaltender Jacob Markstrom dove after the puck and covered it with his glove, and the referees waved it off.
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Referees break up a fight between United States and Czech Republic players during the men's hockey game Feb. 21.
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The situation is getting so bad that 80 percent of high school referees are quitting within just three years.
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He reportedly admitted to leaking information about the league's decision to allow coaches the ability to challenge referees' calls.
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It's just a hockey play and I'm never going to judge the referees or some players how they play.
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For football fans, the 2017 season was one filled with upsets, dramatic game-deciding calls from referees – and politics.
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And that leaves flight attendants and travel agents acting as de facto referees for games of midair musical chairs.
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Owens, one of the game's most acclaimed referees, came out in 2007, after years of agonising over the decision.
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The IFAB will also be updated on video assistant referees and the board's overall strategy will also be discussed.
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As the referees huddled to discuss a possible issue with the clock, every Raptors fan knew what was coming.
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Prior to their fight, Foreman had knocked Frazier down six times in two rounds before referees called the fight.
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Referees apparently have become so derelict in their duties that eating a stick is no longer an automatic penalty.
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If this World Cup is anything to go by, the same may soon be said of video assistant referees.
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South American leagues used it extensively before FIFA agreed to provide it to referees at the 2014 World Cup.
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Mr. Mano, the founder of the National Association of Sports Officials, said many leagues now escort referees into games.
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Expect a physical slog, and expect how loosely (or not) the referees officiate the game to have an effect.
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And today, across society, two things are happening: Referees are being undermined, and many are abandoning their own impartiality.
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A celebrated former player who is now the athletic director materializes on the sideline and argues with the referees.
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One of his major achievements was to create a new grading system to judge referees in the United States.
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But although its referees are expected to strive for neutrality, conference officials may be rooting privately for the Sooners.
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Lens Larry Fink's photos of sweat-stained boxing rings around America revealed intimate moments between fighters, referees and trainers.
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Though referees are statistically better than ever at getting it the right, complaints about unfair calls are steadily rising.
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Several in the NFL world criticized the referees, whose calls had led the Patriots to challenge two other plays.
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Watson cocked his head to the side, lifted his eyebrows, and appears to have asked "Who?" as referees intervened.
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The speaker of the House of Commons is a nonpartisan and normally low-profile figure who referees parliamentary debates.
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The Hawks won, but the referees incorrectly ruled that Shaquille O&aposNeal had fouled out with 51.9 seconds remaining.
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Most referees would have called off the fight seeing the punishment endured by Fedor during Maldonado's ground-based onslaught.
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In 1996, Palmer says her name was being considered alongside other referees for the Men's Division I NCAA Tournament.
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Referees whistled the play dead and said a video replay could not determine whether the puck had crossed the line.
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"I can guarantee that the referees that will be at the World Cup will be ready," he said on Saturday.
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While MMA judges are almost universally reviled by fans, the referees for these title fights, at least, look perfectly capable.
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Referees have been instructed to allow defenders to leap vertically to contest shots this season, without automatically fouling on contact.
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The technology will be used to help referees and their assistants determine whether the ball has crossed the goal line.
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The referees confirmed the targeting call, and Cookus was ejected, furiously taunting the Missoula crowd of 20,000 as he left.
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FIFA considers referees to be part of the field of play, so balls that touch them are still in play.
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Referees Ian Walsh and Brad Watson assessed 106 minutes in penalties in the final 103 minutes, with three game misconducts.
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Professional boxing was not like the amateur version of the sport, where referees passed out penalties for the slightest infractions.
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His fouls are appalling, he's shameless when it comes to manipulating referees, yet his antics rarely detract from his performance.
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"I guess we'll see something on the ticker that says the referees missed that one," Oklahoma City's Carmelo Anthony said.
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The referees are just kind of standing there helpless, watching the scene unfold on the other side of the glass.
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It'd also be an opportunity to give positions like judges and referees, which are usually held by men, to women.
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The governing body of international soccer, FIFA, counsels referees to issue a yellow card when a player takes a dive.
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But then we have to look at the incentives for referees, who want to err on the side of caution.
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The race referees, in a somewhat controversial move, adjusted the results to prevent Froome from being penalized on his time.
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" Fleischer admitted Trump has to put up with biased referees, noting the press "loves to blow the whistle on him.
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It is like a football team that gets to write the rules, own all the equipment and control the referees.
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After the Rio Games in August, all 903 boxing referees and judges were suspended over questionable calls in matches there.
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The referees blew the play dead and stood nearby, dawdling like a pair of plainclothes detectives at a crime scene.
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In 303, Toledo gave a red card every four games—11th out of 18 referees with 10 games or more.
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A point deduction is a warning—with meaningful consequences instead of the reprimanding we've grown accustomed to hearing from referees.
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There are certain penalties referees have always had to call, like the delay of game for puck over the glass.
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Flash forward to UFC 196, and some of the referees were calling fighters for putting their toes in the fence.
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He followed Messi as he shook hands with the referees, and was even by his side for the team photo.
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The LEC has elected to rely on camera systems to maintain integrity as opposed to sending referees to team facilities.
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She began to observe not only the difficulties in calling the W.N.B.A. pace, but the tight conditions referees work under.
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This season, while coaches can challenge pass interference, referees have been hesitant to overrule their initial decision on the field.
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The new guidelines for referees came out of a World Rugby working party set up after the 2015 World Cup.
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It's like saying that heckling referees during a kids' soccer game is as bad as rigging the 1919 World Series.
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It is fixed to the lapels of politicians and broadcasters, stitched into the uniforms of the referees and the players.
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There has long been a sentiment among some in sports that referees should stay anonymous and mostly out of mind.
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" Noah also responded to Trump's comments that NFL referees are "ruining the game" by penalizing players who "hit too hard.
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Instead of showing extravagant goals by, say, Sidney Crosby, televisions on the concourses ran highlight reels of mic'd-up referees.
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The referees, however, failed to note that Collins's arm went through the rim to block the shot — a clear infraction.
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But Arena also said talented players could expect more protection from referees at the club level than in international play.
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Stern oversaw five lockouts — three with players, two with referees — two of which, in 1999 and 2011, forced reduced seasons.
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That secret video footage of referees partying with the Penguins at the parade is really damaging to the NHL. 2.
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The Kansas fans, who spent the first 35 minutes angry at the referees, seemed to completely forget about their complaints.
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" World Rugby Chairman Bill Beaumont added: "Just like for the players and coaches, Rugby World Cup represents the pinnacle of a match official's career and I would like to congratulate the team of 12 referees, seven assistant referees and four TMOs who have achieved selection today through their hard work, commitment and dedication to excellence.
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Some think the VAR may help reduce referees' tendency to favour of the home team, influenced perhaps by a partisan crowd.
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VAR will be the acronym of the moment: video assistant referees in soccer-speak, instant replay for most viewers at home.
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In the spirit of its FIFA branding, referees at the game will be issued the watches to wear on the field.
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All in all, his conduct had become so unsportsmanlike that referees appeared to have an unspoken code of conduct towards him.
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A quick Google search of a name will soon reveal the referees' identity and who they are in relation to you.
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With over 100 million people watching Super Bowl 50 on TV, referees and NFL officials know this game is no exception.
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Referees have a bit of leeway within those rules in the case of odd situations like, for instance, when nature calls.
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" Zidane, for his part, refused to discuss the circumstances of the last-minute penalty, saying that "referees have a difficult job.
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When I spent a weekend with MLS referees last year, I saw just how difficult and thankless the job really is.
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As long as there&aposs no discrimination the NFL can mandate that teams play in high heels and referees wear tutus.
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But it is in dissecting how referees go about doing their job where a more nuanced look at the art begins.
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But when thinking about it objectively, judo referees are probably one of the most important components to having a match operate.
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Go deeper: Michael Lewis's new podcast, Against The Rules, is all about the ways in which referees are no longer trusted.
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Without due process or accountability, a frustrated public is left with appealing to a few powerful referees—and crossing our fingers.
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Multiple Philadelphia players broke sticks and expressed their displeasure with referees Justin St. Pierre and Frederick L'Ecuyer after the final horn.
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NHL referees are notoriously reluctant to call penalties in the playoffs, operating under the credo that they shouldn't decide the game.
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The organization just announced that it wants video assistant referees (VARs) to be used at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
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He also eschewed the three-count pin, demanding referees count to 5 to show off his dominance over a fallen foe.
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Referees whistled Aaron Wheeler for an offensive foul — his fifth — on Purdue's ensuing possession, extending the Boilermakers' woes down the stretch.
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The N.B.A. admitted that there were five incorrect referees' calls in the final seconds of the Spurs-Thunder game Monday night.
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In 2011 Aziz Yildirim, then Fenerbahce's chairman, was arrested on match-fixing charges, along with dozens of players, coaches and referees.
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However, there are no referees in the stands, so he was able to go about his shenanigans without an official's disapproval.
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Froome's team appealed to the race referees, who represent the International Cycling Union, the sport's governing body, not the Tour organization.
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" The federation statement also said that "the concerned referees and judges will no longer officiate at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
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Voyles backed up his opposition to female referees in the NFL by making a comparison to women who are police officers.
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So while the country is in the midst of a potential constitutional crisis of Trump's own making, he's choosing the referees.
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After the loss, which dropped the Giants' record to 2-2, Beckham said he thought the referees were singling him out.
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Now, however, these tech giants are caving to public pressure and have anointed themselves as referees of civility, fairness and truth.
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Michael Crabtree, the Raiders receiver, has been penalized twice this year by referees for what they perceive as a throat-slash.
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The referee communicates with two video assistant referees sitting in a room in the stadium with access to all camera angles.
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Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Calais Campbell was penalized by referees for leading with his head on a tackle of Deshaun Watson.
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"The referees' office were unanimous in saying the match must be played under a roof unless both players agree," he said.
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Now, with players blowing off steam in more than a dozen languages, how can referees reasonably determine whether to penalize them?
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The referees have no idea how to even begin policing the action and in fact get in the way of it.
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Youth sports organizations are increasingly reporting scenarios in which parents yell, threaten or physically assault coaches, referees, players or other parents.
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It sees the game itself, its rules and referees, as captured by the other side, operating for the other side's benefit.
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Mahomes injured his left foot midway through the second quarter but returned while referees sorted out personal fouls on both teams.
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She then raised both arms vertically to mimic the signal given by referees in American football for a successful field goal.
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However, referees ruled that Harry had stepped out of bounds and spotted the ball at the Chiefs&apos three-yard line.
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Then, because the referees ruled that Harry didn&apost score, the play could not be reviewed, like all scoring plays are.
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Women then were generally not admitted even as paying spectators, although there are some historical references to female wrestlers and referees.
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Referees initially ruled it a miss and didn&apost review the play, but admitted afterward that the dunk should have counted.
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Referees will now watch replays on the field using tablets, eliminating "going under the hood" to the watch on television monitors.
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There are no referees; checking is not allowed; and fouls like high sticking, however rare, are called on the honor system.
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McCutchen's job change, however, means that the N.B.A. has lost two of its top referees since the end of last season.
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The referees could have called a penalty for pass interference or for a helmet-to-helmet hit, but they called neither.
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NBA players and referees will wear a commemorative black band on their uniforms honoring former commissioner David Stern, who died Wednesday.
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Philadelphia's Jimmy Butler shoved Dudley from behind and Dudley, with Simmons and one of the referees, tumbled into the front row.
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Others say that sentiment is outdated, with a confluence of factors elevating the profile of referees: a microscopic approach, aided by video technology, to assessing officiating decisions; the insatiable appetites of fans for more information, fed by a surplus of voices online; and that international rugby referees have worn microphones during matches for more than a decade.
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And unlike N.B.A. referees — unionized employees whose ranks the N.B.A. is hoping to increase, reducing the number of games each must officiate — college referees are independent contractors with a financial interest in maximizing the number of games they work, arguably to the detriment of their on-court performances or their focus on nonbasketball businesses, or both.
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The Rams took the lead with an overtime field goal following an allegedly blatant controversial pass-interference call miss from the referees.
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After gazing into the replay monitor, N.F.L. referees always say, "Upon further review…" But it isn't further review, it's the first review.
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Thanks to a handful of bizarre, missed, and just plain bad calls, the referees became one of the stories of Game 25.
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Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue took shots at referees after Game 1 over a controversial block-charge call at the end of regulation.
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I wish I could see Young Thibs in his element, howling at players and referees so much that his hockey hair trembled.
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The Rams took the lead with an overtime field goal following an allegedly blatant controversial pass-interference call miss from the referees.
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The Kings regained the lead 2-1 at 4:16 of the second period on a play that referees originally let continue.
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There will be no referees to throw a flag, no professors to give a do-over, and no rewrites with happy endings.
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So relive all the touchdowns, the fumbles, the hot referees and the celebrity performances of the big game in these stunning images.
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It has three sets of goal posts in an area roughly the size of one soccer field, and staffers serve as referees.
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In previous years, the Lions occasionally took the court early to get their dunking fix before the referees came onto the floor.
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Many of the fans and some of the players were confused, but Triano and the referees knew it was a game-winner.
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I mean prior to "Shark Tank," I was the crazy guy that just screamed at the referees at Dallas Mavericks&apos games.
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But the version used today makes no mention of video replays, which have aided referees in most other team sports for decades.
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In fact, it was confusing enough that referees and organizers had to come up on stage to sort out the procedural niceties.
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Referees, meanwhile, make between $4,000 and $10,3.413 a game, according to an estimate by CBS, and their annual salary is about $201,000.
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First of all, we'd get to watch the referees do something that would probably make them uncomfortable, which is always good entertainment.
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Although UFC matches are governed by rules and controlled by referees, compared with traditional boxing matches they look like free-for-alls.
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Additionally, because some of the newer rules holding back defensive players are so vague, referees now have more power than ever before.
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"I never complain about tough decisions and tough plays after the game that referees have to make," Wizards coach Scott Brooks said.
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No, because we're still going to let referees call slashing-the-stick penalties, if they feel they're intentional and use significant force.
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Dr. Mainzer deferred answering some follow-up questions, saying those issues would be best addressed by the referees reviewing Dr. Myhrvold's paper.
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The plaintiffs also include former referees and identical twins Earl and Dave Hebner, 66, who according the complaint have experienced cognitive difficulties.
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If referees can sell yellow card, sell red card, sell goals, then you're looking at a very bleak future of African football.
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This will no doubt be dissected on the internet by those who believe Golden State was getting preferential treatment from the referees.
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While some referees are extremely strict on leg catches in Glory, others seem lenient on catching a kick and returning with punches.
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The referees also reviewed whether James was in a legal guarding position, which is an additional reviewable matter for this replay trigger.
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But the question of whether the Premier League — and the sport as a whole — is doing enough to help referees will linger.
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Referees are usually looking for big celebrations in the endzone after a touchdown, not from a punter at the 50-yard line.
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Goodell cannot be blamed when individual teams breach the concussion protocol or the referees fail to properly penalize players on the spot.
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Referees, judges and doctors are also being trained to better spot head injuries so they can stop fights when needed, Butler said.
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Thomas Virgets, one of the four AIBA officials who vets referees and judges, said that the organization takes pains to avoid favoritism.
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VAR involves two video assistant referees who monitor the action on screens and draw the match referee's attention to possible officiating mistakes.
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The truth is that fouls and the referees who ignore them don't matter much as long as the afflicted fighter still wins.
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In the 2014 World Cup, referees whistled Costa Rica's opponents 41 times for being offside, far more than any other team's opponents.
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PHOENIX — The N.F.L., in a first, will allow challenges on pass interference next season, whether flags were thrown by referees or not.
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He walks around the field on match days — "offering a prayer," he said — and goes inside to greet referees and their assistants.
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This month in Abu Dhabi, those referees will take part in the first of several training seminars leading to the World Cup.
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Marks entered the referees' locker room after the game, earning himself a $25,000 fine, and was suspended without pay for Game 5.
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Hundreds of thousands of workers, including vendors, referees and other staff members work events across the country in addition to the athletes.
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The authors attribute this to the simple fact that referees, like most people, simply want to be liked and avoid the boos.
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"Obviously the referees play a role, and it's subconscious on their behalf," Aaron Schatz, the editor in chief of Football Outsiders, said.
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He is currently listed as the executive director of the NFL Referees Association, which acts as a bargaining representative in labor negotiations.
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Referees whistled Dunn for a technical foul for shoving Napier after play had stopped with 83:28 remaining in the second quarter.
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Somehow, the referees missed what was a travel and a double-dribble, even as Jazz guard Bojan Bogdanovic hollered about the violation.
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Steaua soon tied the score before, after several penalties and questionable referees' decisions, the game ended in a breathless 2-2 draw.
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She rushes through the marquee that serves as the referees' changing area and the snack bar and toward one of the dugouts.
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"It's a hell of a job," the third president of the N.H.L., Clarence Campbell, said in 1964, ruminating on the referees' lot.
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Will the Los Angeles Rams be hamstrung by the knowledge that they got this far by the grace of several sleepwalking referees?
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Referees, stadium owners, fighters, and even the traveling vendors had to shut down their businesses with no other means to support themselves.
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The place was jacked up all night and definitely made it clear that they felt they were getting jobbed by the referees.
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Like the teams they officiate, the referees are being judged and graded to see if they are worthy of working in the postseason.
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The brothers' father, Bajram, is among the team's most engaged fans, slapping hands with players and berating referees, sometimes in his native Albanian.
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This is the tragedy of Jon Jones: being an artist in a world where the only thing separating sport from murder is referees.
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Disregarding those who retire through injury, footballers who have just hung up their boots are in the perfect position to succeed as referees.
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The Mexican referees' association said the initial punishments were too lenient and went on strike, with the weekend's first division fixtures called off.
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But when they grow too large in number and scope, it's a little like having more referees than players on the basketball court.
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The most recent effort to this end was the Nevada State Athletic Commission's unanimous selection of the referees and judges for each bout.
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On the other hand, there have been a number of notable World Cup incidents where incorrect, game-changing calls were by human referees.
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Referees score each skating performance independently from the judges, and they can recommend that a technical committee give additional scrutiny to a judge.
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Physical therapists, philanthropists, med students, social media strategists, and referees are all in and around the show, and most of them are women.
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It was fortunate that in Mexico City, referees spotted the Texans short twice on a drive that would've given them go-ahead points.
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Referees bow their heads during a moment of silence before the game between the Washington Redskins and the Kansas City Chiefs on Oct.
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As mentioned earlier, all judo matches are staged with three referees—one in the center and two on the sidelines equipped with radios.
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You've got the INC's — the independent neurological consultants — the trainers and the referees are supposed to be looking, everybody's supposed to be looking.
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Day 2 closed out as Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors took the stage to discuss social media, charity and robotic referees.
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But while the players may be the main attraction of the big game, this year the referees have also been getting some attention.
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Parry's retirement follows those of referees Triplette, Walt Coleman, Ed Hochuli, Terry McAulay, Pete Morelli and Gene Steratore over the past few years.
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But given how reluctant referees have been to call penalties lately, if the Lightning can dominate 2109-on-243 like that, they're unbeatable.
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NHL referees are a mix of incompetence, inconsistency, and cowardice usually reserved for a low-level henchman in a poorly written action movie.
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We have reached a point where players have to use emotional blackmail just to get referees to call a two-minute holding penalty.
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Under a measure passed by FIFA in 2014, referees can stop matches for up to three minutes to evaluate on-field head injuries.
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Curry was hit with a technical foul, and though it takes two to get ejected, the referees threw him out for his actions.
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Boxing is a sport for the Normicons: They may not watch it, but they understand the point of its rules, referees and judges.
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Two of the N.B.A.'s 70 referees played in the league: Haywoode Workman (eight seasons) and the Cal State Fullerton legend Leon Wood.
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But this season, the N.H.L. has given its linesmen and referees new tools to verify whether offensive players were offside on scoring plays.
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The N.B.A. now releases on its website daily "Last Two Minute Reports," which review the performance of its referees in any close game.
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Then he went out and started taunting the Atlanta players on the floor, the ones on the bench, their coaches, even the referees.
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"What a finish; Ventoux is full of surprises," Froome told France Télévisions as he thanked the jury of referees and the race organization.
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He crossed on a spare bicycle, and referees adjusted his time to keep him in the leader's yellow jersey for one more day.
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" The federation also said in the statement that "the concerned referees and judges will no longer officiate at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
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If even professional referees and umpires are biased, can there be any hope for you and me as we navigate our daily lives?
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Indiana (73-7) could not get a final shot off after the referees put time back on the clock after a replay review.
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The referees will have the authority to first stop the game and request a public announcement asking for the discriminatory behaviour to cease.
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Now there are 22 center referees—14 full-time and eight part-time—five of whom were not part of the original 37.
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"You have to look at the facts," Rejer tried one more time, to the good-natured grumbling of the referees in the room.
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Bribery allegations have dogged South Korean soccer, prompting K-League authorities to introduce a computer-generated allocation system for assigning referees last year.
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Following a skirmish and video review delay of nearly 233 minutes, referees ejected Anim and Theo John of Marquette, as well as Mamukelashvili.
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This imbalance gives an advantage to rule-breakers, and makes it impossible for even an army of well-trained referees to keep up.
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Was it true, Pranica was asked, that the collective jersey numbers of the three referees at each N.B.A. game must not exceed 22020?
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Replays appeared to show Auburn guard Bryce Brown make contact with Riller's elbow on the shot, but the referees didn't blow the whistle.
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Now referees commonly detach the can from hip holsters and spray lines of what looks like shaving cream near the sites of fouls.
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Everyone will be watching when the New Orleans Saints visit the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, and not just because of the referees.
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The practice also contrasts with the blind peer evaluations common in other disciplines, in which referees don't know whose paper they are evaluating.
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"It's about building competency with your referees," said Don Vaden, the W.N.B.A.'s vice president for referee operations and the supervisor of officials.
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Using a software program called the Referee Engagement Forum, or REF, the league communicates with referees with the goal of improving their performance.
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There will be some rules changes on the soccer pitch including two-match bans for players who take a dive to deceive referees.
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A few plays later on the same drive, they challenged a fumble on Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce that the referees blew dead.
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Fans and players alike had gotten used to referees going over to assess replays for themselves on field-side screens in other competitions.
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Here&aposs the play:The referees reviewed the play to see whether Williams had stepped out of bounds before the ball broke the plane.
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As NFL rules expert Mike Pereira said on the broadcast, the play was likely too close for the referees to overrule the touchdown.
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For example, referees who officiate with a strict interpretation of rugby's byzantine rule book, blowing their whistles for everything, disrupt a game's flow.
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It was a sloppily played game, and at times poorly officiated, as the referees seemed to miss several calls in the second half.
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If the media does not have the public supporting its work, essentially the referees will have no whistles to blow to call foul.
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Islanders left winger Matt Martin and Rangers defenseman Dylan McIlrath twice dropped the gloves, though referees interceded before a punch could be thrown.
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When the referees in charge of NFL football games make questionable calls, a challenge can be issued, subjecting the decisions to closer review.
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"The speed of information is causing referees to be more visible," said J.D. Collins, the N.C.A.A.'s national coordinator of men's basketball officials.
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After the game, both Coleman and Saints head coach Sean Payton offered explanations they got from referees for why pass interference wasn't called.
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These courts are governed by a nine-member panel of judges representing various interests of a particular sport, like promoters, referees, and fighters.
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It taught leadership and cooperation, the basis for a democracy, and it taught respect for authority in the form of referees and umpires.
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While he's not immune to throwing some shade at referees, he lacks the spiteful streak of Arsène Wenger, Louis van Gaal and the rest.
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Counterintuitively, referees had to stop matches for head injuries (aka likely concussions) more often when boxers were wearing headgear, according to an AIBA study.
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The groups that assign referees, however, have said they will not assign him to any matches until further notice, according to the Associated Press.
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Critics blasted Lauer like Knight did the referees, in hopes of swaying the moderators to be harder on him at the debates, Trump said.
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Things got testy during the handshake line, everyone started tussling with each other, and the referees gave every single player a game misconduct penalty.
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During the World Cup, these rooms will hold four video assistant referees per match and 15 screens that can show 33 different camera angles.
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Football, or soccer, has yet to use video referees thanks to FIFA's long-held concerns about its impact to the flow to the game.
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Anas Aremeyaw Anas released a documentary last week showing African football officials, including 77 referees and Ghana's soccer chief Kwesi Nyantakyi, allegedly taking bribes.
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Ball ran a popular Yao fan site at the time, and he later began to compile a database that tracked information on referees' habits.
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Two American men's semiprofessional leagues, which are not under the U.S.A. Ultimate umbrella, have gone in the other direction and use full-fledged referees.
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If players aren't exhibiting sportsmanlike conduct, then referees should be involved, and if coaches blatantly aren't showing sportsmanship, then further consequences should be enacted.
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We could let the fans weigh in, but research also shows that referees are still far better at detecting fake injuries than casual observers.
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Last year Australian basketball player Liz Cambage tweeted that National Basketball Association referees made more than female players in the Women's National Basketball Association.
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He hid the salt in tiny bags in his tights, to the consternation of referees and anyone who got in the ring against him.
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AIBA did not say why Bouzidi was being moved to a different position, although the supervision of referees and judges fell under his purview.
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It then announced the removal of several unnamed referees and judges from the Olympic boxing competition after a review of several of their decisions.
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It's still the same old situation with the NBA in regard to referees advancing based on relationships they have with whoever their supervisor is.
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There's a pension plan, and usually every former referee is given a job working in their home city evaluating the referees on the floor.
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He said the next payment to AIBA would be in a few months for referees for next year's Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.
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But, he adds, the grainy film reveals much more: the crowd, the officials, the referees, the coaches and the cheerleaders, all of them white.
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The NFL acknowledged referees made a mistake and at least one sportsbook in Atlantic City is refunding bets made on the Saints (USA Today).
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When a scramble after a loose ball resulted in a foul against the Lions late in the first half, the fans berated the referees.
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And it's odd how referees never seem to see those infractions during the playoffs or when one team is already on a power play.
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Also, referees will have the authority to stop play until such chants or actions cease, and even abandon the match if they do not.
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Referees range in age from their mid-20s to mid-40s and live all over the country, from warm-weather climates to mountainous winterscapes.
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Sitting in the conference room, watching replay after replay, I got the feeling the referees didn't mind the role of judgmental observers for once.
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They are where the future contenders, champions, journeymen, coaches, judges and referees are reared and honed but they are under constant threat of closure.
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"You like to think the referees are big and strong enough not to listen to that stuff, but maybe sometimes they do," Lampard said.
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The technology, using video replays and off-pitch referees, has been developed to help officials make better decisions, therefore improving the quality of matches.
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Some former secretaries of state said the new fund-raising tactics could hurt the image of the offices as impartial referees of state elections.
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As Michigan celebrated, the referees went to the scorer's table to review the play and ensure that Poole had got it off in time.
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The referees, in fact, are the only one team guaranteed to make the Final Four every year, but the job isn't getting any easier.
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Yet if neither the rules of the game nor the referees are fair, the outcome will not be respected by Thai people or internationally.
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To prohibit defenders from behaving like assassins, referees penalize players on the field and fine them off it, but the game won't really change.
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Last year Frenchman Julien Benneteau caused a stir when he accused tournament referees of being kinder to Federer when it came to scheduling matches.
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In short: If the referees enforced the rules as written, every single player on the team would foul out of the game within minutes.
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Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer expressed his frustration with the referees from the onset, once calling a timeout so he could berate official Michael Smith.
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It was all right to lightly grab an opponent's jersey in the N.B.A., Marc Gasol told him, because the referees would not call it.
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So referees and their split-second judgments (or mistakes?) are a heated and widely disputed topic among fans, not to mention players and coaches.
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Kerr was given the heave-ho shortly thereafter, drawing bang-bang technical fouls for arguing with the referees with his team down 212-210.
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Fourteen cameras monitor the goal line, and watches worn by referees flash the word "Goal" within a second of the ball crossing the line.
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Politics is the only game where the players are also the referees – they set the rules for who gets to vote, where, and when.
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"There's a certain levity to Kurt, as some of you guys know that deal with him or see him dealing with referees," Jackson told reporters.
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Before play could resume, however, the Blackhawks' coach asked the referees to take a look at the play to determine if the Blues were offside.
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Referees have been instructed to stop the game for an announcement on the stadium's public address system when any discriminatory behavior is seen or heard.
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However, the Warriors appealed and the referees went to the monitor and overturned the call -- ruling that James wasn't set when Durant ran into him.
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Or maybe you're a disgruntled New Orleans Saints fan who needs a replacement after NFL referees forced you to punch your old TV to pieces.
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T.R's instructions included stricter enforcement of "fair play" by referees, elimination of overt brutality like "slugging," and establishment of uniform national rules for the sport.
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And had the referees not blown a call that gave the ball back to UNC in the final minute, the outcome might have been reversed.
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Replay appeared to show McAvoy put the puck in the zone before Sean Kuraly could get clear, but the referees upheld the call on ice.
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The field marshal had ejected a father from the park earlier in the game for being verbally abusive toward the high school student–age referees.
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In many cases, the N.F.L., through Dean Blandino, the vice president for officiating, or the spokesman Michael Signora, admitted later that referees had made mistakes.
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The two games so far have also been marred by controversial calls by referees, and Thompson addressed the officiating earlier in his post-game interview.
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The life ban was handed out by CAF's disciplinary board who also banned 10 other referees for between two to 10 years for similar offences.
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A documentary showing match-fixing led to the dissolution of Ghana's football association and the banning or suspension of more than 60 referees and officials.
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Arms swinging, face in a perpetual scowl, he stomped his feet, swiped his racket at invisible targets, and yelled at referees, media, and fans alike.
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Trump said Knight, a supporter of the billionaire's candidacy, used to berate the referees all game to try to get them to award favorable calls.
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WALLACE: Which brings us back to the year 2000, when Cuban bought the Dallas Mavericks and got noticed and fined for going after the referees.
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The cases were linked to that of former SAFA executive member and head of referees Lindile Kika who was suspended for six years in October.
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) the median annual wage for umpires, referees and other sports officials was $26,800 in May of 2017.
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Blues forward Tyler Bozak tripped Bruins forward Noel Acciari, who fell backwards and slammed his head on the ice, but the referees took no action.
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Jordan banked in a shot, somehow, from the baseline, but it was a fraction of a second too late and the referees waved it off.
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Brazilian Coelho, who also criticized the use of video assistant referees (VAR) in incidents such as handball, said tiebreakers should be decided by objective criteria.
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When the power to stop it is in the hands of referees and players, though, that can have a drastic impact on homophobia in sports.
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Some judges seem like automatons on the bench — they're not referees and you (mostly) won't see an in-your-face screaming match in a courtroom.
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As James Rodriguez and Justo Villar looked on, the referee flipped the coin, as referees so often do, and let it fall to the ground.
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It would also restrict campaign activities for members of the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board, who act like referees on local ethics matters.
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But the referees took forever to spot the ball, and stood over it until there was about 4 seconds on the playclock without refreshing it.
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But he knows Green by now — all the drama, all the intrigue, all the extracurricular activities that fuel teammates, irritate opponents and occasionally injure referees.
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He said he did not know if Jenkins's shot would count; the referees would surely review it to ensure it was released before the buzzer.
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On Sunday, the court denied his appeal, ruling that the competition jury did, in fact, have the power to overrule the referees as it did.
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Infantino said the sport could not close its eyes to using technology to help referees but had to be careful about interrupting matches too much.
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Defensively punishing, with an affinity for lineman-like slaps or the occasional solid punch to the faces of both teammates and opponents—and even referees!
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To stay in shape between tests, referees receive personalized workouts each day via an app from Hawkey, and fitness trackers keep logs of their activity.
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As I listened to the referees argue amongst themselves about whether or not this was a penalty, I realized the referee is a tragic figure.
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And there were no true referees to control the match or anyone to really look out for the health and well-being of the fighters.
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Should FIFA move forward with the replay technology, it could go beyond simply eliminating diving; it could stop players from arguing with match referees altogether.
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That said, referees can't see a hold and just decide not to call it because there was already a holding penalty on the previous play.
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" When Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy was asked if he knew referees could change their mind like that, he replied: "Cleary they can because they did.
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Earlier this year, NBA commissioner Adam Silver spoke openly about his plan for at least half of the league's newly-hired referees to be women.
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But he complained publicly that Egyptian referees, fans and commentators were failing to appreciate his investments, and said he had asked Egypt's president to intervene.
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NBA referees, perhaps understandably, have been conditioned not to want to "decide the outcome" of games by making a call away from the ball handler.
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Brady also stepped in to correct the referees not once, but twice, on potentially game-changing plays during the Patriots' face-off with the Saints.
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In a world where fans are already reviewing every big decision on their screens, referees deserve the best possible chance to get their decisions right.
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The games are officiated by a team of referees, under the auspices of the St. Francis Xavier (SFX) Youth Sports flag football commissioner, Tom Henderson.
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ESPN reported that the game was moments away from starting when the Thunder's head medical staffer ran onto the floor to talk to the referees.
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The French league told referees before the season to stop games in such cases and has pondered introducing a list of banned words in stadiums.
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What they experience is Mr. von Bothmer playing the Darth Vader theme from "Star Wars" as referees call fouls and flourish yellow and red cards.
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He knew the referees, two of them dating to his days in the C.B.A. He expressed regret when the Rockets' P.J. Tucker entered the game.
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She found hers for "Pride & Prejudice" in the exaggerated notion of courtship and marriage as a game with winners, losers, referees and exceptionally bad coaches.
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Yale economist Tobias Moskowitz said the psychology of the referees may be the most likely factor contributing to the winnowing of the home-field advantage.
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The solution, now, is not to turn back to those days, to tell the referees that they just have to fail on their own again.
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Chicago left winger Brandon Mashinter thought he scored with 2:37 remaining in the first period, but referees overturned the call after a video review.
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The Mexican referees' association said the initial punishments were too lenient and went on strike, forcing a round of league fixtures to be called off.
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The foul was detectable only with the help of a stopwatch, the report said, and thus was not ruled an incorrect noncall by the referees.
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One thing has remained constant for the 44 referees and 38 linesmen employed by the N.H.L.: the culture of high-definition scrutiny that they inhabit.
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"If neither the rules of the game nor the referees are fair, the outcome will not be respected by Thai people or internationally," Thaksin wrote.
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The Rams in particular were blessed by the referees, who failed to note and penalize a glaring case of pass interference in the climactic minutes.
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In September 2017, for instance, Mr. Trump complained that the N.F.L. was ruining the game because the referees were trying to control unnecessarily rough tackles.
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Saints head coach Sean Payton said referees told him that they didn't call the penalty because Coleman arrived at the same time as the ball.
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Athletes, coaches, referees and other people with influence over games or access to confidential information are not allowed to bet on their own league's sport.
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Deo was also the Raptors fan who was ejected from Game 4 of the Easter Conference finals agains the Cleveland Cavaliers for heckling the referees.
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There's a saying in sports that the best kind of game is one in which a fan doesn't notice the involvement of the referees or umpires.
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Short of encouraging an empathy revolution between footballers and matchday officials, former pros becoming referees might at least engender a shift towards a more positive relationship.
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"I don't talk about referees but let me say this one thing: In a World Cup final, you do not give such a penalty," he said.
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League referees and St. John's opponents were waiting to start the game, and the team's coaches and parents asked the players what they wanted to do.
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Look at the NFL, where the debate over the catch rule continues to dominate the league, and where referees continued to be confounded by its complexities.
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According to a report by the New York Times, the AIBA removed the judges and referees after a review of other Rio results showed questionable results.
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Violence against referees is also not uncommon: Last June a match was called off after a player punched a referee into unconsciousness after being yellow-carded.
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The first presidential debate was akin to the Super Bowl for the pundit class, and all the referees declared Hillary Clinton the winner by unanimous knockout.
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His fear was that participants in the financial game would always be too far ahead of the government's referees and that the regulators would always fail.
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"The concerned referees and judges will no longer officiate at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games," it said, adding that the results of all bouts would stand.
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Referees looked away on Penguins forward Jake Guentzel getting tripped/kneed by Capitals defenseman Matt Niskanen as if Niskanen was Chazz Palminteri in A Bronx Tale.
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Vendors, live bands, gamblers, and referees were back to work, but those who catered to the smaller shows were left without a means to an income.
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You'll always want the referees to be more strict when it comes to the other side, and to "just let them play" when it's your guys.
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It has been an exciting playoffs, as the referees have called every penalty from delay of game to illegal motion, and frankly, we can't get enough!
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World Rugby unveiled the officials for the pool stage of the 44-day tournament on Friday, with all 12 referees allocated at least three pool matches.
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