Tag Archives: Referees
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Russian Soccer Ref Attacks Player, Now Banned for Life (Video)
When it comes to soccer, it’s not only the fans, or even the players, who sometimes go a little loco. Every once in a while, the refs lose their minds, too. And no, I’m not just referring to blown calls. I’m talking about referees attacking players. It’s happened before, and now, in Russia, it’s happened [...]
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Referee Takes a Spill During Clippers-Grizzlies Game 2 (Video)
NBA referees may not be quite as hilariously awful as the replacement referees who worked the first few weeks of the 2012 NFL season. However, over the course of an entire five-month basketball season they’ve given us just as many awkward moments. We’ve seen a guy accidentally keep a ball inbounds and give the Heat [...]
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Bucks Center Larry Sanders Elbowed Referee Bill Kennedy in the Face on the Opening Tipoff Last Night (Video)
NBA referees have done a lot of ridiculous things this year that would make a guy want to elbow one of them in the face. Back in December, one of them kept the ball in play for the Miami Heat, allowing them to score an easy basket, because Miami needs all the help they can get, [...]
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Avs’ Matt Duchene Scores a Goal From a Mile Offside (Video)
If you’re a hockey fan, then you probably heard a lot of pundits saying we should expect some pretty sloppy hockey to start the 2013 NHL season. They said that with the extended lockout and the six-day training camps, there was no way teams would start out as well-oiled machines. Of course, this line of [...]
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Referee Takes a Caron Butler Block to the Face (Video)
I’m sure there are times this season when NBA players have wanted to whack a referee upside the head with the basketball. After all, the refs have done some pretty bizarre stuff. One guy used his foot to keep the ball inbounds for a Miami Heat player; another guy did a goofy dance just to [...]
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NBA Referee Courtney Kirkland Blocks Kris Humphries’ Free Throw (Video)
NBA referees are having a really weird week. You might recall that, on Tuesday, we told you about the referee for the Miami-Atlanta game who used his feet to keep the ball from bouncing out of bounds, setting up an easy bucket for LeBron. But if you thought that was bizarre, wait till you see [...]
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Watch This Referee Give the Miami Heat a Helping Hand (Video)
Maybe Mark Cuban is right after all. I always thought the Mavericks owner was just a hotheaded loudmouth spouting ridiculous conspiracy theories about how refs fix NBA games for certain teams. But I now have to admit that, after seeing the following play, at the very least I can kind of see where the guy [...]
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Check Out NBA Ref Joey Crawford’s Weird Little Foul Dance (Video)
We all knew baseball umpires like to jazz up their punch-out calls. It’s a long-standing tradition. But did you know that some NBA refs are trying to add some pizzazz to their officiating as well? It’s true. Look no further than last night’s Pacers-Lakers game in Los Angeles. It was a tight, low-scoring affair that [...]
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Angry Steelers Flips Off The Referees (GIF)
Remember when everyone was like sooo happy to get the real referees back, and they got standing ovations and hugs from the players and whatnot? Yeah, well, the honeymoon is officially over. And if by some chance you require visual proof of this, you’re in luck, because one rather angry Steelers fan gave it to [...]
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Role Reversal: Soccer Referee Attacks Player In Turkey (Video)
Soccer referees are frequently the targets of nasty invectives and violent outbursts, both from players and fans. I mean, how many times have we seen a soccer official get run off the pitch by players, or suddenly attacked by a deranged fan…or angrily headbutted by a player? Answer: way too many times. Well, back in [...]
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This Video Of A Furious Packers Fan Is An All-Time Classic (Video)
Just one week after being a part of the most controversial games in the history of the NFL, the Green Bay Packers once again found themselves being negatively impacted by poor officiating last Sunday. And this time, they couldn’t even blame it on the replacement refs. One play in particular got the players, coaches, and [...]
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NFL Refs Get Standing Ovation In Baltimore, Follow It Up By Not Ruining Ravens-Browns Game (Video)
After seven long, ridiculous, error-filled weeks, the NFL replacement refs are gone and the professionals are back. And last night, in Baltimore, the fans let the officiating crew know just how glad they were to have them back by giving them a standing ovation when they came out of the tunnel and onto the field. [...]
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Legendary NFL Referee Ed Hochuli Celebrated The End Of The Referee Lockout By Dropping Down And Doing Pushups
You think you’re glad the real NFL referees are coming back to work? Think of how the referees must feel. They’ve been sitting on their butts since June, locked out by the league’s greedy billionaire owners over a salary bump that works out to just $189K per team. They must be over the moon to [...]
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21 Hilarious Referee GIFs
Referees have tough jobs. They have to be experts on the rulebooks and make difficult, on-the-spot decisions and interpretations. And what do they get for their efforts? Well, if they do a good job, they get no recognition whatsoever. If they do a bad job, however, they become utterly despited and the targets of vitriolic [...]
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Ref Flops To The Canvas After Being Pushed By Boxer Michael Sprott (Video)
Referees getting attacked? People falling to the ground when they were barely touched? If I didn’t know any better, I’d say this was an article about soccer. But no, this is about boxing. On Saturday night, 37-year-old British heavyweight Michael Sprott was taking on Kazakhstan-born German Edmund Gerber in Offenburg, Germany. Sprott was leading through the [...]
