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DALLAS -- Rick Carlisle bolted a couple of steps onto the court, right in the path of O.J. Mayo dribbling up the sideline, to frantically call a timeout midway through the fourth quarter. After the referee blew the whistle, Carlisle shot...

Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle has been fined by the NBA office for his comments criticizing the officiating following Thursday's loss to the Golden State Warriors.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban fired a quick jab at the refs Thursday night, and coach Rick Carlisle added his own criticism of late-game officiating in the league.

UPDATE: The NBA office did fine Mark Cuban $50,000, a league spokesman confirmed Tuesday evening. The NBA did not announce the fine, however. It appears as if Mark Cuban's most recent criticism of NBA referees wasn't strong enough to merit a react...

Controversy can apparently travel as slow as a billionaire NFL owner wants. The furor over the league's replacement referees reached a fevered pitch on the final play of the Monday night game, when a blown call gave the Seattle Seahawks a game-win...

ARLINGTON, Texas - The replacement refs gave Jerry Jones, a hard-line NFL owner, reason to continuing praising their otherwise oft-criticized performances. The refs robbed the Buccaneers of a touchdown with a quick whistle in the third quarter. ...

All is well with the NFL's replacement referees. Just ask Jerry Jones, who continues to take a hard-line stance against the locked-out officials. "You've got to remember that you've got all kinds of complaints at any time about officiating," J...

Jerry Jones certainly isn't going to say anything to give up a lick of leverage as the NFL heads back to the negotiating table with its locked-out officials. In fact, Jones fired a shot at the referees during his Friday radio show. "As long as ...

Jerry Jones played a leading role in ending the NFL lockout last season. Just don't expect him to do the same with the lockout of the NFL officials. Jones said at the beginning of training camp that the lockout of the officials didn't especiall...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle was talking to a room of reporters, but it felt like he was trying to send a message to the referees who will work the rest of this series. Asked about the defense Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka and Kend...

DALLAS - Danny Crawford, the referee considered a Dallas Mavericks nemesis before this postseason, will be the lead official for Sunday night's NBA Finals Game 2 against the Miami Heat. The Mavericks had a 2-16 record is playoff games officiated b...

Mavericks owner Mark Cuban voices displeasure over Game 2 officiating to referee supervisor.

DALLAS - There was really only one moment during Game 2 when the Mavericks had a right to be upset with the officiating. And Danny Crawford had nothing to do with it. Referee Ed Malloy swallowed his whistle with a little more than a minute rema...

DALLAS -- The NBA office addressed the Mavericks' miserable record in playoff games officiated by Danny Crawford by downplaying the issue. Senior vice president of referee operations Ron Johnson responded via email through a league spokesman to an...

As far as Dallas conspiracy theories go, referee Danny Crawford working Mavericks playoff games ranks right up there with who shot J.R. Ewing.

DALLAS -- Mavs coach Rick Carlisle unleashed a rant directed at the referees that would have made Mark Cuban proud. Carlisle picked up two technical fouls to get tossed with 6:06 remaining in the Mavs' 117-107 loss to the Magic. He was supposedly ...