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The Hillsborough Stadium disaster, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the facts about how we experience and understand tragedy.

If you live in ACC country and you follow college basketball, chances are you have some strong opinions about a man named Karl Hess. And chances are, those opinions are negative. Hess is a referee (the same way that Napoleon was in the military), one...

HOW ABOUT MACE? This comes courtesy of a reader named Jess, from Virginia. From what I can gather, this episode was filmed in late 2010. This seems much more chill than having to make sure Matt Barnes and Lance Stephenson don't kill each another, but...

What the Ryan Kelly comeback hid about Duke's weaknesses.

NBA coaching legend Bill Fitch tells some war stories about coaching the Celtics and Rockets. In the bonus video, Fitch tells the tale of the time he threw a chair at a referee, and still contends that Bob Knight's chair throw was only third on the a...

Fifteen of the league's 30 teams have purchased a data-tracking camera system from STATS LLC that records every single movement on the court — the ball, the players, the referees, etc. — in three dimensions. The cameras can measure just a...

How #*%!ed is the beautiful game?

The father of the commish versus Richard Nixon.

Welcome to a weekly blog post of thoughts and observations from the past few days and/or decades of NHL hockey. The Three Stars of Comedy Recognizing the three moments from around the league that produced the most comedic fodder for fans this wee...

The Titans are trailing by 25 points, deep in the third quarter, when they score a touchdown. The extra point is converted, the onside kick is well-executed, and the opposing team flubs the catch. Players fling themselves at the loose ball from all d...

It's a final cleansing of the Sports Guy's inbox, plus Week 4 picks.

In this week's Trenches, Ephraim and I start by wrapping up the discussion about the replacement referees before getting to actual ... well, OK, it took us a bit to get to actual football. Along with talk about his disastrous game against John Abraha...

Dang. Just as we got in all the release forms and started printing out our new REAL REFEREE MID-'60S BEAT magazines with Mike Carey and Ed Hochuli as the first centerfolds, the NFL finally capitulated and came to terms with the league's professional ...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Wednesday. The NFL and the referee union released a joint statement last night announcing they had reached an agreement to end the lockout. Unfortunately, this pr...

The shockwave of the replacement referees' legacy, plus Thursday's Skunk of the Week.

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday. Freddie Freeman hit a two-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth to give the Braves a 4-3 win over the Marlins and help his team secure a playoff be...