Nobody wants to think about officiating, much less talk about it. Joyce Carol Oates knows it. The NBA Finals are no occasion for rational nonpartisanship. The middle ground is out of reach.
If I want to say something straightforwardly true about the officiating, like, "Referees are still sorting out how to protect Victor Wembanyama from a kind of mauling that only he faces," unless I surround…
Stockholm-based tennis tracking startup PlayReplay has raised $12 million as it expands electronic line-calling, now a fixture at elite events, to lower-level play. PlayReplay has been used in 350,000 sessions, covering matches ranging from 12-year-olds’ tournaments to college and professional events. Four small cameras attached to the net track the ball in real time, offering […]
Battlefields 2 Ballfields provides Veterans an opportunity to integrate back into their communities through sports officiating.
Steve Javie can’t recall much from the actual game itself, but he’ll always remember what happened later that night.
It was Javie’s first NBA Finals game in 1995, always a huge deal for an up-and-coming referee. Several of his family members were in the crowd. Finals games back then started at 9:00 p.m. Eastern; Javie and his fellow refs didn’t leave the arena until the wee hours of the morning.…
One of the first women to work as a referee in NFL games is suing the league in federal court, saying she was discriminated against based on her gender. In her lawsuit, filed last week, Robin DeLorenzo said the harassment started soon after starting her job, and it continued throughout her time with the most lucrative professional sports league in North America. The discrimination included not…
Former NFL referee Robin DeLorenzo’s recent gender discrimination lawsuit against the league is occurring nearly 30 years after a female referee sued the NBA for gender discrimination—and won. There are lessons to be learned from the two disputes, as female referees seek employment opportunities in pro and college sports. DeLorenzo’s complaint was filed last week […]
While MLB teams are limited to challenging two pitch calls per nine-inning game, the introduction of Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) reviews will change how fans follow every at-bat this season, albeit in slight ways. For more than a year, MLB and broadcasters have re-evaluated how pitch location data is shown on TV, now that the virtual […]