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The NBA's competition committee is recommending an expansion of instant replay to include block/charge calls in late-game situations. This marks the first time the league is considering using replay to examine judgment calls by the referees.

For years it's been assumed that games in the regular season and playoffs will be officiated differently. Scott Burnside asks, is that hurting game?

Mark van Bommel's last action as a professional footballer summarised his career perfectly -- a horrendous tackle on Twente's Dusan Tadic, which prompted the referee to reach for his red card. "That was the most obvious red card of all," the vete...

Joey Crawford will be one of the three officials Sunday in Game 2 of the NBA Finals, marking the first time that the veteran referee will call a Finals game involving the San Antonio Spurs since his controversial ejection of Tim Duncan during the 2006-07

The WNBA debuted a new camera Saturday worn by official Lamont Simpson during the Phoenix Mercury and Indiana Fever game that was nationally televised.

The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences are teaming up to collaborate on men's basketball officiating, putting longtime Mountain West coordinator Bobby Dibler in charge of the programs and of managing a pool of top national and regional officials.

Mills Lane -- the consummate no-nonsense referee whose presence as third man in the ring insured that BS would not be tolerated, will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y. on Sunday. Lane, whose appeal transcend...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has hit back at the referee who was barged into by Paris Saint-Germain sporting director Leonardo, saying the Brazilian's hefty suspension should have been given to the official instead.

LOS ANGELES -- Stephen Walkom will be a referee for Game 3 of the Western Conference finals series between the Chicago Blackhawks and Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday. Walkom was previously announced as one of the eight referees for the two conference...

Richie Phillips, a tough-talking Philly lawyer who became a negotiator for Major League Baseball umpires and NBA referees, has died. He was 72.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- If there were any doubts about the Revolution's offense going into their high-profile clash against the Galaxy, they were effectively put to rest when referee Fotis Bazakos chirped his whistle thrice on Sunday. Granted, it was...

The referee who was barged into by Leonardo, earning the Paris Saint-Germain sporting director a nine-month ban, has filed a police complaint after receiving death threats.

Joe Cortez was the third man in the ring with some of the best boxers in history, and he holds the unofficial record for world championship fights as a referee. Yet he's still capable of being thrilled by the announcement of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-...

Paris Saint-Germain sporting director Leonardo has been handed a nine-month ban and the Ligue 1 champions given a suspended three-point deduction after the Brazilian was found to have barged into a referee.

Following the French Football League's (LFP) disciplinary hearing into Paris Saint-Germain sporting director Leonardo's barge into referee Alexandre Castro in May, the Brazilian was hit by a nine-month ban and PSG a suspended three-point penalty in L...

CHICAGO -- Stephen Walkom is one of eight NHL referees who will officiate the conference finals, although it's not certain if he'll work the Blackhawks-Kings series. Read the entire story....