Angelica Suffren avoids the spotlight in her job as a WNBA and women's basketball referee. She steals it as a competitive ...

NBA referees always have to be on top of the action, making crucial decisions on the fly. Still, they get criticized and subjected to verbal and, at times, even physical abuse from players, coaches ...

Veteran official Bill Kennedy's signature style of announcing challenge results is filled with dramatic pauses and careful enunciation. Alika Jenner / Getty Images NBA officials are occasionally ...

Late in the first quarter of Friday night’s matchup between the Philadelphia 76ers and Orlando Magic, an NBA official suffered what appeared to be a leg injury. Veteran referee Bill Kennedy, 59, who ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Bo Boroski could see the tiny beads of sweat bubbling up on the arms of the basketball players. It was such a minuscule, random thing to notice, but that's how zoned in he was. He could ...

AT TEN. SO WITH THE BASKETBALL SEASON UPON US, WE TALK ABOUT THE PLAYERS ALL THE TIME, RIGHT? BUT NOT USUALLY ABOUT THE PEOPLE WITH THE WHISTLES, UNLESS THEY MAKE A MISTAKE DURING THE GAME. AND THEN ...

Referees will use headsets to communicate in real time with the NBA Replay Center and one another. Official release NEW YORK – The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced today that NBA ...

The Amateur Basketball Academies (ABA) on Thursday commenced a three-day referees and technical officials’ clinic in Abuja, ...

CABOT, Ark — Refereeing high school basketball games can at times be a thankless task, and that means that those who do it, do it for one reason — the love of the game. For one Cabot High School ...

A high school referee says he's thankful to be alive after collapsing on a Nassau County basketball court for the second time in 10 years. Terry Twibell spoke to News 12 on the phone as he recovers in ...