ATLANTA – Early in the fourth game of the WNBA Finals, a foul call didn’t go in the Golden State Valkyries’ favor. Their head coach wasn’t thrilled about it. Penalizing a bump in this series seemed ...

A basketball referee arrested earlier this week as part of a sweeping investigation into alleged match-fixing and corruption ...

The Illinois Fighting Illini and UConn men's basketball teams meet in the 2026 NCAA Tournament Final Four at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday, April 4. No. 3 seed Illinois enters the ...

Five years ago, just about the time that Cheshire's Bob Else reached his 70th year of officiating basketball, Region 10 commissioner Buddy Chernovetz told him he wasn't going to use him to referee ...

National Basketball Referees Association General Counsel Lee Seham declined comment about the new initiatives Sunday, saying he was still coordinating with the union’s representatives. The NBA will ...

The NBA playoffs are in full swing, which means there’s a lot of talk about officiating in professional basketball. How the referees call games and how different those calls are in the postseason ...

The “Mondays with Malta” show will feature longtime Big Ten college basketball referee Phil Bova on March 30 at LaVera Party Center, 32200 Chardon Road, in Willoughby Hills. Bova is the author of the ...

Former basketball player and Basketball Federation of India A-Panel referee John Samuel Sukumar Peters passed away in Hyderabad. The son of late GM Sampath Kumar, Peters' demise prompted the Hyderabad ...

Final Four referees face immense pressure, emotional tolls and scrutiny while officiating on college basketball's biggest stage. Managing coaches is at least as big a part of referees' job as making ...