Joey Crawford refereed games for 4 decades, earning induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2026. [...]

A timeout provides officials with an opportunity to galvanize, regroup, clarify or simply maintain focus on the game at hand. What can a person do in 60 seconds? An Olympic-level swimmer can swim 100 meters. [...]

Psychologists call it word association. They say “peanut butter,” you say “jelly.” They say “mother,” you say “father.” They say “Red Cashion,” you say, “first dowwwwwnnn!” Cashion’s officiating career, which [...]

By Gerry Grunska Recently I witnessed a victory that was essentially accomplished through timing errors by the officials. The process went like this. Time was running out for team A, no timeouts left, ball on [...]

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the May 1986 issue of Referee. It contains detailed discussion of suicide and reflects the language and understanding of mental health at [...]